Posted On - 29/11/2022
John Park Davies, managing director of powder coating specialist, Vertik-Al, reports on this year’s powder usage. Unsurprisingly, anthracite grey has dominated our powder coating lines once again. From the hundreds of thousands of kilos of powder used to coat millions of aluminium items in 2022, almost 23% was anthracite grey in a matt finish. This is more than double its...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Reynaers Group has signed up to the science-based target initiative (SBTi), making a clear commitment to reduce its direct and indirect emissions to meet net-zero targets. Reynaers UK technical services director, John McComb, provides a closer insight. In 2015, at the Paris climate agreement, a global commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to net-zero by 2050 was mandated in...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Russell Hand, head of product and technical at Rehau Windows, says that installers and fabricators should ensure that their portfolios are as versatile as possible to secure new business in a challenging climate. According to Levelset.com, renovation projects have slowed over the last few months, with the rise in living costs resulting in consumer anxiety towards spending money on ‘discretionary’...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
By Angus Mackie, Qualicoat UK & Ireland chair Architectural powder coating over the last decade has advanced a great deal, although to most of us these changes are not seen. It is relatively easy to powder coat aluminium to offer a good finish, the challenge is to ensure the finish remains in place, looking good and offering decades of useful...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Andrew Cross, marketing manager at Kestrel Aluminium Systems, explains how Kestrel is continuing to support its customers during tougher economic conditions. With the current economic backdrop of rising energy costs, a fall in consumer confidence and the continued threat of recession, it’s a tough time for fabricators and installers. But while many consumers and smaller businesses are choosing to postpone...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
As the rise in popularity for coloured windows and doors continues, Gerald Allen, head of marketing at Epwin, discusses why the company’s new colour offer represents the best of the new generation of coloured products, giving fabricators and installers a competitive edge in these turbulent times. Coloured products were on the cusp of the mass market for many years but...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Glass Times editor, Luke Wood, visits Deceuninck’s state-of-the-art, 15million Euro recycling facility, a tour that also coincides with the launch of Elegant, a new, ultra-energy efficient system that redefines the potential of PVC-U. The first couple of months of 2022 felt like a fresh start. The misery of Covid, or at least Covid lockdowns, were behind us and most people...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Colour is the battleground upon which orders are won are lost, according to Deceuninck’s managing director, Rob McGlennon. The average order value for home improvements is higher in 2022 than it was in 2021 and 2020, easily offsetting the fall in demand, according to the trends in consumer behaviour revealed by the Business Pilot Barometer over the course of this...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Deceuninck Aluminium has been shortlisted in the New Product of the Year category at this year’s G-Awards for its Decalu163 lift-and-slide door. We talk to Deceuninck Aluminium’s Nigel Headford about why it is so popular. Fears of a recession loom, but if all the anecdotal evidence and market reports are to be believed, then targeting the high-value end of the...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
By Phil Slinger – CAB chief executive Aluminium has enjoyed an extensive recycling lifespan since its commercialisation in the 1880s with the advent of the Hall–Héroult process. In fact, 75% of all the aluminium produced since this time is still in active use today. Aluminium has an enviable scrap value and ‘clean’ scrap can cost almost the same as new...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Focus on ‘colour’ and ‘energy efficiency’, and you can’t go too far wrong as the market demands shift, according to Aluplast’s director of sales and marketing Ian Cocken. It isn’t easy to predict how homeowner confidence is going to react to the economic challenges that have developed over the course of 2022, Ian Cocken, Aluplast’s director of sales and marketing...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
By Ian Selby, managing director and co-founder, Timbawood. The future has been looking quite buoyant for timber window manufacturers. The sector has certainly grown over the past few years and continues to benefit from the industry move from PVC back to timber. Improvements in manufacturing processes, from tooling systems and processes to adhesives and paints, have all contributed to today’s...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Selecta’s sales director, Andy Green, explains the planned, systematic approach to future proofing the business and the benefits of using a family and independently owned, UK based PVC-U systems company. There have been plenty of highs and lows within our industry over the last few years and there certainly seems to be further challenges ahead for all, from both a...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
By Dave Palmer, GGF technical officer. The year is 1977. The place is a parking lot in Barnsley. The man is Stanley Race, the then president of the Glass Manufacturing Federation. On 6 June he dropped an empty glass jar into the UK’s founding glass recycling bin. Together with Ron England, Race developed this first of over 50,000 ‘bottle banks’...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
We talk to Deceuninck’s MD Rob McGlennon to discuss why projects with heritage features are commonplace today, and why they are so important. In most window and door showrooms around the UK, the typical homeowner will be faced with an array of window styles in a wide range of finishes. While window designs and colours were expanded to meet the...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Nicola Harrison, managing director of timber window and door manufacturer, Bereco, discusses how the company is leading the way for sustainable practices within the industry as the business introduces the Reconomy Group into its supply chain. In a notoriously wasteful industry, we're proud to champion the planet and its renewable and circular resources. At Bereco, we are now working with...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Dan Wragg, head of specialist fabricated sales at Kömmerling, talks about the unrivalled performance credentials of the hybrid Warmcore platform. It’s a product genre for today and tomorrow, he highlights. There has been much debate about the new building regulations, particularly from the PVC-U and aluminium systems houses and at Kömmerling we are certainly no different. But to understand our...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
After it was announced that the Allumette Group of companies, including Vertik-Al and Ikon Aluminium Systems promoted three members of staff to key roles, Glass Times chats with newly promoted HR manager, Katarzyna (Kate) Sural… “I am not afraid of a challenge,” says, Kate, “…and this is no exception. I believe my organisational skills and good time management will come...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
Glass Times editor, Luke Wood, talks to John McComb, technical services director for Reynaers Aluminium. Luke Wood (LW): How did you manage during the pandemic? John McComb (JM): Historically, we have predominantly serviced the commercial sector but in recent years we have grown into the retail market, so that we’re now split roughly 50/50 between the two. That put us...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
When Alpine Homes looked to create Yacht Haven, a high-end housing development at Hayling Island near Portsmouth, Central Windows was called upon to supply and fit a stylish, contemporary solution that would also be able to withstand the demands of a coastal environment. Alpine Homes is a Hampshire-based company, responsible for constructing hundreds of homes along the South Coast. Its...
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