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Hannah Coan, a Blackburn Rovers Ladies player sponsored by Vista Panels, has been named Rovers Ladies Young Player and Players’ Player of the Season. Last year, the composite door and PVC-U panels manufacturer sponsored Hannah, the daughter of one of their employees, for the 2021/22 FA Women’s Championship season. The 21-year-old defender commented: “It feels really good to be named...
Velux is offering a series of ‘boosted’ promotions through its Rewards installer loyalty scheme. The promotions will run until 31 May and offer ‘boosted’ Rewards to spend at selected retailers, after purchasing a qualifying Velux roof window. To be eligible for the reward, installers are required to purchase the qualifying product and upload proof of purchase to the Velux Rewards website. Once approved,...
The Ultraframe team has said it was ‘fantastic’ for the industry to finally meet up again at the FIT Show, where the company launched its new hup! building system. The hup! system, which was seen for the first time at the show, offers a better way to build home extensions and conservatories, with a fast to build, highly energy efficient...
Staffordshire-based Target Windows has partnered with property maintenance company, Novus Property Solutions, to transform five blocks of apartments owned by Bromsgrove Housing. The project, which started in March 2022, will see Target Windows fit energy efficient windows to around 75 apartments. The works will also alter the aesthetics of the apartments turning the window frames from white to grey. To...
Schüco has launched a new AS FD bi-fold door system. According to Schüco, it delivers the largest maximum leaf size on the market, slim profiles and simplified fabrication and installation. The AS FD 75 was launched in May and the AS FD 90.HI will be available from September. The doors provide the company’s slimmest bi-fold sightlines yet at 90mm. A...
MD Joinery has marked its 30th anniversary with Rehau. Based in Southport, the family-run business was one of the first UK companies to fabricate windows and doors using Rehau’s Total70 window system, which was formerly known as the S706 window. Husband-and-wife team Mike and Diane Durkin first partnered with Rehau in 1991 when searching for a window system that would replace...
Arched frame specialist, Premier Arches, has been named a finalist in the Liverpool Echo Regional Business Awards. Now in their 25th year, the awards are the biggest and longest standing business awards in the Merseyside region, recognising successful businesses across all sectors, with previous winners some of the biggest names in Liverpool’s business world, including Jaguar Land Rover and shipping...
Modplan has opened an on-site training academy at its Newport headquarters. Heidi Sachs, Modplan’s managing director, said: “We’ve always taken training very seriously and our training academy is an investment in the future of our business and the wider industry. It gives us a dedicated space where we can provide training for the staff in our business and allows us...
By Mark Haley, managing director, HWL Windows The window and door industry never fails to surprise me. I see stuff and have conversations with suppliers and customers every day that you wouldn’t think would happen – but they do. So, with that in mind, I find myself half expecting to be surprised again this year by what comes next. As...
FIT Show organisers have reported record visitor pre-registration numbers for the 2022 exhibition, with over 10% of these being made on the day before the show opened. FIT Show was due to take place in 2021 but was delayed three times due to the impact of the global pandemic. Reopening this May without restrictions, the event delivered over 170 brands...
One of the UK’s leading fire door inspection organisations has warned of a ‘tragedy waiting to happen’ after it revealed three quarters of the fire doors inspected in the UK by its approved inspectors did not meet the required standard. The Fire Door Inspection Scheme (FDIS)’s data, based on more than 100,000 fire door inspections carried out by its approved inspectors in 2021, found that 75% of fire doors failed to meet the required...
Martin Nettleton, managing director at Euroglaze, Rehau’s longest standing trade fabricator, is taking on a new challenge in aid of sight loss charity Retina UK. At the end of May, he is taking part in Ride London – a 100-mile cycle through the heart of London, out into the Essex countryside and back again to finish at Tower Bridge, with...
Edgetech is marking the 15th anniversary of the opening of its first manufacturing facility in the UK. In 2007, the company invested £2.5m to create the Coventry site that still serves as Edgetech’s main UK headquarters today – which at the time was Britain’s first ever dedicated warm-edge manufacturing facility. By 2011, Edgetech’s growth had caught the eye of global...
By Rob McGlennon, MD, Deceuninck So, according to Business Pilot, retail saw a slowdown in April, with fewer sales and fewer leads. This was attributed to economic uncertainty and the cost-of-living crisis, something driven by hikes seen in energy prices in April. That analysis is pretty much on the money. The bubble was going to burst at some point, and...
Clayton Glass has announced the exchange of contracts in a deal to purchase the insulating glass unit manufacturing facilities at Motherwell and Canterbury from Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland. The company says that with this move, both capacities and geographical coverage have been significantly improved, as it strengthens its ability to deliver to the whole of the UK, from the South...
Business Pilot has reported a successful FIT Show 2022, with contracts signed on the stand during the three-day event at the NEC in May far exceeding expectations, driven in part by the firm’s biggest-ever giveaway: a show-exclusive three months’ unlimited use, for unlimited users, for just £1 a month. The business management tool provider’s stand included a Partner Zone handed...
Veka has launched a package of support to help its customers navigate the upcoming changes to Building Regulations, which includes access to digital workshops as well as its free online calculations tool ‘Windoplan’. The update, which will come into effect from 15 June, focuses on the existing energy efficiency standards for homes, and marks a steppingstone towards the introduction of...
Trade fabricator, Genius PVC Trade Frames, was founded by Peter Dyson and David Eagle in 2019. Their hardware partner of choice from the start has been Total Hardware – and it’s a choice both Peter and David are said to be delighted with. Peter commented: “Genius was set up to provide high quality products to our customers so our choice...
‘Makeovers’, where customers receive a render of their new windows and doors super-imposed over an image of their property, are fast becoming a staple part of the quoting process, according to latest analysis of quotes prepared by installers on Tommy Trinder’s Framepoint platform. The firm reports that in recent months over 60% of all quotes prepared for homeowners are accompanied...
Sternfenster has launched a new virtual showroom to help customers sell higher value products to homeowners. “People moved online during the pandemic to research and buy home improvement products,” Sternfenster’s sales director, Nathan Court, said. “And this hasn’t declined as we’ve moved back to a sense of normality. It is vital we keep up with changing habits, and even pioneer...