CAB has enhanced its technical support by appointing Dale Pegler as technical director.

An industry experienced technical director, Dale will be well known by many having worked for a systems company in a technical design, support and legislative environment.

Members will also know Dale as he led the CAB technical committee as chair and will work alongside Justin Furness to support members in the facade supply chain.

Dale commented: “I am looking forward to joining the CAB team in January and feel there is a great deal more we can do to support the facade supply chain across the UK & Ireland. To begin with I am looking forward to restructuring the technical committee and developing member working groups to research and agree position papers within the CAB membership and further enhance the association as a respected centre of excellence for specifiers.”

“I also recognise the plight of the industry where we have a widening skills gap and the average age of experienced individuals is increasing rapidly with not enough new talent entering the industry. CAB has already started to work on the skills gap by attending higher education open days and by initiating the CAB training academy, but there is more work to do. We need to make a career in the industry attractive to school and college leavers as well as experience people in similar trades.

“Next year will see CAB bring back the technical conference, once again being held at Holywell Park, Loughborough University.

“As I look at our industry, seeing how CNC machines and software have advanced our production capability, aluminium fabrication still lags well behind in automation terms compared to PVC window manufacture and I believe there is a lot that can be learnt and brought to aluminium fabrication.”