Posted On - 09/01/2024
Warringtonfire, a global leader in Fire Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC), has announced plans to open a new facility in Warrington, UK. Construction of the new 101,000ft2 facility has begun and is expected to be completed in 2025 with a total investment of around £23.75 million. Creating 50 new jobs, the new facility will be the largest in the UK...
Posted On - 09/01/2024
Shepley, reported to be the UK’s largest sole Rehau window fabricator, says it has strengthened its support for customers and now offers one of the most comprehensive packages in the industry for installers. “In the current, more demanding economic climate, we have included the very latest trending products and support to help customers win more business,” said managing director at...
Posted On - 09/01/2024
Following Insight Data’s State of the Industry Report showing that the number of aluminium manufacturers is growing fast, KallKwik says it wants to urge fabricators to invest in aluminium manufacturing to maximise their profits and grow their businesses. The company also wants to ‘debunk the myth’ that aluminium fabrication is costly, adding that it actually boasts higher profit margins compared...
Posted On - 09/01/2024
ISO Chemie’s thermal insulating and load bearing bracket support system has been specified for a major South East housing refurbishment programme. Dozens of Winframer units are being retrofitted by Sandy-based Potton Windows on pre-fabricated residential properties at a Milton Keynes housing estate over the next two years. The use of Winframer is designed to help provide improved standards of thermal...
Posted On - 09/01/2024
Framexpress has invested over £300,000 in new machinery. Housed in its 50,000ft2 Telford manufacturing facility, the new Urban SV 500 corner cleaner, Urban AKS1860/4 Verti quad welder and Urban AKS 5550 inline welder are helping to meet increasing demand for Framexpress products, following a record-breaking year of business. The new additions have also helped prepare the company for its new...
Posted On - 09/01/2024
ERA has launched a new pallet recycling scheme, as part of its sustainability commitments. In a bid to reduce waste to landfill, ERA has partnered with local Midlands company Ian Wootton Pallets & Packing Cases to introduce the scheme, which will reportedly prevent circa of 60 tonnes of disposed pallet wood from going to waste each year. Instead, the disposed...
Posted On - 09/01/2024
DoorCo has won two awards at the North Cheshire Business Awards: Gold in the Health & Wellbeing category, and silver in the Team of the Year. Marketing manager, Ellie Pool, said: “We’re so delighted to have achieved success in both the categories we entered at the local North Cheshire Business Awards, which took place at the end of last year....
Posted On - 09/01/2024
By Phil Slinger, CEO of Council for Aluminium in Building. The Council for Aluminium in Building spring forum will take place on Thursday 29 February 2024 at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon, Warwickshire. The afternoon forum, which is free for to members to attend, takes place in the south wing 5 of the museum and will include updates on...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Fenestration industry marketing specialist, Balls2 Marketing, will be celebrating 10 years of organising the industry networking event, People In Glazing Society (PiGs), in 2024. Sarah Ball, at Balls2 Marketing, said. “When Balls2 Marketing took over the organisation of PiGs, it was always the ‘open to everyone’ events we wanted to emulate. In fact, the first one we organised was after...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Northern Ireland’s Fairco Trade Frames was established in 2021 to help meet the needs of the Irish trade community. When setting up its manufacturing facilities, the team is said to have made a strategic decision to collaborate with machinery specialist, Haffner. This decision has proven to be one they ‘unequivocally stand by’, reflecting the ‘success and satisfaction’ derived from the...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Ryze Hydrogen has signed a long-term deal to provide hydrogen to Guardian Glass. Ryze, which earlier this year became a member of the not-for-profit organisation Glass Futures, to explore the role hydrogen can play in reducing the glass industry’s carbon emissions, will provide hydrogen to Guardian’s plant in Goole, East Yorkshire. It will be used as a technical gas during...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Everglade Windows has invested in an Emmegi Quadra L2 in order to drive greater production efficiencies. The 18-axis CNC machining centre, which has the capability to mill, drill and cut aluminium profiles up to 7.5m in length, will be installed at Everglade’s 65,000ft2 manufacturing facility in Perivale, West London. Yogesh Gopal, director at Everglade Windows, commented: “This new piece of...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
It can be easy for fabricators to stick to the ‘bread and butter’ offering of traditional white when it comes to sales of PVC-U. But what about the non-traditional market of homeowners who are looking for their windows and doors to be a colourful statement, rather than an understated subtlety? The average age of a first-time home buyer in the...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Paul Hines, managing director of Hinckley-based Progress Windows, Roofline and Conservatories, explains how Business Pilot made his efficient business run even more efficiently. Before we used Business Pilot, we were very manually driven. I’d say we were working hard rather than working smart. We have great people working here at Progress, but people can forget and have bad days. The...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
By Nick Dutton, CEO, Brisant Secure As I write this about the age-old battle against break-ins, and the need to develop 3 star locks and the security standards that underpin them so they remain effective, past and present Prime Ministers are being grilled by the Covid enquiry over lockdown delay and the government’s slow and arguably inadequate response to the pandemic. It’s...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Never has it more important to choose your suppliers with care, believes Dave Broxton, MD at Bohle. Consolidation was a key theme for 2023, as changing trends and reduced cash flow caused some companies – both big and small – to cease trading. Every year companies go to the wall, Bohle’s managing director Dave Broxton argues, but little is said...
Posted On - 03/01/2024
Affordable Windows Group in Blackpool became the meeting point for key global Aluplast personnel who gathered in the UK to celebrate a decade of collaboration and discuss Affordable Window’s leading fabrication technique, specially within the flush sash sector. Aluplast’s UK owner and managing director, Keith White, welcomed Aluplast’s global co-owner Patrick Seitz, head of expanding markets Babak Golriz and managing...
Posted On - 19/12/2023
With increasing issues, including condensation, for solid roofs that are a ‘cold roof’ design, Prefix Systems believes that 2024 will be the year in which diligent installation companies will move over to solid roof solutions that are 100% ‘warm’ by design. Prefix Systems says it experienced with ‘increasing regularity’ throughout 2023 that it had been on site to inspect timber...
Posted On - 19/12/2023
Made for Trade’s managing director, Bradley Gaunt and engineering director, Ashley Gaunt, competed in the Hagerty Radical Cup UK for the first time in 2023. Racing against fellow novices and experienced championship winners – the MfT duo are said to have applied their ‘sharp vision and technical backgrounds’ to the new venture as well as raising awareness of the company...
Posted On - 19/12/2023
Made for Trade celebrated 40 years in business in December. Originally established as Aanco by Richard Gaunt in 1979, the company was officially incorporated on 13 December 1983. A business that began as a supplier and installer of windows and conservatories to the retail market throughout the 1980s and 1990s, it moved from an original location in Sheffield to the...
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