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Dekko Window Systems has launched a new website for the Infinity Collection (www.infinitywindowcollection.com). Optimised to work across devices, the new site is designed to provide homeowners information and support, including brochures and a gallery of installations. The website then points homeowners in the direction of one of Dekko’s approved Infinity installers. Kurt Greatrex, sales director at Dekko, said: “Infinity has...
“Today, children, we’re going to go through the arched window to see how AluFoldDirect is making shaped aluminium windows,” Aluminium Shapes Playschool presenters, Al and Lu said. “Using innovative bending machine technology, the clever workers at AluFoldDirect shape lengths of aluminium into arches and circles. For the triangles, straight pieces of aluminium are fixed together by workers called fabricators. “The...
Shepley has launched its new Shepley Customer Portal, which features an online composite door designer and a library of technical and marketing downloads. “As one of the UK’s largest Rehau fabricators, we’re always looking at ways to make the lives of our trade customers easier,” Ian Griffiths, Shepley’s managing director, said. “The Customer Portal is a great way of achieving...
Quickslide now offers the Legacy VS window, which is based on Spectus Systems’ VS after researching the market for more than two years to find a window that could form the basis of “the finest replacement vertical sliding box sash window available on the market today”, according to chairman Adrian Barraclough. Quickslide said it has paid great attention to the...
Framexpress has launched a new support package for installer-fabricators to help them expand their product offering without any investment. It has extended its four-hour quote and express colour service so that installers who fabricate windows and doors can offer more colour products while maintaining margins. Stuart Green, director at Framexpress, said: “We know that there are lots of installers in...
Heritage Trade Frames switched to Optima when Profile 22 launched the system in 2016, and the Bolton-based trade fabricator has seen steady growth year-on-year ever since, the company has reported. Phillip Cresswell, sales and marketing manager at Heritage Trade Frames, said: “There’s no doubt that the system has helped us to achieve this consistent growth – it offers our customers...
Nolan uPVC has joined Deceuninck, saying the move will give customers improved service and product choice. Managing director Nolan Nicholas said: “We’ve built our 30-year reputation on putting the customer first. It was this drive to give customers the very best service and products that prompted our move to Deceuninck. “Deceuninck’s product range and 30 colourways from stock will give...
HWL Trade Frames has launched a new R9, R7 and R2 colour-matched aluminium bifold. Mark Haley, managing director at HWL Trade Frames, said: “The growth in the market as it stands at the moment isn’t necessarily being delivered by the replacement window market but the home improvement one. Housing transactions are marginally down but demand for certain products remains high...
Origin recently invested in a Combi-STE, a multidirectional, stand-on narrow aisle forklift from the Irish manufacturer Combilift. Origin’s continuous growth and diversification since it was founded in 2001 has necessitated an ongoing need for more warehouse capacity and more efficient handling and storage procedures. The latest Combiliftacquisition in one of the warehouses, which holds material ready to go to production,...
When the first Kommerling frames came off the production line at Genius PVC Trade Frames in Norwich, they were headed directly for a large-scale commercial refurbishment project carried out by The Window Company (Contracts) for Chelmsford City Council. Chairman David Thorntonwent along to see the frames for himself and to congratulate Pete Dyson and David Eagle, the two men behind...
Emplas has launched its new website, which details its trade product offer and provides a showcase for digital retail tools and support available to Emplas’s trade customers. The new site also offers its customers increased lead generation support.To this end, it includes access to EVA, the Emplas portal and 24/7 digital ordering platform, but also its newly created Authorised Installer...
Hailsham-based trade fabricator Tradesmithhas added a new, premium range by specialist ironmonger From the Anvil to its hardware collection. Tradesmith’shardware includesgreenteQ, Ultion, Sweet, Romatapola from the Residence Collection, Traditional Window Fittings, and Ingenious Locks. The latest addition includes hand-forged matching handles, knockers and more in a variety of finishes suitable for period properties through to high-end contemporary new builds. Tradesmith...
When it comes to selling doors, the best way to demonstrate how a door will look is to show how it will look.This is the philosophy that Midlands based fabricator, Central RPL, took when developing its new door designer, which is being launched to help customers sell its two new composite door products – TimberCoreand ThermaCore– more effectively. Amy Jansen,...
Frame Fast has taken on more orders for decorative glazing following its glass factory expansion, which saw the Derby fabricator add another 10,000ft2 of factory space, tripling its manufacturing space. Nigel Leivers, director at Frame Fast, said: “We know that more and more homeowners are asking for an extra touch of personality to be added to their home. That’s why...
Euroglaze has launched what it is calling the perfect range of composite doors for its trade customers. All of the new doors in the Euroglaze range feature a Rehauouterframe and a Doorco slab, with a Mila hinge, Maco locking system, and Fab&Fix hardware. There are a wide range of styles being offered, with standard colours available on 10-day lead times...
Emplas has launched a new edition of its Product Specification and Customer Support Guide, consolidating each individual element of its product and service offer into a single document. This includes guidance on specification and regulation from CE Marking to Part Q and WERs down to technical detail on composite doors, window maximum and minimum widths, foils, and even the technical...
CMS Window Systems has delivered an extensive package of aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling for a new £21 million hospice in Glasgow, which its development team designed to provide palliative care services in a homely and respectful environment. Designed by Ryder Architecture and built by main contractor Balfour Beatty, the new Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, created in...
Quickslidehas announced its ongoing support of National Home Security Month (NHSM). Back for a seventh year, NHSM addresses a variety of safety related topics, offering advice and guidance on everything from smart locks, apps and cameras to high quality security furniture for doors and windows. “National Home Security Month gives installers a great introduction to conversations about home security and...
Fabricator Roseview Windows has more than doubled the capacity of its Incarnation secondary glazing brand by expanding into a new factory. Previously, Incarnation operated from a 2,500ft2 facility, but now half of a new 11,000ft2 facility has been dedicated to manufacturing aluminium secondary glazing.The company has also invested more than £100,000 in new machinery and tooling. Paul Bygrave, director at...
Abcell has added Aluk aluminium windows and doors to its suite of products. Already producing and supplying a host of brands, including Global conservatory roofs, Guardian warm roofs, Warmcore bifold doors and stratus lanterns, this new partnership means that Abcell can now offer its trade customers an even greater range of top-quality windows and doors, the company said. Operating from...