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West Midlands-based Excel Glazing has become a Swish fabricator and will be manufacturing the company’s 24/7 windows, doors, conservatories and bifolding doors. Christopher Kailey, assistant director at Excel Glazing, said: “Joining Swish was a no brainer. They have over 40 years’ experience in the industry plus they have the additional reassurance of being one of the system brands that make...
Sheffield Window Centre has extended the Rehau Total70 range to include Rehau Co-extruded profile, enabling it to provide customers with an environmentally friendly product. Located in the heart of Sheffield, the family-owned fabrication and installation business has been making PVCU windows and doors for over 40 years. In 1991, the company started fabricating Rehau profiles, and Centre now fabricates and...
Eurocell has launched The View, a new online community for tradespeople. Created to encourage interaction and share best practice, the new blog also provides updates on the latest industry and product news. The View provides free training, how-to videos, business advice, product news, promotions and entertainment. It’s a community where installers working in the trade – from one-man-bands to large...
Veka Group now offers colour-matched laminated mouldings. Marketing director Dawn Stockell said: “Veka Group continues to make significant investment in our lamination department for the benefit of our customers. We know that this is one of the fastest growing areas of our industry, and laminated product currently makes up 39% of Veka and Halo profile sales, which is well above...
Jack Aluminium Systems has launched a suite of product information sheets as part of its marketing support package for fabricators. Available to download from the new website, the product information sheets have been designed to help fabricators sell the benefits of the complete Jack Aluminium Systems range. They offer information on the key features, technical information, service and finish options...
Aluplast has launched a new slim sightline, modular PVCU flush casement. The new system maximises the glazed area of the window and is defined by a slim sightline chamfer to the IGU. Designed to integrate seamlessly with the German system house’s Ideal 70 and Ideal 4000 systems, the new system features a choice of standard and heritage deep bottom rail,...
Harpenden Windows has reported a strong start as a new Residence Collection manufacturer, with strong sales coming in through its retail business in the first six months. Aaron Booth, director of Harpenden, said: “The Residence Collection is unique in terms of product design and appearance. The marketing features strong branding across the point of sale materials, printed literature and we...
The combination of visual elegance and excellent thermal performance makes the ultra-slimline FWS 35 PD panorama design facade from Schueco the ideal system solution for low-rise, high-end residential and commercial projects, the company has announced. The frameless glass-to-glass corner option eliminates the need for an intrusive corner profile by transferring the glass load directly onto the adjacent mullions. The result...
Trade and commercial fabricator Astraseal has launched the Alitherm 800 system, a new aluminium flush casement from Smarts. Colin Stanley, operations director at Astraseal, said: “Not only does Alitherm 800 present new opportunities for our customers – capitalising on the huge demand for flush casements – it’s actually far more cost-effective compared to its PVCU counterparts. “We have invested in...
Swish Window Systems has upgraded its website to help drive leads for its installers. Gerald Allen, marketing manager at Epwin Window Systems, said: “The developments we’ve made to the Swish website will connect homeowners with their local installer much more quickly and easily than ever before.” Two key developments have been made to the homeowner-focused site: over 1,000 landing pages...
Plastic Building Supplies will be celebrating 30 years in business in 2018, with a year of promotions and giveaways for its trade customers. Established in 1988, Plastic Building Supplies (PBS) is a specialist PVCU supplier with branches across East Anglia and a nationwide customer base. Part of the PBS Group is Ledan Windows, which manufactures the company’s PVCU window and...
‘Putting the Show in your Showroom’ is how Aluk is promoting its new online Marketing Hub, where customers can select and order from a range of marketing materials. Aluk has said it has made it easy for customers to access a whole range of distinctive marketing resources to support their own sales of Aluk products – from product and range...
Luton-based Direct Glazing is celebrating 25 years of business and partnership with Selecta Systems. Business has grown steadily since the company was established in 1993 and it now has a team of fitters covering the retail side of the business. Fabricating and installing into the local retail market as well as the trade, the company has purchased additional land at...
R7, part of The Residence Collection, is proving increasingly popular in chalk white and in premium foiled finishes. Sarah Hitchings, sales and marketing director of The Residence Collection, said: “While much of the talk in the industry is about foils, the market for flat white or chalk white as we have branded it, takes account for over 50% of the...
South Yorkshire trade windows and doors supplier JWC Windows has become a Profile 22 fabricator. Jim Churchill, managing director at JWC Windows, said: “Optima from Profile 22 is a very popular system and has great brand recognition. Customers were asking for Optima and we had turned away work in the past because we hadn’t been able to offer the products....
Liniar’s parent company Quanex Building Products will be showcasing its range at GlassBuild America in Las Vegas in September – and a set of UK-designed, ModLok bifold doors will be taking a starring role on the stand. The ModLok door was acknowledged at the highest level with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation last year. Liniar CEO Roger Hartshorn,...
Rehau is encouraging its social media followers to like its new centralised Facebook page and enter a competition to win five £100 Amazon vouchers. The company has moved all of its current social content to one new page and is reaching out to followers on its existing Facebook pages to encourage them to make the move and stay in touch....
Sapa has launched its C160S sliding door, which couples profiles with 50mm glass fibre reinforced polyamide strips to reduce thermal conduction. Further improvements to thermal performance, if required, can be achieved by the use of customised thermal barrier elements within the profile cavities of the door and frame. Capable of glazing areas up to 2.8m high, a range of track...
Janisol Arte 2.0, the second-generation renovation window from Schueco Jansen, is proving popular with architects because of its enhanced specification, improved performance characteristics and ability to satisfy the aesthetic concerns of local authority planners and conservation officers, the company said. ‘Retro’ Janisol Arte 2.0 offers an enlarged range of profiles with slim sight-lines from 25mm. A wider choice of glazing...
Colour+ from Aluk allows aluminium fabricators working in the trade and residential market to simplify and speed up their colour offering, the company has announced. The new initiative, which replaces Aluk’s Colour Now, means that Aluk is now supplying a huge range of its standard window and door profiles in four standard colours and two dual colours on a five-day...