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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...
Rehau has launched its 360 customer marketing website, an online resource where authorised installers, fabricators and distributors can access the company’s latest marketing and promotional materials. The website includes marketing materials, images, point of sale, trade and end-user brochures and, for fabricators, technical literature. The content will be updated regularly, and users will be notified by email when new content...
Euroglaze now manufactures windows using Rehau’s new co-extruded Total 70 profiles, which use a virgin skin around a 100% recycled core. The Barnsley based company says that, in the wake of Blue Planet II and the ongoing furore around the use and disposal of single use plastics, it is delighted to be able to promote a positive plastic recycling message...
Dessian has launched a new website with integrated video content. Video content on the new website provides a flavour of the Belfast production facility, while a new platform and SEO capability ensures the website is easier to find in online searches. Existing customers can now login to access marketing resources, certificates, technical specifications, energy calculators and guides. Nigel Bothwell, managing...
Liniar has revamped its website, appointed a digital marketing manager, and launched a new customer marketing initiative. Web traffic has quadrupled during the last three years, with the site generating an increasing number of enquiries. With fresh new page designs, a simpler navigation process, plus SEO and content enhancements, the modifications ensure the revamped Liniar website operates to the stringent...
Aluplast has agreed a new supply deal with Weatherglaze for its Ideal 4000 system and its new lift and slide door. Operating from Gorey, just south of Dublin, Weatherglaze fabricates windows and doors and supplies them throughout the Republic of Ireland. Weatherglaze wants to access new opportunities generated by PVCU/aluminium cross-over products delivered by aluskin, Aluplast’s external aluminium fascia system....
Hailsham-based Tradesmith is the latest trade manufacturer to join the Residence Collection, with a dedicated new factory to serve the south east with direct supply and support of R7 and R9 windows and doors. Tradesmith is fully mechanically jointing all windows and doors from the Residence Collection. With full set-up and technical support provided, Tradesmith is also building a split-level...
It is 20 years since Framexpress was founded, and it has fabricated windows using Profile 22 for all of that time. Mark Westbrook, one of the founders of Framexpress, said: “Framexpress has been working with Profile 22 from day one – it’s an impressive amount of time to be working with a supplier. We chose Profile 22 for the superb...
MPN uPVC Windows, Doors and Conservatories Installations has chosen to supply Veka systems once again, after trialling another PVCU system for six months. The family-owned company, with three showrooms across south Wales, has also re-joined Independent Network. MD Paul Webster said: “We’ve used Veka for the last 11 years, and never had a problem, but we thought it might be...
A new retail display partnership has been designed for members of Excellence as Standard, the fabricator and installer programme dedicated to promoting excellence across the window and door industry. Excellence as Standard has teamed up Merit Display to enhance the customer experience and engagement within retail showrooms. Excellence as Standard’s programme manager Katie Leese said: “It is proven that customer...
Veka now has 16 colour combinations available ex-stock, including anthracite grey smooth. With the continuing growth of the vertical slider market, the company has also made cream and anthracite grey available for Veka and Halo VS systems ex-stock. Veka Group’s marketing director Dawn Stockell said: “We’re continuing to make significant investment in our lamination department because we know that colours...
With public awareness of recycling and plastic waste in the environment at an all-time high, Eurocell is urging more its customers to take advantage of the company’s PVCU trade waste and post-consumer waste collection service. These customers could be anyone from fabricators handling their own waste or builders returning old frames to one of Eurocell’s participating branches. The free scheme...
Senior Architectural Systems has launched the new super-slim Ali VU aluminium window. Senior’s new Ali VU aluminium window has a frame of 38mm when specified as a fixed light, or 66mm with a standard vent option. Thanks to the strength of its robust aluminium frame, the Ali VU window is available in a range of vent sizes up to a...