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3D Laminates has signed an agreement with Door Panels to supply 16 new coloured foils with CoolSkin Technology. Elumatec has released a series of special package prices across its range of machines. Inagas has launched the TestOxy 2. Nico Manufacturing has launches a special range of locking systems to meet social housing standards.
3D Laminates has just launched an Irish Oak option for its laminated foiled sheet product range. Regency Glass has launched its own branded obscure glass range.
Spectus Window Systems has launched its foiling policy, ‘Spectrum’. Hoppe (UK) has been a customer of prospect data supplier Windowbase for 10 years. Now it is using Prospect Manager – Windowbases’s new online system. Scotland’s CR Smith has been awarded the BSI Kitemark in Scotland for window energy ratings across its full range of windows. Barnsley-based Rehau fabricator Euroglaze is supporting its trade customers with marketing support programme encompassing brochures, leaflets and website design. Family run windows business, Extra Windows, has recorded a 40% growth in sales over the last year, halved its marketing costs and seen its conversion rate grow to securing sales with between 55%-60% of clients visited, all from leads generated online. The latest sales figures reported by Lister Trade Frames Building Plastics Division, “The BIG Trade Counter” show a marked rise in new business growth. Network Veka fabricator Tingle Trade Windows was called in to save the day when a TV consumer champion answered a local family’s plea for help. Glasgow-based Goldseal has signed to Profile 22 as part of the Scottish fabricator’s new and expanded offering to its trade customers. Swisspacer has expanded its team to keep ahead of demand.
Liverpool-based Spektaglaze recently undertook the replacement of sash windows on a street in a conservation area of Liverpool. When Crown Commercial Windows were looking for help with meeting planning requirements for an apartment building in Plymouth, Eurocell provided the solution. Around one thousand energy efficient IG units from FGI’s Everseal range featuring AGC’s Planibel low-e laminated glass are part of the high performance specification of Arundel Square, a striking new residential development in Islington, North London. Quantal’s aluminium roofing system has been selected by Sash UK for a 190m2 conservatory installation at a Grade II listed stately home. Westview Windows has demonstrated the potential of the Rehau Polytec 50S composite curtain walling system in high rise applications with a major contract for Morris & Spottiswood in Glasgow city centre. Two acclaimed buildings featuring aluminium glazing systems from Technal, have won RIBA Awards for architectural excellence. Vicaima has supplied a selection of doors to a small but exclusive new development in Cambridge, built by Camstead.
With the World Cup serving as a convenient warm-up, at last we can look forward to a proper football competition. The Double Glazing Industry 5-a-Side Competition, organised by Conservatory Outlet’s Matthew Glover, will feature 32 teams in a tournament that is likely to make the gladiatorial contest at the Coliseum seem like a walk in the park.
At glasstec and solarpeq, 1,260 exhibitors will be exhibiting, of which 1,200 companies will exhibit at glasstec. 160 firms have registered for solarpeq so far – including the exhibitors showing ranges at both trade fairs. North Western Lead (NWL) is exhibiting on Stand E22 in Hall 9 at this year’s Glasstec trade show. Visitors to Glassex will be assured of a warm friendly and professional welcome when they visit the Ultraframe stand. British machine tool manufacturer Stuga Machinery has announced its presence at this year’s Glassex (17-20 October at Birmingham’s NEC). Attendees may now register for North America’s largest annual glass industry event – GlassBuild America – to be held September 14-16 in Las Vegas, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Glasstec 2010 will offer exhibitors and visitors a comprehensively revised structure. BBG GmbH & Co KG will be present at the first solarpec trade show for solar production engineering and the glasstec trade show, which takes place in parallel, and will demonstrate various innovations on how to join glass and plastics. Developing both the current and future business opportunities of recently acquired Vitrododi Supply is an important focus for CR Laurence of Europe, the company has said. The Bystronic glass Group will be presenting new products at Glasstec in Düsseldorf from 28 September to 1 October 2010. Kommerling UK will be represented on its parent company’s stand, No C22, Hall 17 at the forthcoming Glasstec exhibition in Dusseldorf from 28th September to 1st October, 2010. Ritec International and its partners are launching the famous Glasstec Boat from Monday 27 September to Friday 1 October 2010. Synseal is the latest big name to confirm sponsorship of the G10 Awards Presentation & Gala Dinner which takes place at Wembley Stadium on 2 December 2010. Edgetech will be exhibiting at this year’s Glassex show. Technoform Glass Insulation will be presenting its new spacer at the leading trade fair for the global glass industry being held in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 28 September to 1 October 2010. Swisspacer will be exhibiting at this year’s Glasstec exhibition in Düsseldorf (28th September – 1st October). Edgetech will be at GlassBuild America 2010 in Las Vegas. Reynaers Aluminium has confirmed its participation at the new Built Environment Solutions & Technologies (BEST) Exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham from 18-20 October 2010. Edgetech’s European arm, Edgetech Europe GmbH, has announced “big plans” for glasstec 2010. Adopting the theme of Formula 1 racing, visitors to the Stand B68 in HALL 17 will be able to take the Edgetech Pole Position Challenge in an F1 car simulator for the opportunity to win an iPad from Apple every day of the show. The Fenzi group has decided to concentrate its research activities on energy efficiency and alternative energies.
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Conservatories are dead, long live conservatories
One example of someone who is making hay while the sun shines is Peter Hancock of Abingdon-based Quantal and Sierra customer, Shires, who said that he was fully booked up until Christmas, and that he was installing £100k orangeries, plus add-ons, such as internal refits and landscaping. This is obviously the other end of the spectrum to the commodity conservatory market, but maybe something can be learned here. It is almost as if the conservatory market is straddling two camps: the home improvement market; and the architecturally designed construction market. By launching the Conservatory Design and Build Award at this year’s G10 Awards, Tony Higgin is suggesting that the bespoke upper end is where the growth is – an idea supported by Peter Hancock and those other companies that are benefitting from the fancy aluminium and glass extensions. But what about the commodity end? This is where the big numbers can be found, and is probably a better measure of the market’s health. Affectionately referred to by many in the industry as ‘white plastic boxes’, maybe this is where the problem lies? Homeowners are looking at their budgets, looking at what’s on offer, and discovering that unless they spend at least three times their budget, they aren’t going to get much more than an off-the-shelf mass-produced conservatory. Maybe conservatories would gain in popularity if homeowners with more modest means could invest in something that was more bespoke and imaginative? Then again, maybe I’ll be proved wrong when I see the entries for this year’s awards. Details can be found here if you want to enter. Nathan Bushell
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Purchasing ManagerGlazerite Windows Ltd is one of the country’s leading and fastest growing trade fabricators, manufacturing high quality doors, windows and other niche market products on a national basis. DIRECT SALES OPPORTUNITYDue to a huge number of enquiries from wealthy homeowners Admiral Homespace have expanded into Hertfordshire. Door and window control systems manufacturer, Geze UK, is expanding its regional teams to meet increasing demand, with three new appointments. Insight has expanded its research team to eight staff, all of which have intensive telemarketing and product training. Lockwood-based Novaglaze Gardner & Newton has recently taken on two new apprentices, who are now embarking on a career in the glass industry.
Glass Systems has invested £1m in new machinery. Guardian Industries has chosen Ashton Industrial's fully automated seaming and batching to enhance its new processing plant in Rexdale, Ontario. Glass Systems is the first company in the UK to invest in the Lisec BSV 45 ANK for automated Swisspacer production. Swisspacer is the company’s preferred warm edge spacer bar at its largest manufacturing facility in Swansea, where it produces 23,000 sealed units a week. The entire library of codes of practice and best practice guides for the door and hardware industry have now been made available for download without charge from the Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) website. The Certass Thermal Rating Register (TRR) has launched a new initiative which, it claims, will enable fabricators and installers to obtain a Window Energy Rating (WER) quickly and cost effectively. Hytech Glass, manufacturer of Hy-Therm energy efficient double glazed units has now passed EN1279 part 3 for gas filled sealed units.
Kestrel has become official sponsors of Sale Sharks in a bid to raise awareness of the Kestrel brand on behalf of its distributors. The date of Elumatec’s Fabricator Show has been announced. The event will be held at its site in Milton Keynes from 22nd to 24th March 2011. The Double Glazing and Conservatory Ombudsman Scheme (DGCOS) will be presenting its plans for 2011 and its latest television and radio campaign at the RICOH Arena in Coventry this November. Hampshire-based Portsmouth Conservatories has commissioned its new showroom in the Havant Garden Centre. Edgetech has launched a Part 3 Club to celebrate the number of its customers that have passed EN1279 Part 3 in their own right. Screwfix has increased its portfolio with new product lines and exclusive deals in its biggest catalogue launch of the year. Anglian Building Products, the business-to-business division of Anglian Windows, has launched its new Religion, Belief & Faith Guide. Deceuninck has just published a clear guide to the amended Parts F and L of the Building Regulations for England and Wales, as well as Section 6 of the Scottish Building Standards, which come into force on October 1, 2010. Rehau has produced a new brochure setting out its strength in the residential housing market. Door-Stop’s latest luxury ‘book’ is now delivered free with every one of its composite doors. CR Laurence’s latest master catalogue – CRL 73 (the ‘little black book’) – has recently been published.
The GGF has congratulated Buckingham Palace for its reported plans to install double glazing. Anglo European – supplier of galvanised reinforcement direct – has recently launched an environmental initiative to ensure none of its recyclable cardboard and polythene packaging waste ends up in landfill. Gloucester based CDW Systems, supplier of contemporary aluminium doors, windows and framing products, has recently launched an environmental initiative to ensure none of their recyclable cardboard and polythene packaging waste ends up in landfill. Warwickshire-based Alumet has received the Green Apple Award in recognition of its environmental credentials, which company representatives picked up at the Tower of London on June 14th
Figures from the Office of National Statistics, recently published by the UK Insolvency Service, show that the number of construction companies in Scotland entering compulsory insolvency jumped from 14 in the second quarter of 2009 to 48 in the last three months of this year. The underlying value of private housing construction projects starting on site fell in the three months to July after six months of sustained growth according to the latest data from industry analysts Glenigan. According to the latest Strategic Market Insights forecasting report from HobsonFord Associates, this recession will cause structural change. The Forum for Private Business (FPB) has reacted to reports that a controversial tax on private parking spaces is set to be extended. Scottish windows and conservatories company CR Smith is investing in its roofline and cladding business as it continues to see more Scots upgrading their homes rather than move. Schueco employee, Anthony Blake, won the award for ‘Best Practice in Assessment’ at the inaugural National Conference of the Glass Qualifications Authority. The final G10 Regional Exhibition of the year for the glass and glazing industries takes place at Wembley Stadium, 1-2 December, and visitors can now register online at www.g-events.co.uk/exhibitions. Synseal’s Formulus Wind Load Calculator has gone live on the Synseal website. Kömmerling has just launched their new looking website at www.kommerling.co.uk that includes details of its lead-free Greenline compound and latest news items. Visitors can browse an online version of Avocet’s product guide, view individual products and download technical information. Record UK has launched a new, user-friendly website, that is both fast to access and easy to navigate.
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