Synseal acquires Village Glass factory to add a fourth IGU site
13th December 2016

The Synseal Group has this week acquired the domestic IGU manufacturing assets of Euroview Manufacturing Limited, trading as Village Glass.

Synseal CEO David Leng said: “This is an important southern region addition to our existing three Global Glass IGU manufacturing sites which are situated across the midland and northern regions, and enables us to supply glass sealed units to a much wider range of our customers.”

“We have significantly grown our glass sales over the past few years and this new facility brings much needed capacity, with the additional benefit of a specialist, high speed triple glazed unit line. The acquisition leaves the Synseal Group, and its 1,500 employees, well placed to exceed £150m turnover next year from its seven sites and we look forward to increasing our glass, sales with our southern customers.”

The acquired portion of the business is an 80,000 sqft factory in Freebournes Road, Witham, Essex, taken by Village Glass two years ago to house its domestic manufacturing, while commercial production remains at its main unit on the Eastways Estate nearby.

Village Glass began manufacturing in the 1980s with two staff and grew via two relocations and the second factory addition to 140 staff, supplying customers throughout the South East of England.

A spokesperson for the Synseal Group said a decision may be expected soon on the branding of the acquired unit.

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