Derren Gittins joins Synseal as Glass MD
21st March 2017

SYNSEAL GROUP has announced the appointment of Derren Gittins to head its UK-wide glass operations as Glass Managing Director.

Derren’s role includes overseeing the Group’s four glass production facilities - Village Glass, based in Essex, and the three Global Glass factories in Nottinghamshire, Wigan and Blackburn.

With more than 25 years of experience in glass processing, Derren has spent most of his career in high profile positions at Pilkington, including as the Head of Downstream Manufacturing, before taking up the post of Managing Director at Glass Systems Group.

Derren said: “This is an industry and customer base that I know very well and I’m looking forward to using the expertise gained from my many years at Pilkington and Glass Systems Group to help grow Synseal Group’s already impressive glass business.”

Synseal Group CEO David Leng added: “In recent years we have expanded our glass offer, including the acquisition of Village Glass late last year, now giving us over 200,000 sq. ft of glass production facilities across four UK sites with more than 50,000 sealed unit capacity weekly. We have invested more than £10m over the past four years in machinery, infrastructure and production capability and we will continue to be acquisitive in this area of the industry.

“It is right that we appoint someone of Derren’s calibre to manage this large-scale operation and ensure we continue to meet the growing demand for high quality double and triple glazed insulated glazed units for window, door and conservatory applications.”

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