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Glazerite Triples Ouput with Veka Support
Wellingborough, Northants based trade fabricator Glazerite Windows has just
announced the tripling of its production capacity in three years with the support of its PVCu profile supplier Veka plc.
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Dual Colours Costs Tumble with Colorzone
Recent investments in production and administrative systems have now established Status fabricator Colorzone PVCu Ltd as a key supplier of coloured PVCu window and door products for commercial, local authority and social housing contracts.
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Spectus Goes Platinum
Shropshire fabricator Platinum Conservatories, Windows and Doors have experienced a business boom, coinciding with their move to Spectus Sightline 70 profile.
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Synseal Stands Out from the Crowd
When he took over his father's Lancashire based fabrication company Town and Country, Mike Pearson was faced with the choice of which profile to use for windows and conservatories.
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St Neots Expansion comes Highly Recommended
'Business has never been better', according to Premier Profiles' fabricator, St Neots Windows and Conservatories, which has just doubled its manufacturing plant at Eaton Socon with a new 2,500 sq. ft. unit, and opened a brand new conservatory showroom.
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York Windows Doubles Production with Second Site
A Premier Profiles fabricator and installer of 8 years, Wigan-based York Windows has recently developed a second site in the town. The new 8,000 sq. ft. site will include both a factory and a trade counter facility helping to double window production.
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Select Windows and Doors: Aiming for Success
Spectus Systems' customer Select Windows and Doors of Honiton, Devon, has recently become a member of the HW Plastics' Approved Installer Membership Scheme.
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Central Exceeds Standards for the Commercial Sector's Gain
Over £100,000 of investment has culminated in the achievement of Kitemark certificates for BS7950 and BS7412 for Status fabricator Central Express Windows.
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Employer Award for Nolan UPVC
Commitment to the training and employment of staff under the Government's New Deal initiative has earned Profile 22 fabricator Nolan UPVC a prestigious Employer of the Year award.
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Seddon Choose Veka and Windows Direct for Major Blackpool lnstallation
Veka fabricator Windows Direct of Preston has secured a major contract through construction giants J & S Seddon
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NBW Builds on Success
NBW Limited has recently expanded its operation with a move to a new purpose-built factory, twice the size of its previous premises.
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Spectus Customer in a Whirl over Window Installation
Spectus customer Derek Tibbs Windows was flying high when it recently landed its biggest ever job - to provide all of the windows at a new £1million house complete with back yard helicopter pad.
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Direct Start with Profile 22
Bradford-based Direct Windows (Yorkshire) has started fabricating with Profile 22, supplying both the 60mm and 70mm Fully Integrated System to its trade customers.
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Gymnasium Glass at the Window Depot
The Window Depot, a Premier Profiles fabricator based in Nottingham, has supplied Premier's Victorian 70mm system to Glapton School in Clifton to give its gymnasium a makeover.
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Would You Adam and Eve it? Garden of Eden Grows its Own Customer!
Swindon based Hallmark fabricator and family-run company Garden of Eden gave new meaning to the term 'family tree' when one of the sons of its owners set up his own installation business, effectively creating a new customer for his parents.
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Elumatec Machinery Provides Vision for the Future
Vision Products a factory employing people with disabiiities under the Workstep scheme, has specified Elumatec machinery for its 'cost-effective, easy-to-use qualities'.
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New Rehau Fabricator Opens in Cheshire
Cheshire has a new fabricator of Rehau's S706 70mm window system. Newbury Trade Frames has been set up on Winsford lndustrial Estate
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The Fastest Fabricator in the West
Wakefield based West Yorkshire Windows has set up a 3500 square foot fabrication plant in just a couple of weeks. Working with profile supplier Status, West Yorkshire Windows was manufacturing 100 windows a week just a month after it had decided to stop buying in from an outside source.
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Elumatec chosen by 'Quality Obsessed' Pennine
If confirmation that 'quality pays' were ever needed then Newcastle upon Tyne based Pennine Home Improvements continues to provide the evidence.
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Cladwinds Moves Onwards and Upwards
Established in 1986, Cladwinds Ltd. are based in the Woburn Rd. Industrial Estate in Bedford and fabricate Eurocell’s Ultimate 70mm Window System.
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Going for Growth
Out of the shadows of the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire, Trade Window Specialists is emerging as a thriving and progressive Profile 22 fabricator.
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Leamore Windows Building for the Future with Eurocell
Leamore Windows, a West Midlands window company, is now planning for the future with further investment plans. A fabricator of Eurocell's Ultimate 70mm window system for the past five years, the company is currently experiencing signs of organic growth.
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Kingston Windows and Conservatories Celebrate with Eurocell
Kingston Windows and Conservatories is currently celebrating its second year with Eurocell. Barrie Francis one of the founders of the company back in 1964, originally set up Kingston Windows to provide secondary glazing for local residents of Bedford after seeing some in Kingston-upon-Hull, hence Kingston Windows.
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Rub-A-Dub-Dub, a Profitable Tub!
To get over a thousand hits on your company website in just 12 hours takes some achieving. But it helps if your PVCu 'gazebo' over a hot tub is featured on Carol Vorderman's popular Better Homes TV programme. Profile 22 fabricator, Slaithwaite Developments Ltd, designed and installed the garden shelter housing the spa pool, allowing it to be used comfortably all year round.
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Veka Fabricator Gives the Competition some Stick
The British double-glazing industry is awash with stories of competition and rivalry. And whilst some of the stories - fortunately very few these days have not always shown the industry in its best light, seldom is the competition faced with large, curved sticks!
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Fabrication Through Acquisition
After seven years spent building its Mr Glassman brand, the Prestwich based installation company took its next logical step and went into manufacturing. Through acquisition a separate fabrication unit trading under the name The Frame People was established, and one year on is producing over 250 Status windows a week.
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Trade Supplier Turns to Second Fabricator
Business is growing so much for trade supplier PDQ, that it needed a greater range of windows than its long-standing fabricator can let it have. In order to meet a more diverse demand, PDQ has joined Kömmerling fabricator Everglade Windows' growing network of trade and retail customers in the South and South East.
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Double Double for Cheshire's Conservatory Champion
Evidence of the conservatory boom continuing, as one of the North-West's domestic conservatory retailers has just doubled the size of its showroom - and is on course to double its tumover this year.
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My Kingdom for a House!
A generous father put up his house as security so his son could found a window company - and so Alfa Windows Ltd was born in January this year fabricating the Profile 22 system.
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Achievable Solutions for Yorkshire Company
With little over a year since the birth of Conservatory Solutions Ltd, the company has announced record sales growth, made achievable since they joined forces with K2 Conservatory Roof Systems.
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Rainseal's 10th Anniversary: Less Work for More Pay!
Bury-based Plastmo fabricator Rainseal Trade Windows Limited celebrates its 10th Anniversary and is poised for yet another record-breaking year.
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A Family Concern for Spectus
Fersina Dundee has become one of the most recent fabricators to take on board the Spectus Sightline 70 range of profile.
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Spectus Fabricator in City Renewal Project
Spectus fabricator Framemaker is involved in a large urban renewal project in the Bank Top Renewal Area of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council.
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M.G.Windows Cuts the competition Down to Size
M.G.Windows who have been established for over 15 years now have just re-vamped their depot situated on the Kingsditch Ind. Estate in Cheltenham.
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Sunrise on Business Growth
Since joining forces with HW Systems last August, Newark-based fabricator Sunrise Window Systems claims it has seen business boom.
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Total Signs up New Platinum Customers
An lsle of Man-based installer is the latest Platinum customer to be signed up by Total Glass, one of Profile 22's biggest trade fabricators
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Mainstream on the Move
Midlands-based Profile 22 fabricator, Mainstream Windows, Conservatories and Doors Ltd, is swapping its rural location for a bigger and busier city centre site.
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A Double Anniversary for Rustington
Rustington Windows of West Sussex are celebrating their 20th year in business, the same year as their system company Marshall-Tufflex celebrate their diamond anniversary.
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MB Marks 10th Anniversary with Generous Donation
Status Systems fabricator MB Frames is celebrating its 10th anniversary of trading.
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Tudor Fabrications
When looking at diversifying into new markets many fabricators think of commercial work, or perhaps expanding their retail side. For Eurocell customer Tudor Fabrications this was not the case.
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K2 Fabricator Enters the Premier League
The reputation of Bristol based, Premier Conservatory Roofs has moved up a division since it joined forces with its conservatory roof system supplier, K2.
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KMR WINDOWS SETS OUT ITS STALL FOR 2002
Following continuous expansion and plant investment at its Newtownabbey, Belfast headquarters, KBE's Northern Ireland fabricator, KMR Windows Limited has set itself a target of manufacturing 800-1,000 windows and doors per week by the summer of 2002.
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SHEER CLASS OPENS ITS DOORS
Sheer Class Conservatories, Windows and Doors has spared no expense on its new showroom, with special emphasis on residential doors exclusively supplied by Hallmark Panels.
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VISION INTO THE FUTURE WITH ELUMATEC
Following a review of its operations, Vision Aluminium has invested in new Elumatec equipment that has helped provide a dramatic surge in orders.
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EXPANDING TIMES FOR ATHERTON
Steady growth of its trade and commercial work has enabled long-established Profile 22 fabricator, Atherton Windows, to expand from 2,000 to some 15,000 sq ft of manufacturing space within its industrial courtyard setting.
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ELUMATEC & STATUS BACK UNITED
Tracey Yearn, Managing Director of Manchester based Status fabricator United Trade Frames is proving that women can more than cut it in the tough and competitive world of the double glazing sector.
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TV EXPANSION PROGRAMME
Trent Valley Windows and Doors has moved into new purpose-built premises, as part of a £1 million expansion programme.
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THE CHANGING SHAPE OF ISOSYSTEMS
IsoSystems is undergoing a transformation with a major re-branding programme and the launch of innovative products and services in 2002.
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SASH UK AND NORTHERN COUNTIES IN PARTNERING AGREEMENT
With the revolution that has taken place in the public sector between clients and suppliers, many of the partnering agreements that characterise such working practices are increasingly complex, requiring levels of mutual cooperation that were inconceivable just a few years ago.
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Express hits the 500 mark
REHAU fabricator Express Trade Frames Ltd, Preston is celebrating a significant milestone in its growth by reaching a weekly output of 500 frames.
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ASHFORD WINDOWS ADDS 10.000 sq ft
Ashford Windows Ltd, the North Walsham based VEKA fabricator, is undergoing expansion to increase capacity within its Norfolk factory. A new extension, due to be completed by the end of 2001, will add 10,000 sq feet to give a 150% increase in manufacturing space. This will give Ashford an output of 1,500 to 2,000 frames a week.
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SHOWROOM INVESTMENT BY TM PROFILES
REHAU customer TM Profiles of Stoke on Trent marked its first anniversary in business with the opening of a brand new 2,000 sq ft retail showroom in the heart of Hanley.
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Nova toughens up with Ashtons
This year, Altrincham based Nova Group celebrated 30 years in the window industry and today employ over 200 staff at its 120,00 sq. ft factory premises, with a turnover in excess of £11 million.
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VEKA STARTS UP WESTERN SUPERIOR
Carl Evans and his partners planned the launch of their new window and door fabrication operation, based in Western-Super-Mare, for a year before taking the leap - and chose PVC-U system company VEKA as its principle supplier.
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SUPPORTING THE SYSTEMS SWITCH
To help its new customer, Birmingham-based Window Spec make the change to its HW 70 profile suite, HW Systems developed a programme of support for the company, which included a sales training day for Window Spec customers.
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