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Email News for the Glass, Glazing and Fenestration Industries
25th January 2005
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The
new FAP8 push bar from panic exit device specialists JPM is now
available from Abloy Security
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At
Glasstec 2004, Bohle introduced
the SpeedTherm fusing kiln series for the first time
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Here:
Schüco
has introduced Corona+ a new range of quality PVCu profiles for
windows and doors that are supplied with all gaskets pre-inserted
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Here:
Ultraframe
has added two new traditional style luxury fans to its Senator range
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Here:
Shepley
has launched a completely re-engineered door range with significant
advances in strength, looks and styles
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Here:
TruSeal
Technologies
offers setting blocks to protect glass against vibration and
shock from handling, shipping and wind-loads
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Here:
Sierra
Windows
has improved its conservatory package for installers by offering
two roofing systems
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Here:
Beaufort
Secure Design
has reported an enthusiastic response to its recently introduced
thermally broken horizontal sliding (HS) window
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Here:
Bohle
UK
has introduced an additional measuring meter designed specifically
to aid the control of thin coatings on glass: The ‘R-Check’
Resistivity Meter
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It
was a long nine months but that was quickly forgotten with all the
excitement on the birth of Listers
new baby: a new sculptured window
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Here:
Alfas
Industries’
Technical and Specifications Division has introduced a new concept
in plastic finishing trims
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Here:
Trojan's
new ‘Unicorn’ handles offer a distinct, contemporary appearance,
which sits well with today’s modern day principles towards
smoother, cleaner lines and minimal finishes
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Dr.
Christof Kemmann, a 57-year-old businessman from Sonthofen/Allgäu
was elected Chairman of the VDMA
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Tom
Dougherty, Vice President, Primary Glass has named Ben Edwards as
Director of Benchmarking for AFG Glass
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Here:
Jonathan
Bunn has joined Siegenia-Aubi
as specification manager
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Here:
Masterframe
Windows
is expanding its accounts team with the appointment of Rachel Morton
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The
management of EMEA has been taken
over by Bo Dankis, also President and CEO for Assa
Abloy
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Here:
Everwhite
Plastics Ltd has appointed a new Business Development Manager
for the North East, Andrew Hornigold
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A
new heated glass link-way has been constructed at the £20.4m
Northern Rock Bank’s Head Office extension in Gosforth, using
glass products from Pilkington Architectural
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When
Premier Joinery was asked
to install a challenging, four-storey high conservatory the company
chose roofing system manufacturer and designer Ultraframe
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Railway
signal boxes in Cornwall will be feeling the cold far less thanks
to the installation of PVC-u inline sliding patio doors from Emplas
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More
than 2000 sqm of high specification insulating glass units have
been supplied by HansenGlass
for a commercial office building in the heart of Glasgow
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A recent collaboration at Mayfair’s Holmes Place Health and
Fitness Club in London between Solutia’s
Vanceva PVB interlayers, Saint-Gobain
Solaglas and Optima Architectural
Glass has created an example of UK design and technical
expertise
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A
two-storey Rochdale nightclub has been given a new lease of life
thanks to Décor ceiling panels from Deceuninck
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Here:
Duraflex
and NBW are proving to be
a winning partnership at an exclusive Banner Homes development
in Watford
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Ritec’s
ClearShield has brought the sparkle back to shower screens at
The Dorchester
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The
Times Square flagship store for retail toy giant Toys R Us enfolds
kids and parents alike in a magic wonderland, thanks to laminated
glass from Dupont
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The
generosity of staff at Sash UK
this Christmas surpassed all previous years of fundraising as
the company joined the nation to raise money for the Tsunami appeal,
as well as supporting its usual local causes
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Here:
Kömmerling
fabricator Affordable Window Systems
has provided free windows at a holiday home for underprivileged
Ukrainian children, on the Black Sea coast near Odessa
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Here:
Tailormade
Windows and Conservatories
of Stoke-On-Trent recently came to the aid of an elderly disabled
grandmother in the local town of Crewe
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Bohle
has recently redesigned its on-line shop to incorporate the
new design concepts currently being rolled out in the company's
catalogues and advertisments
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Here:
Home
improvement specialist, eBuilders,
has launched a comprehensive online guide to specialist air
conditioning suppliers across the UK
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Here:
UK
solar company solarcentury and Lambeth
Council recently celebrated the launch of the first local authority-housing
scheme in the UK to benefit from a fully integrated solar tiled roof generating
clean electricity
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'Too
many different schemes could be diluting the overall waste and recycling
effort in the UK.' This was the European perspective on waste and recycling
in the UK given at the fifth Waste Action Forum
held in Barnsley
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A
UK-led consortium is developing a process to extract brominated flame
retardants (BFRs) from waste plastics to leave an 'acceptable' level in
the plastic for recycling
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Here:
Alcan
Inc.
has published its 2004 Corporate Sustainability Report, an
annual update on the economic, environmental and social performance
of Alcan’s global operations
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Here:
The
British Plastics Federation Windows Group
(BPFWG) has published a comprehensive document that dispels many
of the myths about the environmental credentials of PVC-U windows
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Here:
Truseal's
Insuledge™, dual sealed with polysulphide, has passed the requirements
outlined by European testing standards EN1279-2, 3 and 6 according
to the final report by Dutch test institute TNO-TPD
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RegaLead
has teamed up with CEN Solutions
to help guide its customers through the EN 1279 accreditation
process
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Here:
Chiltern
Dynamics will treble capacity to test Insulating Glass
Units (IGUs) to EN 1279: Glass In Building – Insulating Glass
Units, Part 2, when a new custom-built chamber is installed.
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The
construction industry adopts a consistent approach to calculating
the U-values of curtain walling according to Derek Hodgson,
technical manager for Senior Aluminium Systems, chairman of
the technical committee for the Council for Aluminium in Building
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here:
The
consultation period for amendments to Building Regulations
part L is now closed, so what are the likely outcomes for
future legislation? The BFRC Window Energy Rating system is
now unlikely to be included in its proposed form
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here:
Features
now archived include:
Designers
must now comply with regulations to limit solar overheating in buildings,
as Paul Littlefair of BRE explains.
Dave
Frost on the implications of CE Marking to the sealed unit manufacturer:
Phil Mundell on what Part M means to the Door Manufacturer;
Full
list here
Give
That Baboon a Pin!
I
don't know, a few people buy or sell some shares and suddenly bid speculation
is rife. It reminds me of that - probably apocryphal - story in which
a baboon sticking a pin into a list of stocks and shares came up with
a better portfolio than a bunch of genuine traders. Over
the last 7 days both Pilkington and Ultraframe have come under intense
speculation from City rumourmongers, whose main interest presumably
is to make a quick killing on rapidly rising and falling share prices.
Business
Development Manager
Our client, a progressive manufacturer
of PVCu Doors, Windows and Conservatories is looking to recruit a BDM
for northern England. All B2B (trade) sales through the existing field
sales team as well through own Key Accounts. £30k basic; £40k
OTE + car + management potential.
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Group
Operations Director Designate
PBM-DQS
is one of the largest independent distributors of low-maintenance building
products in the UK. Since 1988, PBM-DQS has grown to incorporate over
30 branches nationwide and now requires a Group Operations Director
Designate.
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Business
Development Manager
Founded
6 years ago in Rotherham, County Systems
has grown its reputation as a premier trade fabricator of the market
leading Ultraframe roofing system.
To
capitalise on its expansion and to drive sales forward a Business Development
Manager is now needed.
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Calendar
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The conservatory website, conservatoriesonline.com,
has announced the winners of its Conservatory Installation of
the Year Awards.
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Here:
Marking an industry first, the Laminated Glazing Interlayers
division of Solutia Inc. will
bring the design talents of both architects and automotive designers
under one competition.
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Here:
Timberlike
Doors has been awarded with a prestigious honour from
Derby City Council for the work carried out in improving council
estates in Derby.
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Senior Management at Freefoam Plastics
recently presented staff with certificates after they completed
an internal auditing course run by the IQC on ISO and OHSAS standards.
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By
purchasing three Pinnacle 500 Roofing Systems from
an EBP Depot customers will automatically receive a DeWalt
DC907K2 Cordless drill, if the customer purchases six then
they will receive the superior DC981KA Cordless Hammer Drill
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here:
PBM-DQS,
the independent distributor of PVC products, has announced
a National roadshow to give the company's customers an opportunity
to try Ultraframe's new roof products.
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here:
Sheerframe
fabricator MPH has sponsored a roundabout in its hometown
of South Ribble to provide funding for much needed street
lighting on unlit paths and streets.
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here:
Northants
Network Veka fabricator Glazerite put Vinnie Jones
in the frame when the soccer-turned-movie star tackled a challenge
on ITV’s hit show ‘With a Little Help from my Friends.’
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here:
K2
has produced a new point of sale unit for its L2 in a Pack
low pitch roof kit system.
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here:
As
a keen advocate of Network Veka, Modplan
was delighted to witness the recent attendance of the Big
Rig at the KJM Group’s annual open day.
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Pilkington Building Products - UK
has updated its popular Specifire slide rule to a CD-ROM format
incorporating additional features to help specifiers and users
to identify the most appropriate fire resistant glass.
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here:
Kömmerling sealant technology,
is summarised now by four new information sheets: ‘Insulation
glass sealants (GD systems)’, ‘Insulation glass-sealants
(Naftotherm)’, ‘cast resin systems (Ködilan)’
and ‘cast resin systems (Naftolan)’.
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here:
AM
Profiles, the UK supplier of composite systems, has
produced a new brochure for the company’s ‘Alarbond’
aluminium/timber window system.
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here:
The
British Plastics Federation Windows Group (BPFWG) has
recently launched updated versions of two of its most popular
publications.
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here:
According
to the latest Construction Industry Forecasts published on 7th
January by the Construction Products
Association, Government investment is key to the industry's
continued growth.
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here:
Orders
in the year to November 2004 rose by three per cent compared to
orders in the previous twelve months period, and orders in the
three months to November 2004 rose by two per cent compared to
the same period a year earlier.
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here:
Thirty
team Leaders from L.B. Plastics Ltd have
shown just how valuable their years of vocational experience is after
successfully passing the renowned lnstitute of Learning and Management's
qualification.
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The
Ultraframe technical support
team offers all Ultraframe fabricators, suppliers and installers specialist
training at its School of Excellence.
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Partnership,
professionalism and passion were the themes underlying the fourth
Masterframe Bygone Preferred Installers
(BPI) network conference.
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Here:
The
award for Best Safety Initiative at the Glass Charter Health &
Safety Awards 2004 was won by Darby Glass,
in recognition of the introduction of emergency flipcharts around
its factories that explain quickly what should be done in the case
of most emergencies.
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A
European Construction Safety Summit
took place on 22nd November 2004 at Euskalduna Conference Centre in
Bilbao, Spain, marking the closing of this year's European Week on
Safety and Health at Work.
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The
2004 Ideal Homes Exhibition held at Bournemouth International Centre
in early September was the second year that Dorset based installer
Orchard Roofing has exhibited
the benefits of SRA.
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Here:
Eurocell
Building Plastics
has recently held two golf days. Firstly the company’s southeast
division staff competed at the prestigious Lingfield Park Course in
Surrey. Hawkstone Park was the setting for the Annual Marshall-Tufflex,
Eurocell Building Plastics Midlands Golf Day.
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Now
in its 10th year, one of the industry’s premier sporting events,
the Unitec Hardware Ltd Charity
Golf Challenge, was held once again at the De Vere Carden Park in
Cheshire.
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Fersina Lincolnshire,
based in Grantham, has significantly increased its conversion rates
using good old fashioned listening skills coupled with digital photography
and RoofWright 3D software.
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Here:
Maco
user, Cowen Windows Ltd, says
that it has made a significant impact on the company’s performance
by fabricating with the Mk2 Shootbolt Espagnolette.
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Here:
As one of Profile 22’s
newest fabricators, The Window Factory
in Bristol made the switch earlier in the year having found the system
that suited its needs perfectly for top product quality, coupled with
ease of fabrication and fitting.
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Here:
GP&T
goes Live!
The Advance Visitor Registration Hotline has now gone live for The
Glass Processing & Technology Exhibition (GP&T),
the successful new exhibition and conference dedicated to UK flat glass
professionals, which is set to take place at the NEC this May (17th
– 19th May 2005).
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on this Story]
Masterframe
Latest to Back the Glassex Challenge
The growing list of big industry names that have signed up to sponsor
the Glassex Challenge now includes the sash window fabricator Masterframe
Windows Ltd.
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on this Story]
Interbuild
2006: New Owners, New Show
Major changes have taken place since Interbuild 2004 as control of the
event switches entirely into the hands of Emap Construct.
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on this Story]
GlassBuild
America Announces Autumn Dates
The National Glass Association (NGA) has announced that its trade show,
GlassBuild America: The Glass, Window & Door Expo, will now be permanently
moving to the autumn beginning in 2005.
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on this Story]
25
Years of Glassex
Glassex celebrates its Silver Anniversary by offering an array of events,
competitions, business seminars and of course, more than 150 of the
glazing industry’s top suppliers, in the most comprehensive programme
ever seen at the event.
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on this Story]
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Calendar
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UPDATED!!
The rumours are usually rubbish and it doesn't do industry any good to be constantly defending and commenting on such speculation. Perhaps we need another dot.com boom or tulip bulb fiasco to bring these greedy idiots back into line again.
Pilkington has naturally poured cold water on the bid rumours, saying
that they are watching the share price like everyone else and why would
Nippon be willing to pay 150p for the shares now, when they were trading
around the 90p level in October/ November. Ultraframe, on the other
hand has announced UK sales down in the first quarter, but as we reported
a fortnight ago, there is more than a glimmer of hope from its US business.
It has not commented on any bid rumours.
The
B2BZine Team:
Richard and Debbie Schwarz
news@the-glazine.com
The
Glass Block - a Darling of the New Lifestyle
Generation
Solaris glass blocks step into the limelight
as an alternative to tiles: as a separator
or a furnishing element, the translucent
material can be used to achieve remarkable
transformations to living space with minimum
effort.
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on this Product]
GSL
Glazes Birmingham's Holloway Circus
This
week's illustrated project is a 39 storey tower (the
2nd highest in Birmingham behind the BT tower) consisting
of a Radisson SAS hotel and the highest residential
apartments in Europe. The unitised curtain wall system
is supplied by Austrian specialists Bug Alu-Technic
Ltd and being installed by GO4 Installer of The Year
GSL International.
[More
on this Project]
Ultraframe
Trading Update Shows UK Sales 28% Down in Q1
Rod Sellers, the Chairman, will make the following
statement regarding current trading at the Annual General
Meeting to be held at Clitheroe today:
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on this Story]
New
Year Diet? Make a PIG of Yourself
By way of a top-up following the Christmas binge and
before the beer-fest that is Glassex, the next PIGS
networking event is on 3 February at The Slug &
Lettuce, Upper St. Martins Lane, London from 6pm till
late.
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on this Story]
New
£5m Distribution Centre at Deceuninck's Calne
Site
Deceuninck is expanding its operation at the company’s
UK headquarters based in Calne, Wiltshire. Having purchased
7 hectares (17 acres) of land and obtaining planning
permission for 225,000 sqft, the company are constructing
a new 115,000 sqft distribution development.
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on this Story]
Shin-Etsu
Increase European PVC Production by 100,000 Tons/Year
Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. has announced that
Shin-Etsu PVC B.V. in The Netherlands, will expand
PVC production capacity at its Pernis Plant from
350,000 tons/year to 450,000 tons/year. Shin-Etsu
PVC is Shin-Etsu Chemical's 100%-owned Group company
and its European PVC production and sales base.
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on this Story]
Pilkington
Downplays Share Speculation
Pilkington,
one of the market's longest-standing bid candidates,
saw a flurry of speculation ln the stock exchange
last week. The stock jumped 6.6 per cent to 125.5p
in heavy trading, with 36.4 m shares changing
hands. The volume was the highest for over 2 years.
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on this Story]
Synseal
Invests in New Polycarbonate Cutting Table Unique
to the UK
The
new polycarbonate cutting table recently installed
by Synseal Extrusions Ltd is the only one in the
country. ‘The table has replaced two separate
machines to improve efficiency,’ explains
Steve Musgrave, Production Director of Synseal.
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on this Story]
Wendland
Responds to the Challenge: MD Graham Fisher Spells
Out the Future
Well
known as a brand while remaining one of the more
discreet operators of the UK conservatory industry,
Wendland Roof Solutions is now stepping from the
shadows to reveal a number of business and product
initiatives.
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on this Story]
GQA
is Major Sponsor of Glassex Challenge 2005
GQA
is the occupationally specific Awarding Body
for NVQ/SVQ qualifications aimed at Fabricators,
Glass Manufacturers, Glass Processors, Glaziers,
Installers, Fenestration Surveyors and Automotive
Glaziers.
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on this Story]
Industry
Encouraged to 'Grasp Sound Understanding' of
new Price Tool
The British Plastics Federation is encouraging
all firms in the plastics industry to learn
how the forthcoming Futures Contracts for plastics
traded on the London Metal Exchange (LME) could
affect their business.
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on this Story]
New
Celuform Price Lists Give
Installers more Options
Two
new price lists that will
allow stockists to offer discounts
to installers 'at a realistic
level' are being introduced
by Celuform, the PVC-ue building
products manufacturer.
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on this Story]
When
Bigger is Better: New £1 Million GAP Warehouse
in Liverpool
GAP,
the standard setting roofline stockist and Europe’s
third largest door panel manufacturer, has relocated
to even bigger premises in Liverpool. The company
has invested over £1 million, more than doubling
the warehouse space to 14,500 ft2.
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on this Story]
LPCB
Approval of Commercial Windows
The first commercial windows to
be approved by LPCB to LPS 1175
- 'Specification for testing and
classifying the burglary resistance
of components, strongpoints and
security enclosures' - are Selectaglaze
Ltd's Series 50.
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on this Story]
County
Systems Ltd Invests £500k
to Offer Conservatory &
Window Package
Yorkshire-based
County Systems, which says that
it has carved a reputation for
its 'We do more, so you do less'
method of manufacturing Ultraframe
conservatory roofs, is investing
half a million pounds over the
coming year.
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on this Story]
Mighton
Products t/a Ultrashoe - Complaints
Not Upheld
Complaints
objecting to an advertisement,
in Architect, Builder, Contractor
& Developer magazine, for
the 'Fenestrator' window hardware
equipment issued by Mighton
Products t/a Ultrashoe of Saffron
Walden, Essex was not upheld.
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on this Story]
Taking
the ‘Globe’ by Storm
Conservatory,
window and door specialist, Global
Windows Ltd, has opened its fourth
show site after another successful
year. The largest window company
in Sheffield has a lot to celebrate
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on this Story]
AAMA
Tightens Certification Standards
to Ascertain Lead-free Vinyl Profiles
Revamped
testing procedures, designed to
ensure that vinyl window profiles
used by AAMA-certified window
and door manufacturers are lead-free,
have been approved by the American
Architectural Manufacturers Association
(AAMA)
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on this Story]
Corporate
Insolvencies Fall to Lowest for
Six Years
16,372
companies failed during 2004, the
second year in a row that company
failures have fallen. This was the
lowest number of corporate failures
recorded across the UK since 1998. Even
so, companies failed at the rate
of 65 every working day during 2004.
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on this Story]
Volkswagen
Commercial Vehicles Sets a New UK
Sales Record
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has
enjoyed its best year so far in
the UK, with sales breaking the
20,000 mark for the first time.
The overall figure of 20,803 for
last year represents growth of 27.2
per cent on 2003, and gives the
brand a 6.2 per cent share of the
UK light commercial vehicle market.
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on this Story]
Write-Down
of Book Value of German Primary
Aluminium Plants
Hydro
has written down the book value
of its German primary aluminium
plants by approximately NOK 1.5
billion after tax due to weakened
competitiveness caused by the strengthened
EUR versus USD, and increasing energy
costs. The write-down was charged
to the fourth quarter results last
year, and will have no cash effect.
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on this Story]
Bystronic
Acquires Sales Companies in Great
Britain and Sweden
Bystronic, a member of the Conzzeta
Group, is a worldwide supplier of
solutions for processing sheet metal,
other sheet materials and tubes. With
effect from 1st January 2005, the
Bystronic Group has acquired two sales
companies, Pullmax Ltd UK and Pullmax
Scandinavia AB.
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on this Story]
Asahi
Sees Growth in Compter Screen market
as Key Driver for Next 3 year Plan:
'Jikko 2007'
Asahi
Glass Co, Ltd, aims to realise the
Group vision of 'Look Beyond' under
the management policy 'Jikko'-Execution
for Excellence, whlch was introduced
in 2004. The Group is executing
its new growth strategy, which is
formulated based on favourable results
of 'Shrink to Grow' initiatives
launched in 1998.
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on this Story]
G
05 Awards Date Announced
Following the hugely successful
reintroduction of the G-Awards
to the industry calendar, the
date for the G 05 Awards Presentation
Gala Dinner has been announced.
The event will take place at
the Birmingham Hilton Metropole,
NEC Complex on June 10th 2005
and will be held once more in
conjunction with the GGF Annual
Convention.
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on this Story]
Insolvencies,
Winding up Orders, Petitions
and Creditors' Meetings
Some
familiar names from the glass,
window and conservatory markets
turn up in this week’s
look at recent Notices from
the Company Courts: Abbseal
Limited, Sapphire Windows &
Conservatories Limited, Garden
View Conservatories Limited,
E C Windows Limited, Sapphire
Glazing (UK) Limited, Inter
Curves Limited, Towercove Windows
Limited, Tailormade (PVCu) Limited,
Majestic Conservatories and
Windows Limited, Universal North
West Limited, to name but a
few.
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