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Email News for the Glass, Glazing and Fenestration Industries
22nd February 2005
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With
‘Europe’, Bohle is
introducing to the market the first series of shower door hinges
originating from Bohle's own development and production
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Everwhite
Plastics Ltd
has added a new 30mm D section to its product range which is 5mm
wider than the standard
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Wagner,
has announced the addition to its range of the SASH-JACK toe and
heel device for glazing PVCu, aluminium and timber doors and windows
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Four
new additions complete the Newdawn
Newera S150 system and make it even more adaptable and able to handle
those complex roofs where a fully developed system is required
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The
recent introduction of Celsius Performance Glass into the company's
product portfolio means it is available to customers purchasing
through both the Versatile
Roof System Division and Versatile Global Division
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The
Welcome collection of composite doors from Vista
Group provides a host of features that fulfil the main
considerations such as security, durability and appearance
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Prefit,
specialist in fittings for glass, is marketing in the UK a new range
of patch fittings and locks suitable for use with 15mm and 19mm
thick glass doors
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Conservatory
roof specialist Wendland Roof Solutions
has developed a roof product that aims to bridge the gap between
a conservatory and a built extension - Sundyal
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A
new system specifically for low pitched conservatories is being
launched by Aztec Conservatory Roof Systems
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Maco
announces the retirement of its Area Sales Manager for Scotland,
Bob Gallie
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The
appointment of Andrew Sainsbury-Brown as Sales Manager for Vicaima
in the South East of England indicates the company's commitment to
merchant support
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Rehau
continues to invest in its personnel with the appointment of two new
members of staff: Terry Ledwith and Mark Gajda
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GAP,
manufacturer of the Cosmopolitan door panel range, has recently employed
John Harrop as its Production Manager
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Business
Micros has just appointed three new field staff bringing
its total workforce to 35
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Center
Parcs, Sherwood Forest, has chosen to install over 6,000 Titon
handles in its guest apartments and villas, in an initiative to
improve security for the village's accommodation
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Guests
at the Herriot Hotel in Skipton, North Yorkshire, can now enjoy
their tea and coffee in the hotel’s beautiful new conservatory
extension created by Ultraframe
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A
new hotel development currently being built at Butlins’ popular
Bognor Regis holiday resort will feature around 1500 square metres
of Pilkington Activ™
self-cleaning glass
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Here:
Woodstreet
Builders
has chosen Lister Trade Frames of Stoke on Trent as partners for
all the company's windows, doors, building plastics and conservatory
needs
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Aluminium-framed,
glass, entrance pass doors to the 31-storey Empress State Building
in Earls Court, London, have been manufactured and installed by
Structura UK Ltd
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Here:
Flogas
UK, one of the largest LPG suppliers in the UK has used Metal
Technology high performance glazing systems on its
new HQ in Leicester
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Beaufort
aluminium doors and windows in a powder blue finish are completing
the clean, contemporary look of Enclave, a striking new development
by Furlong Homes in Tring
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Michael
Fish, 38 year old production manager for Newlook
Windows in Rochdale, at 5.15am on the 31st January
2005 reached the summit of Kilimanjaro, Africas highest mountain
at over 19,300ft to raise money for Scope
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A
seriously disabled Camborne girl will get the vital extra living
space her family has been campaigning for - after Planet
Devon stepped in to end their ordeal
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SynergeBuild,
the e-commerce ordering system from Deceuninck, has updated
its image with a new look website
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Securistyle,
the UK window hardware manufacturer, has re-designed and re-launched
its website to better reflect the company’s growing dominance
in international markets
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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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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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Alcoa
announced on 28th January that it has been named one of the top
three most sustainable corporations in the world during a ceremony
at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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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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Edgetech's
new
Super Spacer® TriSeal™ with TrueWARM®
NO-Metal technology, triple sealed with polyisobutylene and silicone,
has passed the requirements outlined by European testing standards
EN1279-3
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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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Ray
Rabett, Technical Manager for Masterframe
Windows Ltd, comments on the predicament: ‘When
– not if - the government fails to deliver on its Kyoto
protocol commitments, a further tightening of the legislation
is inevitable
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If
the government’s proposed new Part L2 regulations on
thermal performance are to be completely effective, it is
essential the construction industry adopts a consistent approach
to calculating the U-values of curtain walling
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Who
is Making What out of Conservatories?
Still
signs of a highly volatile conservatory roof market, with news that
Synseal is enjoying the benefits of a 38% increase in conservatory sales,
and that one of its roof customers Ayrshire Agencies is turning out
up to 50 roofs in a busy week. In the same week, however, we hear that
conservatory roof company SpaceAge Plastics in Poole has closed with
the loss of 35 jobs, after its owner Rok was unable to sell it.
Glass
Line Production Manager
Founded
in 1998 Futura Frames has grown a reputation as leading trade fabricator
of uPVC Windows and Doors. We are expanding our product portfolio
to include the manufacture of Double Glazed units from August 2005
and require a Production Manager and Cutting Operatives.
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Project
Engineer/Manager
Laird
Security Hardware is a market leader in the design, manufacture and
distribution of security fittings and fixtures for both new build
and home improvement markets. Increased demand for the company’s
products combined with sustained pressure on product added value has
created an opportunity for a talented Project Engineer/Manager with
experience in defining and delivering new products to market.
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Calendar
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Veka members Colin and Liz Richmond knew they had to
miss the group’s annual awards ceremony to be at their son’s
wedding in London – but they didn’t know they were due
to win the top Customer Satisfaction trophy.
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Beaufort Secure Design’s
aluminium door profiles have achieved PAS 23 / 24 approval –
the industry’s most stringent performance and security standard.
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In this month's What's New section of the BBA
website there are three significant features including the first
approval of a solar-powered skylight 'Sky Tunnel'
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Epwin
Group’s Divisional PR Manager, Kathy
Wilkinson, has left the company to launch her own
company offering PR, writing and photography services to the
glass, glazing and construction sectors.
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here:
Two
motorbiking Windowlink
directors are going on tour to raise money for the tsunami
appeal by offering free software consultations.
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here:
Walnut
Motorsport has been asked to organise the 2005 Schüco
Karting Challenge for the third successive year.
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Following the launch earlier this year of the Pilkington
ProActiv™ on-line scheme, designed to help the
trade at all levels to market and sell the world’s first
self-cleaning glass, Pilkington has now introduced a comprehensive,
free Welcome Pack.
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The Glass fittings section of the forthcoming 2005/06 Architectural
Ironmongery catalogue is now available free of charge on CD-ROM
from Hafele.
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Orders
in 2004 rose by six per cent compared with 2003, and orders in
the fourth quarter of 2004 rose by 11 per cent compared to the
same quarter a year earlier.
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Bovis
Homes Group PLC
issued the following update on trading ahead of reporting the
Group’s preliminary results for the year ended 31st December
2004, on Monday 14th March 2005.
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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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The
potentially complex process oflearning how to build a different conservatory
roof system is being simplified, following major investment by Aztec
Conservatory Roof Systems.
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The
Board of Glass Training Ltd (GTL)
is not yet convinced that total support should be given to Proskills.
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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
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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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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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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As one of Status Systems'
longest serving accounts, D & G Windows
was the first customer to fully convert production over to zendow®
five months ago. Since then, the Lancashire based fabricator has seen
a significant increase in business, particularly installing zendow®
into older properties.
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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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G
05 Awards Announced
Following the 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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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
Backs 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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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 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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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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Exhibition
Calendar
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UPDATED!!
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
Apparently SpaceAge had been losing money for some time, which probably explains why it was difficult to sell, but it also shows how tight the downstream margins are in the conservatory business. With installed values no higher than they were 10 years ago, are the systems companies the only people making any money out of conservatories at the moment?
This
week we start our Glassex
Preview with a full exhibitors' list, together with stand numbers
and contact names and links to further information on (so far) some
36 companies. We shall be expanding our coverage right up until the
week of the show, so please feel free to send in information if you
are a late exhibitor (to news@the-glazine.com).
The Gl@zine, by the way, will be exhibiting on stand D90, so we hope
to see you there.
The
B2BZine Team:
Richard and Debbie Schwarz
news@the-glazine.com
PRODUCT OF THE WEEK
UK
Firm Unveils Glazing Invention at London
Landmark
English Architectural Glazing has unveiled
its SYSTEMSTAX invention, which the company
says is set to transform the marketplace
for frameless glazing solutions. The SYSTEMSTAX
design is an innovative concept which provides
a frameless solution where glazing panels
are held in place by specially designed
and engineered clamps and literally 'stacked'
one on top of another.
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Plymouth
City Council Chooses Legend 70 from PFL
Legend 70 profiles from PFL have been chosen by Plymouth
City Councii to create nearly 500 windows in the refurbishment
of 14 storey tower block, Marlborough House. Initially,
the project's architects had suggested using aluminium
for the 480 tilt and tum windows, as they wanted to
use colour.
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WE HAVE EMAIL...
'Sapa
Window Defies Wrecking Test'
I have recently obtained a copy of your newsletter
dated 1 February in which the above item appears.
The item states that there are no formal test methods
relating to horizontal sliding windows. This is incorrect.
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the Rest Here]
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Synseal
Conservatory Sales up 38%
Coming
on top of bumper 2004 conservatory sales growth, Synseal
Extrusions Ltd announce conservatory sales up 38% on
year to date figures compared with the same nine months
last year. ‘Our massive commitment to invest in
developing one simple roof system to provide all conservatory
solutions has really paid off,’ explains Nick Dutton.
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on this Story]
Rok
to Close Conservatory Roof Company
Specialist property developer Rok Property Solutions
announces it is closing SpaceAge Plastics after failing
to sell it. Rok blamed a 'lack of market appetite' for
the closure of the SpaceAge operation in Poole, Dorset,
which will result in the loss of 35 jobs.
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on this Story]
Norvik
Continues Expansion
Norvik,
a Duraflex fabricator with a successful trade and new
build customer base, has completed the latest phase
of its ambitious expansion programme. The Barnsley-based
company has just completed a £300,000 factory
extension.
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on this Story]
Intellectual
Property Rights Infringement
Roofline
specialist Fascia Mania Limited recently brought a successful
action against Amber Roofline Limited for intellectual
property rights infringement.
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on this Story]
New
Horizons and a New Factory for J.Banks Ltd
One
of Willenhall’s longest established lock
and hardware manufacturers, with a proud history
stretching back more than 150 years, J.Banks &
Co Ltd has now moved to a modern, purpose designed
manufacturing and distribution complex in nearby
Tipton.
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on this Story]
Butler
Appointment Further Enhances the Kawneer Team
Kawneer,
the manufacturer and supplier of architectural
aluminium systems, has announced the appointment
of Carl Butler as Manufacturing Director with
immediate effect.
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on this Story]
L.B.
Plastics Team Raises the Roof
As
the new Sheerlite conservatory roof system takes
off in 2005, L.B. Plastics has ensured its key
customer service staff have up to the minute knowledge
of the latest Sheerframe conservatory developments.
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on this Story]
K2
Installers Gain FMB-backed Quality Assurance
Conservatory
system manufacturer K2 has announced the accreditation
of 17 installers to its Approved Installer Scheme.
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on this Story]
Brackenwood
Presents a New Image with Windowlink
Brackenwood
Windows Ltd has made a major investment in the
latest design-to-sell software from Windowlink.
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on this Story]
KBE
Welcomes Successful Change of Ownership
KBE,
one of the international brands of profine International
(along with Kömmerling & Trocal) welcomes
the announcement that the transfer of ownership
of HT Troplast AG to international private equity
houses, The Carlyle Group and Advent International,
has been successfully completed.
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on this Story]
West
Port and Winlock on the up
with Partnership Deal
Business is booming at Cumbrian-based
timber window and door technology
company West Port, following
its recent success in winning
several key social housing
contracts. Sharing in this
success is Winlock Security.
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on this Story]
New
Backing and Sheerframe Shift for
Top Aberdeen Window Maker
Aberdeen
Cladding & Windows, is looking
forward to a positive 2005 following
its acquisition by a leading Glasgow-based
manufacturer and its resulting move
to the Sheerframe system from L.B.
Plastics.
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on this Story]
Fastener
Quality Key for Sovereign
The
Sovereign Group, the UK manufacturer
and installer of PVCu windows
and doors, has reaffirmed its
commitment to continue using
only austenitic stainless steel
fasteners from SFS intec.
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on this Story]
Assa
Abloy Acquires Leading Door
Service Company in the UK
Lock
group, Assa Abloy, has signed
an agreement to acquire Doorman
Services, one of UK's leading
companies in door services.
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on this Story]
Schott
Jenaer Glas Ends Production of
Consumer Glassware in Jena
Schott Jenaer
Glas finds itself compelled to
terminate production of consumer
glassware in Jena. It is planned
to close down all business activities
by March 31st, 2005. The closure
will affect 120 employees.
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on this Story]
Chubb
Acquires Connecticut Based Security
Firm - ACP Engineering Inc.
Chubb,
the global fire safety and security
services division of United Technologies
Corp. announced on 2nd February
that it has acquired Plainville,
Connecticut-based ACP Engineering
Inc.
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on this Story]
CertainTeed
Corporation Reaches Record $2.6
Billion in Annual Sales
CertainTeed
Corporation announces its sales
for 2004 were $2.6 billion, an
increase of approximately 12 percent
compared to the company's 2003
sales figures.
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on this Story]
Strong results
for Hydro in 2004
Hydro's
income from continuing operations
in 2004 was NOK 11,477 million compared
with NOK 8,375 million (NOK 32.50
per share) for 2003.
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on this Story]
Rhodia: 2004
Sales Improvement
Rhodia
announced on February 15th consolidated
net sales of 1,233 million euros
for the fourth quarter of 2004,
a 10.6% increase over the same period
in 2003 on the same basis
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on this Story]
Milacron's
Q4 Results Improve on Higher Sales;
Outlook for 2005 Remains Positive
Milacron
Inc.reported on February 14th a
net loss in the fourth quarter of
2004 of $1.2m on sales of $213m.
This compares to a net loss of $24.2m,
on sales of $198m, in the fourth
quarter of 2003.
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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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