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Leading conservatory roof manufacturer, NW Rooftech has just announced that it has appointed Dave Cheetham as its Sales Manager. Andy Ingman,
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GGR’s Managing Director and co-founder Gill Riley picked up a prize at the European Rental Awards as she was announced as their ERA / IRN Rental Person of the Year!
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Tradelink, manufacturer of windows, doors, sealed units and conservatories in the UK, has recently welcomed Patrick Burke as new Commercial Manager.
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Haffner has just announced that it has appointed Darren Etherington as its Sales and Service Technician.
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Purplex, the window industry marketing agency, has strengthened its PR division with the appointment of Valentina Warren.
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| FIT Show |
It’s no surprise that master salesman Paul Clifton drew the crowds for his FIT Show seminars with a message like ‘How to Convert Eight in every Ten Conservatory Leads.’
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Wiping their way into the hearts of many at this year’s FIT Show, successful industrial wipes specialist BIG WIPES proved to be a visitor favourite with one of the busiest stands.
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Digital specialist The Consultancy is celebrating another successful year at the FIT Show 2014.
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Apeer has taken its bespoke colour offer to new heights! The company focused on its unrivalled colour service at this year’s FIT show
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MACO UK reported a highly successful FiT Show 2014. With the introduction of their fully interactive AR augmented reality App,
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Universal Arches have just celebrated their 20th anniversary in business at the FIT Show and have experienced a large number of changes in their sector and across the glazing industry as a whole.
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The GGF Group was pleased with the success of the recently held FIT Show.
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Delivering another successful show for the UK window, door and conservatory industry, over three days in June more than 5000 people passed through the doors of The International Centre in Telford for the Fabricator Installer Trade (FIT) Show, say the organisers.
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| Exhibitions |
Giving visitors access to high quality business support and training opportunities, the Build Show is pleased to announce that the National Federation of Builders (NFB) has joined as a partner for the exhibition.
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ISO-Chemie is the latest exhibitor to announce its attendance to the Build Show taking place at the Birmingham NEC next April.
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Showcasing its high quality PVC window and door profile systems, The Veka UK Group is the latest exhibitor to join the ranks at the inaugural Build Show,
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As preparations for the Build Show, the first contractor-focused trade exhibition in more than five years, gather momentum, Glenigan
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The glass industry’s Italian trade show Vitrum will take place 6 - 9 October 2015 at the Fiera Milano exhibition complex in Rho.
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Once again glasstec will live up to its role as the leading international trade fair for the glass industry in 2014.
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| Events |
Rehau fabricator UK Window Systems is inviting existing and potential new customers to the grand opening of its new One Stop Shop premises on Cobridge Industrial Estate in Cobridge, Stoke on Trent.
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On 15 October 2014 the British Safety Council will be hosting its annual conference at the America Square Conference Centre,
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The British Safety Council is holding a half-day conference in Aberdeen on the morning of Thursday 18 September 2014
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| G14 Awards |
As part of its 25 year anniversary celebrations five-time G Award winner, Edgetech UK, has announced its continued sponsorship of the awards in 2014
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ERA, the fabricators’ first choice hardware partner has announced its headline sponsorship of the G14 Awards later this year.
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Swisspacer is sponsoring the G-14 Awards. The UK and Ireland’s No.1 warm edge spacer bar will be the latest headline sponsor at the G-Awards in London on Friday 21st November
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Mila has just announced that it has become a headline sponsor of this year’s G-14 Awards,
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| Glass |
Now that the Consumer Contracts (information, Cancellation & Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 are now in force, the National Federation of Glaziers have produced recommended contracts for all of its members free of charge.
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Two colleagues from M5 Glass Centre, part of the Cornwall Glass Group, have completed the NVQ awards in Business and Administration. James Salmon and Claire Browne completed their NVQ last month after an intensive study programme.
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Providers of architectural glass and associated fittings, D R Services is now able to offer specifiers a full range of curved sliding doors,
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As well as offering double and triple glazed units and flat glass for large commercial projects, Systems Glass,
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| Marketing |
CENSolutions’ customer Rochdale Glass has sponsored Paul Butler for three years to help him achieve his dream of becoming a professional boxer,
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The industry has turned a corner and there is a new-found optimism in the air. Chris Reeks, Modplan’s Sales Manager,
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Sponsored by Spectus Window Systems, Hazel Grove United is basking in post-season glory, securing promotion to the Premier Division of the East Manchester League and reaching the Cup Final.
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Crystal sponsored jockey, Bridget Andrews has won the 2013/14 National Ladies Point to Point Championship.
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| Brochures / Video |
JELD-WEN, manufacturer of timber windows, doors and stairs, has launched a comprehensive new catalogue that combines all of its doors, windows and stairs into one publication.
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Deceuninck has developed a new animated ‘explainer’ video to sum up why fabricators and installers choose Deceuninck.
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Building products manufacturer Kestrel has launched its 28th catalogue, showcasing all of its colour options.
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Guardian Glass UK is pleased to announce the launch of its new online training centre. The training centre offers a video learning library, which covers different aspects of industry knowledge in short film format, from how glass is made to the technical differences between glass types.
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| Health & Safety |
The British Safety Council has launched a new range of accredited health, safety and environmental qualifications designed to teach employees how to keep themselves and others healthy and safe at work
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In its response to the Temple report on the triennial review of the HSE, the Government has said that it wants HSE to be more commercial in ‘outlook and delivery.
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The British Safety Council has launched a new health and safety qualification which, from 1 July 2014, can be used to obtain a CSCS Green Card.
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The British Woodworking Federation (BWF) has been awarded the specialist SME Assistance Trophy from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
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Network Veka member The Window Outlet has welcomed visitors to an open day that featured six-Times World Snooker Champion Steve Davis.
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A new range of aluminium windows has been launched by Origin, manufacturer of bespoke aluminium bi-folding doors,
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With more and more architects choosing natural ventilation over energy-intensive air-conditioning to control the internal environment of a building, the launch of the new Schueco AWS VV ventilation system is opportune.
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Thermoseal Group, the UK’s leading manufacturer of warm edge spacers and supplier of over 1,500 components to insulated glass sealed unit manufacturers,
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Architects and interior designers have always made use of light, texture and colour to express themselves in locations like hotels, flagship stores, corporate offices and top end residential properties. Now, through D R Services,
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Trade fabricator Modplan has just announced that it is upgrading the shootbolts used in its products. From the end of July,
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IDF Aluminium Limited, Wynda Components, Duplus Architectural Systems, Sealtite and Ideal Windows are amongst the first customers to cut even more time off processing the successful thermally efficient TD68 Jack Door using Jack Aluminium’s new end miller.
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Due to demand from architectural and fabricator clients, Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems have launched additional new mullions
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In partnership with PN, Carl F Groupco has developed reversible gearing for the new Eurocell Modus PVC system.
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The window industry prides itself on innovation at all levels. Bison Frames’ Genesis Vertical Slider is the perfect example of innovation on a scale that has the power to completely transform its sector.
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The problem of achieving a weathertight seal on large glass roofs is addressed with a solution from Aztec Conservatory Roof Systems. The company has designed and developed a new muntin bar.
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AGC Glass has added eleven new trendsetting colours to its toughenable Lacobel T painted glass range in response to the ever-evolving preferences and demands of processors and architects.
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| Fabricator Focus |
Celebrating the success of the 25 year partnership between Swish Window and Door Systems and Cairngorm Windows. Here Jim Rawson,
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Everglade Windows, Kommerling’s longest standing fabricator in the South East, has added a failsafe into its new online ordering system for customers.
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Rehau has once again presented trophies to the two members of its Authorised Partner scheme who have scored highest in terms of customer satisfaction over the past year.
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East Anglia based trade fabricator Pyramid Windows is experiencing incredible demand for its new Guardian Warm Roof,
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With news of tentative growth in the window and door industry this year, Tradelink, manufacturer of windows, doors, sealed units and conservatories,
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MWD Trade Frames, the manufacturing arm of the Majestic Group, which is now in its eleventh year of making Duraflex products,
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Security is a key concern for consumers, which is why trade fabricator Mercury Glazing Supplies has just announced three initiatives
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LB Roof Windows is celebrating an excellent start to 2014, with sales up 30 per cent, compared to the same period last year.
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Trade fabricator Frame Fast (UK) has just expanded its Derby headquarters in a move designed to enhance its customer offering.
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Dekko Window Systems, , has recently expanded their range of products aimed at the higher end of the market, with the addition of the Monorail Patio Door from Deceuninck.
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In advance of the launch of the Imagine Bi-Fold Door later this month, Modplan has revealed that interest in the product has been extremely high,
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A mid-year poll reveals that double-glazed installations remain the major driver for new business for UK installers, buoyed by foiled finishes and colours, with composite door sales also reported as a growth area.
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Crest Nicholson’s Centenary Quay development in Southampton is the first large scale commercial installation in the UK of Rehau’s Nordic Design Plus outward opening, externally flush fitting PVCu composite casement windows.
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Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems; with their approved fabricator PAGE Group Peterborough Ltd completed a prestigious new build waterside residential development,
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Stewart Milne Timber Systems, the build and manufacturing consultant, has been selected by Balfour Beatty,
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Wrightstyle, suppliers of steel and aluminium glazing systems, has completed a prestigious contract to install several door systems in the main lobby of a Grade II former grain warehouse in east London,
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Securing a reliable window seal in demanding coastal weather conditions has been achieved for a new build project using ISO-Chemie’s
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A couple in Cheshire carrying out an exacting refurbishment project on an old property, located close to a busy road, have called on the assistance of tremco illbruck
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Glazerite Windows Ltd and Veka helped installer Grosvenor win a contract for nearly 800 windows by coming up with a silver grey Foiled frame.
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The new £150m government fund to help finance plots for custom build housing is good news for both homebuyers and the house building industry, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).
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Total construction output in Great Britain will increase by 30% between 2013 and 2018 according to new forecasts published in the latest edition of the quarterly Construction and Housing Forecast Bulletin, issued by AMA Research.
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| Awards/Standards |
The BREEAM UK New Construction 2014 scheme has introduced a BREEAM credit for using a qualified and registered BRE Academy site sustainability manager (SSM) on building projects.
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Ritec International is proud to announce that it has been awarded the Safe Contractor Accreditation as part of their continued commitment to safety across all of their services - for the second year in a row.
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Passivhaus is becoming more and more popular in the UK as well as across the rest of the World. With this, the independent test centre, ift Rosenheim, has developed a new Passivhaus certification for windows. Internorm,
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Hampshire based Solardome Industries has won a top environmental award from The Green Organisation at its recent Green Apple Awards.
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The Veka UK Group’s new Imagine Bi-Fold Door has become the first PVC-U Bi-Folding Door in the UK to attain a British Standards Kitemark.
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In April 2014, the Passivhaus Institute held its first ‘Passivhaus Components Awards’ for the most thermally-efficient Passivhaus windows. Swisspacer ULTIMATE is the first warm edge spacer bar to be awarded a ‘Passivhaus approved’ certificate.
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Mighton Products, headquartered in Cambridge, is celebrating after becoming the UK’s first company to offer Forest Stewardship
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Munster Joinery Ltd has achieved BBA certification for its Passiv AluClad composite window system. This is the first composite system of its type to achieve BBA approval.
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Swisspacer strategic marketing executive Jan Hiersemenzel has launched a travel website which has become an instant worldwide hit.
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Distinction Doors has just relaunched its website, www. distinctiondoors. co.uk. Drew Wright, Distinction’s Managing Director said,
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Skills shortage could affect recovery
The economic recovery could be affected by a skills shortage according the latest survey carried out by the Federation of Master Builders, with more than a third of construction SME’s saying they are struggling to recruit bricklayers they need to stay on top of their workloads. You can read more here and the survey can be seen here
We also have news of a new suite of residential windows and doors from AluK, and the promise of ambitious plans to redefine industry expectations of service and support from Emplas, who plan to reveal all next month. You can read more here and here.
Elsewhere ,in the year of their 90th anniversary Sheerframe have announced significant investment plans at their Nether Heage manufacturing site, while GM Fundraising report a satisfying result from their annual Golf Day.
More video from the FIT Show can be seen here as Norman Berrell demo’s some of the products on the Carl F Groupco stand.
I hope you enjoy this week’s issue.
Please send all your news stories to news@the-glazine.com or should you wish to contact me directly
tony@the-glazine.com
Tony Higgin
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This Week's News
Skills shortages affecting building industry
Skills shortages in the building industry are affecting the economic recovery, according to a recent survey from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).Commenting on the results of the FMB’s State of Trade Survey for the second quarter of 2014, Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the FMB, said:
“More than a third of construction SMEs tell us that they are struggling to recruit the bricklayers they need to stay on top of their workloads. Plasterers are almost as difficult to come by with 27% of firms saying they are having difficulty finding these skilled tradesmen. The results act as a stark warning that the government must not take the recovery in the construction sector for granted. Although this snapshot of small construction firms marks the fifth consecutive quarter of positive results, if we don’t have enough of the right people to complete the work, private and public projects could be stalled across the board.”
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FIT Show Review
Sheerframe invests to enhance customer offering
Sheerframe, part of the Litchfield Group, has recently made a number of significant investments in its Nether Heage manufacturing site near Derby. Gary Doxey, Sheerframe’s Marketing Manager said, “We’ve invested in several key areas in order to improve efficiencies and extend our environmental commitments.”
Firstly the company has invested heavily in new extrusion dies. Gary says, “We believe in continual investment in plant and machinery to ensure we’re using state of the art equipment that maximises our efficiencies and enhances the quality and consistency of our products. This approach helps secure our own reputation as well as the reputation of our customers.”
Alongside the investment in extrusion technology, Sheerframe has also been investing to ensure that it extends its commitment to the environment in all areas of the business.
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Government needs to lift borrowing cap to deliver homes
The Local Government Association (LGA) is right to be calling on the government to lift the borrowing cap to allow councils to build more new homes.
Responding to the publication of the LGA’s report – Investing in our nation’s future: The first 100 days of the next government – Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the FMB, said:
“There is a desperate need to build more homes if we are to sustain the economic recovery. It’s very encouraging that the LGA is prioritising housing as an issue in their new report. The FMB has long argued that central government should lift the Housing Revenue Account borrowing cap to allow councils to build more new homes. We are also supportive of financing solutions like the ‘build now, pay later’ deferred payment model.”
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Statement of intent issued
Emplas has announced ambitious plans to redefine industry expectations of service and support with a major announcement early next month [August].
The Northamptonshire fabricator, says it is its intention to shake-up the lead generation, marketing and sales support offered by fabricators and systems companies to retail businesses.
Mike Crewdson, Sales and Marketing Director, Emplas, which published the findings of its consumer product survey in June, said the company was preparing to ‘change the game’.
He said: “The support that installers get from fabricators and systems companies isn’t good enough and we’re going to change that.
“Our strategy has always been to grow by supporting that of our customers and that’s as true today as it’s ever been. What we’re going to be doing over the coming weeks is to re-double our efforts with what we believe will be a game-changing new scheme.”
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Golf Day hit for GM Fundraising
As the sun shone over Telford Hotel and Golf Resort, the 12th GM Fundraising golf day got into full swing. Familiar faces from across the industry came together once again and helped raise a massive £9,365.68 for Hope House Children’s Hospices.
Buoyed by the continued and unwavering support received, Gary Morton, Founder of GM Fundraising explains: “The 12th Golf Day was an absolute success. Not only was the weather on our side, but as usual, the camaraderie amongst the teams made for a great atmosphere. There was some great golf played throughout the day and the fun continued into the evening with dinner, auction and presentations.
“Congratulations go to The Promac Group, winners of the team competition and Atal Patel, from that team who was the individual winner. Runners up were Ocean Pools and 3D Aluminium was awarded the Wooden Spoon. Special thanks go to Business Micros who kindly sponsored the trophies and Haffner, sponsors of the Reception drinks.
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New opportunities with new range of windows and doors
AluK (GB) has launched a new residential aluminium windows and doors collection, featuring a complete range of traditional and modern windows, as well as aluminium entrance, bi-fold, sliding and patio doors. Combining highest standards in security and performance with innovative design features, the product offering provides fabricators with the tools and support they need to grow their business whilst also providing their customers with greater choice for the perfect look for their homes.
AluK’s new residential window collection is divided into Traditional Windows and Modern Window ranges, providing customers with a wider choice and added style to suit their needs and complement their homes. With narrow sight lines, customisable options, single and dual colour and certified by the Secured by Design scheme (PAS24), the AluK windows collection is built to meet both aesthetic and practical demands.
The Traditional range includes Ovolo, Chamfered, Heritage and Bay Windows, while the Modern range features Contemporary as well as new Panoramic Windows, which offer uninterrupted glazing to a height of 2 storeys.
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