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Roger Hartshorn’s Garnalex venture into aluminium extrusion is on schedule to launch its window and door system early next year under the revived name of Sheerline.
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ALUPLAST has said colour, including its new Jet Black foil, plus its Woodec woodgrain collection, now account for more than 40% of its UK sales and are expected to reach 50% in the coming year.
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ALUFOLDDIRECT is using a Play School theme including a video to launch its new shaped aluminium window service.
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The Aperture Group is introducing a number of new products across its WARMCORE range.
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| Fabricator Focus |
FRAMEXPRESS has extended its four-hour quote and express colour service so that installer-fabricators can offer more colour products while maintaining margins.
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Carmarthen-based NOLAN UPVC is the latest fabricator to join Deceuninck.
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QUICKSLIDE has launched the Legacy VS window, based on the Spectus vertical slider system, with three choices of corner and four additional standard woodgrains.
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Shelforce, the Birmingham-based disability supporting fabricator was chosen to manufacture all the aluminium windows for the City Council’s first ever modular home, in Hockley.
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Fire resistant glazing from PROMAT UK was used by with Doorset Technology to help deliver a safe, calm and naturally-lit environment at the Ribblemere Unit healthcare facility.
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The 23 storey, four-towered Code Student Accommodation building in Coventry was built with help from ILLBRUCK sealant technology.
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Phil Parsonage Windows says its customers were ‘amazed’ to see their 8m X 2m AluK Luminia bi-folds from ABCELL were installed in four hours.
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| Awards |
The Geneo range of fibre-reinforced windows launched earlier this year by REHAU has been awarded the Product of the Year 2019 title in the windows category by architecture publisher Callwey Architekturverlag.
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VEKA UK has been named as the overall winner in the 2019 Recycling category of The National Fenestration Awards.
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| Certification |
MILA has added a new page to its website dedicated to conformance, giving customers easy access to any of the test certificates on its products.
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| Brochure / Video |
EPWIN WINDOW SYSTEMS has released a new 36-page brochure on its Stellar aluminium window and door system for the commercial sector.
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SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS has launched a new video promoting its Planitherm Network, featuring some of those who are already benefiting from it.
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Window Ware has published a new product catalogue featuring 714 individual new items and 30 new ranges with over 150 pages more than the 2017/2018 issue.
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| Results |
PATIOMASTER SOUTHEAST reports a 12% year-on-year sales growth across the entire patio door range, with colour emerging as one of the drivers of growth.
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Light reading
We hardly need reminding this time of year what effect the lack of light can have on our sense of well-being but we have a report this week spelling out the true cost of gloomy, damp and generally ‘unhealthy’ homes to the economy, our children’s education and much more. Read Story
Elsewhere, the ASA has shed a little light on a couple more covert lead generator sites, this time turning its attention to the solar installation sector. It is clear that with factors like GDPR and the Telephone Preference Service, the routes to harvesting leads in any worthwhile quantity are closing rapidly and it’s therefore inevitable that some in the home improvement industry are trying some more shadowy techniques.
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Meanwhile, it is another of those pure coincidences that while Aperture is pulling out of one of its sites – in Barnsley – Thermoseal is expanding into another factory that its Global division stepped out of previously. Read Story
So, apart from briefly reminding one and all that the very few remaining seats for dinner at the G19 Awards on the 29th are going fast, it remains only to say we hope there is something in this issue for everyone.
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This Week's News
Aperture pulls Norvik out of Barnsley to consolidate into Huthwaite HQ
Aperture Trading, the Synseal rescue vehicle, is pulling out of its Barnsley factory, currently home of its Norvik New Build brand and moving the operation into its main manufacturing facility in Huthwaite.
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ASA moves in on phoney solar grant sites
The ASA has ordered two website operators to withdraw adverts after investigators found both were running covert lead generating operations in the guise of offering funding for home solar installations – in one case using the word ‘Government’ in its title.
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Report sheds light
on effect of dark
‘unhealthy’ homes
Living, learning and working in unhealthy buildings, including dark and damp homes, adversely affect children and will cost UK £55.6 billion over the next 40 years, according to a report by Velux and the Rand research institute.
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CSCS card scheme launched for auto doors
The Door & Hardware Federation has launched a CSCS-approved card partner scheme in collaboration with the Automatic Door Suppliers Association for anyone working with industrial doors, domestic garage doors, automated gates & traffic barriers and metal or timber doors.
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We Have Email
From:
David Dowling,
Managing Director, Cairngorm Group
I write in response to your lead story of 12th November entitled “Filling the Vacuum”.
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Birmingham City Council’s first ever modular home, in Hockley.
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| People |
Yorkshire-based Dortech has appointed Brian Carroll as business development manager.
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ULTRAFRAME has announced a new role for Lucy Russell, as Accounts Manager for the North West & Midlands.
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| Machinery |
Warwick based Newbury Commercial Glazing upgraded to a 12 axis Quadra L1 fully automatic cutting and machining centre from Emmegi.
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| G19 Awards |
From now until the event, on 29 November at the London Hilton on Park Lane, we will publish a special G19 Awards page listing all of the stories relating to the awards. VIEW PAGE
Top stand-up and TV comedian Marcus Brigstocke has been revealed as host/compere for the G19 Gala Awards evening on Friday November 29.
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| Fit Show |
Integral blinds manufacturer MORLEY GLASS & GLAZING is getting ready for its second appearance as exhibitor at the 2020 FIT Show next May.
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| Hardware |
The Encloser Window Espagnolette and the Friction Stay range are the latest additions from Yale to be added to the CARL F GROUPCO catalogue, now giving a complete suite of PAS 24 compliant Yale hardware.
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| Charities |
Staff from VERTIK-AL met with representatives from Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity to present a cheque for £13,704.75 raised by 17 employees who completed the Simplyhealth Great Birmingham Run.
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| Internet / I.T. |
Trade window and composite door fabricator SHEPLEY has launched its new website portal, enabling customers to log in and access practical resources and support for their businesses.
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EXLABESA BUILDING SYSTEMS has launched its new website in an updated, modern format.
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| Investments |
SENIOR ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS has invested a further£200k in its in-house powder-coating facility in response to growing demand for colour in aluminium.
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THERMOSEAL GROUP has acquired a new 2-acre production site, formerly owned by Global Glass.
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| Doors |
National Timber Group, a portfolio company of Cairngorm Capital, has acquired the trade and assets of Cotswold Manufacturing Limited.
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| Marketing |
QA Scheme Support Services and its associated schemes DGCOS, HIES, and HICS have completed their latest set of videos with brand ambassador George Clarke.
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