And next…

It may be anyone’s guess how the UK will look – be it better or worse – in its role in Europe next year. We can at least say however that things are looking good for the nation’s industry when it sets its stall out at Fensterbau Frontale next March as the GGF tells us today that its UK Pavilion is already fully booked. Read more

Still on the international front, we hear that the Residence Collection and Window Widgets are returning to UK ownership after a buy-out from US-based Masonite International by its management team. Read more

Less good news on the continuing troubles of the glass industry where Panoramic Group has been forced to stem losses at Pano Glass by placing it into administration. However, group MD Alan Rees has assured that the rest of the group remains in good health with all operations continuing to trade as usual.
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Now, it only remains to remind readers that this will be the last issue of The Glazine before our two-week break so we wish one and all a very happy Christmas and we look forward to joining you again on Tuesday, January 7th at the start of what we hope will be a very prosperous 2020.

Chris Church Editor

Please send all your news stories to news@the-glazine.com

This Week's News

Panoramic puts
loss-making Pano Glass into administration

Alan Rees’s Panoramic Group has ended speculation over its Pano Glass division by confirming that it has been placed into administration, adding the reassurance that all the group’s other operations are unaffected by the move.

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Residence and
Widgets in MBO

The Residence Collection and Window Widgets, which were among brands acquired by USA-based Masonite International Corporation earlier this year, have been bought back in an MBO by the existing management team for an undisclosed sum.

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Full house for
Fensterbau – GGF

The UK Pavilion at Fensterbau Frontale 2020, organised by the Glass and Glazing Federation, is now full booked, the organisation announced today.

The Pavilion, with its  80m2 space on the main thoroughfare between Halls 3 and 4, will again be the number one destination for visiting UK companies, says the organisation, when an estimated 100,000-plus professionals from all over Europe and beyond gather in Nuremberg on 18-21 March.

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We Have Email

From: Ryan Johnson,
Managing Director, Emplas

Regardless of any individual political persuasions, the general election has delivered a level of clarity. We know what sort of Government we can and expect and we know that we will leave the EU on the 31st of January with a ‘deal’.

It’s why the Pound has rallied against the dollar and the Euro. We have a sense of direction and the uncertainty which has led to a freeze on investment and growth, is perhaps at last behind us.

Where we go now is very much down to the new administration. In the hiatus of the general election campaign it made a series of pledges on which it now must deliver.

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