19th May 2020 VIEW ONLINE

Weekly Email News for the Glass, Glazing & Fenestration Industries

Products

ISO CHEMIE is offering improved sustainability around window sealing with Iso Connect Blue Line, a new range of bio-based self-adhesive connection foils.
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Fabricator Focus

A management team at G-Award winning fabricator Nolan UPVC have completed a multi-million management buyout from founder and MD Nolan Nicholas with a mix of loan and equity backed by the Development Bank of Wales.
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Projects

Cube Berlin is an
11-storey, 19,000
square-metre office building in the Europacity urban district of Berlin, with a double-skin façade using a combination of GUARDIAN glass said to change its appearance depending on the viewing angle, the weather and time of day.
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Aluminium building systems supplier TECHNAL and installer Ravenworth have completed a £2million systems package to provide windows, doors and curtain walling for its latest East London residential development, The Forge.
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Charities

REGALEAD customers Glen and Sharon Bogie have raised £3,550 – over half again their target – for NHS Charities Together from hand-made glass art hearts and rainbows while their family business is closed for lockdown.
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Nick Bailey, business development manager at BUSINESS MICROS is running 5K a day for the whole of May to raise money for the Hope House Children’s Hospices.
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Glass

Mackenzie Glass has said that it has seen a sustained uplift in demand as the industry starts the journey back to work.
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Standards

THE WINDOW COMPANY (CONTRACTS) has begun upgrading its installations with uprated trickle vent solutions.
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YALE has unveiled its new commercial test rig to stay ahead of demand for bigger glass units and says enquiries are already coming in from Europe, China and the Americas.
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Marketing

Rehau is putting the digital content created for the would-be Fensterbau 2020 online in response to the postponement of the show.
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MORLEY GLASS & GLAZING is set to give away five virtual showrooms to help installers provide an improved digital service to customers.
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Results

CONSERVATORY OUTLET says retail sales figures surpassed £4m across its installer network for the seven-week lockdown period from Monday 30th March.
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G-Award winning commercial installer The Window Company (Contracts) had recorded its best year ever with turnover approaching £8m
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And the worse
news is…

It made for grim enough reading to see the number of fabricators and installers carrying high credit risk ratings but is all the more shocking to see that the figures emanate from pre-Covid days. We hardly dare imagine how they stack up now – or perhaps even more worryingly, how many of those individual ‘statistics’ will even be around to play their part in the overall picture. As the report’s author put it, “This could lead to a serious bad debt situation for suppliers.” Read more

Add to that of course the fact that the domestic retrofitters, who are still the backbone of this industry, don’t even know how they are to go about working safely and legally in people’s homes and, as the GGF points out, they may or may not be any wiser depending on who they do or do not listen to.
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No such confusion at Safestyle however. These long-standing experts on battling against adversity have decided that, with all appropriate caution, they are going back to work. Read more

Whether you are working or not, whether you are clear or unclear on whether you should or should not be, we hope we have helped to bring just a little more clarity with this week’s issue.

Chris Church
Editor

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

This Week's News

One in eight facing bad debt problems – survey

Nearly one in every eight UK fabricators and installers could be facing financial difficulties with high or even very high credit risk even before the Covid lockdown, according to figures published this week.

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GGF issues warning over Covid misinformation

The GGF is in consultation with the Government over what both agree is inaccurate, incorrect and opinion-based misinformation circulating in the industry about working practices during the Covid pandemic.

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Safestyle set to restart amid ‘high levels of uncertainty’ – Lovell

Safestyle UK is to restart its operations by the end of the month, chairman Alan Lovell said this week.

But he warned in a statement to the company’s AGM that uncertainties about consumer demand during the Covid pandemic meant it was impossible to make any financial forecast for 2020.

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GGF launches new safety guide for installers

The GGF has launched a Safe Guide for Home Improvement Companies during the Covid-19 Crisis, including direct links to the Government Risk Assessment Toolkit.

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We Have Email

From: Sioned Roberts,
Marketing Director, AluK

We’ve had some fairly confusing messages over the last week or so from the English, Welsh and Scottish governments about the relaxing of the lockdown, but the reality is that straightforward advice is available online which I think could help the majority of manufacturers and installers, in England at least, to get back to work more quickly.

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PHOTO FEATURE

Glass said to change its appearance depending on the viewing angle, the weather and time of day.
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Stop Press

THURSDAY 21st MAY:
Profine/ Kömmerling acquires ex-Synseal extrusion operation from Aperture administrators
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People

Colin Torley has announced he is retiring after 35 years in the window industry – including nearly 28 years with Veka.
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Covid-19

WINDOW WARE has begun a safe phased reopening of its operations following a temporary closure in response to Covid-19.
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COASTAL is to host a webinar "Back to Business Under COVID-19- Your Health and Safety Responsibilities" on Friday (May 22).
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EPWIN WINDOW SYSTEMS has produced a series of work safety posters to help support its customers and the wider industry with social distancing and health & safety reminders.
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HAFFNER MURAT will begin a phased and controlled reopening of its business from this week, beginning with its full team of service engineers.
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QUALICOAT reports that the supply chain for both powders and pretreatment systems is generally working well, with no shortage in supply and quick deliveries reported.
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Hardware supplier VBH has reduced its minimum order value to just £10 per order to give fabricators and installers more flexibility following a return from lockdown.
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Any domestic installer trying to wade through the plethora of government advice on safe and legal working can now turn to two trade bodies which this week published their own guides to working in customer’s homes.
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Integral blinds manufacturer MORLEY GLASS & GLAZING has reopened its doors as part of a safe and structured return to work, after pausing operations at the end of March.
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CUSTOMADE GROUP is beginning a phased re-opening of the business following the temporary closure of sites in response to Covid-19.
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The Door & Hardware Federation is assuring members and the industry that it’s ‘business as usual’ despite the challenges faced by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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EMPLAS says it has reinstated its UK delivery service with effect from this week, as part of its strategy for a safe and phased return.
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DOORCO has opened for business, running with a skeleton team that provides cover across all areas of the business.
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Hardware supplier KENRICK is increasing staff numbers and delivery schedules as more fabricators restart this week.
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The manufacturing team at HAFFNER MURAT have turned their attention to making surgical face masks to be distributed worldwide in response to the battle against
Covid-19.
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EUROCELL is starting to reopen its branch network and central operations from this week, starting with six stores at strategic locations, to be followed by other branches when it considers it safe.
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DECEUNINCK has given further details of its new Covid-19 leaflet launched alongside a series of 11 Health & Safety posters and PPE kits to help fabricators return to work safely.
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And the worse news is…