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Further evidence connecting personal wellbeing with natural light in the home has come from a new survey showing that people in poorly lit homes are three times more likely to say their home is...

Organisers of Fensterbau Frontale this week announced the Nuremberg event is to be put back four months to July to overcome exhibitors’ uncertainty over the planned March date in the face of the continuing...

Unitedfront, the campaign group launched last year to raise consumers’ awareness of the challenges facing fenestration suppliers, has entered 2022 with the backing of nine more major suppliers. They join the 19 founding signatories to...

The fate of two major industry names has now been confirmed with the appointment of administrators for Window Machinery Sales Ltd (Promac) and, separately, the posting of a Statement of Affairs following the liquidation...

A new trade body specifically for the offsite modular housing sector was unveiled this week by Make UK, the manufacturers’ organisation, with the aim of bringing together all contributors to help tackle the country’s...

Speculation is growing over reports that Dublin-based CRH, owner of architectural systems and glazing products supplier C R Laurence (CRL), is planning to sell its $300million sales Oldcastle Building Envelope operation in the US. Bloomberg...

UK construction companies reported a sharp increase in business activity during November, and optimism is continuing to grow that the worst period of supply delays might have passed, according to the latest figures from...

Concern was growing over the Promac Group this week as customers and others report being unable to contact the machinery supplier. The company’s website is still live but The Glazine has had no reply from...

Proceedings have begun for the liquidation of Panoramic Products ltd. A letter to interested parties from Leonard Curtis Rescue & Recovery says the directors of the company, registered at Callywhite Lane, Dronfield, formerly Magnaline Ltd,...

Industry groups have reacted with disappointment after a parliamentary Bill to introduce obligatory licensing of window and other and HI installers and builders was withdrawn after intervention by a government minister. The Private Member’s Bill...