Green Homes Grant – is it worth the effort?
From: Anthony Jones, Chairman, National Federation of Glaziers
Our soundings from throughout the industry suggest that most glazing businesses are very busy indeed with supply chains creaking. If this is the case, is it worth...
‘I’m just asking’
From: Mike Parczuk, managing director, Sternfenster
Rishi Sunak was the hero of the hour in March 2021 with the financial stimulus he put in place to help businesses survive the impact of Lockdown. Without it...
Open letter from Ryan Johnson, Managing Director, Emplas
Covid-19 has changed the way we live and work on many levels. This includes highlighting and reinforcing, something which has long underpinned our own working culture - the importance of transparency.
We have written to...
You Say, from Aluplast’s Director of Sales & Marketing Ian Cocken: Payback time for...
House prices rose at the end of the summer, almost reaching the record highs set two years ago, according to reports from leading lenders.
Halifax said that the average house price is now £1,000 shy...
Automation – the only long-term solution to the ongoing skills crisis?
From Chris Alderson, managing director, Edgetech
It’s been looming for decades – but it looks like it’s the painful combination of Brexit and coronavirus that will finally tip Britain’s skills shortage into a full-blown crisis.
Back...
Anthony C Jones FIAM FInstSMM, Chairman, National Federation of Glaziers
I share with you in these challenging times the following advice given to our members which will be useful for the glazing industry generally:
As manufacturing times extend this is becoming an important issue.
Covid 19...
Kickstart: a missed opportunity
From: Katie Thornton, director of compliance and administration, The Window Company (Contracts)
Three months after the deadline passed for hiring unemployed 16-24 year olds under the government’s much vaunted Kickstart scheme, we have to ask...
Environment: Who will drive a programme of change?
From: Stephen Nadin, managing director, Endurance Doors
Over recent weeks climate change has climbed to the top of the social, economic and political agenda through COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference that was held in...
You Say from: Richard Sellman, Managing Director, BFRC
The publication of part 2 of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Report, has dominated the news in the construction sector recently, and with good reason. Since the first report was published in June 2017, the findings...
And so, this is Christmas?
From: Rob McGlennon, manging director, Deceuninck
Every year it strikes me that it’s a slightly depressing sight. Once vibrant green living things, now brown, dropping their needles and stripped of the tinsel and fairly lights,...
