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News in Brief
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Kommerling fabricator Everglade Windows has received a special award for being a customer for 10 years
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The GGF has launched the WISA scheme to help window installers
Latest News
Nippon
now has 20% of Pilkington
Nippon
Sheet Glass Co. Ltd. has completed the purchase of 130 million shares
in Pilkington plc, bringing its total shareholding to 20.6% of Pilkington's
issued share capital. Analysts say a full scale bid is unlikely at this
stage, but it cannot be ruled out.
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First
Eagle SoGen Funds raises stake in Deceuninck to 5,14%
Deceuninck,
designer and producer of PVC-U window systems and building profiles, has
announced that First Eagle SoGen Funds now owns 5.14% of Deceuninck shares.
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Rankins
buys TW Ides
Rankins
Glass has purchased the glass processing division of TW Ide.
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Griffin
Windows joins Avocet
Griffin
Windows, one of the most profitable window fabricators in the UK according
to a recent Business Ratio Report, has joined Yorkshire based hardware
company Avocet as part of the MASCO group.
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£12m
investment at John Fredericks
It’s
business as usual at John Fredericks Plastics following a £12m venture
capital investment by Baring English Growth Fund and Northern Venture
Managers.
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Mustang
Gutters moves into £1m factory
Following
a record trading year for the company, Mustan Gutter Systems Ltd - manufacturer
ofaluminium seamless guttering systems - has invested in a new £1
million facility in Braunstone, Leicestershire.
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