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6th April 2004
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Fenestration
engineer, MagHansen has introduced
an extensive range of solutions for vertical and inclined glazing
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Here:
Cotswold
Architectural Products Ltd
has developed a new friction stay to help fabricators meet the
increasingly stringent building regulations for easy cleaning
and egress
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Here:
As
part of its constant undertaking to develop products suited
to the changing demands of building design and performance,
Pilkington has developed
new 23mm Pilkington Pyrostop fire resistant glass
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Here:
Bohle
now offers a full range of diamond wheels for use across a broad
spectrum of glass processing applications
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Here:
Ultraframe has previewed its latest product, branded Litespace® at the Ideal Home Show. Litespace is a bay style extension with a glazed roof that gives direct access to the garden to add space and flood a room with light
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Top
Connect is a new, frameless, glass and stainless steel canopy system
from Prefit
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Here:
Ultraframe
has introduced a new range of Ultraselect changeable interior
decorative strips for conservatories for 2004
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Here:
Duraflex
has upgraded its range of PVCu Single and Double Residential Door
Kits for the 65mm and 70mm Diamond Suites
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High
performance aluminium windows supplied by Beaufort
Secure Design form part of the demanding specification
for a new sports hall and complex at Cheam School
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It
looked simple enough: Renovate three buildings and build
a new one. But these weren’t just any buildings.
They flank ancient Barretstown Castle and serve as part
of the realm of the Barretstown Gang Camp, an organisation
founded by actor Paul Newman
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While
replicating the windows on Birmingham’s famous Lucas
building for loft apartments, Metal
Technologydeveloped a special 70mm curtain
wall mullion to externally disguise new partition walls
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Here:
The
refurbishment of London's Imperial College in Praed Street,
Paddington has incorporated the use of specialist glass
and integral blinds supplied and processed by Pilkington
Plyglass
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Here:
Over
100 high performance PVCu windows and doors from the Duraflex
Diamond Suite have recently been installed at Long Green,
a four-storey block of flats in Chigwell
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Here:
LGT
Ltd,
the second hand machinery and services division of the Lambert
group, has appointed Darren Oakley as Managing Director
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Here:
aluplast
UK,
PVCu window and door system extruder and supplier of the Plus
Plan range in the UK, has announced the appointment of two
new members to the sales team
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Here:
HW
Plastics
has appointed Dave Lawler as Area Sales Manager for the Midlands
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Here:
HW
Plastics
has appointed Kevin Woods as Area Sales Manager for the North
West and Scotland
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Here:
Moir Donelson, 34, Alcoa's
director
of industrial sector marketing for Alcoa, is featured in the
U.S. government's Department of Defense advertising campaign,
Today's Military
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Here:
Adam
Jones has joined Schlegel
as UK Sales Director. He brings with him many years experience
having previously worked within the packaging industry
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Here:
Derbyshire
based Eurocell Profiles Ltd.
has appointed Jon Scarle as the company’s South-West
Area Manager
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Here:
On
a sponsored trip on behalf of Hope House Children's Hospice,
the chosen charity of his fundraising activities, Deceuninck
non-exec and industry guru Gary Morton flew to Northern Sweden
and found himself in Kiruna, 150 miles north of the Arctic Circle
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Here:
42
year old David Fozard, Managing Director of HW
Plastics' fabricator Jade
Windows (Brighouse) Ltd., will shortly be on his
way to Costa Rica, one of the most beautiful countries in Central
America.
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Here:
Goldshield
has taken the step of revamping it's logo, image and web site
to grab a larger slice of the consumer market place
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Here:
Liverpool
based fabricator Total Glass Ltd
has introduced an on line ordering system to simplify the daily
pricing and ordering procedures for its customers
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Here:
'Elite
70 is one of the few window systems with a website all to itself.
That is because there is so much to say!' says HW
Plastics
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Here:
The
GGF’s Training Committee
is able to help its members in the following ways:
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Here:
Hardware
and ventilation manufacturer Siegenia-Aubi
Ltd is focusing on education and training through
its involvement in the Construction Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) Certification Service
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Here:
Window
hardware manufacturer, Securistyle,
has been helping local police officers with their enquiries
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Here:
The
GGF has prepared a Datasheet on the current position of Part
L.
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here:
As
the new Part L looks set to come into force three years before
originally planned, Derek Hodgson, SAS
technical manager and chairman of CAB’s technical committee,
looks at why the proposed changes to Part L regulations ‘could
be a change too far’ for the aluminium industry
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here:
The
Council for Aluminium in Building
has taken steps to clarify its views about proposed changes
to Part L of the Building Regulations that are expected in 2005,
following publication of the Government’s Energy White
Paper last year
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here:
'What
about the future when the calls for even greater thermal efficiency
grow ever louder, as no doubt they will?' asks Edgetech.
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here
The
building industry lost some of its forward momentum last month,
research from the Chartered Institute
of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) has revealed
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here
The
total volume of construction output in 2003 rose by four per
cent compared to the previous year.
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here
Although there are those who say that insulating glass manufacturers do not need to employ a consultant to guide them through the complexities of the EN 1279 accreditation process, the recent experience of CEN Solutions Ltd suggests that many igu manufacturers and material suppliers do not agree
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January
9th, 2004 saw one of the world's largest solar power plants
in Neustadt, Germany join the grid. A total of 2 megawatts
of environmentally friendly electricity will be generated
over an area of some 70,000 m2 (7 hectares) – corresponding
to the size of seven soccer fields. This is enough to continuously
power 700 households.
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Here:
Bankit
has launched a recycling awareness campaign to help increase
children's understanding and awareness of the importance of
recycling household rubbish.
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Here:
Glass
Recycling UK Ltd
(GRUK), the independent glass recycling company, has invested
over £1.2 million in new glass colour separation technology
to increase the amount of glass that can be used for recycling
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Here:
What
Price Our National Heritage?
In
the run up to Easter, when some of us might actually make it to a building
with a bit of stained glass in the windows, it seems entirely appropriate
that our lead story comprises the rather shameful news that one of the
most important UK archives in this area of glass and glazing could be
lost to us and sold to overseas bidders.
The
archive is from the specialist firm of G. King & Son of Norwich,
which is closing down after over 80 years in business.
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Interbuild
Awards Hit Century on Debut
Interbuild completed a stunning century when exactly
100 exciting innovations entered to do battle in the Show's inaugural
New Product Awards.
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'Visions
of Glass' at BAU 2005
A
special display entitled 'Visions of Glass' is being put on at BAU 2005,
in a fully restyled exhibition hall, to present the material glass. 10,000
square metres of space will be devoted in Hall C1 to all the latest developments
and products in the field of glass and glass architecture. Also, the GlasKon
Congress will be integrated into BAU for the first time and be held right
in the midst of the fair.
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Here:
OmniDecor
Premieres 'Home-Glass, New Ideas for Flat Glass' at Fuori Salone 2004,
Milan
OmniDecor Spa is an international group with headquarters in Erba, Como,
Italy and a leading manufacturer of satined glass. Once again, this year
the company will be participating in the events taking place during the
Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan.
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Here:
Focus
on Glass for Internal Finishing at Glasstec04
glass technology live is to be presented from 9-13th November 2004 at
glasstec in Düsseldorf. This 'glass pavilion' will be organised
by Professor Stefan Behling, Director of the Building Technology Construction
Institute of Stuttgart University and a partner of Sir Norman Foster’s
London-based architect’s office.
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Here:
Exhibition
Calendar
!!Updated!!
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for upcoming exhibitions in the UK and the rest of the world
New
safety regulations covering working at height are going to make
their mark on a great many industry sectors. Construction is a key
area, which will directly have a major impact on the window and
glazing worlds. Mike Baldwin, training manager at the Health
& Safety Training Academy, looks at some of the issues
facing the window industry.
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Here:
Alcoa's
Home Exteriors facility in Gaffney, S.C. is receiving two safety
honours this month for excelling in workplace safety and health
during 2003.
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Here:
Sierra
Windows has produced a new brochure for installers to offer
its customers.
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here:
The
Council for Aluminium in Building
has launched the latest in its series of 'Setting the Standard' guides.
More
here:
Sliders
UK
now includes a comprehensive installation guide with every patio door
that leaves the company’s factory.
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here:
New
Data Sheets, freely available from Windowbase,
give the numbers of Fabricators and Installers currently active in the
UK and suggest ways of contacting them.
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here:
TruSeal
Technologies, Inc.,
a world leader in flexible spacer systems for insulating glass (IG),
has released a product data sheet for EdgeThermTM PIB-H1.
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here:
Hardware
manufacturer, Roto Frank, has produced
a range of point of sale material to support fabricators and installers
in the promotion of the company’s twin cam security locking system
for windows (TSL).
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here:
Known
in Devon and Cornwall for its professional marketing, AGS
Home Improvements has added Sarnafil
pvc flat roofing to its television advertising programme.
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Here:
CertainTeed
Corporation,
the North American building products manufacturer, expands its marketing
partnership in 2004 with NASCAR Nextel Cup driver and 2002 Daytona 500
winner Ward Burton (that's him in Car 22, having a bit of a spin).
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Here:
Every
year UAP, the UK supplier of decorative
door furniture, runs its Easter Egg promotion and each year the promotion
gets bigger and bigger.
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Here:
Network
Veka
is backing its associate Professor Brian Cunningham in a world record
bid to make the first ever kite-powered crossing of the Gobi Desert.
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Here:
Lister
Trade Frames Ltd
(Stoke) was one of the three finalists for Business of the Year at
the West Midlands construction industries first-ever awards presentation
for innovation and best practice
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Here:
Masterframe
Windows Ltd was presented at Glassex with
its newly accredited BBA Certification
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Here:
Clement
Windows Group,
the oldest family run windows business in the UK, has won first place
in the commercial category at this year's Ultraframe Sponsored Conservatory
Competition
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Here:
UKae
Ltd – manufacturer and supplier of sealed unit components,
consumables and decorative glass products for the UK window industry
– has been awarded ISO9001:2000
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Here:
HW
Plastics
has announced that Elite 70 accreditation has been achieved for BS:
7413 (to be superseded by BSEN 12608 in April 2004), and BS:7950 for
casement windows.
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Here:
Scottish
double glazing specialist Lochinvar Windows
of Loanhead, Edinburgh, has been supplying high quality doors, windows
and conservatories for over 15 years.
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Here:
Peter
Brown started Harlequin Frames
in December 1999 in an 11,000 square foot factory unit in St Ives,
Cambridgeshire. The Shield profile system was chosen and that decision
has never been regretted.
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Here:
Eurocell
Ultimate 70mm window system fabricator, Atcost
Windows, based in Liphook Hampshire, has announced the
continuing success of the company’s New Build department
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Here:
STR,
a new conservatory roofing fabricator in Scotland, has completed a
review of roofing systems and chosen Ultraframe
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Here:
Alcoa
announced on March 9th that it has published its 2003 Sustainability
Report, a detailed, databased review of the company's global environmental,
social and economic performance.
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Here:
Scientists
are developing a radical new approach to building construction, helped
by the Pilkington Energy Efficiency Trust
(PEET), which has the potential to drastically cut heating energy costs.
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Here:
On
19th January the Government published for consultation its draft National
Allocation Plan setting out how greenhouse gas emission allowances will
be allocated to the operators of UK installations for the first phase
of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, which runs from 2005 to 2007.
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Here
Features
now archived include:
Horst Mertes discusses the role of IT centralisation in todays
glass business
Designers
must now comply with regulations to limit solar overheating in buildings,
as Paul Littlefair of BRE explains.
Dave
Frost on the implications of CE Marking to the sealed unit manufacturer:
Phil Mundell on what Part M means to the Door Manufacturer;
Full
list here
The archive includes the firm's job files and account books, related collections of black and white photographs and glass negatives and over 9,000 cutline rubbings of glass that have passed through the workshop. Amazingly, the reserve price on the archive is less than £14,000, admittedly more than I have in my spare change jar, but still a fairly paltry sum when you consider how important this archive is.
Details
of how to apply
is at the end of the press release below, but if anyone would be interested
in starting up a campaign on The Gl@zine, please let me know.
Meanwhile, our Interbuild Stand
Guide to some 220 exhibitors from within the window, door and conservatory
markets has been expanded again this week.
If
you are exhibiting, please forward information on your stand to us so
we can include you in our preview. Please send editorial to news@theglazine.com.
Tony Higgin, Publisher
tony@theglazine.com
PROJECT OF THE WEEK
Groupco
takes up Residence at Exeter University
Groupco
has supplied a complete package of hardware at new student
accommodation for Exeter University, where Devon-based
Aspect Windows (Western) Ltd has manufactured and installed
fully reversible windows and French doors for the modern
residential block.
[More
on this Story]
GL@ZINE SPECIAL FEATURES
Sliders
Attributes Growth to Specialist Knowledge
Director
of patio door manufacturer, Sliders UK, Ian Longbottom
explains the company’s rapid growth in a competitive
specialist market.
[Read
The Feature Here]
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Less
than £14,000 Needed to Save Unique Stained Glass
Archive
Estelle Morris, Minister for the Arts, has placed
a temporary exportbar on the archive of G King &
Son, Norwich-based lead glaziers established in 1924
and one of Britain's leading conservators of medieval
stained glass. In doing so she has acted on the expert
recommendation of the Reviewing Committee on the Export
of Works of Art, which awarded a starred rating to
the exceptional archive, meaning that every possible
effort should be made to raise enough money to keep
it in the country.
[More
on this Story]
Appeal
Conservatory Blinds Ltd t/a Cordula Advert Attracts
Complaint
A
complaint, objecting to a leaflet for Appeal Conservatory
Blinds, Bristol that
claimed 'Cordula has remained synonymous with enduring
excellence for almost 20 years' was
upheld according to published details from the Advertising
Standards Authority.
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on this Story]
Data
Protection Scam Targeting Construction
Contractors
should be aware of a data protection scam targeting
the construction industry. An official-looking letter,
purporting to be from the Data Protection Agency
has been sent to many firms, telling them to send
a cheque for £135 to cover registration under
the terms of the Data Protection Act.
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on this Story]
Quantal
Partners with Sierra To Offer Bespoke Conservatory
Kit Package
Sierra
Windows, the UK trade supplier of PVCu windows and
doors, has teamed up with its sister company, Quantal
Conservatory Roofing systems, to offer installers
a complete bespoke conservatory kit package.
[More
on this Story]
GGF
Fact Sheet -The True Facts About Conservatories
The
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) consulted
with the public and interested parties about the
possibility of conservatories being incorporated
into the Building Regulations during December 2001
to March 2002. The majority of responses, including
many industry ones, were that conservatories should
be, at least, partially incorporated into the Building
Regulations.
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on this Story]
Securistyle
Warns of Price Rises in 2004
Fabricators
should expect to see prices rise in 2004 according
to one of the UK's window hardware manufacturers.
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on this Story]
Springtime
in Rome, with Saint-Gobain Glass
Springtime
in Rome was the promise and that promise was delivered
for the 45 people who spent four days during late
March enjoying the sights, culture and fabulous
cuisine of 'The Eternal City' as a result of The
SGG Planitherm Challenge 2003.
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on this Story]
Synseal
Expands its Referral System
After
three years of fabricating K2 conservatory roofs,
The Fitter’s Mate Ltd has switched to Global.
The company says that at the end of last year it
started to look around for a roof that was consistently
innovative, and would put them ahead of the competition.
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on this Story]
Bystronic's
Robotic Class at Custom Glass
Custom
Glass, the Merseyside manufacturer of sealed units,
is using Bostik Findley P5125 hot melt sealant to
produce 10,000 IG units per week after investing
in a state-of-the-art Bystronic robotic HMB applicator.
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on this Story]
Six
of the Best for Corby Windows Group
After
changing to Stuga automatic sawing centres
four years ago Corby Windows Group is
so pleased with the machine that the
company has proceeded to purchase a
total of six of them over the subsequent
years with the most recent having just
been installed straight from Glassex.
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on this Story]
Sentinel
Makes the Top Twenty in Wales
The
substantial growth achieved by composite door
manufacturer Sentinel Doors has been recognised
in a recent report issued by Wales Fast Growth
50, which recorded Sentinel as the 17th fastest
growing company in Wales with a 203.1% increase
in turnover between 2000 and 2002.
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on this Story]
Friction
Stay Expertise Opens Up the Market Place
Specialising
solely in the manufacture of friction stays
has placed Cotswold Architectural Products
in a position to partner hardware distributors
and suppliers, and their fabricator customers,
throughout the industry.
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on this Story]
Dust
Off Your Boots and Clubs: The Trinity Challenge is Back!
With
cold, miserable Winter fading and Spring just around the corner, hardware
distributor Mila is prompting all industry contenders to take their
golf clubs out of the wardrobe, air their footie kits and get ready
to brave the great outdoors once more: The Trinity Challenge is back!
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on this Story]
Breath of Fresh Air from Whitaker Windows
On
average, people spend 80% of their time indoors and the importance
of quality air inside the home cannot be overstated. Poor air quality
contributes to a variety of health problems, including asthma and
dermatitis.
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on this Story]
502
Million Windows are Sold Annually Worldwide but Focus Moves from Europe
to Asia
While
Western Europe and North America are experiencing a slight decline
in the window market, Asia records a market growth of 2.4% and Eastern
Europe shows an increase in windows units sold of 14.8%. Therefore
a clear shift in the market potential from the western to the eastern
hemisphere can be seen - whereas the total worldwide volume is relatively
stable at approximately 500 million window units as the results of
a current study from InterConnection Consulting Group show.
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on this Story]
Weatherseal
Marketing Boss Steve Forecasts a Bright Future
Weatherseal
Marketing Director Steve Wilson is on the expansion trail. The home
improvement company, established in 1963, already employs over 3000
people throughout the UK.
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on this Story]
UK
Trades Confederation Launches Interest Free Finance Scheme
The
UK Trades Confederation has launched an interest free finance scheme
for its members. Customers of members of The UK Trades Confederation
will receive a card that will enable them to spread the cost of purchases
with no interest to pay and giving them access to special in-store
promotions.
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on this Story]
Major
Hardware Group from Italy Looking for Agents and Distributors
E
& E, an Italian hardware group based in Naples, says that it supplies
over 3,500 items including: Handles, Locks, Hinges, Magnetic Locks
and Cabinet Hardware.
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on this Story]
Alcoa
Completes Sale of Specialty Chemicals Business for $342 Million
Alcoa
Inc. announced on February 27th that Alcoa World Alumina Chemicals
(AWAC), a global alliance between Alumina Limited (40%) and Alcoa
(60%), has completed the sale of Alcoa Specialty Chemicals to two
private equity firms led by Rhone Capital LLC for approximately $342
million.
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on this Story]
Viracon
Chooses Guardian as Glass Supplier for WTC Project
One
of the most significant reconstruction projects in United States history
is well underway and Guardian Industries is honoured that its UltraWhite
low-iron glass has been selected for use on New York City's World
Trade Center Building #7 project.
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on this Story]
Safe2Bond
is Looking West
Safe2Bond,
the white light bevel bonding adhesive, is now looking West to the
USA for increased sales growth.
[More
on this Story]
GBW
is the Family Favourite
Family-run
fabricator, KB Windows Ltd, has recently switched to GBW’s Shire
range of door panels.
[More
on this Story]
Manufacturers
and Transport Companies Form Flat Glass Logistics Council
Six
glass manufacturing and distribution companies have formed the Flat
Glass Logistics Council in the US.
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on this Story]
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