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7th December 2004
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Bohle
UK - the exclusive distributor for Vetro glass tiles
from Italy - has announced more new designs and new low prices
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XT4,
the new glazing bar from Synseal Extrusions
Ltd, can span 4m without reinforcing or bolster bars
even with 800mm centres
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Here:
New
World Developments
says that its new GRP composite doorset, Apeer is as robust as it
looks: its security features are original engineering innovations
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Edgetech
can now offer an online solution to manufacturing Georgian bars
with the Lisec machine for high volume manufacturers
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Here:
Häfele
UK
has launched its new new contemporary range of lever handles: the
new Starlight range
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Here:
Ventilation
specialist Titon has launched
the Trimvent Select E18, a new clip fix variant of its trickle ventilator
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Here:
HW
Plastics
has introduced a Tilt 'n' Turn version of the company's Elite 70
window and door system
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Here:
Eurocell
Building Plastics
has recently launched a new double Internal corner joint trim to
its product range
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Here:
Synseal
Extrusions Ltd
has introduced a new T-Ridge cover moulding to its Shield and Global
conservatory roofs
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Lenhardt
Maschinenbau GmbH, supplier of high-quality system solutions
for the production of insulating glass has a new president, Bernhard
Schmitt
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Here:
Linn
Spilsbury has been appointed by CEN Solutions
Ltd to run the company’s new EN 1279 test laboratory
which opened in Stafford last month
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The
customer service team at Foilex
is dedicated to ensuring complete customer satisfaction at all times
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Here:
Yale
Door & Window Solutions has strengthened its specification
support team with the three new appointments
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Sarnafil
Roof Assured,
the domestic single ply roofing systems company, has appointed Bob
Newall as UK Business Development Manager
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Here:
Eurocell
fabricator MW windows Ltd has recently completed a number of high
profile contracts for Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council in
Merseyside and NPS Northwest Ltd (Wigan Council)
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Countryside
Properties, has installed a large number of Sheerframe
windows in each of its new homes in the Reedlands development
in Wychwood Park, Crewe
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Here:
K2
architectural systems has local residents 'seeing double' after
the installation of adjoining conservatories for two members of
the same family in Waltham Abbey
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Tilt
and slide patio door hardware from UK manufacturer, Siegenia-Aubi
Ltd, has been installed as part of a £1/2 million
refurbishment project in Wandsworth
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Bohle
has recently redesigned its on-line shop to incorporate the new design
concepts currently being rolled out in the company's catalogues and
advertisments
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Home
improvement specialist, eBuilders,
has launched a comprehensive online guide to specialist air conditioning
suppliers across the UK
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Here:
Everwhite
Plastics Ltd has launched a new look website. Simon Reynolds,
Sales Manager at Everwhite, explains how easy it is to use:
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Specialist
laminating company Foilex has unveiled
its new-look, interactive website
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Bygone
Preferred Installers
have just made a £575 donation to Baby Lifeline, a charity
offering care and support to pregnant mothers and newborn babies
throughout the UK
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Here:
Sierra
Windows
has raised £848 for charity. Brian Webb, General Manager,
presented a cheque to Cancer Research UK
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Manse
Masterdor Ltd,
the manufacturer of bespoke timber bladed door-sets, has donated
windows and made to measure doors to Harrogate and Knaresborough
District based charity, Paperworks
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Window
and conservatory manufacturer, Synseal
Extrusions Ltd is doing its bit to help boost urgently
needed blood supplies
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In
time for the Olympic Games RWE Schott Solar
began the operation of Greece's largest rooftop solar-energy unit in Athens.
Supported by its Greek and German partners, this will help the company
to further strengthen its market position in Greece.
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'Too
many different schemes could be diluting the overall waste and recycling
effort in the UK.' This was the European perspective on waste and recycling
in the UK given at the fifth Waste Action Forum
held in Barnsley
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A
UK-led consortium is developing a process to extract brominated flame
retardants (BFRs) from waste plastics to leave an 'acceptable' level in
the plastic for recycling
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Glass
is good news for the brick industry and the environment, according to
research carried out by CERAM Building Technology
(CBT)
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Alcoa
announced on September 10th the start of an environmental impact
assessment under terms of reference established by the Trinidad
and Tobago Environmental Authority (EMA) for a potential aluminum
smelter at LaBrea, located in southwest Trinidad
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DuPont
and attorneys for local residents who filed a class action lawsuit
in 2001 over releases from DuPont's Washington Works plant of the
chemical C-8, also known as PFOA, have reached an agreement in principle
to settle the suit, officials from both parties announced on September
9th
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TruSeal
Technologies’
warm-edge flexible spacer system DuraSeal™, dual sealed with
polysulphide, has passed the requirements outlined by European testing
standards EN1279-2, 3 and 6 according to the final report by Dutch
test institute TNO-TPD
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Allglass
& Glazing Ltd an Insulating Glass Unit (IGU) manufacturer based
in Somerset, has officially achieved BS EN1279-2 Kitemark scheme for
insulating glass units using sealants from Bostik
Findley
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RegaLead
has teamed up with CEN Solutions
to help guide its customers through the EN 1279 accreditation
process
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Here:
Chiltern
Dynamics will treble capacity to test Insulating Glass
Units (IGUs) to EN 1279: Glass In Building – Insulating Glass
Units, Part 2, when a new custom-built chamber is installed.
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The
construction industry adopts a consistent approach to calculating
the U-values of curtain walling according to Derek Hodgson,
technical manager for Senior Aluminium Systems, chairman of
the technical committee for the Council for Aluminium in Building
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here:
The
consultation period for amendments to Building Regulations
part L is now closed, so what are the likely outcomes for
future legislation? The BFRC Window Energy Rating system is
now unlikely to be included in its proposed form
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here:
The
Government’s Consultation Document on changes to Building
Regulations Part L has now been issued. It confirms that windows
that achieve the current Part L U values will continue to
satisfy requirements in the future.
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here:
In response to ODPM's release on 21st July of the consultation
document on Part L (energy efficiency)
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here:
Features
now archived include:
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
Price
Hikes Looming as Raw Material Prices Rocket
A
warning this week that the escalation of raw material costs in the plastics
industry is the worst it has been since the 1970s, due to high oil prices.
Plastics converters are looking to pass on these costs to customers:
'the pain must be shared' says the EuPC.
Technical
Sales Adviser – S. W. England
SFS intec is the world’s largest
fastener company and is acknowledged as the market leader in the manufacture
and supply of fasteners for the UK window industry. We are now looking
to strengthen the team further with the appointment of a technical
sales adviser to nurture and grow our customer base in the South West.
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Coventry
Branch Sales/Administration
An exciting opportunity for an experienced
sales person with excellent administration and organisation skills.
The company wants to develop this small depot operation into a larger
stand alone operational branch, by attracting a greater proportion
of locally generated business for emergency replacement glazing and
other glazing products and services available through the group.
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Latest
Positions from TEN
Ten senior positions now available
from TEN Human Resources.
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Howarth
Timber and Building Supplies
has run a national Ultraframe Conservatory Roadshow at each
of its 23 branches.
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Aztec
Conservatory Roof Systems’
customers demonstrated their competitive edge when the company
hosted a day of motor racing.
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John
and Ann Armstrong, who run Holbrooks-based double glazing
company U-fit.co.uk,
hope to put potential new recruits on the spot and in front
of the BBC TV cameras in ‘The U-Factor’, a drive
to boost their workforce.
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Alcan
Inc. announced on
November 11th that it will continue its association with Olympic
and Paralympic champion Chantal Petitclerc through to the
year 2008. Alcan has been the Quebec athlete’s major
sponsor since 1998.
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Listers
has always been conscious that it needs to keep fighting off
the competition but one of the company's employees seems to
have taken it a little further than usual.
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The
2004 Ideal Homes Exhibition held at Bournemouth International Centre in
early September was the second year that Dorset based installer Orchard
Roofing has exhibited the benefits of SRA.
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Eurocell
Building Plastics
has recently held two golf days. Firstly the company’s southeast
division staff competed at the prestigious Lingfield Park Course in Surrey.
Hawkstone Park was the setting for the Annual Marshall-Tufflex, Eurocell
Building Plastics Midlands Golf Day.
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Now
in its 10th year, one of the industry’s premier sporting events,
the Unitec Hardware Ltd Charity Golf
Challenge, was held once again at the De Vere Carden Park in Cheshire.
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Raines Court, one of the largest schemes to incorporate Technal’s
new GXi aluminium sliding balcony door, has won an RIBA Award.
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Here:
Guardian
Japan Ltd.,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Guardian Industries Corp., recently became
the first overseas company in the 95-year history of Takenaka to receive
a 'Certificate of Appreciation'.
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Here:
St. Albans based secondary glazing specialist, Selectaglaze
Ltd has successfully achieved ISO9001 certification through
LPCB.
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Here:
Freefoam
has introduced a range of new Product Information Sheets which
are available for customers and others with specific product enquiries.
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here:
A new range of retail literature from Duraflex
- ‘The Natural Choice in PVC-U’ - is a colourful pack
containing an aspirational lifestyle brochure and loose-leaf specification
sheets, all enclosed within a matching folder.
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here:
TRADA
Technology has published a new manual aimed at establishing
the principles of good practice in the design and specification
of wood windows.
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here:
Bovis
Homes Group PLC
met with analysts and investors on 9th November and provided a
trading update prior to visiting its Swindon developments.
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here:
House
construction costs will rise by an inflation busting 16% this
year and by 11.6% in 2005 with the upwards trend continuing, according
to Experian, the global economic
forecasting group.
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here:
Construction
Orders in the year to September 2004 rose by two per
cent compared to orders in the previous twelve month period, and
orders in the third quarter of 2004 rose by one per cent compared
to the same period a year earlier.
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The
Ultraframe technical support
team offers all Ultraframe fabricators, suppliers and installers specialist
training at its School of Excellence.
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Partnership,
professionalism and passion were the themes underlying the fourth
Masterframe Bygone Preferred Installers
(BPI) network conference.
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Here:
Total
Glass
has launched its own fabricator training facility. The company, one
of Profile 22's largest fabricators, established the Total Training
School in response to a growing skills shortage.
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Fabricator
Finestral Windows and Conservatories
says that it has built a credible reputation for quality over the
last 23 years. It recently experienced an exceptionally high number
of orders and had to make a decision to invest heavily in expanding
its manufacturing capacity or to outsource.
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Earlier
this year North East company - Regency Windows
Ltd of Sunderland, opened a new showroom which displays
a wide range of conservatory styles with all of the conservatories
featuring roof systems from Newdawn & Sun Ltd.
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A
European Construction Safety Summit
took place on 22nd November 2004 at Euskalduna Conference Centre in
Bilbao, Spain, marking the closing of this year's European Week on
Safety and Health at Work.
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On
October 28th, Saint-Gobain Corporation,
the holding company for the U.S.- and Canadian-based businesses of
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain of France, celebrated the first Saint-Gobain
International Day of Health and Safety.
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Here:
The
Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has awarded British
Glass £93,000 funding to lead a health and safety
improvement programme within SMEs in the glass sector.
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Masterframe
Latest to Back the Glassex Challenge
The growing list of big industry names that have signed up to sponsor
the Glassex Challenge now includes the sash window fabricator Masterframe
Windows Ltd.
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on this Story]
Interbuild
2006: New Owners, New Show
Major changes have taken place since Interbuild 2004 as control of the
event switches entirely into the hands of Emap Construct.
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on this Story]
GlassBuild
America Announces Autumn Dates
The National Glass Association (NGA) has announced that its trade show,
GlassBuild America: The Glass, Window & Door Expo, will now be permanently
moving to the autumn beginning in 2005.
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on this Story]
Locks
& Fittings get Separate Area at BAU 2005
Locks and fittings nowadays do much more than just their original function.
They have become multi-functional high-tech products that fulfil a wide
range of requirements. With these developments in mind, a separate section
is now going to be devoted to these products at BAU 2005 in Munich 17-22
January 2005.
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on this Story]
25
Years of Glassex
Glassex celebrates its Silver Anniversary by offering an array of events,
competitions, business seminars and of course, more than 150 of the
glazing industry’s top suppliers, in the most comprehensive programme
ever seen at the event.
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on this Story]
Alcoa
Presents UltrAlloy 6020 at Aluminium 2004
The Aluminium 2004 World Trade Fair and Convention in Essen, Germany
will include a presentation of Alcoa's UltrAlloy® 6020, which removes
lead from aluminium precision machined parts, increases machining productivity
and boosts machine shop competitiveness.
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on this Story]
'Visions
of Glass' at BAU
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.
Also, the GlasKon Congress will be integrated into BAU.
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Good news at Darby Glass, meanwhile, who has shrugged off lacklustre performances of former years to emerge as a major force in the glass processing and IGU market, with six sites across the UK. It has announced a £1m investment programme backed by a new management team, in order to create additional growth.
Another look at Glasstec 2004, which closed its doors having notched up in the region of 54,000 visitors from 81 countries. This week we have reports from Bystronic, Ashton Industrial, Edgetech (GasGlass), Bassra Machine Tools, ESC (Screenprinting Machinery), Fusion Glass Designs, Langendorf (Floatliner), Inagas, Grenzebach (stacking and loading), WITT (gas filling). Part 3 of our Review can be found here.
We
also have details of yet more restructuring at Heywood Williams plc, which
involves the appointment of a new finance director and a new MD, and an
interesting account of the sale of Windowmaker, the Gloucester window
firm which is now owned by its workforce.
Tony Higgin, Publisher
tony@theglazine.com
More
on the BWF's 'Interpretation' of BS6262
In the Leader of Gl@zine 149 (23rd November) you
referred to the BWF interpretation of BS6206.
It wasn't about BS6206 - even the BWF is not allowed
[lawfully] to 'interpret' that. It was 6262 our
only glazing Standard which the BWF says their
members may freely 'interpret' even when meeting
its criteria are terms of a contract to purchase
i.e. a specification.
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Here:
PRODUCT OF THE WEEK
Flexible
Curtain Walling Solution from Profile 22
Profile
22, the UK systems companies, has launched a new low-rise
curtain wall system offering architects and specifiers
greater choice and flexibility when creating large
fenestration screens within the refurbishment, commercial
and newbuild sectors.
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on this Product]
Kömmerling
Ovolo for Sunderland Estate
When
Housing Minister Keith Hill MP launched a prestigious
multi-million-pound social housing scheme to renovate
a particularly notorious estate in Sunderland, top
quality windows played an important part in the design
of the 11 different property types.
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on this Project]
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Escalating
Raw Material Costs Cripple Early
Recovery of European Plastics Converting
Industry
European Plastics Converters are
warning of the hard economic blow
currently being sustained by the
sector from the radically sharp
and dramatic increase in their raw
material prices. EuPC, the Brussels-based
trade body for the industry said
that tight margins are forcing companies
to pass price increases on to their
customers.
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on this Story]
Bystronic
at glasstec 2004 - System Solutions
for Tomorrow’s Glass Processing
'In
the run up to the exhibition there
was never any doubt that glasstec
2004 would once again justify its
claim to be the world’s no.
1 exhibition in the glass sector.
However, in light of the current
difficult economic situation, no
one quite expected it to be the
huge success that it was: this was
something that simply could not
have been foreseen.’ says Bystronic.
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on this Story]
Glasstec
2004 Review: Part 3
Glasstec 2004 closed its doors having
notched up in the region of 54,000
visitors from 81 countries. This
week we have reports and pictures
from Bystronic, Ashton Industrial,
Edgetech (GasGlass), Bassra Machine
Tools, ESC (Screenprinting Machinery),
Fusion Glass Designs, Langendorf
(Floatliner), Inagas, Grenzebach
(stacking and loading), WITT (gas
filling).
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on this Story]
New
Team Drives Darby Glass Forward
Darby
Glass Ltd has appointed a new
management team with plans to
achieve 50% growth over the
next three years. The new board
is part of a major restructuring
programme, which is backed by
over £1m investment in
new equipment, plus an ambitious
product development strategy
and aggressive sales and marketing
drive with focus on customer
service.
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on this Story]
Windowmaker
in £5m Workers' Buyout
Letting
the workers take over has proved
a good way for the founders of
Gloucester based Windowmaker to
make their exit. The business,
Windowmaker, was turning over
£8m a year, making a profit
of £1m, and had 90 employees.
Will Nicoll and his partner, Brian
Wronski were looking for an exit
from the business.
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on this Story]
Speaking
our Language
Following
an investment in excess of £1
million, SynergeBuild the e-business
customer ordering system from
Deceuninck, has become the quickest,
easiest and most accurate way
for a customer to place their
orders.
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on this Story]
New
Group Finance Director and Strengthened
Management Team at HW Plastics
Heywood
Williams PLC has announced the
appointment of Richard Whiting,
40, as Group Finance Director
with immediate effect. Richard
joined Heywood Williams two years
ago and has played a successful
part in developing and implementing
the corporate rationalisation
programme, which has been a central
part of restructuring the group.
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on this Story]
Federation
Support for New Rules to make Builings
more Secure
The
UK’s leading manufacturers of
building hardware and architectural
ironmongery have added their support
to a Government Bill aimed at making
all sorts of buildings greener and
safer.
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on this Story]
New
Investment Plans Spell Bright Future
for Therma-Tru Doors
Therma-Tru
Doors has announced of a multi-million
pound investment in a new production
facility for Sentinel Doors in south
Wales.
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on this Story]
Uniglaze
2 Rises in the East
To
celebrate its 21st birthday, glazing
company Uniglaze 2 in East Anglia,
has built a state of the art £12m
production facility. Central to its
success is the strong relationship
the company enjoys with glass supplier
Pilkington Building Products.
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on this Story]
Listers
Breaks Sales Record Again
Lister
Trade Frames Ltd Staffordshire says
it has recorded increased sales
throughout the year and has achieved
its highest ever sales figures for
any month previously in the company's
history.
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on this Story]
Ultraframe
Announces Major Presence at Glassex
2005
Conservatory
roof system manufacturer, Ultraframe
is returning to Glassex 2005 with
a major presence at the exhibition.
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on this Story]
Everbrite
Comes Back to Duraflex
Duraflex
has welcomed Everbrite Windows &
Doors back to its fabricator network.
The Enfield company has renewed
its partnership with Duraflex after
four years with another PVCu systems
supplier.
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on this Story]
ComfortableSoftware.com
Enjoys an Upsurge in Overseas Sales
ComfortableSoftware.com
recently enjoyed an upsurge in overseas sales
after exhibiting at the Win·door show
in Toronto Canada last month.
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on this Story]
Just
Fascias Top in Freefoam Guarantee
Registrations
Just
Fascias currently leads the
list of installers in registering
for Freefoam's extended 20 year
Guarantee.
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on this Story]
Sefton
Council uses New World’s Composite Doorset
Working
with building contractor AW Byrne in Bootle,
door supplier New World Developments has won
its first major order from the North West’s
Sefton Borough Council for Apeer, its new
GRP composite doorset with patent pending
features.
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on this Story]
Streamlined
Customer Services Keep Pace with Expansion
at James Price Tuffx
The expansion at Aintree based James Price
PLC is continuing across all divisions of
the group. This includes the Tuffx division
producing single and double glazed toughened
glass produced on state-of-the-art robotic
Lisec lines and Cervoglass the new generation
conservatory glass.
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on this Story]
Kaba
Opens Door to Quality Vans and Top Volkswagen
Service
There
is no better judge of how good a van is
than the driver. Kaba Doors Systems –
a leading supplier of automatic and security
doors – is receiving rave reviews from
its engineers who are driving the company’s
16 new Volkswagen Transporters.
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on this Story]
Everest
Commercial Division Provides 24/7 Emergency
Service for its Customers
Everest
Commercial Division’s commitment to
customer care has grown to include an ‘Out
of hours’ emergency service.
[More
on this Story]
Disqualified
Director Sent to Prison
A
builder who was disqualified from acting
as a company director has been sent to prison
for running a business in breach of his
disqualification, following a DTI prosecution.
[More
on this Story]
Vitro
Cristalglass to Supply Glass for Europe's
Largest Urban Construction Project
With
a glass façade of almost 140,000
square metres, Telefonica's new Communication
City Complex is Europe's largest urban project,
in terms of glass usage, under construction
today.
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on this Story]
Alcoa/Alcan
Signs Protocol on 1.5m MTPY Alumina Refinery
in Guinea
Alcoa
announced on 24th November that its Alcoa
World Alumina LLC affiliate, Alcan Inc.
and the Government of the Republic of Guinea
have signed a protocol for developing jointly
a 1.5 million metric ton per year (mtpy)
alumina refinery in Guinea, West Africa.
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on this Story]
ProL–
The Most Versatile Flat Laminating Line
Available
The
market for flat laminated glass is growing
at a rate of around 6% per year. The new
ProL series has several capacity and capability
options, including versions with up to 100%
extra capacity and Super Low-E capability,
utilising Tamglass heating technology from
the flat tempering field.
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on this Story]
Insolvencies,
Winding up Orders, Petitions and Creditors' Meetings
Some
familiar names from the glass, window and conservatory
markets turn up in this week’s look at recent
Notices from the Company Courts: Staffordshire Trade
Windows, Lux Doors, Warmdrive, Gosport Window Systems,
Daytime Windows, Arrow Glazing Systems, Norceram
UK, South Coast Marketing, Rowan Windows, to name
but a few.
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Here:
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