Weekly
Email News for the Glass, Glazing and Fenestration Industries
14th June 2005
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Windowscreens
UK
of Upminster, Essex announces the introduction of a new proprietary
Single-Slider flyscreen (fly screen, insect screen) for windows
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Here:
A
specially adapted version of Windowlink’s
Vector design-to-sell conservatory package is playing a key
role in a pioneering approach to building home extensions
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Here:
UKae
Ltd – the UK manufacturer of consumables for
the sealed unit industry – has introduced two new spacer
accessories that will both speed up production and increase
efficiency
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Here:
The
new Select Egress range of friction hinges from Laird
Security Hardware are designed for safety and emergency
exit in full accordance with current standards
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Here:
Bohle
revealed a new design compact twin-belt arising machine for
the
first time internationally at the recent GP&T
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Here:
Nick
Dutton, Sales & Marketing Director of Synseal
Extrusions Ltd, explains the benefits of the new
Global starter bar:
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Here:
Huntsman
Polyurethanes
recently announced a major strengthening of its commitment
to the expanding global glass laminating industry with a move
into the optical-aliphatic (OA) film market
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Here:
Hafele
UK
has expanded its range of rail and patch fittings for frameless
glass pivot doors and fixed panels, called the Hafele Standard
Range
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Here:
TruSeal
Technologies, Inc.,
a manufacturer of warm edge spacer systems for insulating
glass, offers 3A/13X and 3A Siliporite® molecular sieves
to window manufacturers
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Here:
Sierra
says that its comprehensive range of fibreglass entrance doors
is growing in popularity with homeowners across the country
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Here:
New
hardware introduced on Sapa Building
Systems’ Dualframe Vertical Sliding Window
combines ease of operation with anti-ligature design
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Here:
Fuhr
Multisafe locks from Groupco are now specified exclusively
for the Welguard range of doors from Welglaze,
which includes French doors and a stunning new collection
of PVC-U coloured doors
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Here:
GED
Integrated Solutions, Inc.
announces the new Decorative Application Table. This automated
system will quickly and accurately apply lead tape and 3M
Accentrim™ Products to glass panels
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Here:
Masterglaze,
the network of Trade Outlet Centres, has introduced a range
of PVCu doors available from stock. Available in sizes from
885mm to 930mm wide, builders and installers simply call in,
select their products, and drive out again
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Here:
Conservatory
systems suppliers that recommend five way tie bar systems
will know how unpopular they are they can be with homeowners.
Synseal Extrusions Ltd’s
solution is a new tie bolt – a security bolt for conservatory
roofs
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Here:
Ultraframe
has announced the re-branding of its Victorian roof system,
which will now be known as the Ultraframe Classic system.
A host of new features have been added, including PVC chambered
top cappings
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Here:
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Edgetech
UK
has welcomed Helen Hardwick to the Edgetech team, working on
order processing, customer databases and payment administration
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Here:
Aluminium
Roofline Products Ltd, ARP, has added a new team
member Andrew Clarke as Local Authority Sales Manager
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Here:
The
Board of Pilkington plc
has announced that Norman Lyle OBE has accepted its invitation
to become a Non-Executive Director
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Here:
Glenn
Trevelyan has achieved director status at Sash
UK following an 18-month period as Operations Manager
and Director Designate
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Here:
Comar
has announced two new members to its Marketing Department: Igor
Alioshin and Nicolas Ashton
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Here:
Success
of the recently launched Suited Range of window and door hardware
from Fab & Fix has led
to company expansion and a re-organisation of the sales team
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Here:
Wendland
Roof Solutions has appointed Henry Inglis as National
Sales Manager and Tony Hurley as Area Business Manager for Wales
and the south west of England
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Here:
Ultraframe,
has appointed Mike Price as new Director of Operations to head
up a team of process improvement practitioners and boost bottom-line
performance
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Here:
David
Cox joined Edgetech as the
new Technical Sales Manager in January this year
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Here:
Christian
Streiff is stepping down as Chief Operating Officer of Saint-Gobain
and
has appointed Pierre-André de Chalendar to replace him
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Here:
A
glass ‘sensorium’ at a North London property reflects
the combined expertise of Glass
UK and Ritec’s
glass surface protection technology. Glass UK supplied all
the toughened laminated glass for the bespoke extension
as part of a single source solution with its associate company,
Metal UK
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Here:
Specially
patterned fire resistant glass from CGI
International has been specified for new composite
doors in the corridors at a retirement housing complex in
Dewsbury
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Here:
Harlow-based
Temple Windows has
recently fabricated and installed Beaufort
aluminium windows and doors for a new teaching block at
Camden School for Girls in North West London
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Here:
Warwick Crest in Edgebaston is a large tower block of residential
flats that was drastically in need of a makeover. Everest
Commercial Division was asked to submit a quote
for replacement windows and doors to the external envelope
of the building and the balcony areas
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Here:
PVC-U
windows and doors manufactured by Liverpool-based Total
Glass have played a major part in the transformation
of two formerly run-down city council tower blocks into
stylish apartments and penthouses
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Here:
New
World Developments
is now providing one-to-one training of its on-line
ordering programme PanelSpec, at fabricator's premises
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Here:
Just
as EN 1279 has passed final voting and is soon to be
signed into law, CEN Solutions
Ltd, the glazing and fenestration consultancy,
is launching its new website
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Here:
Rehau
has launched a customer portal on its web site which
allows it to offer on-line ordering for the first time
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Here:
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Sandblasted
glass specialist Go-Glass
has produced a spectacular full size engraved
glass representation of a famous racing motorbike
which will be auctioned online for a children’s
cancer charity
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Here:
The
Manchester Network Day,
being held on Friday 21st October 2005,
is the ideal charity event for those for whom extreme
physical exertion, dangerous pastimes, and personal
humiliation is as unattractive as kissing Malcolm
Glazer.
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Here:
After months of speculation, the latest information
suggests that EN 1279: Glass In Building – Insulating
Glass Units has been accepted and will be formally
published in the Official
Journal in the near future
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Here:
'Too
much time and money is being spent in the UK on consultation
on waste and recycling and not enough on delivering actions
to improve performance. There is still a need for stronger
direction at a national level,' said Ian Collins, in his speech
at the Waste Action Forum
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Here:
Accurately
measuring, reporting and validating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
and removals is to become easier for organisations, with three
parts of an International Standard on GHGs out now for consultation
by the British Standards Institution
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Here:
Emplas
Window Systems Ltd, has been awarded a major supply
and installation contract by Carmarthen County Council as
part of the refurbishment of its council properties. Emplas,
which also has access to a full UK-based PVC-u recycling facility,
won the contract in part due to its ability to fulfil the
Council’s stringent recycling objectives.
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World
Wide Web Works Wonders!
This
week's issue provides a number of excuses to bang our own drum for a
change. The Gl@zine has now been going for 3 and a half years, appearing
some 176 times since November 2001. In that time, our subscriber base
has built up to over 11,000 named individuals. The website on which
The Gl@zine is based is regularly looked at by visitors from over 100
countries worldwide - and this year alone we have so far had over 88,000
unique visitors coming to the site.
Technical
Engineer
The growing name in the industry, RoofWright is the
software for conservatory sales, pricing, fabrication and business solutions.
RPS, the creators of RoofWright , require an engineer to configure and
maintain RoofWright for ever more conservatory systems.
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Here:
Sales
Rep
Greenberg Glass requires a Branch sales representative to promote the
companies range of Architectural glass and glazing products in Scotland.
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Here:
Business Development Manager, Midlands
Our client is the largest subsidiary of a young and acquisitive group
within the building products industry. Professionally managed, profitable,
cash generative and with a strong balance sheet, this role is crucial
to accelerating the growth rate.
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Exhibition
Calendar
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UPDATED!!
Profile Wrappers Ltd has been
awarded Investors in People just eighteen months after the company
was bought by a management team headed by Graham Morrell.
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Here:
Trade Lynks, Profile 22 Systems'
customer business and marketing support scheme was singled out for
a commendation at the prestigious Plastics Industry Awards.
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Here:
Alcoa was recognised as a national
leader in energy conservation and environmental stewardship when
it was named a recipient of an Energy Award during the Industrial
Energy Technology Conference.
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Here:
Highline Building Plastics,
a Freefoam stockist recently achieved a place in The Sunday Times
Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 league table of Britain’s fastest
growing private companies.
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Here:
Dorwin
Ltd has been fabricating and installing
PVC windows and doors for over thirty years for the Social Housing
and commercial refurbishment market. The company has now achieved
a Secured by Design Licence.
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Here:
Essex based PFL (Permacell
Finesse Ltd) has become the first manufacturer in the window industry
to achieve accreditation to the new internationally recognised occupational
health & safety standard, known as OHSAS 18001.
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Here:
Alumet
Systems (UK) Ltd has been named 'Cladding and Glazing
Specialist of the year' at the Construction News specialists in
Construction awards.
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Here:
Wunderplas
Windows in St Austell recently opened its doors to
the trade and general public to celebrate £400,000 worth
of investment in a new window manufacturing plant.
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here:
The
K2 roofing system and K2's
Celsius glass became TV stars when they appeared on Channel
4's 'Room for Improvement' programme on 3rd May 2005.
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here:
Volkswagen
Commercial Vehicles
has joined the Rizla Suzuki Superbike Team as Official Logistics
Partner, supporting the team in the 2005 British Superbike Championship.
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here:
Conservatory
fabricator Dave Boot has thundered to the top in his first motorbike
road race backed by Aztec Conservatory
Roof Systems.
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here:
When
Property Ladder developers were looking for doors for their
Art-Deco house, Vicaima
offered the ideal solution.
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here:
Cellular PVC-ue specialist, Celuform,
has issued two documents that set out the company's strategy for
delivering Sustainability, Best Value, Partnering, and Environmental
Management.
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here:
The first edition of the Laird Security
Hardware Product Guide 2005 has been launched.
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here:
Pilkington Building Products - UK
has developed a suite of downloadable literature, including its
latest addition, The Guide to Glazing for Safety and Security,
available at www.pilkington.com
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here:
Eurocell
Building Plastics has produced a new Specifier &
Product Guide designed to bring together information previously
contained across several different pieces of literature.
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here:
TRADA
Technology Ltd has revised two of its Wood Information
Sheets, 'Pests in Houses' and 'Finishes for Exterior Timber'.
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here:
This
statistical release presents figures on new house building starts
and completions in England and its regions up to the quarter ending
March 2005. House building figures are also provided for the other
UK countries.
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here:
In
the current edition of Construction Management
and Economics, Søren Spangenberg, Harald Hannerz
and Finn Tüschen of the Danish National Institute of Occupational
Health, examine the frequency of accidents that lead to hospitalisation.
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here:
Classic
Rooflines and Claddings which has just been awarded PERC
status (Purveyors of Excellence in Roofline and Cladding) from Deeplas
by Deceuninck. The PERC installer scheme, offered by Deceuninck, is
an effective training programme.
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Here:
Merlin
UK has recently been commissioned by Pilkington, the UK
glass supplier, to deliver a five day installation training programme
for Matthew Scraton an apprentice working at the Pilkington Sheffield
branch.
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Here:
Purplex
Business Solutions was recently commissioned by Versatile
Roofing Systems to complete a full day’s intensive sales training
on Consultative Selling.
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Here:
Tampere,
Finland, is the destination, Friday June 17th – Monday 20th 2005
is the time, for the this year's biennial GPD
Conference & Glass Product Exhibition Workshops.
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Here:
Corby
has Open Day with EVie
Over
150 customers came to visit The Corby Windows Group open days
held on 28th and 29th January. Corby now manufactures 3000 frames a
week from three sites in the West Midlands with a staff of over 300.
[More
on this Story]
Fenestration
China 2005
Fenestration
China 2005 takes place in Beijing from 16-19 November. Experts estimate
the market for windows and doors for the coming five years at approximately
200 million window units per year.
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on this Story]
fensterbau/frontale
RUSSIA 2005
The
première of fensterbau/ frontale RUSSIA 2005 in Moscow from 26-28
January was very promising: net hired display area of just under 2,100
square metres, a total of 94 exhibiting companies and around 3,500 trade
visitors
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on this Story]
Intelligent
Building Middle East 2005
From
hot and humid coastal climate in the summer to minus temperatures on
winter nights - the climatic conditions in the Middle East create difficulties
for both people and buildings in this region.
[More
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.
[More
on this Story]
GlassBuild
America 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]
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As
one of HIS Systems long-standing
fabricators, Stourbridge-based Carera Windows
continues to flourish. It was established in 1987 by Mark Crumpton
and Wayne North, and they are both still at the helm today, steering
the business to an even brighter future.
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Here:
New
regulations on work at height will come into force on 6th April
2005, the Health and Safety Commission
(HSC) has announced.
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Here:
Ray
Rabett, Technical Manager for Masterframe
Windows Ltd, comments on the predicament: ‘When
– not if - the government fails to deliver on its Kyoto protocol
commitments, a further tightening of the legislation is inevitable
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here:
PART L ARCHIVE
UK solar company solarcentury and Lambeth Council recently celebrated the launch of the first local authority-housing scheme in the UK to benefit from a fully integrated solar tiled roof generating clean electricity
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Today, we have received figures from Synseal that show that the new 600 System received nearly 500 visits to its dedicated website on the day it was launched on The Gl@zine last week. Today we are also able to bring you news and pictures from the G05 Awards, held only last Friday. We are also able to bring to up-to-the-minute news about forthcoming exhibitions: this week we preview the CIH Conference and Exhibition in Harrogate, including some late booking exhibitors which have only been announced this week.
We
also bring you three top class job opportunities this week - with more
than thirty jobs filled so far this year, this is clearly another major
benefit of our unrivalled circulation.
As another example of a weekly ezine's unique benefits, we today bring
you the second progress report from the GM Fundraising 'Top to Bottom'
bike ride, this time a half way stop at Hope House, the beneficiary
of this worthy charitable effort.
We also bring you news of another heroic act of charity, this time overseas.
Gordon
Cooke, technical sales manager at Aztec, is aiming to raise £90,000
in 90 days for the charity Bridge 4 Hope, by, among other activities,
selling badges for £1, and T-shirts for £10. More about
this below.
Finally, we have some important news concerning standards: Firstly,
publication of the long awaited BS EN 1279 Standard is now complete,
which means the 21 month transition and implementation phase has officially
begun.
Secondly, the race to get the first ‘C’ rated window from
The British Fenestration Ratings Council (BFRC) is over – with
Masterframe’s Bygone Collection first past the post.
The
B2BZine Team:
Richard and Debbie Schwarz
news@theglazine.com
GSL
Glazes Beetham Tower
- Highest Residential
Building in Europe
The
39 Beetham Tower provides
the perfect backdrop
for The Chinese Pagoda
at Holloway Circus,
Birmingham. GSL International
has installed the final
few floors of unitised
curtain walling on this
new Birmingham City
Centre landmark - the
highest residential
apartments in Europe.
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on this Project]
Bohle
Detects ‘Self-Cleaning’
with New Product
Bohle
UK has introduced a
new detector, which
identifies the coating
on the latest ‘self-cleaning’
glasses, such as Pilkington
Activ and SGG Bioclean.
[More
on this Product]
NOTICES
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: Euro Fast Glass
Ltd, J J Glass Ltd, Craft
Windows (Essex) Ltd, Weatherlux
Windows Ltd, Welsh Coast
Windows Ltd, Express Windows
(Southern) Ltd, C &
S Windows And Doors Ltd,
Royell View Windows Ltd,
London Glass & Joinery,
SF Structural Glazing Ltd,
Millenium Glazing Ltd, Abbots
Glass UK Ltd, to name but
a few.
[More
Here]
Chartered
Institute of Housing Exhibition
The
Chartered Institute of Housing
Exhibition in Harrogate
(21st - 24th June) will
attract decision makers
from LAs, RSLs, ALMOs and
the Private Sector. In 2004,
the conference was attended
by 2,400 delegates (up 12%
on the previous year) and
the Exhibition attracted
3,300 visitors (up 10%).
We preview several window
companies who are present
at this years event, with
a full list of the 50 plus
relevant companies at the
show.
[Read
the Preview Here]
Good
News Travels Fast - 491 Website
Visits for Global 600 on Day
One
Last
week Synseal Extrusions Ltd
revealed Global 600, its contemporary
roof designed specifically
for the UK market, will be
available in the autumn. ‘After
appearing in the Glazine www.synseal.com
had 491 visits, a new record
and 196 came directly from
the Glazine banner,’
explains Nick Dutton, Synseal's
Sales and Marketing Director.
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on this Story]
Hope
House Kids Greet GMF Riders
The System zendow sponsored,
GM Fundraising 'Top to Bottom'
Cycle Ride reached a poignant
waypoint last night as the
riders arrived at Hope House
Hospice to be greeted by the
children, parents and staff
plus a contingent of local
press and the lovely Miss
Wales, Laura Livesey.
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on this Story]
G05:
A Night of Celebration
It was a night of celebration
as the glass glazing and fenestration
industry gathered at the G
05 Awards at the Hilton Birmingham
Metropole on Friday night.
Close to 500 industry members
were in attendance as the
‘best of the best’
for 2005 were announced to
a highly vocal and appreciative
audience.
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on this Story]
Countdown
Begins for Insulating Glass
Unit Manufacturers
The
countdown for insulating glass
unit (IGU) manufacturers to
meet the requirements of the
Construction Products Directive
is now officially underway.
Publication of the long awaited
BS EN 1279 Standard is now
complete. BS EN 1279 is written
in six parts and the recent
publication of Part 5 means
that all six parts of the
Standard are now available
and the 21 month transition
and implementation phase has
officially begun.
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on this Story]
The
First ‘Green’ Window
in the UK - from Masterframe
The
race to get the first ‘C’
rated window from The British
Fenestration Ratings Council
(BFRC) is over – with
Masterframe’s Bygone
Collection first past the
post. The BFRC, the regulatory
body for energy efficiency
ratings for windows, has confirmed
that Masterframe now has a
’green’ window -
i.e. a window that’s
energy efficiency to at least
-20kWh/m2/year.
[More
on this Story]
Help
Build a Bridge 4 Hope
Spare
a pound- and help raise £90,000
in 90 days to help victims
of the Tsumani disaster is
the plea from the conservatory
industry’s Gordon Cooke.
[More
on this Story]
Open
Day at Eurocell
Eurocell
Building Plastics at Grimsby
is to hold an open day for
trade customers on Thursday,
June 23rd. The event, which
will be staged in a marquee
outside the company's Birchin
Way Industrial Estate premises,
will feature displays and
a roadshow.
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on this Story]
Shepley
Conservatory Sales are Breaking
Through the Roof
Shepley
Window Systems launched
its conservatory division
back in May 2001 and four
years on sales are going
through the roof, with record
sales of 73 conservatory
roofs being sold in just
one week of May alone.
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on this Story]
Total
Glass Finalists in Business
Awards
The accolades just keep
coming for Total Glass,
one of the UK‚s leading
and fastest-growing window
and door fabricators. Fresh
from clinching a Best Business
of the Year Award last year,
the Liverpool-based firm
has made the finals in two
categories of the prestigious
Daily Post and Echo Regional
Business Awards
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on this Story]
GM
Fundraising is a G05 Winner
A
video message from the
GM Fundraising John O’Groats-Lands
End Cycle Ride team, shown
during Friday nights G05
Awards prompted £2437
of donations to Hope House
Hospice.
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on this Story]
Masterframe’s
Double Whammy at G05 Awards
Masterframe Windows is
still celebrating after
scooping two awards at
the GO5 Awards on Friday
night, when the leading
manufacturer of premium
PVC-U sliding sash windows
was announced the winner
of both the Customer Care
Award and Energy Efficiency
Initiative of the Year.
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on this Story]
Thermlock
Sales Drive Better Energy
Efficiency
Sales of Thermlock, the
patented thermally enhanced
reinforcement system from
Sheerframe systems manufacturer
LB Plastics, have reached
record levels and are
now challenging the sales
of standard profile reinforcement.
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on this Story]
Midland
Window Group Blasts Weekly
Target Within Two Months
of Opening
New
Avocet customer Midland
Window Group of Coventry
has already exceeded its
initial target for the
first six months of trading
within just eight weeks
of opening for business
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on this Story]
Devlin
Glazing keeps Customers
Warm with Edgetech Super
Spacer®
Devlin
Glazing has been trading
for almost 15 years and
is now firmly established
in the manufacture of
double glazed units. Currently
the company manufactures
95% of its double glazed
units using Edgetech Super
Spacer®.
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on this Story]
Ashton
Industrial 'Must
be Doing Something
Right'
Allweather
Group, based
in Vacaville
CA, is taking
delivery of
the company's
third Ashton
Industrial fully
automated glass
arrissing line
for processing
random, mixed
lite sizes at
high speed.
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on this Story]
Conzzeta
Group: Sales Up
20% in Glass Division
In the first four
months of the current
year, the Conzzeta
Group increased
net revenues by
9.8% to CHF 338.2m
(previous year:
CHF 300m). This
improvement is largely
due to the positive
development in Sheet
Metal Processing
Systems (Bystronic)
and Glass Processing
Systems (Bystronic
glass).
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on this Story]
Connaught
Move Doubles Capacity
Connaught
Windows is celebrating its move
to a new two acre site at Wallisdown,
Bournemouth where it has capacity
to double its manufacturing output
and consolidate its position as
a leading window and conservatory
fabricator in the south.
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on this Story]
Glass
Industry Supports Proskills
At
the recent series of half-day events
held around the UK, over 95% of
attendees supported the formation
of Proskills, the prospective Sector
Skills Council, which will work
with Government to develop the skills
that UK business needs.
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on this Story]
Albert
Equipment UK Hails GP&T 2005
a Success
Despite
the dwindling numbers at last
month's Glass Processing and Technology
show, Albert Equipment UK feels
that its presence, for the first
time at this event, was a great
success.
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on this Story]
RegaLead
Scores a Direct Hit
The
latest decorative glass product
developments from RegaLead are proving
a big hit with Direct Door Panels.
The West Yorkshire-based door company
has recently expanded its glazing
options with RegaLead’s Fused
Glass Tile System and RegaLead’s
embossed films.
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on this Story]
Bright
Outlook from Sierra Windows
In
order to supply installers with
the latest in technological advancement,
Sierra Windows has made a successful
transition to using high performance
Low E soft coat glass as standard
in all glazed products.
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on this Story]
All
the Meat – Less of the Gravy
Stockport-based
fabricator Alexander Windows has
come up with a solution for would-be
trade customers who want the quality
of the Kömmerling window system,
but can’t compete in their
market place on the price. Alexander’s
trade showroom has recently been
refurbished to feature a new, specially-designed
concept, which is rapidly being
snapped up by installers who previously
felt Kömmerling was out of
their price range.
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on this Story]
Volkswagen
Commercial Vehicles' Record Sales
Figures Boosted Again
Volkswagen
Commercial Vehicles' record sales
figures have been boosted again
with a major order from Glasgow
City Council. Throughout 2005, more
than 200 Caddy vans will be delivered