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11th October 2005
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Pilkington
Building Products - UK has inroduced 10mm Pyrodur
60-10 and important additions to the test portfolio for 23mm
Pyrostop and 15/18mm Pyrostop
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Total
Glass has introduced a new vertical sliding sash
to give its customers even greater selling opportunities in
a mature market
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Here:
WHS
Halo has identified a niche market opportunity
and is introducing a dark brown version of its Top Swing profile
ready for woodgrain lamination
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New
World
inverted PVC door panels are being increasingly specified
in ‘high use’ cases where doors are subjected to
more than average stress
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Here:
Mighton
Products Fenestrator is a manually operated system
that allows even the heaviest sliding sash window - timber
or PVC-U - to be opened easily
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Celuform
has extended the range of shiplap products by introducing
a new PVC-ue embossed wood grain finish - Celutex
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Here:
A
new balustrade clamping rail, the Glass Wedge Dry-Glaze system
that cuts down traditional installation time by 50 per cent,
has been launched by Prefit
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Here:
Aetna
can now offer two new options to run in conjunction with its
popular Spiror range of horizontal stretch wrapping machines
for the extrusion and timber markets
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Glazeguard
S.W. Ltd has created the Triple-Lite Firefloor
system incorporating Pilkington
Pyrostop. At 1m x 3m for a single panel, it is the largest
fire-resistant floor that has been tested and approved to
current British and new European standards
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A
new product, Pyrobelite 12mm 60/0, is now available from Securiglass
Ltd., and is the latest edition to the Pyrobel
and Pyrobelite range of products
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The
Fuhr Multitronic 881, available ex stock in the UK from hardware
distributors Groupco,
provides remote control access with automatic locking
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Here:
Low
solar factor, effective thermal insulation and high selectivity
are the characteristics of two new types of solar control
glazing by the Interpane Group
(ipasol shine 40/21 and ipasol sky 50/26)
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When
faced with the daunting task of constructing and installing large
sheets of glass with double doors set into them, Glass
UK was able to rise to the challenge
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Leicester-based
Rugby Windows, has recently
completed a successful new build commercial contract to install
80 casement windows and 21 door combinations at a specially designed
apartment complex for the partially sighted in Wolverhampton
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Here:
Tollcross
Housing Association tenants throughout east end of Glasgow have
given both Sheerframe PVC
windows and fabricator and installer Hawthorn Windows a glowing
report in a satisfaction survey
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Here:
Two
new appointments have been made at Avocet
Hardware: Gary Bennett
has taken up his role as Head of Supply Chain, while Chris Mallin
brings over 15 years of experience to his new position as Head
of IT
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Here:
Total
Glass Commercial
has strengthened its management team with the appointment of
John Williams as Commercial Manager
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Here:
Independent
conservatory roof systems company, Aztec,
has enlisted the resources of Duncan Bennett as design and development
manager to work alongside Gordon Cooke and Rob Small
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The
Shepley parts catalogue can be accessed live
on the Shepley.com website and includes past and present
components that go into making Shepley products
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Windowbase’s September update of the
Window, Door and Conservatory fabricators & installers
database contains over 12,150 companies
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Here:
10,000
homeowners are visiting Ultraframe’s
interactive consumer website every month for advice
and inspiration when planning their conservatory
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Here:
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Phil
Turley, glass and glazing sales manager at Kömmerling
UK is celebrating his recovery from cancer
with a sponsored swim
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Regent
Windows (South Wales) Ltd
gave away a 3m x 3m conservatory in aid of Tenovus
The Cancer Charity at the recent Pembrokeshire County
Show which attracted a record attendance of 104,000
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Adding
to Newstead Trade Frame's
charitable record, staff Kevin Bourne, Kevin Wright
and Simon De-Winton recently raised £500 for
the Donna Louise Trust by taking part in a 12 hour
darts marathon
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Here:
Reddish
Joinery
has grown to the point where it now has three showrooms
- Stockport, Sale and Warrington covering South
Manchester and Cheshire with its manufacturing base
still in Reddish, Stockport
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Here:
A
Kömmerling
fabricator is bucking the current trend in the industry
for the scaling down of manufacturing and service
by celebrating the success of its newly opened trade
division - D&P Trade
Frames
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Here:
Insulating
Glass Unit (IGU) manufacturer The
Glass Center UK Ltd has achieved the BM
TRADA Q-Mark, to comply with EN 1279: Glass In Building
- Insulating Glass Units well ahead of the deadline.
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The
much-awaited ‘1279’ standard was finally
published towards the end of May 2005. ‘But be
careful, you still cannot claim that you comply with
the standard until the beginning of 2006.’ says
Two River Solutions
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Alcan
Inc.
announced recently that it is one of 17 large stock market
listed companies to be recognised for its outstanding environmental
performance by the United Kingdom’s Environment Agency’s
(EA) annual publication Spotlight on Business - Environmental
Performance 2004.
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Window
companies can now cut the costs of disposing of old PVC window
and door frames under Recovinyl,
a new scheme aimed at promoting greater recycling of post-consumer
PVC waste. It also covers ancillary PVC products such as roofline
products, cladding, shutters and blinds
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Having recently completed installing 33kWp at the Spinal Injuries Association HQ in Milton Keynes, Solar Technologies Group has now exceeded 2 Megawatts of installed PV solar solutions - furthering its position as the UK's largest installer for commercially integrated systems with an estimated 75% share of all building Integrated Solar in the UK today.
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John
Lewis from Everwhite Plastics Ltd
has passed the National General Certificate Level 3 in Occupational
Health from NEBOSH
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Window
hardware manufacturer Securistyle
has launched a campaign to ensure that fabricators and installers
put safety at the top of their business agenda
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Here:
Granada
Material Handling (Granada), one of the nation's
leading material handling solutions specialists, is the sole
UK distributor of Fezer VacuPowerlift handling units
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Here:
The
launch of Speedy's Safety
From The Ground Up initiative represents the UK's largest
integrated safety, training and information campaign in the
tool hire sector
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Apple
Carts and Gravy Trains
Sweden
nearly derailed the European Gravy Train several months ago with its
No vote on the Euro, now Holland has upset the applecart by voting against
the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and demanding its renegotiation.
Its main objection to the proposed legislation is the cost of implementation
- in the UK the RICS has calculated that some 2000 inspectors will be
required to carry out the necessary on-site testing and has issued a
statement saying that it does not know where it will find such a number.
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Director
of Sales: UK, Home Based
Our
client is part of a substantial group of companies with a rapidly
expanding network of trade counter outlets selling plastic building
products to the trade and general public. Well funded, ambitious and
with a well conceived and eminently deliverable strategy this rapidly
expanding company requires a top flight sales professional.
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Account
Manager Executive
Scotland: Veka plc
Reporting
to the National Sales Manager, you will be responsible for the effective
management of all allocated customers across Scotland, Northern Ireland,
Cumbria and the North East of England.
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Another
Successful Shepley Masters
Customers
gathered for a day packed full of activities and entertainment when
Shepley played host at the 2005
Shepley Masters at the prestigious De Vere Belfry hotel in the Midlands
on 22nd September.
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GlazeKart!
- A New Industry Karting Challenge
Nick
Moss of Walnut Motorsport has announced the launch of a new karting
challenge for the window, door and glazing industries – GlazeKart!
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Hug
a Beautiful Woman (Or Three) for Charity
In
his fervent quest to drag the good, the bad and the ugly to join the
2005 Network Walk, which takes place in Manchester on Friday 21st
October 2005 to raise money for the Hope House Children’s Hospice,
organiser Mike Crewdson has managed to seduce (figuratively speaking)
stunning beauties to join the event
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GPD
China - April 23-24, 2006 in Beijing
GPD
China will once again be held in conjunction with China Glass 2006
in Beijing, China. This time, it will be held just before China Glass.
The venue will be announced later.
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on this Event]
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Exhibition
Calendar
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Hurst
Plastics
- the UK manufacturer of PVC-U door infill panels and polymer
doors - has developed a new brochure dedicated to its collection
of doors and door panels.
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Conservatory
roof systems company Newdawn &
Sun has just published a new, comprehensive 32
page product brochure.
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here:
Trade
fabricator John Fredericks
has unveiled a full colour 16 page brochure dedicated to its
‘Ultimate’ collection of composite doors.
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here:
The
winners of the inaugural Vehicles &
Plant Awards were announced on 14th September at the
National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.
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aluplast's
commitment to investment in Central and Eastern European countries
has been recognised with the prestigious MOE award.
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Premier
Trade Frames added another badge to the company’s
collection recently with the award of membership of the Secured
By Design Scheme.
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A
double glazing company, U-Fit.co.uk,
that backed a local boxer in his fight against Olympic silver
medalist Amir Khan says it is planning to deliver its own knockout
blow to competitors.
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Geocel
has announced some new promotions on Dow Great Stuff Pro Window
and Door Fixer and Great Stuff Pro Gaps and Cracks All Direction
polyurethane foams from Geocel.
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Despite
a serious arm injury, Total Glass-sponsored
Motocross champion Rossi Ogilvie is determined to compete again
later this summer.
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Orders
in the year to July 2005 rose by six per cent compared to orders
in the previous twelve months period, and orders in the three
months to July 2005 rose by nine per cent compared to the same
period a year earlier.
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here:
Eurocell
Design Draughtsmen, Philip Parry and Paul Turner recently attained
'simulator status' from the British Fenestration Ratings Council (BFRC).
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The
Glass Industry Training Board will next meet on the 2nd of November
in the West Midlands at Pilkington, Kings Norton. The chairman Malcolm
Berresford Dutton intends to discuss the strategy for GTL
for the next three years.
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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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PART L ARCHIVE
Glaverbel's
Energy Lounge at Batimat 2005
Glaverbel will be at the Batimat international building
exhibition once again this year. At the exhibition, to be held in
Paris between 7th and 12th November, Glaverbel will be presenting
a vast array of glasses.
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Egypt
Glass 2005
The
Pan Africa & Middle East International Glass Industrial Technical
Exhibition will be held at the Cairo International Expo Centre, Egypt,
November 8 - 11, 2005.
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Glass
Health & Safety Conference
This
year's British Glass Annual Health & Safety Conference and Exhibition
(jointly with Glass & Glazing Federation) is to be held at the
Mere Golf and Country Club in Knutsford on the 2nd November 2005.
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on this Event]
Proskills
Launch Event
Proskills,
the new Sector Skills Council will be holding its official launch
event on 1st of November on board HQS Wellington, Embankment, London.
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Active
and Passive Fire Protection 'Explained Days'
Chiltern
International Fire is staging a range of active and passive fire protection
events to cater for the needs of the fire services, specifiers, manufacturers,
regulators and managers or owners of buildings and residential properties.
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on this Event]
fensterbau/frontale
and HOLZ-HANDWERK 2006
Around
1,200 exhibitors and 92,000 trade visitors - the success of the combined
fensterbau/frontale and HOLZ-HANDWERK 2004 exhibitions in Nürnberg
even surprised insiders. Preparations are now underway for the next
edition in Nuremberg from 22-25 March 2006.
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on this Event]
Timber
Zone at Interbuild
More
leading companies are following the example of Eleco and Akzo Nobel
in backing a concerted push by TRADA, the Timber Research & Development
Association, to raise the profile of timber at Interbuild 2006.
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on this Event]
Glasstech
India 2006
Glasstech
India 2006, The International Glass Products, Glass Manufacturing,
Processing and Materials Exhibition, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India,
13 - 15th December 2006.
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on this Event]
MosBuild+
2006
MosBuild+
2005 Exhibition was the biggest Windows & Doors exhibition ever
to be held in Russia. The event hosted over 300 Exhibitors and 40,000
visitors over the four day International Event. The 2006 show will
be 4-7th April.
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on this Event]
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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The six year legal battle between Ultraframe and The Burnden Group may be finally over, with a massive settlement - starting with a £2m interim payment - being levied against Ultraframe and any hopes of an appeal looking unlikely after being refused by the High Court (which leaves the Court of Appeal Ultraframe's last chance). With accumulated costs from both parties already amounting to a reported £12m, Ultraframe, however, is pinning its hopes not just on the Appeal Court but upon the satisfactory outcome of yet more lawsuits which should be due soon.
Finally, Vitrum appears to have got back on track, after a couple of
bumpy years, with early indications that over 15,000 visitors made it
to a rainy Milan last week. We publish a few pictures to give a flavour
of the event here.
The
B2BZine Team:
Richard and Debbie Schwarz
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A
First of its Type for
Crown Windows
Deceuninck fabricator,
Crown Windows has recently
manufactured and installed
PVC-U clad steel curtain
walling at the new Deceuninck
distribution centre
in Calne, Wiltshire.
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on this Project]
Exatec®
900vt -
First Generation Polycarbonate
Car Roof
Inalfa
Roof Systems presented
the latest Exatec product,
Exatec® 900vt, at
The International Auto
show (IAA) in Frankfurt
/ Main, from September
15 to 25. It signals
the beginning of a new
generation of polycarbonate
automotive roof systems.
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on this Product]
REHAU-Dimension
– Setting
the Record Straight
REHAU’s
soon-to-be-launched
REHAU-Dimension
complete conservatory
superstructure
system is an exciting
new REHAU product
with a powerful
message designed
to give our customers
a competitive
advantage in the
conservatory market.
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the Rest Here]
September’s
Manager Of The
Month Revealed!
With temperatures
dropping but the
football season
warming up nicely,
we can reveal
the first manager
of the month for
the Pilkington
Fantasy Football
competition. Remarkably,
it’s a tie
and we have two
winners! Paul
Bourke from Pallot
Windows in Jersey
and Nita Hogg
who works for
Pilkington. Both
performed impressively
and have won a
weekend at a Marriott
Hotel for displaying
such tactical
tenacity.
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on this Here]
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Vitrum
Hopes for Record Crowds
VITRUM, the international
exhibition for glass machinery,
equipment and systems, took
place in Milan last week,
and judging by the increase
in exhibition space and obvious
increase in visitors, could
well signal a change of fortune
for the European glass market.
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on this Story]
Burnden
and K2 Win Multi-Million Pound
Costs from Ultraframe
A
High Court Judge has brought
to an end six years of litigation
between two of the UK’s
leading conservatory manufacturers.
Awarding costs following a
six month trial, Mr Justice
Lewison ruled that Clitheroe-based
Ultraframe Plc should pay
the bulk of the costs incurred
by the defendants The Burnden
Group and K2 Conservatory
Roof Systems Ltd. Ultraframe
was instructed to pay £2
million as an interim payment
with the full costs likely
to increase to approximately
£5 million.
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on this Story]
Court
Rules on Costs in Burnden
Case Pending Appeal
Following July’s judgement
in the legal case between
Ultraframe and The Burnden
Group and Burnden Conservatory
Products ('Burnden'), Burnden’s
founder Gary Fielding, and
his wife Sally Fielding and
others, the High Court has
now ruled on costs and permission
to appeal.
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on this Story]
Holland
Votes Against EU Buildings
Energy Law
The Dutch government has
voted against new EU buildings
energy efficiency rules
and has called for their
renegotiation. This comes
in the wake of several
reports which envisage
a collapse in office property
values upon implementation,
as well as the high cost
of implementation.
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on this Story]
Official
Opening for £8m
Eurocell Plant
Eurocell
Profiles Ltd has formally
opened a new £8
million manufacturing
and administration plant
adjacent to its Alfreton,
Derbyshire headquarters,
with a press open day.
The leading PVC-u profile
supplier invited 30 guests
along to help it celebrate
the purpose-built, 10,000
sq metre plant's official
unveiling.
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Exatec® 900 Polycarbonate Glazing System Gains Auto Approval
Exatec 900, the latest automotive polycarbonate glazing system from the GE Plastics/Bayer MaterialScience joint venture, received a key approval from the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) on Monday 3rd October.
Spectus Window Systems has been returned to private ownership. The company is now part of the Latium Group. The company also has a new Managing Director, Peter Abbott, who has extensive industry experience.
Newstead Trade Frames has invested £120,000 in two state-of-the-art Stuga Autocut saw centres. As part of a wider investment programme Newstead bought the Autocut machines to stay ahead of increasing demand and plan to upgrade them to full Flowline cutting and prepping centres in the future.
Lister's
Demand Equalises
When
sculptured or fully featured
window systems arrived on
the market some years ago
it was quite a decision for
a fabricator to introduce
one as an additional product
into their existing production
facility.
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Rehau
Wins PVC-U Supply Contract
for New Wendland Styal Roof
Components
The
contract to supply Wendland
with the PVC-U profiles
for its new, enhanced Styal
Roof components has been
won by Rehau. Despite the
strategic alliance between
the two companies which
will see Wendland supply
Styal Roofs for the new
REHAU-Dimension complete
conservatory superstructure
system, this was not a foregone
conclusion.
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Toughening
Up for New Markets
Super
Toughened Glass is developing
new markets for its high
volume toughening expertise
with the opening of a glass
processing facility at its
North London factory.
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Plastmo
Signs up New Dealers
Plastmo
has recently signed up two
significant new customers:
Blenheim Windows of Cheshunt,
Herts and D S Windows of
Leominster, both of whom
cite the comprehensive product
range available from the
Plastmo profile suite.
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Conzzeta
Group: Bystronic main
Contributor to Growth
The
Conzzeta Group generated
further revenue and profit
growth in the reporting
period. Compared with
2004, net revenues for
the first eight months
of the year rose by 11%
to CHF 704.0 million (previous
year: CHF 633.8 million).
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Partnership
Success for Spektaglaze
Deceuninck
Status fabricator, Spektaglaze
Ltd has recently established
a partnering agreement
with Pierhead Housing
Association in Merseyside.
This forms part of Pierhead's
five-year cyclical maintenance
programme and ensures
that it achieves the government's
‘Decent Homes Standard’.
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Piper
Windows Seals Partnership
Agreement with Havering
Council
Piper
Windows and Doors Ltd
has announced it has won
a partnership tender with
London Borough of Havering,
worth over £3 million
a year. The agreement
is for three years with
an option for the council
to extend for a further
two years.
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Firmseal
Gains Radiance Glass Approval
Firmseal,
an established conservatory
installer in Yeovil, has
been one of the first
companies to become an
approved Radiance Performance
Glass dealer. Following
the recent launch of Radiance,
Firmseal managing director
Paul Gumbrell was quick
to identify the opportunities
in selling the class-leading
product.
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Extend-A-Room
Ltd Attracts Complaint
A
complaint objecting to
magazine and national
press ads and a brochure,
for conservatories for
Extend-A-Room Ltd, Harrogate
was upheld according to
information published
by the Advertising Standards
Authority (ASA).
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on this Story]
Outlook
Good for Freefoam
Manufacturer
of lead-free environmentally
friendly PVC roofline
and rainwater systems,
Freefoam Plastics, has
increased its market share
under difficult trading
conditions after the 3rd
quarter of trading in
2005.
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on this Story]
Sales
up 20% for West
Yorkshire Windows
West
Yorkshire Windows,
part of Conservatory
Outlet, the
new initiative
offering small
and medium conservatory
companies the
opportunity
to join a team
of growth focussed
installation
companies nationwide,
has reported
sales of £5.9
million to 31st
July 2005.
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Windows
in Emerging Markets
Opportunities for
the European building
industry can be
found in remote
places - Latin America,
China and Dubai
are enticing builders
with their double-figure
growth rates. The
cumulated average
growth rates over
three years of 23.6%
in China, 16.8%
in Dubai, 18.2%
in Brazil and 17.3%
in India.
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Fabricators
Can Profit from Fast New Welding
Service
‘Fabricators
searching for the fastest and most
economical method of supplying one-off
structural steel profiles will welcome
the launch of Jansen Personal Profiles,
a new precision welding service
by Europe's leading architectural
steel specialist, Schüco Jansen.’
says the company.
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on this Story]
Cardinal
Glass Acquires Front Surface Mirror
Business
Cardinal
CG Company has finalised the requirements
to acquire the assets of JDS Uniphase’s
projection television mirror business
in an agreement that was concluded
on July 15th, 2005.
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