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26th August 2003
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Birmingham
based conservatory roof vent manufacturer Sky-Vent
Ltd has launched the new full sculptured vent which
features a slimline design with a chrome telescopic opener
Sharing information and streamlining its flow within and around an organisation saves time, energy and resources. With RoofWright Enterprise, information can be passed between different departments and suppliers electronically
Versatile,
heavy-duty Ali-Precinct doors developed by PollardsFyrespan
are suitable for shopping centres and other situations where either
an anodised aluminium or powder-coated polyester finish is required.
Veka
plc
has announced further improvements to its In Line Patio Door to
provide easier fitting for installers and a more robust product
to satisfy the most demanding customer
With
bead milling still a time-consuming and awkward task for many window
fabricators, GTI-Kombimatec
has introduced a number of solutions that aim to cut down on bead
preparation time whilst also producing more accurate end results
After
SilverStar 1.0 E and SilverStar Combi Neutral 61/32, the Swiss company
Glas Trösch Holding AG
presents its third glass innovation in less than a year.
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George
Wimpey
has posted a 42% increase in interim profits after seeing
the UK housing market return to 'more sustainable levels'.
This
is the first in a new quarterly series of Housebuilding
Statistical Releases, presenting figures on
new starts and completions for England and its regions,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It also provides
information for England up to the first quarter of the
2003/04 financial year (April to June)
Daedalian
Glass
recently completed this sandblasted screen in the new
'Ebor' stand at York Racecourse. Measuring 14metres x
3.2 metres it is a stunning feature to the entrance lobby
Jephson
Gardens, a haven of peace and tranquillity has recently
benefited from a multi million pound injection of lottery
funding to improve its facilities. Pilkington
Architectural has been involved
Advanced
steel window systems
have been successfully employed for an acclaimed new academic
building that has been constructed within one of the most
architecturally sensitive enclaves of Oxford University
The
first phase of a stunningly contemporary development in
Deptford, Southeast London, One SE8, has been completed
and features fenestration from Sapa
Building Systems including windows, doors and
curtain walling
When
Steve Twine, Managing Director of Twinbrook
Windows, received a call from the architects
in charge of the work on a Victorian property owned by
the Isabelle Blackman Foundation he knew he had to call
in the specialists
Sentinel
Doors has made fundamental changes to the structure
of its installation business to strengthen both operational
and administrative management
Kevin
Harvey is joining Synseal
as National Sales Director following a successful 4 years
as Sales Director with Avocet, and 4 years prior to that with
Yale
Profile
22 has appointed two new Business Development Managers
– aptly named Smith and Jones – who hope to take
not the Wild West but the Midlands and South East by storm!
Fraser
Watt has recently been promoted to Pinnacle
Sales Development Manager
When
one of the lots for auction at a recent charity event turned
out to be a 32m2 stand at industry exhibition Glassex, it was
too good an opportunity to miss for Mike Crewdson
CRASH,
the construction and property industry charity for the homeless,
has been adopted as the official charity of Interbuild
2004
As
part of its package of ongoing marketing support for installers,
Sarnafil Roof Assured has
held a series of sales training workshops in conjunction with
the Profit Shop
Award-winning
industrialist and renowned construction industry veteran Sir
Michael Latham is lending his experience and expertise to a
comprehensive seminar programme hosted by commercial window
and door fabricator Sash UK
A
Training Day was recently held at Groupco's
headquarters in Peterborough to bring the company’s new
salesmen up to speed on the PN-UNI System Universal Hardware
for windows
The
Whiteline Group
has utilised a fully stand alone microsite in order to launch
a new product, in this case the new 70mm Chamfered window system,
which completes Whiteline's casement product offering
K2
Conservatory Roof Systems
substantially expanded website has emerged from a period of
re-development, as part of K2’s on-going programme of marketing
activities to reinforce the company’s corporate brand and
market awareness.
RMC
Surfacing
has signed a deal with do-it-yourself retailer B&Q
to supply its crushed glass product for the construction of
new carparks at B&Q warehouses and superstores.
A
£5.5m equity fund, the first in Europe to focus specifically
on the recycling sector, has opened for business 50% oversubscribed
by the private sector.
International
chemical companies are expected to send the European
Commission a resounding No to proposed environmental
regulations, in the latest salvo in a long battle over attempts
to regulate their products.
Glass
and glazing specialist Norman &
Underwood has achieved EN1279 - a coveted accreditation
which is soon to mark a universal quality standard for the whole
of Europe.
Chiltern
Dynamics and BM TRADA Certification
have launched new services to help IG manufacturers. with EN1279.
The
up-to-date position on EN 1279 is as follows:
'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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to the Daily Grind...
Welcome
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bank holiday weekend was had by one and all and hopefully not too many
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quite a mixed bag of news for you this week, much of it involving investment
of one kind or another, which is a good sign.
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First
Specialised Building Trade Fair in the Middle East
'FRONT 2004', the first trade fair specialising in building
covers in the Middle East, will open its doors from 14 to 17 March
2004.
Glass
Processing & Technology Exhibition, NEC Birmingham 11-13th November
2003
Hirex
Finds Natural Home at Interbuild
The
UK's biggest and best attended biennial building and construction
exhibition will host Hirex, the
plant and tool hire show, alongside its traditional plant and tools
exhibition area at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham from
April 25-29, 2004
Delivering
the Future at Interbuild 2004
Innovations set to have a major impact throughout the building and
construction industry will be given pride of place at Interbuild
2004
Exhibition
List
for upcoming exhibitions in the UK and the rest of the world
GBW
has produced set of new literature for its Shire door panels, Discovery
composite doors and complementary glass collections
Pilkington
has launched a new Commercial Brochure supporting Pilkington
Activ™, containing all the information needed to specify
the glass, including information on its use in combination with other
Pilkington products
WHS
Halo
has introduced a new brochure for its Eclipse and Eclipse Esthetique range,
which its installers can customise to reflect the individual needs of
their customers
Portal
Products,
UK door panel manufacturer, has achieved BPF 355/1 accreditation for
its PVCu panels. The company believes itself to be the first in the
UK to hold this revised standard.
Jeff
Granato, worldwide director of architectural glass for Glass
Laminating Products congratulated the winner of the 2003
DuPont Benedictus Awards® for innovation and excellence in architectural
laminated glass
North
Shields-based Spectus fabricator Gofor Trade
Windows has already been awarded BS:7412 acceditation, cementing
the first five-years' development of a business dedicated to high standards
of quality and service
Quantal
fabricator Regent RS Group stepped
into the breach when another company failed to deliver the goods during
the enterprising conversion of a Georgian House to luxury retirement
apartments
A
life-threatening motorbike accident proved to be a turning point in
the business fortunes of Adam Higgs and his wife Carol, a Co-Director.
For the traumatic event only served to spur on the ambitions that created
Sheffield-based Loxley Conservatories,
a Profile 22 fabricator
Hot
on the wheels of last season, Titon,
the window fittings and trickle ventilation manufacturer, has continued
to sponsor motor racing champion Martin Byford
Saint-Gobain
Glass UK
recently launched The SGG Planitherm Challenge 2003, a new initiative
designed to incentivise purchasers of SGG Planitherm
Ultraframe,
the international manufacturer and designer of conservatory systems,
is taking its new Uzone roof system on a three-month nationwide roadshow
in response to unprecedented levels of trade interest
UCATT
has expressed its horror at the news that there have been 26 deaths in
construction during the three months from 1st April to 30th June
Seventy-one
construction workers and five members of the public were killed in the
construction industry during 2002/03 - the second lowest annual figure
ever recorded. The statistics for the year to 31st March 2002 show a fall
from 85 and 113 deaths in 2001/02 and 2000/01 respectively
The
British Woodworking Federation has planned a series of informative
health and safety workshops as part of its programme of open Regional
Meetings to be held later this year across the country.
Wacker
meets
growing demand for solar cells by expanding polysilicon production at
its Burghausen plant in Germany. Solar-grade silicon capacity will rise
to 2,600 metric tons a year from mid-2004. Thanks to a specially modified
deposition process, Wacker will supply the photovoltaic industry with
exactly the right starting material for solar cells at low cost
A
facade that helps improve a building's interior environment and limits
its loss of energy is not enough: a building's skin should be a power
generator rather than an energy liability.
Within
the next few months, the roof of San Francisco's Moscone Convention
Centre will be covered with 65,000 sq ft of photovoltaic panels.
Dennis
Sumner snr reflects on his German double-glazing experiences and outlines
his company's profile bending processes
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;
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Carpenter’s
Schubert Club Band Shell: ‘Floating like a volume of light on the
Mississippi River’.
The
Schubert Club Band Shell is a tough yet delicate, self-supporting and
free standing sculptural structure of laminated glass incorporating
SentryGlas® Plus ionoplast interlayer. It is located at tiny Raspberry
Island on the Mississippi River at St Paul, Minnesota.
[More
Here]
Pechiney
Rejects Alcan's
3.4bn Official Offer and Reports 'Satisfactory' Q2 Results.
Alcan
has formally submitted a bid for Pechiney which values it at Euro
3.4bn. The Pechiney Board has said: 'besides the uncertain nature
of the unsolicited proposed offer by Alcan, the proposed price is
grossly insufficient given the company's industrial, technological
and immaterial assets, and in no way reflects its strategic value'.
[More
on this Story]
Pilkington
to Host Architectural Glass Forum at Glass Processing & Technology
Pilkington
has reaffirmed its commitment to Glass Processing & Technology
(GP&T), the new glass industry event taking place in November
at the NEC, by confirming its plans for a 154m2 stand, and using the
event to introduce a radical new approach that breaks with conventional
exhibition strategies.
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on this Story]
Saint-Gobain
and Owens Corning to Build Joint Glass Reinforcement Facility in Mexico
Saint-Gobain
Reinforcement and Owens Corning announced recently that they will
build a joint glass reinforcement facility in Xicohténcatl,
Tlaxcala, Mexico, adjacent to Saint-Gobain Vetrotex America’s
facility. This unit will manufacture high quality products for the
composites market. Construction work began in early August
[More
on this Story]
Masco Reports Record Second Quarter Sales and Earnings
Masco Corporation reported on August 6th that net sales for the second quarter ended June 30th, 2003, aided by acquisitions, increased 20 percent to a record $2.8 billion, compared with $2.3 billion for the second quarter of 2002
HansenGlass' Investment adds Screenprinting Capacity
HansenGlass' investment in the latest plant and machinery continues in August with the installation of the largest fully automatic screenprint and paint roller coating machine in the UK. Installation will commence at the end of August with the new plant fully commissioned and operational by early September
Phoenix
Door Panels is on the Move
Phoenix
Door Panels Ltd, the Cambridgeshire based K2 fabricator, has recently
undergone major expansion plans.
[More
on this Story]
K2
Fabricator Chooses Sky-Vent
Plastics
Stockholder Ltd a K2 fabricator in Wolverhampton has become a recognised
Sky-Vent distributor
[More
on this Story]
Simec Cuts a Path Through Worldwide Glass Market, and Focuses
on UK
Italian
machinery specialist Simec has delivered its glass processing equipment
to major companies throughout the world in recent months. Now, since
signing a deal with the Thermoseal Group at the end of 2002, the UK
is likely to be the next flag on the map for an installation of Simec
machinery.
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on this Story]
First
Time Taster Offer for Uzone™ from Ultraframe
lnstallers
anxious to try the Uzone™ from Ultraframe - the roof system designed
to unlock the mass market element of a £40 billion conservatory
business opportunity - should hurry to take advantage of a 'first time
taster' half-price promotion from the company.
[More
on this Story]
Evergreen
Invests in New Site and Machinery
Evergreen
Door, the composite door component supplier, has opened a second site
in Leeds to improve customer service and accommodate the growth of its
fibreglass door range.
[More
on this Story]
Posh
and Brecks Sign for Quantal!
Real
Madrid may have secured Mr Beckham, but Quantal has signed an exclusive
two-year contract with both ‘Posh and Brecks’, (Breckenridge),
which will result in business anticipated at well over £2 million.
[More
on this Story]
Pultec
is the New Black
Lindman’s
Pultec, the new generation of window profile made from pultruded, glass
reinforced thermosetting resins, is the only material available in the
UK that can provide high performance for black window frames, the company
claims
[More
on this Story]
UKae
Offers Next Day Delivery Service for Georgian Conservatory Bends
UKae
has announced that fabrication and supply of its range of Georgian bend
profiles for conservatories will now be available to customers faster
than ever. The company has now introduced a next day delivery service
for Georgian conservatory bends to allow customers to fulfil short-notice
or rushed orders
[More
on this Story]
Timber
Windows can Overcome Durability Doubts
A
new British Woodworking Federation survey shows that awareness of the
benefits of timber windows continues to grow, with architects being
increasingly pro-timber. However, many volume housebuilders still opt
for plastic, despite increasing evidence of their shortcomings in terms
of performance and environmental impact
[More
on this Story]
Expanding
Seal of Success
A
large UK housing authority has relied on Fillcrete’s Airseal self-expanding,
joint filler/sealant to solve a number of major problems encountered
when replacing windows and doors during refurbishment of it’s housing
stock.
[More
on this Story]
Insolvencies
in the Second Quarter 2003
Statistics
showing insolvencies in the second quarter 2003 were published on 1st
August by the Department of Trade and Industry.
[More
on this Story]
New
Director to Strengthen OFT's Consumer Protection Team
Colin
Brown, currently Chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel,
has been appointed the new branch director of Co-regulation and Coordination
in OFT's Consumer Regulation Enforcement Division.
[More
on this Story]
Alcoa
Prepares for Shutdown of Intalco Smelter
Alcoa
announced on July 30th that it is preparing to temporarily curtail production
at its Ferndale, Washington ('Intalco') aluminum smelter on September
30th, 2003 because of an expected Bonneville Power Administration ('BPA')
rate increase, sharply increasing costs at the plant.
[More
on this Story]
Ron
Cheek
The
death has been announced of Ron Cheek, a long-standing director of Titon,
the specialist supplier of trickle ventilators and window fittings,
following a short illness. Until his retirement in 1999, he was managing
director of the sales and marketing division of the company.
[More
on this Story]
IT
Centralisation in the Glass Industry is Back!
In
the 1970s and early 1980s centralized IT systems involved monolithic
IT organisations built around a large mainframe system that served a
complete enterprise and IT staff members had no contact with the actual
users. The constantly changing market, new technical infrastructures
such as high speed WAN networks, affordable and powerful servers as
well as educated system administrators bring IT centralization back
into consideration. By Horst Mertes, Lisec Software.
[More
Here]
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