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30th September 2003
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Conservatory Roofing Systems is now offering its
Fabricator Network the choice of Mill Finish aluminium profile,
so that the roof can be painted in any colour the homeowner
desires
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Here:
Duraflex, has launched the Duraframe™ Cavity Closer for use in conjunction with its Diamond Suite
More Here:
UK
Fasteners Ltd,
supplier of screws to the window industry, is launching a new high
performing austenitic bi-metallic screw
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Here:
Everwhite,
manufacturers of PVC UE fascias, soffits and accessories for window
and roofline applications, has launched a 7mm ogee board - E7 ogee
More
Here:
GBW
has introduced EntryGuard, a new high security locking
system for its Discovery range of composite doors
More
Here:
Summer
and winter alike, this coated double-glazing, Stopray Galaxy from
Glaverbel, provides tailor-made
protection against both heat and cold
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Here
Force
8 says
that the one-piece Georgian Bow window is ‘revolutionary’
in that it consists of an easy-to-fit single frame.
More
Here:
Offering
a fresh take on the revolving door, the new Vista-Style
and Vista-Lite from GU Technologies
have been greeted with interest by designers and architects
seeking more flexibility
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Here:
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Homebuilder
Redrow has announced
a record pre-tax profit of £106m. Breaking through
the magic £100m figure for the first time after
a 25% increase, the North Wales company also saw its turnover
increase by 6% to £607.9m
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here:
House
prices rose in August for the first time in six months,
according to the latest survey from the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors
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here:
The
National Federation of Builders
has called for the Home Office to commit to a full investigation
into the use of illegal workers on UK construction sites
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here:
When Mr and Mrs Stephen Fry decided to replace the
steel windows and leaded lights in their newly acquired
house in Haslemere, Surrey, they had no idea that the
work would be carried out by the same men who installed
the original windows 50 years ago
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Here:
Diners
at the Sheesh Mahal, a new Indian restaurant and nightclub
in Ellesmere Port, will feel like royalty when they eat
in a ‘Glass Palace’ designed and built by WT
Windowstore Ltd, using the Wendland
Styal roof system
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Here:
When
developer AO Roberts
decided to build a select estate in Anglesey, he offered
more than just the bungalows - the option of a conservatory
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Here:
HW
Plastics
has announced the appointment of Harry McClurg as Logistics
Director
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Here:
Melton
Mowbray-based windows company, Heat
Seal Ltd, is celebrating as one its employees clocks
up 20 years service for the firm
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Here:
Alcoa
Inc increased the number of directors to eleven
and appointed Klaus Kleinfeld as a director, effective November
14th, 2003
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Here:
Sash
UK’s
Operations Director Paul Bird opted for the thrill of the
race circuit
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Here:
Ian
Wheatley, Sales Director for GTI-Kombimatec
raised hundreds of pounds for the Parkinson’s Disease Society
when he completed the BUPA Great North Run
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Here:
A
reception held in connection with Tamglass'
Glass Processing Days Conference, has raised funds
for the Tampere University Hospital Children's Ward 6, which
treats children suffering from cancer.
More
Here:
'I
read a research report last week that shows that informal learning
at work is as important as formal learning through off the job
courses', said the Editor of the GTL
newsletter
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Here:
Designed
with the benefits of electronic communication in mind, the Portal
Products website provides useful, up-to-date
information and news for customers and visitors
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Here:
Hewi’s
new website has created a working platform, which not only provides
an overview of the company’s whole range of services, but
also offers extensive help: from planning, to design, right
through to invitations to tender
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Here:
A report providing guideline feedstock specifications for 20
current and emerging recycled wood applications - including
animal bedding, soil conditioners and mulches, and surfacing
products - has been published by WRAP
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Here:
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.
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Here:
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.
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Here:
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.
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Here:
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.
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Here:
Chiltern
Dynamics and BM TRADA Certification
have launched new services to help IG manufacturers. with EN1279.
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Here:
The
up-to-date position on EN 1279 is as follows:
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Here:
Time
to Start Thinking About GP&T
With
only six weeks to go until the doors open on the new Glass Processing
& Technology Show at the NEC Birmingham (11th to 13th November),
we reckoned it was time to start flagging up exactly who will be exhibiting.
Some 85 companies are now signed up to this show, a phenomenal result
for organiser EMAP, which has created the first true glass event of
its kind in the UK.
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CGII
Exhibits at Big 5 Show in Dubai
Haydock
based specialist Fire Glass manufacturer CGI
International Ltd, will be exhibiting for the first time
in the Middle East at this years Big 5 Show in Dubai, 29th Nov –
3rd Dec.
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Here:
Dubai
Hotel Show Offers Middle East Promise for demista and Cosyfloor
The
recently held Hotel Show 2003 which took place at Airport Expo Dubai
and at which R & D Marketing
exhibited, exceeded expectations, according to Ashley Coutinho of Protos
who are the company's distributor in the region
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Here:
Glass
Processing & Technology Exhibition, NEC Birmingham 11-13th November
2003
GP&T
Exhibitor List
Here
Conference Info
Here
GPD uk
Here
Therma-Tru®
Lock into Fullex
Visitors to Batimat Paris, in November 2003, will find Fullex
high security door locks amongst the displays on the Therma-Tru®
stand
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Here:
Partnerships
in Safety –You’re not Alone!
On 6th November the British Glass 2003 Annual Glass Health &
Safety Conference and Glass Charter National Awards ceremony takes
place at the Renaissance Solihull Hotel.
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Here:
Glaverbel
at Glasstech Asia Pacific 2003
From
8th till 10th October, Glaverbel Asia-Pacific
will take part in Glasstech Asia 2003, the definitive industry event
in the region for glass
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Here:
Designed
for specifiers and door manufacturers, a new 16-page brochure details
SFS intec's complete range of hinges
for PVC, composite and timber doors
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here:
Freefoam
has published a set of Information sheets to give stockists and installers
a better understanding of how the 20 Year Extended guarantee scheme works.
More
here:
Conservatory specialist Solayr of
Ayrshire, has won a special commendation in the annual National Conservatory
Competition
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Here:
In
this month's What's New section of the website the BBA
gives full details of all newly awarded, amended, withdrawn or lapsed
certificates
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Here:
Wolfgang
Wirthgen and Gary Templin, CEO's of WinDor,
were recently honoured by the Southland Economic Development Corporation
as Small Business Persons of the Year for 2003
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Here:
Spectus
customer T. Giles Glazing is going
from strength to strength. Its latest project to come out of a long-standing
relationship with Laing Homes has coincided with a BSI qualification,
membership of HW Plastics AIMS scheme and the beginnings of big plans
for the future
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Here:
‘Our
commitment to quality product and service couldn’t be sustained
without consistent investment’, says Chris Reeks, trade sales manager
of Modplan Ltd.
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Here:
Nuglas,
a long established fabricator and installer in East Sussex, is about
to go live with Vector Plus, Windowlink’s new fully integrated
conservatory pricing program
More
Here:
Ukae
Ltd
has introduced a new point of sale portfolio case, featuring sample
grilles of the company's Georgian range
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Here:
A
football club sponsored by Sheerframe window systems company, L.B.
Plastics Ltd, has become the lowest placed semi-professional
club to win the prized FA Trophy.
More
Here:
Aztec
has produced an easy-to-use branded sample case that includes handy-sized
samples of all the 10 core components that make up its conservatory
roof system
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Here:
Alcoa
has begun publishing real-time tracking of its global Lost Work Day rate
on www.alcoa.com. Lost
Work Day Rate measures the number of injuries, which result in lost workdays
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Here:
The
Health and Safety Executive has launched a new safety campaign
focusing on working safely at height. As an example of good practice,
inspectors visited the British Airways London Eye to look at the safe
working methods used by its technical team
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Here:
Wacker
meets
growing demand for solar cells by expanding polysilicon production at
its Burghausen plant in Germany. Wacker will supply the photovoltaic
industry with exactly the right starting material for solar cells at
low cost
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Here:
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.
More
Here:
Horst
Mertes discusses the role of IT centralisation in todays glass business
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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
'What
about the future when the calls for even greater thermal efficiency grow
ever louder, as no doubt they will?' asks Edgetech.
More
here
We also have the full conference programme, an extremely impressive
line up including Glass
Processing Days UK, a GGF
Conference and the Pilkington
Activ Architects' Forum and which also includes - for those who
can afford the time and the fee - a slap up banquet in Warwick castle.
Anyone wishing to be included in our Preview of GP&T should send
in text and images to news@theglazine.com,
or post to the mailing address right at the bottom.
And
while we are on the subject of exhibitions and conferences, I should
draw your attention to a Window
and Door Seminar being facilitated by Wagner, among others, and
also the display of the winners of the Bombay
Sapphire decorative glass prize. More details about both of these
below
Tony Higgin, Publisher
tony@theglazine.com
Glaverbel's
Thermoplus Energy® Enhances The Baltic Centre
The
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art with six levels of open space, restaurants,
bookshops, art workshops, rehearsal rooms, film studios and auditoria
is a stunning re-use of a building known to generations of Tynesiders
– the Baltic Flour Mills.
[More
Here]
Float
Glass Industries Customer Day - a Success in One!
A
big 'Thank You' to key customers and suppliers for their support
and patronage over the years was the main reason behind The Float
Glass Industries’ (FGI) inaugural Golf Day. Deemed a tremendous
success by all who attended, the event took place at the Marriot
Worsley Park Hotel & Country Club on 18 September. Non golfers
were not forgotten and participated in a range of exciting activities
including Reverse-Steer 4x4 Driving and Crossbow Archery.
[More
Here]
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Pilkington
plc Trading Statement
In
accordance with its established policy, on 25th September Pilkington
issued the following trading up-date ahead of its interim results
announcement for the period to 30th September 2003, which will be
made on Wednesday, 5th November 2003.
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on this Story]
All
Time Production Record at Planet
June
2003 was a landmark month for frame production at Planet Manufacturing.
From the twin sites at Walton Summit, Preston and Moss Side, Leyland,
output for the four weeks of June combined was 4,541 frames - the
best ever..
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on this Story]
Window and Door Seminar
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, in conjunction with hardware and profile partners, Wagner (GB) Ltd and Rehau, will be hosting a morning of presentations on 23rd October under the banner ‘The Total Solution’..
The Bombay Sapphire Blue Room at the Geffrye Museum
The short-listed and winning entries for The Bombay Sapphire Prize 2003 – the biggest annual international glass design award with a £20,000 prize fund – will be exhibited in The Bombay Sapphire Blue Room exhibition - Glass in Contemporary Life, from Tuesday 23rd September to 11th January 2004.
Securistyle
Announces Record Sales Figures
Securistyle,
the UK manufacturer of window hardware, has announced record sales
figures. The Cheltenham-based company, which employs 350 people, has
experienced an average growth rate in sales of 10% for the past three
years.
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on this Story]
Fastener
Quality Put to the Test at KEB
KEB
is a customer that is pleased UK Fasteners
takes quality issues seriously enough to do its own in-house testing.
UK Fasteners ensures its suppliers test the fasteners, but also does
all its own testing as well. The in-house tests carried out check
screw dimensions, axial torque and hydrogen embrittlement.
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on this Story]
Synseal
Tops the Ratings in 2003 Independent Windows Benchmarks Survey
Synseal’s
customer ratings put it top of all 20 systems companies’ customer
ratings in the independent 2003 Benchmarks report. The chart illustrates
that with a mean rating of 102%, Synseal customers are more satisfied
overall than any other suppliers’ customers.
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on this Story]
Growth
& Expansion at Millenco
About
6500 square feet of warehousing and manufacturing space has been completed
at Millenco Hardware's Wolverhampton site. The new facilities will
be fundamental to supporting Millenco's forthcoming product strategy,
as well as providing a central focus for the company's new Kanban
supply chain solution.
[More
on this Story]
Duraflex
is Right for Redrow
A
prestigious Redrow site at Walmer Bridge near Preston is benefiting
from Duraflex Diamond Suite PVCu windows and doors which, specified
by New View Window Systems, comply with the award-winning housebuilder’s
exacting performance criteria.
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on this Story]
CGI
International Continues to grow Presence in the USA
UK
based Fire- Glass manufacturer CGI International Ltd was in evidence
at the 28th Door & Hardware Conference and Exposition held in Tampa
Bay Florida in September.
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on this Story]
Beazer
Homes and Masco Corporation Sign National Supplier Agreement
Beazer
Homes USA, Inc., and Masco Corporation announced on Friday 26th September
that they have signed an agreement in which Masco will become Beazer
Homes' largest supplier and installer of insulation.
[More
on this Story]
‘Cowboy’
Builders Rounded Up
The
Swish Building Products Approved Installers scheme is designed to give
consumers confidence in the workmen they employ and the quality of the
products used.
[More
on this Story]
Quality
Mark in North West Venues Showcase
Some
of the most prestigious venues in the North West of England have now
been booked to stage launch events for the Government's Quality Mark
Scheme..
[More
on this Story]
GQA
Chairman's Statement 1st AGM
The first financial year (all 15 months of it) commencing 1st January
2002 was a period of change and progress for Glass Qualifications Authority
Ltd. GQA has made significant progress in developing its distinctive
individual identity
[More
on this Story]
Good
Growth in Greece
The
Greek window market is at the moment enjoying good growth rates, the
market reached a level of 1,946 million units in 2002, representing
a growth in terms of quantity of +9.3% compared to the year before,
when the market also enjoyed a growth of +12.1%, according to the latest
market study by the consultants of InterConnection.
[More
on this Story]
Alcoa
Presents Update on China Operations to Investors
On
September 14th, in Shanghai, Alcoa China President Galdino Claro met
with investors outlining Alcoa's operations, with particular emphasis
on the Shanghai rolling mill..
[More
on this Story]
Anticipated
Acquisition by Assa Abloy of the European Security Hardware Business
of Black and Decker
The
OFT's decision on reference under section 33 of the Enterprise Act 2002
given on 2nd September 2003 concluded that the merger does not appear
to result in a substantial lessening of competition within a market
or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services..
[More
on this Story]
GL@ZINE SPECIAL FEATURE
The
Dangers of Using Espag Handles on Tilt & Turn Windows
'According to the best estimates I have seen', says Winlock's Sales
& Marketing Director Philip Swann, 'sales of Tilt and Turn frames
in the UK are approximately 600,000 units per year. This figure is based
upon the consumption of gear but it is clear that sales of TBT handles
lag far behind. The only logical conclusion that can be drawn is that
many TBT frames are being fitted with standard espag handles'.
[More
Here]
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