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21st October 2003
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A
minimalistic look and modern design are just two of the qualities
of Hansen Millennium™ from MagHansen
This window system is suitable for adding style to luxury housing
developments whether new build or refurbishments
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BeA Fastening Systems, manufacturer and supplier of performance led pneumatic tools and fasteners, has launched a tool which has the capacity to invisibly secure nail mouldings onto timber frames. With the BeA Glazier, it is now possible to produce glazed windows and doors with all fasteners concealed.
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Connect
2 National Plastics latest addition is Oriental Coat
wall covering, made from fibres that provide a distinct texture
and is suitable for use on conservatory walls.
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Following
the success of Conservaglass™, Ultraframe's
high performance dedicated conservatory glazing system,
the company has launched a full range of insulating
Double Glazed Units (DGUs) at all specification and
price points.
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Here:
UKae
Ltd
has extended the variety of its Georgian
pattern options with the introduction of
a full range of 24 Georgian 'sunburst' pattern
designs available in Golden Oak or Mahogany
woodgrain finishes
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Renewed
emphasis on the value of prefabrication in building
and the population's increasing amount of leisure
time are together serving to boost the use of high
performance tapes manufactured by Tremco
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The Pilkington Planar™ frameless glazing system has been specified for the construction of Pulrose Power Station on the Isle of Man.
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Eurocell
Building Plastics
customer, Mainstream Windows has recently completed an
interesting installation of a Pinnacle 500 Modular Roofing
System at the Ajit Darbar Sikh Temple in Foleshill, Coventry
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Here:
Bright
blue Trespa panels and Profile
22 windows are transforming the appearance,
and weathertightness of Teign School in Kingsteignton
South Devon.
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Here:
Specialist
glazing contractor Optima Architectural
Glass has installed a pitched 300m2 'spider-bolted'
double glazed roof at EMI's new five-storey Group headquarters
in Kensington, London
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Here:
Peter
Longstaff has been appointed Managing Director of PollardsFyrespan,
manufacturer of bespoke entrance and glazed fire rated systems
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Here:
Dennis
Tetley was a well known name in the industry thirty years
ago when he became the largest fabricator in the country.
In the early nineties Dennis decided to move to Spain and
sold his successful business to Bowater.
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Here:
Independent
glass processor, Darby Glass,
has made a number of strategic appointments to strengthen
the sales arm of its business.
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Here:
Brian
Eddleston, 45, has been appointed UK Sales Manager of Prefit,
distributor of architectural ironmongery, a division of J
Preedy & Sons
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Here:
Security
hardware specialist, Avocet Hardware
has made two key appointments to strengthen its marketing
department
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Here:
Profile
22 fabricator and installer, Nolan
UPVC, sponsored the first ever Zip Glide through
the largest single-span glasshouse in the world. The event,
held in September 2003, raised over £44,000 for the Welsh
based cancer charity, Tenovus.
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'We
have broken the 7,000 barrier and are accelerating towards 8,000
employees in the glass industry who have an NVQ/SVQ qualification
in a glass related occupation. Those employers who do work in
the construction industry will soon realise that Construction
Skills Cards are needed for management positions and the NVQs
in Management are required to meet this regulation.'
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Here:
Lancashire
based Octaveward Ltd is
extending its composite door ambitions to the retail market
with the forthcoming launch of a dedicated retail website and
distribution company UK Doors Direct
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Here:
Sierra
Windows
has updated its website to coincide with the launch of a new
fully chamfered entrance door and the new range of high-security
Safeware locks,
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Here:
For
architects and specifiers seeking the latest information on
solar control in buildings, the newly launched www.verosol.co.uk
is a valuable reference tool
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Here:
The
price of the average house has rocketed 138% in the last decade,
according to new research. The southern counties are the most
expensive location in the UK to buy a house - the cheapest is
South Wales, said the Halifax Estate
Agents.
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here:
Construction
Orders
in the twelve months to August 2003 rose by four per cent compared
to orders in the previous twelve months, but orders in the three
months to August 2003 fell by one per cent compared to the same
three months a year earlier.
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here:
BSI
Business Information
has launched PD 7503, an 'Introduction to Knowledge Management
in Construction' that will serve as a guide for the UK construction
industry to begin to embrace effective knowledge management.
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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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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
Now
You're Talking!
The
Gl@zine is rapidly approaching its 100th Edition. The one you are reading
is No 95. The amount of news and product launches and other relevant
B2B information which has passed through this medium in that time is
truly staggering, and to celebrate the 100th edition we will do some
number crunching to show you just how much we have covered. Of course,
we are only the meeting point, a trading post, hub, portal, vortex,
call it what you like: all we do is move trade sensitive data from one
sector of the market to another.
Glass Processing & Technology Exhibition, NEC Birmingham 11-13th November 2003
GP&T Exhibitor List
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Conference Info
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CBD
2004 - China International Building & Decoration Fair
The
6th China International Building & Decoration Fair - CBD 2004
- will be held from 6-9 July, 2004 in Guangzhou (Canton). It is organised
by the China Foreign Trade Centre Group in association with MEREBO Messe
Marketing based in Hamburg/Germany
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Here:
2003
National Auto Glass Conference All-Time High
The
National Glass Association (NGA) held its 15th annual National Auto Glass
Conference & EXPO in Scottsdale, Arizona September 10-13, 2003 at
the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa.
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Here:
Clement
plans to 'Steel the Show' at Batimat 2003
Batimat 2003 will be held in Paris over six days between
3-8th Nov 2003 and expects to attract over half a million visitors from
some 130 countries across the globe. The Clement Windows Group Ltd,
will be representing the UK's steel window industry and will be joined
by some 2,500 other companies at what has become the world's largest building
& construction exhibition.
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Busy
Seminar Schedule Completes Scotbuild Line Up
A series of free seminars and demonstration sessions has been confirmed
for this year’s Scotbuild (28-29 October) at Glasgow’s
SECC
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Here:
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:
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 Batimat 2003
From 3-8 November the Glaverbel Group will once again be occupying
a key spot at Batimat, the International Building & Construction
Show, in Paris
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Here:
Sierra
Windows has introduced a comprehensive suite of literature
to support the Safeware brand of door hardware
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here:
Status
Systems
has launched a new complete range of sales, marketing and technical literature.
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here:
Hot
on the heels of the company’s move to purpose built 30,000sq ft premises,
Phoenix Door Panels has launched
its new Cambridgeshire Collection brochure.
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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:
Synseal
is currently reprinting another 20,000 copies of the ‘Imagination’
hardback book. ‘Imagination’ was launched less than 10 months
ago but the original 20,000 copies have already been snapped up.
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The
name CGI International is going
to be a familiar sight on the roads in the UK. A new fleet of delivery
vehicles have the CGI International company logo on the curtainsides.
This marks a new transportation era for CGII and follows an excellent
year of growth for the Haydock based company.
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Coventry
based cruiserweight Rob Norton recently took to the ring in Sheffield
to contest the British and Commonwealth title. Norton is sponsored by
midlands based Spectus fabricator Indigo Products
Ltd
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Here:
Haslemere
based Clement Windows Group has
announced the winner of its 'knock knock' joke competition, which was
recently held on Delta FM's Bill Sheldrake show.
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Castle
Combe experienced increased visitor numbers during September, when guests
of the Burles Group flocked to the
racing circuit.. The two-day event attracted existing and prospective
customers, but for many the attraction was inside the Veka Big Rig,
rather than on the track!
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Bournemouth
based Hallmark fabricator Sentinal Home lmprovements,
a small family run company, supplies doors, windows and conservatories
to companies in the adjacent Dorset area and is a member of the Consumer
Protection Association
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Status
fabricator MB Frames has achieved
a growth of 40 per cent in the last year, and is well on track to overreach
its target of 20 per cent for this year.
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Converting
a higher proportion of the sun's energy into a useful source of electricity
and heating would go a long way to reducing our dependence on the fossil
fuels being blamed for global warming. That is why the Pilkington
Energy Efficiency Trust (PEET) believes that support for
solar energy research is so important - and is why the Trust is now
aiding new research at Nottingham University's School of the Built Environment.
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Here:
Security
Products UK Ltd’s
accreditation to ISO9001:2000 is recognition of the organisation’s
commitment to continuous business improvement
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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:
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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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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'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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here
Since
we flagged up the English victory in the last Test Match against the
South Africans a couple of months ago (you know, when it was summer?),
it seems only right that we should record another historic, if rather
prosaic, win against the same country in the Rugby World Cup. Also,
our No 8 gave English footballers a lesson in sporting diplomacy in
explaining his very public punching of the Springbok winger: 'He had
his hand in my face so I gave him a bit of a slap'.
He should get away with it just for his honesty, I reckon....
Tony Higgin, Publisher
tony@theglazine.com
PS:
We still have only heard from about half the exhibitors at GP&T
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Sheerframe
Rises to the Top
Bay
windows from UK systems company L.B. Plastics
have made Swindon's first penthouse apartments the cream of the crop.
The penthouse apartments are part of an £8 million apartment complex
built by Bristol based Crosby Homes, which comprises of 76 apartments
with ground floor commercial use. In addition to the feature bay windows,
Wiltshire-based Fleetwood PVCu Windows Ltd. installed 500 Sheerframe
System 7000 Tilt & Turn windows and System 7000 residential doors.
[More
Here]
Even
More Comments on GP&T, K2 and Glassex!
The discussion rumbles on: this week we have a comment from Epwin
Divisional Director David Hurst about how DB Glass would choose
to target more business if it needed to - seemingly this does not
include an appearance at GP&T; plus a spirited defence of Glassex
from the recently appointed Event Manager Stephen Redman. Keep it
coming folks!
[More
Here]
MORE EMAIL...
'Nutty
Professor' is the Scourge of Filthy Polycarb
'Tony
Higgins is right to ask about the long-term future of polycarbonate
in architecture (last week’s Gl@zine). We’ve all seen fogged
and filthy polycarb barrel vaults in numerous locations, and they
look, frankly, shabby, detracting from the desired image of what’s
going on beneath, be it rows of shops, theatres, or railway stations.
And there are tens of thousands of depressing square metres of it
out there, slowly degrading under attack from airborne pollutants
like acid rain and hydrocarbons'.
[More
Here]
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Insolvencies,
Winding up Orders, Petitions and Creditors' Meetings
The
following Notices have appeared in the past couple of weeks and include
notifications of creditors' meetings, winding up orders, administration
orders, voluntary liquidations and final creditors' meetings. Some
65 Companies mentioned include: Contano Aluminium, Highbridge Double
Glazing, European Security Window Systems, Doors Direct, Imperial
Windows (Torbay) and Empress Windows.
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on this Story]
UTC
reports Q3 EPS 5% higher and $1 billion in cash flow from operations
United Technologies Corp. has reported third quarter 2003 earnings
per share increased to $1.27, up 6 cents or 5 percent from the same
quarter last year. Net income rose 4 percent to $639m. Consolidated
revenues rose 9 percent to $8.0bn, primarily due to the acquisition
of Chubb Plc during the quarter. .
[More
on this Story]
League
Table Confirms The Burnden Group Plc’s Exceptional Growth Rate
International,
£multi-million construction and engineering group, The Burnden
Group Plc, has been highlighted in a league table of the 100 fastest
growing companies in the North West following 72.6% growth in 2001
- 02.
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on this Story]
Glassex
gets Competitive with Conservatories!
Building
on the growing importance of Glassex to buyers and specifiers serving
the conservatory sector, two new conservatory competitions will be
launched to take place at Glassex 2004. These events are designed
to add fun and interest at the show, but with the serious intention
of developing and promoting skills, safety and excellence in this
rapidly expanding market.
[More
on this Story]
Eurocell
Building Plastics South East Round-Up
Eurocell
Building Plastics, the UK network of trade centres, has relocated
two of its prominent South East centres. EBP Hayes has now moved to
the Clayton Business Centre off Trevor Rd, Hayes and the current South
East HQ, EBP Dartford is now situated on Newtons Court in the Crossways
Business Park, Dartford..
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on this Story]
GBW
Invests in People and IT
GBW
has made further investment in new personnel and the company’s
operational infrastructure. This includes additional staff resources
within the Customer Services Department to further enhance service
levels, and the installation of an IT system for tracking orders right
through the production process.
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on this Story]
Military
Honed Skill & Precision will Take KAT UK to Next Stage of Growth
Discipline,
drive, commitment, ambition, teamwork – these are just a few
of the qualities that motivate the new military trained management
team of KAT UK. Ex-Infantry officer
David Richards, founding director of KAT UK, has enlisted the skills
of ex-logistics officer Paul Randall and Submariner Sean Moriarty,
to help him lead KAT UK into the next stage of growth.
[More
on this Story]
Bohle
Helps County Glass get Tough
County
Glass & Aluminium Ltd has boosted the efficiency of its glass
toughening operation with the latest Twin Belt Dry Grinding machine
from Bohle. The Winchester-based
company has recently taken delivery of the new Bohle equipment to
replace outdated machinery and improve productivity.
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on this Story]
Celebration
Opening of new £60,000 Installer Showcase Showroom!
A
little bit of business and a lot of fun were the order of the day
at Newstead Trade Frame’s recent Celebration Opening event, attended
by over 120 staff and their partners and 46 guests. The day was organised
as a thank you to staff and suppliers for the hard work put in during
the course of Newstead’s recent expansion programme..
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on this Story]
Fasteners
that Stay in one Piece from UK Fasteners
Screws
may be simple components, but they need to work. ‘Specifiers and
fabricators have been complaining of problems with a brand of bi-metallic
screws,’ warns David Ballinger, managing director of UK Fasteners.
[More
on this Story]
BeA
Fastening Systems Appoints Distributor for Southern Ireland
BeA
Fastening Systems Ltd, the UK manufacturer of collated industrial fastenings,
has just appointed TBF Thompson as sole distributor for Southern Ireland.
The new partnership will herald unlimited production and output benefits
for the Irish manufacturing industry.
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on this Story]
Dorma
Steps up MidEast Business Activity
The
Dorma Group is significantly expanding its business in the Middle East.
In the presence of Germany's federal chancellor, Chancellor Gerhard
Schröder, Dr. Michael Schädlich, Chief Executive Officer of
the Dorma Group, signed in Ryadh the purchase contract enabling Dorma
to acquire a majority holding in a production facility in the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia.
[More
on this Story]
Sureframe
Hit with Portal’s Paladin Door
The
growth of the composite door market has persuaded Accrington-based window
company Sureframe to start supplying Portal Products’ Paladin door.
A PVCu panel customer for the last seven years, Sureframe decided to
stock the Paladin door as it complements the company’s existing
product range.
[More
on this Story]
WindowQuoter
Opens Doors for Companies
Two
more companies have signed up to the internet-based WindowQuoter system
to generate new customers - and say they are already reaping the benefits.
Operated by nation-wide company Price Engines Ltd, WindowQuoter provides
firms with quality windows, doors and conservatory business by providing
genuine appointments with serious customers.
[More
on this Story]
PPG
Glass Provides Clearer View of Charters of Freedom
As
visitors returned on September 18th to the newly renovated rotunda at
the National Archives Building in Washington, they viewed the Declaration
of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights through Starphire
ultra-clear glass by PPG Industries.
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on this Story]
Top
Glass Dining at the Dorchester
The
Krug Room, the new Krug-sponsored chef’s dining room at the London
Dorchester is now officially open. Optima Architectural Glass was chosen
to work with interior fit out firm Vivid Interiors to install a 10m
Priva-Lite® ‘intelligent’ glass screen in the Krug Room.
[More
on this Story]
GL@ZINE SPECIAL FEATURES
2003
International Solutia Design Awards -The Winners
The winners of the 2003 International Design Awards
from Solutia – manufacturers
of Saflex® and Vanceva™, the interlayers used in laminated
architectural glass – once again demonstrate the high levels of
innovation and ingenuity that exist amongst the architectural and interior
design community in their use and applications of laminated glass.
[More
on this Story]
Float
Glass Industries Customer Day
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.
[More
Here]
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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