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4th November 2003
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One
year on from the UK launch of Pilkington
Activ™ self-cleaning glass, the company has
now extended the benefits of the product with the introduction
of two new versions that are appropriate for use in conservatories.
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Duraflex
has launched a new range of Cellular Trims to complement its
PVCu Diamond Suite windows and doors.
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Here:
When
deciding the steps that should be taken to make a range of Fire
Doors compliant with Part E of the new building regulations concerning
sound reduction, interior door specialist Vicaima
decided to upgrade the standard construction of not some but all
the company’s FD30(S) doors
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Here:
Continued
investment at K2
in product research and development has resulted in
the launch of several new products designed to provide
benefits to fabricators and installers alike.
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Here:
Already
one of Kombimatec's
best-selling machines, the EV470 CNC Complete
Sprue Cleaner for corners, transoms and
cruciform joints has now been further improved
with the addition of a special tool that
makes light work of cleaning internal decorative
bevel curves
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Here:
Evergreen Door, the UK composite door component supplier, has launched its new through-colour fibreglass entrance doors to the market
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A sheltered housing development in Normanby, Cleveland,
is using the new, Pilkington
Activ™ self cleaning glass in a renovation
programme to replace all of the existing old timber windows
in the blocks.
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Here:
Eurocell
Building Plastics
delivery and service were key issues when EuroFit Rooflines
Ltd chose the company's roofline on a refurbishment project
in York.
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Here:
A
SolarGard film came
to the rescue of Felix Engineering when its local council
cut down a line of shady trees, exposing the boatbuilder's
premises to the worst effects of the sun.
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Here:
When
Pinewood Studios' special effects department was faced
with creating 'transporter' tubes for the set of a French
spoof spy film, it turned to Vulcascot and Brett
Martin
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Here:
New
Commercial Manager Vicky Hill is to steer the internal sales
office ship at conservatory roof specialist Wendland
as the company’s growth continues, while Claire
Leadbeater has been appointed as Marketing Executive.
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Here:
Coastal
Windows, Doors and Conservatories
has just appointed Mark Holloway as New Business Development
Manager with key responsibilities in the Midlands and the
North, and Davyd Oddy as Regional Sales Manager for the South
East.
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Here:
Steve
Pitman has recently joined Rivers
Machinery to promote the company's full range of
products specialising in the supply of a wide range of production
equipment
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Here:
Sealocrete
says that after another record year it is gearing up for more
growth by expanding and restructuring its team.
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Here:
Conservatory
roof system manufacturer, K2,
has created a new Vice-President post in the USA
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Here:
Jumping
out of a plane at 10,000 feet is not everyone’s idea of
a birthday treat. However, for Giles Hayhurst (pictured below),
Managing Director of Windowlink Ltd,
a parachute jump provided an exhilarating way to celebrate his
50th birthday and raise money for a local hospice.
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Here:
The
2003 efforts of GM Fundraising
have resulted in a cheque for £63,212.17 being handed
to the staff and children of Oswestry based children’s
hospice Hope House
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Here:
Llandrillo
College, based in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, is an active GQA
approved centre offering NVQ qualifications.
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Here:
I
am always puzzled by the number of companies that just soldier
on without doing something about reducing the waste that can
occur through employees and contractors not being properly trained
to do the job' says the latest issue of Glass
Training's Newsletter
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Here:
In
advance of the Chancellor's Pre Budget Report, the Construction
Products Association's President, Roy Harrison, has
called on Gordon Brown to instigate a number of tax reforms
and halt further taxation on business.
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here:
The
campaign to recruit more members to the Government-backed Quality
Mark Scheme for good builders has proved so popular
that an additional trade launch event is to be held in the North
West.
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here:
BSI
Product Services, which is based in Hemel Hempstead
and provides product testing and awards the Kitemark is updating
the industry on the latest developments on BS EN 1279, the standard
for sealed units
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Here:
Jackson
Joinery has been awarded
BSEN1279 for the manufacture of double glazed units.
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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
first report on a project aimed at increasing the recycling
of cathode ray tubes (CRTs) has been published by WRAP
(the Waste & Resources Action Programme).
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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:
More than three years after launching the previous website the Schott website has recently been redesigned
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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:
Is
it all Over for Heywood Williams?
No,
it's not, if you believe the group's own statement after losing a chief
executive and an executive chairman in the space of three months, and
ignore the share price plunging to an all time low of 70p. Not for the
first time, HW is asking us to accept that adjustments have been made
which will provide a platform for growth, although it warns that the
second half of 2003 will be worse than the first.
Glass
Processing & Technology Exhibition, NEC Birmingham 11-13th November
2003
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Art Gallery
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Interactive Floorplans
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Conference Info
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Changes Inspire new Pavilion
Interbuild
will unveil a new section at the 2004 show in response to sweeping changes
in building legislation designed to improve access for people with disabilities.
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Here:
New
Manager for Light + Building and Lightstyle
Maria Hasselman-Börner has been
appointed event manager for Light+Building, the International Trade Fair
for Architecture and Technology (18 to 22 April 2004).
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Here:
A Totally Successful Solution
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough
Council, along with hardware
and profile supply partners Wagner (GB) Ltd and Rehau, recently hosted
a seminar, entitled ‘The Total Solution’
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Here:
Of course, we all love golf really, and we have great pleasure in rounding up no fewer than ELEVEN of the summer's industry tournaments on one page. Let's hope it doesn't tee anyone off!
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Eurocell
Profiles
and Eurocell Building Plastics have
agreed to sponsor Eastwood Town for the 2003/2004 football season.
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Here:
Times
Right Marketing (TRM), the Gatwick based full service agency, has won
the £5 million media and creative account for the double glazing
company Coldseal Group.
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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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Here:
Alternative
Windows
is based on the Cross Green Industrial Estate, just outside Leeds, in
two units, which are ideal to serve the company’s growing customer
base.
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Here:
P
& P Windows
is celebrating the opening of its new factory in Peterlee, County Durham.
Having outgrown its old premises, the Duraflex fabricator and installer
has just relocated to a new 12,000 sq ft facility.
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Here:
In
May this year the 11th annual Daily Telegraph
Homebuilding & Renovating Awards to find the Best New
Home of 2003 were launched by Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine.
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Here:
The
Jansen VISS curtain wall system, distributed exclusively by Schüco
International, has been successfully tested to CWCT Standard
Test Sequence B
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Here:
Following
an assessment by an independent international body, GQA
has been awarded the new BS EN ISO 9001:2000 Certification.
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Here:
The
RIBA suggested an established building category for the
Architectural Ironmongery Specification Awards several years ago
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Here:
Get
an insight into what’s happening at Profile
22 with the latest issue of the company’s customer
magazine featuring the latest products, new people, training news
and case studies
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here:
UK
Fasteners
has launched its latest marketing support item to help fabricators
and specifiers understand these small but crucial window components
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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:
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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Here:
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:
'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
Features
now archived include:
Horst Mertes discusses the role of IT centralisation in todays
glass business
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
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:
It's
not all doom and gloom though: Guardian Industries is the latest big
name to sign up to GP&T next week; Epwin has sold DJ Profiles to
Trelleborg and Wendland has replaced its recent departed raft of management.
We have now heard from nearly two thirds of the exhibitors at GP&T
- but it is not too late to submit editorial for The Gl@zine Preview
(final pre-show issue will be next Monday): send information to news@theglazine.com
Tony Higgin, Publisher
tony@theglazine.com
PS: If you are intending to come to GP&T, The Gl@zine will be exhibiting
on stand C44, where I shall be pleased to welcome you.
Conservatory
Project of Paramount lmportance to Winstanley College
Veka fabricator and installer Paramount Window Systems Ltd has worked
against the clock to complete a striking 16m long conservatory for Winstanley
College near Wigan, Lancashire..
[More
Here]
GGF
Cancels Seminars, while GPD UK offers 25% Discount to Gl@zine Readers
GPD UK, the UK version of the highly successful, Tamglass sponsored
Architectural Glass Conference which takes place in Tampere, Finland
every two years, is offering readers of The Gl@zine 25% discount
if they register for GPD UK within two days of receiving this week's
issue. Download the full programme here
as a PDF, or visit this
link to register. We have heard, meanwhile, that the proposed
GGF Seminars have been cancelled, but the Pilkington
Architects' Forum is still going ahead.
[More
Here]
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
Heywood
Williams Shares in Freefall as New Chairman Quits after 3 Months
Shares
in Heywood Williams plunged 43 per cent on Friday, 31st October
after the UK-based windows and doors group announced the resignation
of Hamish Bryce, executive chairman, and said it was cutting 300
jobs in its domestic manufacturing operations (15% of its workforce).
Serious problems appear to have been discovered at the Cestrum,
Centralock and easyfab divisions. That, coupled with news that the
final dividend was unlikely to be paid, pushed shares down 57p to
an all time low of 75p (now down to 70p as of this (Tuesday) morning).
[More
on this Story]
Another
Scoop for GP&T as Guardian Industries Signs up to Exhibit
The
organisers of Glass Processing & Technology (GP&T) 2003 -
the UK glass industry’s dedicated exhibition and conference event
– have announced that global glass giant Guardian Industries
will be exhibiting at the forthcoming inaugural show, representing
yet another major coup for the event.
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on this Story]
Epwin
Announces Sale of D J Profiles
PVC-U
building products specialist, Epwin Group announced on Friday 31st
October the sale as a going concern of its rubber extrusion company
D J Profiles to Trelleborg, a major European building products group
based in Sweden.
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on this Story]
New
Brooms get Sweeping at Wendland
In
a move described as ‘taking the company to the next level’
Graham Fisher (left) has been appointed Managing Director at
conservatory roof systems specialist Wendland and Alan Fielder
(below right) has been appointed Sales and Marketing Director.
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on this Story]
KS
Announces Record Sales Growth
KS Profiles, the Daventry-based PVCu window system supplier, announced
on 27th October year on year sales growth of 63% and the company's
11th new customer in 10 months.
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on this Story]
LGT
Goes Through the Roof with Cyclone Cat and Sales
Lambert GT Services Ltd, the British toughening plant manufacturer
has experienced a ‘boom’ in the sales of glass tempering
machines and ancillary toughening plant equipment. With five new machine
installations since December last year and a further order book for
three to be installed by the end of this year, this represents almost
one third of all new machine sales since the company’s incorporation
six years ago.
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on this Story]
Novaglaze
Installs Toughening Plant
Novaglaze Ltd of Huddersfield has installed its state-of-the-art curved
glass toughening plant which can bend 4mm up to 19mm thick glass,
formed to the highest standards.
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on this Story]
ASA
Complaint Upheld
Following
a complaint, a regional press advertisement on behalf of Southern
Glass Ltd of Southend-on-Sea, Essex was investigated by the Advertising
Standards Authority. The complaint was upheld.
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on this Story]
Flowline
Does it Again and Again
The
Stuga Flowline Cutting and Prepping Centre covered more ground in
the summer with sales to Armstrong Industries in Coventry and Pyramid
Profiles in Walsall.
[More
on this Story]
Bohle
Boosts Service and Quality
Two
top-of-the-range machines from Bohle’s glass processing range
are helping an Oxfordshire glazier to expand its service offering
and achieve a faster turnaround. Wallingford Glass & Glazing has
recently taken delivery of the latest Bohle Glass Belt Grinder GBS
RT-11/22 and Disc Grinder TSM 600-S.
[More
on this Story]
BBA
News
In
this month's What's New section of the BBA website there is news of
the visit of Building Regulations Minister Phil Hope to the BBA offices
recently, an article on the successful completion of a social housing
project using the BBA Innovation Awards winner, Kingspan TEK Haus Building
System.
[More
on this Story]
Beaufort
Bucks the Trend
Expansion
continues apace at Beaufort Secure Design Ltd with the move to a new
facility in Newport, twice the size of its previous premises. The aluminium
systems company says it has seen overall sales double in the last five
years together with significant growth within the specification market.
[More
on this Story]
Pilkington
Activ Approval for Alfas
The
Alfas range of glazing and bonding tapes has been tested and confirmed
as suitable for use with Pilkington’s new self-cleaning glass.
[More
on this Story]
Sierra’s
Long and Winding Roads
Devon-based
Sierra Windows claims to be a truly nationwide supplier of windows and
doors - its 16-strong delivery fleet covered just short of one million
kilometres last year supplying customers from Cornwall to the Scottish
Highlands.
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on this Story]
Fullex
Lock into Experience
It
has been a year of change and forward thinking for managing director,
Ian Southall, and the team at Fullex Locks Ltd. With a growing number
of partnership programmes in the public sector, the launch of the Gemini
double door lock and the installation of new systems to improve service
and administration, there has been little time to sit back and reflect
on the overall success the company has achieved.
[More
on this Story]
Elite
Announces Eurocell Association
Elite
is a young company formed just over two years ago and has recently moved
across to Eurocell’s Pinnacle Conservatory System to serve the
company’s growing customer base. Situated in Great Barr, Birmingham,
Elite currently fabricates 15-20 roofs per week for the trade from its
4,000 sq ft premises.
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on this Story]
Procell
Helps Drive Trims Expansion
Trims
Ltd, a leading stockist of Premier Profiles’ Procell range of window
trims and roofline products, has announced plans to open several more
depots across the Midlands and North of England.
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on this Story]
Connect
2 the Northeast
Connect 2 National Plastics says it has experienced an unprecedented
year of sales and recently opened another new branch in Sunderland.
[More
on this Story]
Alcoa
Files Antidumping Petition against South African Producer
Alcoa
announced on 16th October that it has filed an antidumping petition
with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission
against imports of certain aluminium alloy rolled plate manufactured
in South Africa.
[More
on this Story]
Amcat
and UK DATA IT help Telemarketers Avoid Silent Call Upset
Amcat,
a global supplier of contact centre solutions, is working with data
suppression specialist, UK DATA IT, to become the first contact centre
predictive dialler vendor to support the new 'silent call file'.
[More
on this Story]
GL@ZINE SPECIAL FEATURES
The
A-Z of Specifying Window Hardware
Paul
Rainbird is Partnering Manager at Titon.
His role involves close co-operation with specifiers and window fabricators.
Here he explains how a more informed route can help in selecting the
correct window hardware, and how specifiers can overcome the most frequent
specification and purchasing problems.
[More
Here]
SentryGlas®
Plus: Engineered Glass for the 21st Century
Acclaimed
structural engineer Tim Macfarlane
compares the introduction of laminated glass incorporating SentryGlas®
Plus interlayer and Secure™ technology to the invention of reinforced
concrete at the beginning of the last century.
[More
Here]
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