There Is A Tech Race In UK Fenestration
Whether you have realised it or not, technology is now running the fenestration sector. Social media plays a central role in almost every company. Email, chat apps and Teams/Zoom [...]
Compusoft To Aquire First Degree Systems
This is a statement from First Degree Systems: Compusoft Group, a leading global visual CPQ provider, today announced an agreement to acquire First Degree Systems (FDS). The acquisition of [...]
Guest Post: Times, They Are A Changing!
This is a guest post from Alan Burgess, Chairman of Masterframe: Someone once said the world has changed more in the last 400yrs than the previous 4,000yrs, more in [...]
Three Quarters Of Our Business Is Now Done Digitally
During lockdown, many businesses in our sector, including ours, made rapid changes to digitally transform their businesses to allow them to function whilst most of us worked from home. [...]
Brisant Launch Trade Facebook Page
This is a sponsored article by Brisant Secure: Brisant-Secure is all about making it easy for locksmiths to sell locks and door installers to sell doors. Each and every [...]
Apply For One Of Five Free Virtual Showroom Tours Courtesy Of The NFAs, Fenestration Digital And Morley Glass
In an effort to help installers adapt to the new normal as the industry begins it’s toughest ever fight, Morley Glass has teamed up with the National Fenestration Awards [...]
New ‘Wonder’ Technology Makes It Easy For Installers To Sell And Homeowners To Buy
This is a press release by Tommy Trinder TommyTrinder.com Ltd has launched its new Framepoint Technology® so installers can sell with a ‘Wow’. Designed by installers for installers, it [...]
Business Micros Acquires The Consultancy And The Glazing Vault
Its not often the world of tech and fenestration come together in the mergers and acquisitions arena but today is that day, with the announcement that Business Micros have [...]
Is Smart Window And Door Tech Genuinely Breaking Through?
Smart tech is almost fully embedded in much of our daily lives now. You can ask Alexa to turn the radio on, switch the lights off and unlock the [...]
Ultion’s SMART Lock Tops Esquire’s Tech List
Products from the window and door industry rarely make their way into the mainstream. We're just not one of those industries where our products really reach the daily lives [...]
Glazerite Is At The Forefront Of The Smart Home Movement
This is a sponsored article by Brisant Secure The Ultion lock has been fitted as standard for many years by The Glazerite UK Group Ltd, offering homeowners safe, secure [...]
Apple’s iOS13 Will Crash Yale’s Conexis® Lock App
I have a long held belief that when it comes to smart door tech, no matter the product, there should always be some kind of manual override. Usually a [...]
Smart Window & Door Tech Will Only Be A Success If Its Easy To Use
This year has seen a lot of smart window and door tech launched, most of it at the FIT Show. Whilst there have been products out there in the [...]
DGB Joins Instagram!
I've done it. I've finally given in and decided to create a DGB Instagram account. There is much I don't like about social media, and the insane vanity it [...]
43% Believe The Fenestration Industry Is Ready For Smart Tech
Another week and another DGB poll has ended, this time with results that I would say are less than conclusive. At the start of last week I asked the [...]
NSG Group And Ubiquitous Energy To Jointly Develop Transparent Solar Windows
This article was originally published on the Ubiquitous Energy website Redwood City, CA – NSG Group (Nippon Sheet Glass, Co. Ltd. ), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of glass and [...]
Is The Fenestration Industry Ready For Smart Window And Door Tech?
One of the big takeaways from the FIT Show this year was that smart window and door tech is really starting to take root in the sector now. Brisant [...]
Yale Had Smart Lock Problems At The Weekend
Technology is a great thing is it not? It's allowing you to read this via your phone, tablet or laptop. You can order groceries to your door at a [...]
SageGlass Connects It’s Dynamic Glass To Amazon’s Echo
"Alexa, dim the glass". Some of you will know who SageGlass is. For those who don't, they are a US-based arm of Saint-Gobain whose marquee product is their electrochromic [...]
How Software Is Changing The Window Industry
As an industry we're in the midst of massive change and overhaul. Products of old are slowly being phased out. Better, more advanced products are taking their place. You [...]
Would You Stop Using Facebook?
There has been much in the news these past couple of weeks about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and their misuse of personal data affecting at least 87m people around the [...]
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