Yet Another Black Swan Event
I think we were all practically begging, on our knees, hoping that 2026 would be as uneventful as possible. The last five years have [...]
Swisspacer Presents “Frame:racer”: Fully Automated Frame Production In Under 20 Seconds
From frame assembly to filling: reproducible quality with minimal operating effort. With the Frame:racer service, Swisspacer is expanding its range for the first time [...]
Saint-Gobain 2025 Full-Year Results
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has published its audited full-year results for the 2025 financial year, reporting modest sales growth in local currencies, stable operating margins, [...]
Continental Sets A Style Statement
Continental now offers outdoor-grade surfaces for doors that look as though they were produced using a single piece of wood. From March [...]
Glyngary Reports 95% Revenue Increase In 2025!
Following a successful rebrand, premium timber window and door manufacturer Glyngary Joinery has reported significant business growth, closing 2025 almost double its 2024 size, [...]
F E A T U R E D A R T I C L E S
BDC Aluminium Champions Low-Carbon Circular Aluminium Systems
BDC Aluminium places great emphasis on its environmental responsibilities, embedding sustainability into its aluminium systems and manufacturing approaches. Aluminium offers inherent environmental advantages, and [...]
Helping The Trade Sell Luxury With Confidence
As energy performance continues to move up the agenda in home improvement projects, installers need more than just a competitive product - they need [...]
Homeowners Warm To Endurance® Aluminium Innovation
Endurance® Aluminium is helping to improve the comfort and energy efficiency of the UK’s housing stock. The fabricator of aluminium fenestration solutions is pioneering [...]
A Coat Above
Endurance® Aluminium is highlighting its ability to offer fenestration solutions that combine exceptional durability with impressive long-term colour stability. To ensure homeowners can enjoy [...]
BDC Aluminium Is Proudly Made In Britain
BDC Aluminium is a proud member of Made in Britain. The mark reflects their focus on UK manufacturing, transparency in supply chains and their [...]
ESG Group Acquires Euroview
Major acquisition news in the glass sector, as Euroview AG announced via a post on LinkedIn that they have been acquired by ESG Group, [...]
Glass Futures And VEC Partner On £1.5m UKRI-Funded AI Glass Initiative To Drive Process Optimisation And Reduce Emissions
Glass Futures and the University of Liverpool’s VEC (Virtual Engineering Centre) are launching AI Glass, a digital twin project designed to accelerate decarbonisation and [...]
British Glass Announces Leadership Changes And Strategic Restructure
British Glass has announced significant changes to its leadership and operational structure as part of its ongoing commitment to strengthen the UK glass industry [...]
Saint-Gobain Launches COOL-LITE® XTREME 51/23 And 51/23 II – A New Standard In Solar Control Glazing
Saint-Gobain Glass has launched COOL-LITE® XTREME 51/23 and COOL-LITE® XTREME 51/23 II, the latest evolution in its solar control range. This high-performance, triple silver-coated, [...]
First Glass Successfully Rolled From Experimental Furnace
Glass Futures is proud to announce a significant breakthrough in the commissioning of its world-first experimental glass furnace. At the start of this week, [...]
S P O N S O R N E W S
BDC Aluminium Champions Low-Carbon Circular Aluminium Systems
BDC Aluminium places great emphasis on its environmental responsibilities, [...]
Helping The Trade Sell Luxury With Confidence
As energy performance continues to move up the agenda [...]
Bennetts Praises Endurance® Doors Partnership
A door installer is acknowledging the continued contribution Endurance® [...]
Homeowners Warm To Endurance® Aluminium Innovation
Endurance® Aluminium is helping to improve the comfort and [...]
Continental Sets A Style Statement
Continental now offers outdoor-grade surfaces for doors that [...]
D G B P A R T N E R S
Saint-Gobain 2025 Full-Year Results
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain has published its audited full-year results for the 2025 financial year, reporting modest sales growth in local currencies, stable operating margins, [...]
ESG Group Acquires Euroview
Major acquisition news in the glass sector, as Euroview AG announced via a post on LinkedIn that they have been acquired by ESG Group, [...]
Livingston Based Evoframes To Go Into Administration
In a post on LinkedIn earlier this evening, it was announced that Evoframes, a VEKA fabricator, is to be placed into administration with the [...]
Inwido AB Reports 2025 Full-Year Results
Inwido AB (publ) today published its full-year and fourth quarter 2025 financial results, highlighting a return to organic growth, solid profitability and continued strategic [...]
Saint-Gobain To Delist From London Stock Exchange
Saint-Gobain has confirmed that it will delist its shares from the London Stock Exchange, ending the trading of its CREST Depository Interests in February. [...]
Petition Launched To Change Regulations On Trickle Vents
In response to new Building Regulations that came into force in June 2022, requiring all window replacement installations to include trickle vents, a Government [...]
Could The Future Building Standard Be Watered Down?
Whilst the arguments over trickle vents continue to rage on, eight months after their implementation, attention has rightly turned to the next major set [...]
Glazpart Joins BPF
Sponsored news from Glazpart: As part of its external affairs strategy, Glazpart has joined the British Plastics Federation (BPF). With the trading environment adapting [...]
I Used ChatGPT To Ask About Fenestration And This Is What It Said
You may have heard of something called ChatGPT over the last few weeks. ChatGPT is an AI text platform that is both fascinating people [...]
The Time For Complaining Has Passed
Seven months after the implementation of the updated Building Regulations, which have seen lower minimum U-Values and mandatory trickle vents to all windows, I [...]
Q&A With Dean Hodges, Sales Director At Forterro
Dean Hodges, Sales Director at Forterro, answers all the important questions following news of the rebrand from BM Group to Forterro. Does the switch [...]
AI And Automation Will Change The Face Of Our Sector
Earlier this week, I was treated to a first-hand tour of the upgraded manufacturing facility at Endurance Doors. I have been before, a few [...]
BM Group To Operate Under The Forterro Name Going Forward
New brand identity for BM products and digital solutions for windows, doors and facades. BM Group, the UK fenestration industry’s leading software, data and [...]
Redefining The Window Industry: Innovative Take Off PDF Software Streamlines Measurement And Estimation For Installers
Aperture Works has launched Take Off PDF, an innovative software solution designed specifically for window and door installers. The Hertfordshire-based software company claims this [...]
Forterro Continues Expansion Into The Fenestration Industry With BM Group Acquisition
The deal builds on the acquisition of Orgadata AG in 2024 to further grow the new Forterro Windows and Doors line of business. London, [...]
Eurocell And Biffa Successfully Trial New PVCu Waste Management Scheme For The Trade
Challenge PVC-U based products, like windows and doors, often [...]
£6m Biofuel Trial At Glass Futures And Pilkington
A major industrial trial was successfully undertaken this month [...]
Glass Express Midlands Save 142 Tonnes Of CO2 In One Year
Glass Express Midlands has been certified as a leading [...]
Eurocell Introduces Recycling Service For Cavalok Offcuts
Eurocell can now recycle the offcuts of Cavalok Cavity [...]
Eurocell Urges Government To Outline Clear Decarbonisation Plan For Social Housing
Eurocell is urging the government to outline its vision [...]
C H A R I T Y
From Rock Bottom: The Journey Back Kelly’s Heroes Take On Their Toughest Challenge Yet
This September, get back on the saddle to set off from the Rock of Gibraltar on an extraordinary journey of hope, resilience and awareness, [...]
BDC Aluminium And Industry Partners Unite For Children’s Hospice Charity
A group of companies from across the fenestration sector have come together in aid of a children’s hospice charity. In a collaborative effort instigated [...]
Hurst Doors Gets Muddy For Charity
Colleagues from Hurst Doors recently participated in the 'Get Caked' event – a challenging five-mile muddy obstacle course – to help raise funds for [...]
Rocal Staff Take Steps For Charity
Members of the Rocal team have stepped up - and out - for a worthy cause. A group of 27 colleagues from across the [...]
Hurst Doors Partners With Dove House Hospice To Make A Difference In 2024
Hurst Doors has partnered with Dove House Hospice, a local charity dedicated to providing vital care and support to individuals and families facing life-limiting [...]
U K R A I N E C R I S I S
NSG Group Leaves Russia
It could be said that it is better late than never, but NSG Group, owners of Pilkington UK, have announced that they have sold [...]
REHAU To Sell Its Business In Russia
The war in Ukraine continues to have effects in all sorts of sectors around the world. In an announcement on Friday, REHAU, one of [...]
Guardian Glass Seeking Ways To Exit Russian Facilities
The war in Ukraine continues to cause heartbreaking death and destruction across the country. It is also causing mayhem and disruption for businesses of [...]
REHAU Group Suspends Operations In Russia
This is a statement from REHAU with regards to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and their operations in Russia: We have seen the [...]
Markets Are Beginning To Break And It Will Affect Everything
The war in Ukraine grinds on, and with each day the humanitarian crisis grows. Millions of people are being displaced within the country and [...]
S U B S C R I B E
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