Press Glass Secures £227m Financing Agreement
Press Glass have announced that they have secured new £227m bank financing (PLN1.2bn) in order to refinance debt, as well as build two new production plants, one in Lithuania [...]
If Fenestration Is Serious About Cutting Carbon, It’s Time To Ramp Up Domestic Production
For a while, the UK fenestration sector has talked about the need to produce more here and rely less on imports. There is a genuine argument for this. This [...]
High Home Improvement Demand Could Last Three Years
Demand in the home improvement sector is very high right now. Perhaps at record highs for some companies. Since the start of this huge bounce-back, which originated in mid-May [...]
ASSA ABLOY Provides Statement In Response To Trademark Decision
In response to the story published last week about ASSA ABLOY losing their trademark case, the company has provided a statement: As the global leader in access solutions, ASSA [...]
Yale (Assa Abloy) Loses Trademark Dispute And Told To Pay Costs
European Union trademark application No 18 086 744 is rejected in its entirety. This is a Letter to the Editor guest article by Giovanni Laporta: Dear Jason I’m getting [...]
Safestyle UK Provides Trading Update At AGM
Safestyle UK has just had their AGM and has provided a trading update in what continues to be an extraordinary year for the UK fenestration sector as a whole. [...]
Why Rapidly Rising Inflation Matters
You may have seen this morning that the UK's monthly inflation figures more than doubled from 0.7% to 1.5% in April. For a while I have been warning about [...]
Open Letter: Supply Chains And Price Increases
This is an open letter from Sternfenster MD Mike Parczuk about the state of supply chains and price increases: I speak to our installers every day. ‘Exhausted’, ‘stretched’, ‘frazzled’, [...]
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 [...]
Modular Group Investments (MGI) Acquires Rapid PVCU Systems
Modular Group Investments (MGI), the company that has recently acquired Euramax, has now acquired South Yorkshire based fabricator Rapid PVCU systems. This was the statement the company released: Modular [...]
Customade Group Releases Statement After CEO Leng Steps Down
Following the personal announcement from David Leng via his Linkedin account, there has been a statement released by Customade Group via their website. It reads as follows: After leading [...]
Car Manufacturers Going All-Electric Will Affect The Fenestration Sector In A Big Way
In recent weeks major car manufacturers such as well Volvo and Ford have both declared that their entire range of cars will be all-electric by 2030. It comes as [...]
How The Collapse Of Greensill Could Affect The UK Fenestration Industry
Greensill. Ever heard of it? Until the last few days its likely you haven't, neither had I. Until the back end of last week when it became clear that [...]
Travis Perkins Reports Full 2020 Results
As we progress through this pandemic and we begin to look at life after restrictions are lifted, we are beginning to understand the toll the crisis has taken on [...]
BGF Invests To Help Brisant Step Up To The Next Level
Brisant-Secure announced today that it has secured an investment from BGF, UK’s most active growth capital investor. The investment will secure Brisant’s ambitious long-term growth plans, and enable the [...]
Taylor Wimpey 2020 Revenue Down 35%, But 2021 Starts Strong
One of Britain's biggest housebuilders, Taylor Wimpey, has released it's 2020 full-year results and as expected, there was a big hit to revenues and profits in 2020. But, there [...]
Saint Gobain Announces Full Year 2020 Results
Saint Gobain, one of the largest producers of glass and building materials in the world, has just released their full-year 2020 results. In what was a turbulent year for [...]
Euramax Acquired By Modular Group Investments
Modular Group Investments has completed the acquisition of Euramax Solutions Limited, a manufacturer of fenestration products to the construction, modular and leisure markets. Michael Garratt, the founder and CEO of [...]
Prices Are Likely To Rise Further In 2021
Thought you'd seen the last of the price increases? Think again. As global supply chains come under constant strain, the new trading relationship with the continent and the pandemic [...]
Eurocell Produces A Strong Finish To 2020
It's the start of a new year and we're about to start earnings season in UK fenestration as some of our biggest companies begin to published results for Q4 [...]
What Fenestration Can Learn From The Collapse Of The Arcadia Group
Arcadia Group, one of the high street's biggest retailing has collapsed into administration with rescue talks failing. This puts more than 13,000 jobs at risk just before Christmas, in [...]