The Talent Shortfall: What Needs To Be Done?
Neil Evans, Managing Director, VEKA plc. Securing over 250,000 skilled workers by 2028 may seem a difficult challenge, yet the Construction Industry Training Board insists [...]
Eurocell’s Full-Year Financial Results: A Resilient Performance Amid Turbulent Times
Eurocell Plc, a leading UK-based manufacturer and distributor of PVC-U building products, recently released its full-year financial results for 2024, offering a glimpse into [...]
Kombimatec Unveils New Products At FIT Show 2025
Kombimatec will debut its latest innovation, the AMC328 CNC Machining Centre, at FIT Show 2025, showcasing cutting-edge technology for working extruded aluminium and PVC [...]
Demonstration Of Long-Term Confidence In The Aluminium Sector
Nigel Headford, Chief Executive, Council for Aluminium in Building reflects on a month of change in the aluminium industry and highlights what’s on the [...]
CAB Spring Forum Puts Focus On Sustainability
The Council for Aluminium in Building has highlighted the significant opportunities sustainability delivers for the entire aluminium supply chain at the CAB Spring Forum. [...]
F E A T U R E D A R T I C L E S
How Child-Proof Doors And Windows Can Boost Sales
Victoria Brocklesby, COO at Origin, the UK manufacturer of bespoke aluminium windows and doors, explains how prioritising child safety can help you maintain a [...]
Origin Launches New Contemporary Door
The UK’s leading manufacturer of luxury aluminium doors and windows, Origin, has unveiled its new Contemporary External Door (OB-36+). The aluminium external bi-fold, French [...]
BDC Aluminium Appoints New General Manager
BDC Aluminium has strengthened its senior management team. The fabricator of high end aluminium fenestration products for domestic and commercial applications, has appointed Paul [...]
WindowBASE And Tommy Trinder Report Reinforces Aluminium’s Momentum
It's not as if anyone is denying that the aluminium market is the part of the fenestration sector with the most energy and drive [...]
Making A Statement
Today’s market is a competitive one. Builders and housebuilders are constantly having to seek new ways to differentiate themselves to homeowners that have a [...]
This Is How Much You Actually Save By Recycling Glass
Recycling is going to play a massive part in the fenestration sector's efforts to reach net zero. PVCu recycling has continued to grow at [...]
The Growth Potential For Integral Blinds Remains Huge
Our sector, like others, always looks for new products and niches where we think there could be major potential for growth. Whilst it's always [...]
New AM-III Glass As Hard As Diamonds Developed In China
Scientists in China have developed a new type of glass, called AM-III, which is so hard it can leave s scratch on a diamond. [...]
When Will The Glass Shortage End?
Deliveries delayed? Missing items? It's probably because of glass. There is an acute glass shortage right now, and it's really beginning to bite. It's [...]
Saint-Gobain’s New Glass Furnace Reaches Halfway Point
Saint-Gobain's new glass furnace, currently being built in Eggborough, North Yorkshire, has reached the halfway point. This is an important milestone for the company [...]
S P O N S O R N E W S
Ultion ALPs Shatters Industry Standards With Cycle Test
In the lock industry, 100,000 cycles is considered exceptional. [...]
Origin Launches OW-70 Soho Window To Revolutionise Steel-Look Market
Origin, the UK’s leading manufacturer of premium aluminium windows [...]
Premier Arches Celebrates 20,000th Order Milestone
Premier Arches, the UK’s leading specialist in arched and [...]
Q4 Merchant Value Sales Dip -0.5% As 2024 Closes Down -4.1% On Last Year
The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report reveals [...]
Ultion ALPS Now Shipping
The Ultion 3-Star PLUS with ALPS has started to [...]
D G B P A R T N E R S
Facade Supplier To Everton’s New Stadium In Administration
It's not that often the world of football collides with the world of fenestration, but in another hit to the sector, the supplier of [...]
2023 Profits In Line With Expectations At Eurocell
In a sea of instability, last week produced some welcome and somewhat stable news, with 2023 preliminary results from Eurocell showing that profits were [...]
Tradesmith Ltd Falls Into Administration
In a message posted on Linkedin on Monday, it was announced that Tradesmith Ltd had been placed into administration after 31 years of trading. [...]
Prime Glazing Supplies Files For Administration
Q1 of 2024 is proving to be a tough one for parts of the sector, as Prime Glazing Supplies in Bolton files for administration. [...]
Euramax Fall Into Administration
The tough start to the year continues as Barnsley-based Euramax, a supplier of windows and doors into the new-build and caravan sectors has fallen [...]
DGB Tech: Amazon’s Echo And Alexa Review – Fits Right In
If you're thinking of buying a new gadget this Christmas, either for yourself or for a loved one. Amazon's Echo with Alexa would be [...]
Tesla Announces Solar Powered Roof Tiles
Just the other day Tesla, Elon Musk's company famous for it's electric cars and home battery system, announced what I believe could be a [...]
DGB Tech: Ring Shows Us The Future Of The Door Bell
The humble door bell has been around in the UK for many, many years. It's been a staple of British door ways for two [...]
How Drones Can Transform Glazing Industry Marketing
Technology is a wonderful thing is it not? It has helped advance humankind in all kinds of ways at such a speed that many would [...]
DGB Tech: How Technology Has Influenced Our Industry
This is perhaps the most modern minute in the history of the world. That's no exaggeration. Technology is constantly evolving. Making the world a smaller [...]
Less Is More – Our Future
The arrival of vacuum insulated glazing, or VIG, has [...]
Everything UK Fenestration Does Has To Be Seen Through The Prism Of Climate Change
We live in a post-COP26 and net-zero world now. [...]
Three COP26 Pledges UK Fenestration Could Make
COP26 is finally upon us. The most important UN [...]
Morley Glass Triples Post-Consumer Glass Recycling Capacity
This is a sponsored article by Morley Glass: The [...]
This Is How Much You Actually Save By Recycling Glass
Recycling is going to play a massive part in [...]
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