V12 Retail Finance: Q3 Home Improvement Finance Doubles As UK Households Choose To Renovate Rather Than Relocate
New data from V12 Retail Finance suggests UK households are increasingly choosing to invest in their existing homes rather than move, with home improvement finance more than doubling in [...]
Playing Fair
Geopolitical instability is feeding cost pressure into the window [...]
Construction’s Mental Health Crisis: How Welfare Units Can Support On-Site Mental Wellbeing
Many roles within construction are known to be physically [...]
Eurocell’s Q1 Performance Signals Resilience In A Fragile Fenestration Market
Eurocell’s first-quarter trading update highlighted a business continuing to [...]
Forterro Expands Software For Small Industrial And Mid-Market Manufacturers With 3E
Forterro, a leading European provider of industrial software solutions, [...]
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Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems Acquired By Bailey
This wave of consolidation within the fenestration market is really picking up pace as yet another acquisition of an aluminium systems company has just been announced. Building envelope solutions [...]
Endurance® Aluminium Celebrates ‘Best Of British’ Offer
Endurance® Aluminium is highlighting its ability to offer installers [...]
BDC Aluminium Refines Online Experience With Website Relaunch
Manufacturer of reliable, high-performance aluminium [...]
Achieving Qualicoat At Origin’s Powder-Coating Facility
David Bunker, Operational Risk and Supply Chain Director at [...]
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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 drive innovation in the glass [...]
Morley Glass Named GGP Installer Awards Finalist For Glass Recycling Service
Sponsored news from Morley Glass: Uni-Blinds® integral blinds manufacturer [...]
Glass Prices May Continue To Rise In 2023
Some scary predictions today on Halloween. In a recent [...]
Solar Powered W Smart Provides Hassle-Free Motorised Shading Solution For Low Energy Homes
Sponsored news from Morley Glass: The Uni-Blinds® W Smart [...]
Glass Could Be About To Get Even More Expensive
Just as other parts of the fenestration supply chain [...]
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Heritage Styling Without Compromise: Aluminium That Planners Approve
Against the backdrop of a difficult market thanks to [...]
New Year Off To A Weak Start As January’s Builders’ Merchant Like-For-Like Value Sales Down -2.6% Year-On-Year
The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report, published [...]
Heritage Sells: How 1930s Style Doors Are Winning Over Homeowners
More homeowners are choosing door designs that are appropriate [...]
Endurance® Doors Boosts Brand Visibility With TV Presenter Laura Hamilton
Endurance® Doors has partnered with TV presenter Laura Hamilton, [...]
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Reports Anglian To Be Put Up For Sale
In a significant development for the UK double glazing and home improvements sector, reports have emerged that Alchemy Partners, the long-time owner of Anglian [...]
UAP Acquired By Allegion Plc
M&A activity has been intense in the past week or so, with a number of companies being acquired across differing parts of the sector. [...]
Unique Window Systems Acquires Assets Of AluFold Direct
Unique Window Systems Ltd, a multi-award-winning fabricator of UPVC and aluminium windows, doors, and curtain walling, has acquired the business and assets of AluFold [...]
Keraglass Acquires 100% Of AVG Automazioni
Keraglass, a leading company in the industrial machinery sector for glass processing – owned by Voilàp S.p.A. and the Spezzani family – has announced the acquisition [...]
FireGlass Joins New Umbrella Brand Saverto
The svt Group, a leading provider of passive fire protection solutions across Europe, is consolidating its international product division under the new brand Saverto, which also includes FireGlass. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Where Could Robots Take Window Industry Jobs?
Our daily lives are being quietly evolved into something a lot more tech-based. Smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, lots of us have at least one [...]
Buying Windows And Doors With Bitcoin Would Be Way Too Risky
Bitcoin. The world's most famous cryptocurrency, or digital currency, whichever term you prefer. For those who may not know why it has been in [...]
This Video Demonstrates The Future Of Door And Home Security
You may have seen a little while ago a video and post on social media that grabbed the attention of our industry. Just in [...]
CNC Recycling Gains NFA Nomination For Recycling Company 2021
CNC Recycling Ltd has been nominated for Recycling Company [...]
UK Fenestration Must Do More As New UN Climate Report Warns Of “Code Red”
The most comprehensive climate change report to ever be [...]
Morley Glass And B&P Windows Team Up For Glass Recycling
This is a sponsored article by Morley Glass: Industry-leading [...]
It’s Time To Embrace Recycled PVCu, It’s Already Here
The other day I wrote about how the adoption [...]
INOVYN Creates New Type Of Sustainable PVC
Our industry, like so many others, has a lot [...]
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