Myles Robinson: Big Nationals “Won’t Be Able To Compete” In A Digital Future
MR Home Improvement Marketing Director predicts that innovative home improvement companies like his are well on their way to becoming the status quo. Home [...]
Fenestration Expert Holly Bramwell Joins Zehnder Group UK As Divisional Manager, Window Vents
Leading provider of indoor climate solutions, Zehnder Group UK, is pleased to announce the appointment of Holly Bramwell as its new Window Ventilation Divisional [...]
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 [...]
F E A T U R E D A R T I C L E S
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 [...]
Review: Origin OI30 Aluminium Internal Doors
If you follow me on social media you will know how much I love these doors. We sell and install them at our place [...]
Origin’s Solution To Standing Out From The Crowd
Customers are clearer than ever on their expectations when purchasing a property, no matter whether it’s for residential or commercial purposes. Now, more than [...]
Creating The Soho Lifestyle For Your Customers
The bespoke Soho External Door combines an elegant design with meticulous attention to detail. On top of delivering a steel-look design that’s been inspired [...]
Origin, The UK’s Leading Manufacturer Of Aluminium Doors And Windows, Discusses Home Improvements In 2024
2024 is gearing up to be an exciting year for home renovations. After navigating a tumultuous housing market marked by unpredictable fluctuations in mortgage [...]
Could The Solid Roof Market Be Just A Temporary Niche?
I am a massive believer that the rapid rise of the solid roof market was down to the fact that there simply was not a [...]
The Best Smart Window May Just Have Arrived
Innovations in the glass sector always continue to amaze me. Out of all the facets which make up the fenestration sector, glass is perhaps the [...]
Electrochromic Glass To Become a $4.2bn Market By 2023
The glass we use in our windows and doors in the residential and commercial sectors is getting smarter, quickly. It's not just becoming more and [...]
Mixed Fortunes For The Two Largest Glass Houses
My post yesterday made for good reading for many of the companies featured, as their share graphs showed a nice steady rise throughout the year. [...]
Japanese Researchers Have Produced A Glass That Is Almost As Strong As Steel
Imagine a window with glass that is about as strong as steel, yet is thin and light. Thanks to Japanese researchers this has come one [...]
S P O N S O R N E W S
Origin: The Impact Of Colour
Ben Brocklesby, Director at the UK’s leading manufacturer of [...]
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 [...]
D G B P A R T N E R S
Evoframes Pre-Pack Sale To Rooms & Views
We always knew 2024 was going to be another tough year, and not long into this new year we have a notable administration in [...]
Profits In Line With Expectations At Eurocell
It is earnings season once again the fenestration sector as the largest publicly traded companies begin to report on their 2023 results. Eurocell have [...]
Is Our Long-Distance Love Affair Over?
Bohle’s Managing Director Dave Broxton asks if our reliance on the Far East for cheap products is coming to an end. It would be [...]
Brisant Acquires 3 Star Lock Business Deseo
On Friday 5th January Brisant Secure acquired the business and intellectual property of Deseo Locking Systems Limited for an undisclosed sum. Deseo, based in [...]
Endurance Acquisition Of BDC Aluminium Shows Major Intent
Last week Rocal, producers of Endurance Doors, announced that they had acquired Witham-based BDC Aluminium. It meant the year started with a bang as [...]
Caterpillar’s New S60 Phone With In-Built Thermal Imaging Camera Could Be A Rep’s Next Gadget
Are you a sales rep? If so, have you considered using thermal imaging as part of your sales demo? If you have but thought it [...]
How Will Lead Generation Look In The Future?
It's fair to say that the internet has changed everything. It's changed how we entertain ourselves. It's changed how we buy goods and have them [...]
Window Ware Launches Libra Smart Cylinder – The New Innovative App-Controlled Smart Lock from Italy
Window Ware is pleased to announce a new product launch, the Libra electronically operated smart cylinder lock from ISEO. Recent years have seen [...]
Corning: The Glass Age
If you're reading this very article on your smartphone, it's highly likely that the glass your finger is on right now is made by the [...]
Google’s “Mobilegeddon” Update Starts Today
Last week I wrote about Google's impending change to it's search algorithm. It's a change which is going to start ranking higher websites that are [...]
Fenestration Has To Focus On Sustainability In 2021
2020 was supposed to be the year where we [...]
The Issue Of Industry Sustainability Hasn’t Gone Away
Its nearly September, COVID has dominated pretty much all [...]
Ground-Breaking Thermocill Could Save Householders Hundreds Of Pounds
Scientist’s findings show that a simple yet ground-breaking device [...]
10 Ways To Make Your Fenestration Business More Sustainable
2020 is very much the year of sustainability. As [...]
Morley Glass & Glazing And Saint-Gobain Glass Take Recycling To The Next Level
This is a sponsored article by Morley Glass Integral [...]
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