Making Tax Digital: Two Weeks To The 7 August Deadline
Subbies who haven’t started can still be filed and finished in under an hour. More than 864,000 sole traders and landlords have until 7 August 2026 to send HMRC [...]
BM Group To Operate Under The Forterro Name Going Forward
New brand identity for BM products and digital solutions [...]
Fix Radio Prediction: Construction’s 2026 Recovery Will Stall Without Skilled People To Deliver It
Fix Radio’s key predictions for 2026: • Modest growth [...]
Saint-Gobain To Delist From London Stock Exchange
Saint-Gobain has confirmed that it will delist its shares [...]
Kombimatec DGS573 Sets A New Standard In Precision Cutting
Delivering Speed, Accuracy and Versatility for Aluminium Fabricators As [...]
F E A T U R E D A R T I C L E S
A L U M I N I U M
The Skills Shortage In Our Industry
Not too many decades ago you became skilled in a profession such as joinery, plumbing or glazing, by becoming an apprentice with a company where a skilled person taught [...]
Dutemann UK Closure Announced
In an emotional statement published on Linkedin this morning, [...]
Origin Achieves World-Leading Powder Coating Accreditation
Origin, the UK’s leading manufacturer of aluminium doors and [...]
Let The Light In
Providing far more than a functional necessity, Victoria Brocklesby [...]
Sheerline Issues Statement On Continuation Of Supply
One of the big outstanding questions following Ultraframe's acquisition [...]
G L A S S
Regency Glass Announce Collaboration With Corning Incorporated
Now, this is quite something. Lancashire-based IGU suppliers Regency Glass have announced a partnership with global glass innovators Corning Incorporated aimed at introducing a revolutionary new triple-glazed product that [...]
The Growth Potential For Integral Blinds Remains Huge
Our sector, like others, always looks for new products [...]
New AM-III Glass As Hard As Diamonds Developed In China
Scientists in China have developed a new type of [...]
When Will The Glass Shortage End?
Deliveries delayed? Missing items? It's probably because of glass. [...]
Saint-Gobain’s New Glass Furnace Reaches Halfway Point
Saint-Gobain's new glass furnace, currently being built in Eggborough, [...]
S P O N S O R N E W S
Baxi Joins BMBI Expert Panel As Expert For Heating And Hot Water Solutions
Paul Haynes, Product, Solutions & Marketing Director at Baxi, [...]
BDC Aluminium Is The Go-To Solution For Flexible Interior Layouts
Internal aluminium screening has become a popular inclusion in [...]
Endurance® Aluminium Boosts Installer Sales Support
As part of its commitment to its installer partners, [...]
Endurance® Doors Assures Customers Of Continued Exclusivity
Endurance® Doors, the manufacturer of high-end composite doors, is [...]
BDC Aluminium Adds Two Experienced Figures To Growing Team
Since their acquisition by Rocal Group in early 2024, [...]
D G B P A R T N E R S
Thermoseal Group Sold To Fenzi In Landmark Deal
Breaking M&A news from the UK fenestration sector as it has been announced that Thermoseal have been acquired by Milan-based Fenzi Spa Group for [...]
Everest Owed More Than £30m As It Went Under
Weeks after the collapse of one of the largest national installers of windows and doors, Everest 2020 Ltd, it has been revealed that the [...]
SIG Cuts Profit Forecast Amid Subdued Demand
Construction materials supplier SIG has issued a trading update in which is has downgraded it's profit forecasts amid subdued demand and weaker business activity. [...]
Inflation Finally Falls Back To 2%
In a boost for the UK economy, it was announced this morning that inflation in the UK had fallen to 2% last month, which [...]
Anglian Home Improvements Acquires Everest Assets
Following on from the announcement that Anglian would step in to fulfil existing Everest 2020 orders after the collapse of the company, Everest's administrators [...]
Apps Are Going To Become Key Consumer Sales Tool
I have written before on DGB about the immense amount of choice that exists in our industry now. Even for me, who actively works selling [...]
HTC One M8 Review
I have been using my HTC One M8 for a couple of months now, and given the importance of a smartphone in most people's lives, [...]
The Exciting Possibilities Of Glass Technology
Something a little different for today's post, a video. I found this small Israeli company, based in Tel Aviv, who specialise in glass technology. They [...]
Door-Stop’s Brochure Builder Points To Future Of Print Marketing
I'm not a Door-Stop customer, as some of you will know, but whether you are a customer or not, you have got to take your [...]
Support For Android As Well As iOS
I went to see a customer the other night, you know, on a proper "lead" ;-) and he had been looking online at composite doors, [...]
C H A R I T Y
S U B S C R I B E
Get weekly DGB updates straight to your inbox