Companies Ordered To Pay £1.55m After Falling Window Killed Coach Driver
St James and Lindner Prater Limited have been fined £1.3 million and ordered to pay £250,000 in costs following the death of coach driver Mick Ferris. Ferris, 53, died [...]
Saint-Gobain H1 2026: Construction Giant Demonstrates Resilience
Saint-Gobain has delivered a robust set of first-half financial [...]
Making Tax Digital: Two Weeks To The 7 August Deadline
Subbies who haven’t started can still be filed and [...]
Dual Seal Glass Enters Administration After 31 Years In Business
Huddersfield-based glass processor Dual Seal Glass Ltd has entered [...]
Gramo BV Formally Launches Mandatory Takeover Bid For Deceuninck
Gramo BV has formally launched its mandatory public cash [...]
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
Mutares Group Acquired Kawneer EU
Major M&A news once again, this time in the aluminium part of our market, as it is announced that the European arm of Kawneer has been acquired by Munich-based [...]
Helping The Trade Sell Luxury With Confidence
As energy performance continues to move up the agenda [...]
Homeowners Warm To Endurance® Aluminium Innovation
Endurance® Aluminium is helping to improve the comfort and [...]
A Coat Above
Endurance® Aluminium is highlighting its ability to offer fenestration [...]
BDC Aluminium Is Proudly Made In Britain
BDC Aluminium is a proud member of Made in [...]
G L A S S
Dual Seal Glass Enters Administration After 31 Years In Business
Huddersfield-based glass processor Dual Seal Glass Ltd has entered administration, bringing to an end more than three decades of trading under the company. A notice published in The Gazette [...]
Saint-Gobain Glass Brings The World’s First Lower-Carbon Glass Manufacturing To The UK
Saint-Gobain Glass has announced that the world’s first lower-carbon glass, [...]
Cornwall Group Flags Concerns To MP
Cornwall Group has raised its concerns about the impact [...]
AGC Glass Europe Acquires SGT (Germany)
Effective as of 1 January 2025, AGC Glass Europe [...]
Saint-Gobain Glass Wins Design Of The Year Award
Saint-Gobain Glass has won the coveted Design of the [...]
S P O N S O R N E W S
Beating The Heat With Integral Blinds
As the UK’s increasingly regular summer heatwaves begin, now [...]
BDC Aluminium Launches Two-Week Lead Time On Alitherm 400 Windows
BDC Aluminium is helping installers keep projects on track [...]
Flat Builders’ Merchant Value Sales In May, But Volumes Fell -5.8% Year-On-Year
The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report, published [...]
Supplier Price Increases Hit Merchants Hard
MRA Building Market Reports (MRA Reports) latest update on [...]
TechTinyHouse Relies On Swisspacer
When innovative engineering, environmental responsibility and uncompromising quality standards [...]
D G B P A R T N E R S
Inwido Acquires UK Manufacturer Sovereign Group Ltd
Inwido has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in UK-based Sovereign Group Ltd, further strengthening its position in the British fenestration market. The [...]
US Asset Management Firm Apollo Acquires Pilkington Parent Company NSG
US-based asset management firm Apollo has announced a strategic investment that will see funds under its management acquire control of Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG), [...]
Eurocell 2025 Results: Resilience, Margin Progress And Strategic Expansion
Eurocell’s full year 2025 results arrive against one of the most challenging backdrops the UK fenestration and wider construction supply chain has faced in [...]
Prepare For Price Increases
It appears the war in the Middle East is going to drag on for some time. Despite the weekly claims by the US that [...]
Aluminium Prices Are Rising Again
Aluminium prices are climbing again, and the latest movements on the London Metal Exchange (LME) suggest the fenestration industry could be heading towards another [...]
Haffner Launches New Machine To Support Fabricators With New Part F Regulations
This is a sponsored article by Haffner: With the update to Part F ventilation regulations that are due to come into effect in June [...]
Even Trickle Vents At 1.4 u-Value Isn’t Convincing People
The trickle vents are coming! It's not as scary as it sounds, despite the opposition from a variety of facets of the fenestration industry. [...]
There Is An Absolutely Valid Discussion To Be Had About Ventilation
As we approach the time where installers are deliberating on how to implement new guidance to abide by new Building Regulations, specifically on trickle [...]
The Future For Window Energy Ratings Looks Uncertain
The ramifications of the updated Building Regulations are becoming known as each day and week passes. As I understand it, there continues to be [...]
Fenestration Installer Ventilation Survey
Trickle vents and the newly updated Building Regulations are front and centre of minds right across the fenestration industry. In particular, the new regulations [...]
CNC Recycling – Going Paperless
Sponsored news from CNC Recycling: CNC Recycling is delighted to have introduced a new paperless and digital waste transfer notes software system to support [...]
Letter To The Editor: Giovanni Laporta – Less Is More
Letter to the Editor from Giovanni Laporta: As a designer and innovator, I am aware that inspiration comes from all sorts of places, and [...]
Smart Ready® Director Giovanni Laporta: Warts And All Interview – Part 2
Last week I published the first in a two-part special interview with Smart Ready® Director Giovanni Laporta. It gave us an insight into the [...]
Smart Ready® Director Giovanni Laporta: Warts And All Interview – Part 1
A few weeks ago I posed a series of questions to Smart Ready® founder Giovanni Laporta to get his take on himself, the industry, [...]
First TOUCH Portal Ordering System Goes Live At Endurance Doors
Sponsored news from Business Micros Group: Endurance Doors has launched the UK’s first TOUCH Portal live online ordering system, in partnership with the Business [...]
Could The Future Building Standard Be Watered Down?
Whilst the arguments over trickle vents continue to rage [...]
PVCu As Part Of The Sustainability Conversation
Martin Benn, Head of New Build at Eurocell, outlines [...]
Eurocell Invests Nearly £3million To Support Growth In Fabricator Network
Sponsored news from Eurocell: Eurocell has further demonstrated its [...]
Morley Glass Named GGP Installer Awards Finalist For Glass Recycling Service
Sponsored news from Morley Glass: Uni-Blinds® integral blinds manufacturer [...]
Sustainability Takes A Back Seat Amid The Cost-Of-Living Crisis
In February 2022, a study of 2000 UK homeowners [...]
C H A R I T Y
GM Fundraising Announces GMF100 Cycling Challenge Total
GM Fundraising has just announced that its GMF100 Cycling Challenge has raised an impressive £55,000. The funds will go to Hope House Children’s Hospices, [...]
91 Riders Sign Up For GM Fundraising’s GMF100 Cycling Challenge
This is a press release from GM Fundraising: Industry charity fundraiser GM Fundraising has announced that 91 riders have now signed for their new [...]
GM Fundraising Launches The ‘GMF 100’ Cycling Challenge
This is a press release from GM Fundraising: Industry charity fundraiser GM Fundraising has just launched a new team cycling challenge, which will be [...]
GM Fundraising Moves Peak, Paddle, Pedal To 2022
GM Fundraising has announced its 2021 Peak, Paddle, Pedal charity event to raise money for Hope House Children’s Hospices has been further postponed until [...]
Sterling Generosity From Two Industry Businesses
This is a charity article from GM Fundraising and Haffner Murat: Industry machinery experts Haffner Murat Ltd and Warrington-based fabricator Sterling Windows, Doors and [...]
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