Back To Basics: Sustainable Pricing & The Hidden Value Of Your Product Warranty
Guest article by Aled Davies, Sales Director of Consort Windows: As we reach the halfway point of 2025, it’s a good moment to reflect [...]
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 [...]
Time For An Authentic Upgrade: Victorian Sliders Launches Deep Bottom Rail For ECOSlide Sash Windows
Victorian Sliders®, the UK’s leading manufacturer of PVC-U vertical sliding sash windows, is proud to announce the launch of a [...]
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. [...]
AluFold Direct Set To Enter Administration
I fear it may have been too early for me to write just last week that [...]
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Origin Launches OW-70 Soho Window To Revolutionise Steel-Look Market
Origin, the UK’s leading manufacturer of premium aluminium windows and doors, has launched its groundbreaking OW-70 Soho Window. The exceptional design sets a new [...]
What Trump’s Tariffs Could Mean To UK Fenestration
An already complicated and difficult trading picture for our sector just got a little bit more so as the US implemented 25% tariffs on [...]
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 [...]
ASSA ABLOY Acquires Senior Architectural Systems
Another week another acquisition, and this one is a big one in the aluminium space once again. Juggernaut group ASSA ABLOY have announced they [...]
Dutemann UK Closure Announced
In an emotional statement published on Linkedin this morning, Dutemann UK Ltd owner announced that the company has now been forced to closed due [...]
Morley Glass Completes 2023 FIT Show New Product Line-Up With Switchable Smart Glass
Morley Glass will launch a further new addition to its product portfolio at the 2023 FIT Show with a debut for its new switchable [...]
Glass Giant Invests In Sustainable Glassmaking In St Helens
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, is making a multi-million-pound investment in its Merseyside facilities as part of a government-backed project [...]
Vacuum Insulated Glazing: Yes Or No?
Over the past week or so, a debate on Twitter, which has sometimes become slightly heated, has been raging about the use of vacuum [...]
New Integral Blind Colours To Make Debut At 2023 FIT Show
Sponsored news from Morley Glass: Visitors to the Morley Glass stand at this year’s FIT Show will have their first opportunity to see new [...]
The Performance Of Glass To Be Put To The Test In Net Zero Energy House 2.0
Double and triple-glazed windows featuring high-performance glass from Saint-Gobain Glass will be put to the test in a unique £16m research facility designed to [...]
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Endurance Team Has Heart
Staff at the Endurance® group have once again staged [...]
Glyngary Launches Free Digital Marketing Fitness Audit To Help Installers
Cheshire-based Glyngary Joinery, a leading trade-only supplier of handcrafted [...]
Certass Chair Jon Vanstone Awarded Honorary Fellowship By CABE
London, 9 May 2025 — Certass and Certass Trade [...]
Endurance Continues Drive For Customer Experience Excellence
Endurance® Doors is building on its commitment to delivering [...]
Achieving Qualicoat At Origin’s Powder-Coating Facility
David Bunker, Operational Risk and Supply Chain Director at [...]
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Everest Windows Warns Of 8.9% Price Increase
In an article published today in The Telegraph, Everest Windows, the rebranded Everest Home Improvements after Anglian Home Improvement took over the deceased company, [...]
Forterro Continues Expansion Into The Fenestration Industry With BM Group Acquisition
The deal builds on the acquisition of Orgadata AG in 2024 to further grow the new Forterro Windows and Doors line of business. London, [...]
Dempsey Dyer Confirm Closure After 47 Years
After staff began to make posts on LinkedIn last week about the closure of Dempsey Dyer, the company has today confirmed via its website [...]
Vitrine Systems Limited In Administration Due To ISG Collapse
We were warned that the collapse of construction giants ISG would have ripple effects, and the fenestration sector would not be spared from that [...]
Saint-Gobain Agrees To Acquire Kilwaughter
Saint-Gobain reaches a binding agreement to acquire Kilwaughter, a leading façade mortars player in the UK and Ireland Saint-Gobain has reached a binding agreement [...]
10 Companies To Watch For In 2022
Every year I take a look at some of the companies that I believe will make a big splash in the coming 12 months. [...]
Who Will Enforce The New Trickle Vent Regulations?
As you may now well be aware, updated Building Regulations were published last week. I explored some of the major points that will directly [...]
New Building Regulations Announced – What It Means For The Fenestration Sector
The long-awaited revisions to Building Regulations have finally arrived and there are a number of updated regulations that are going to have a direct [...]
Guest Post: The Vexed Issue Of The Trickle Vent
As consultations around the Government’s new Future Buildings Standard close, VEKA Plc’s Technical Director, Paul Kennington, applauds plans to make homes more energy efficient [...]
Top 5 Tips When Choosing New Windows And Doors
Purchasing new windows and doors for your home is one of the biggest and most expensive home improvement projects you will carry out. The [...]
Compusoft To Aquire First Degree Systems
This is a statement from First Degree Systems: Compusoft Group, a leading global visual CPQ provider, today announced an agreement to acquire First Degree [...]
Guest Post: Times, They Are A Changing!
This is a guest post from Alan Burgess, Chairman of Masterframe: Someone once said the world has changed more in the last 400yrs than [...]
Three Quarters Of Our Business Is Now Done Digitally
During lockdown, many businesses in our sector, including ours, made rapid changes to digitally transform their businesses to allow them to function whilst most [...]
Brisant Launch Trade Facebook Page
This is a sponsored article by Brisant Secure: Brisant-Secure is all about making it easy for locksmiths to sell locks and door installers to [...]
Apply For One Of Five Free Virtual Showroom Tours Courtesy Of The NFAs, Fenestration Digital And Morley Glass
In an effort to help installers adapt to the new normal as the industry begins it’s toughest ever fight, Morley Glass has teamed up [...]
CNC Recycling To Support Building Our Skills
Sponsored news from Building Our Skills: Building Our Skills [...]
Morley Glass Hits 1,000-Tonne Glass Recycling Milestone
Sponsored news from Morley Glass: Uni-Blinds® integral blind manufacturer [...]
£1bn In New Grants For House Insulation Measures, But Nothing For Windows Again
Another Government brings with it another new initiative to [...]
Government Must Go Further To Insulate Britain
Craig Robertson, Managing Director of Granada Secondary Glazing, the [...]
Energy Calculator From Deceuninck Drives Sales Of Energy Efficient Windows
Sponsored news from Deceuninck: Deceuninck has developed a unique [...]
C H A R I T Y
Grabex Windows In Race To Provide Funding For Demelza Hospice
After 1016 lapses completed in 24 hours at the Teesside Karting - the first in a series of major endurance races based both in [...]
Help Out A Friend!
I like to think we're a generous bunch. In fact I know we are. The industry gave great support to Philip Parry of Eurocell when [...]
Help Philip Parry!
For those of you who don't know, Philip Parry is a star within the Eurocell family. I have met him myself and thought he was [...]
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