New Cost-Savings And Guaranteed Prices For Fabricators – Anglo Gets Back To Business Under Sullivan
Paul Sullivan has returned to the helm of window and door steel reinforcement specialist, Anglo, with a mission to support fabricators in driving down [...]
Things Are Not OK
There's a fair bit of commentary about the state of the market right now. This week, I published a guest post from Aled Davies [...]
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 [...]
F E A T U R E D A R T I C L E S
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 [...]
Origin Achieves World-Leading Powder Coating Accreditation
Origin, the UK’s leading manufacturer of aluminium doors and windows, has been awarded the internationally renowned Qualicoat accreditation for its state-of-the-art, in-house powder coating [...]
Let The Light In
Providing far more than a functional necessity, Victoria Brocklesby of Origin explores the integral role that internal doors can play in maximising natural light [...]
Sheerline Issues Statement On Continuation Of Supply
One of the big outstanding questions following Ultraframe's acquisition of Prefix Systems last week is what would happen to the customers who had purchased [...]
Origin Discusses Home Safety
Ben Brocklesby, Director at Origin, the UK’s leading manufacturer of aluminium doors and windows, discusses home safety and the key areas of concern for [...]
Black Is The New Black With New Uni-Blinds® Colour Option
Sponsored news from Morley Glass: Morley Glass has added a new black option for its Venetian Uni-Blinds® integral blinds range to provide the perfect [...]
Review: W Smart System Uni-Blinds® By Morley Glass
Around this time last year, I had a set of Decalu88 aluminium bi-folding doors installed at my home, with W Smart System Uni-Blinds kindly [...]
‘Incredible Response’ To Latest Uni-Blinds® Systems At 2022 FIT Show
This is sponsored news from Morley Glass: The 2022 FIT Show proved to be a tremendous success for Uni-Blinds® integral blind systems manufacturer Morley [...]
Saint-Gobain Achieves The First Zero-Carbon Production Of Flat Glass In The World
The race to produce glass with as little impact on the planet as possible continues to heat up, with the announcement that Saint-Gobain has [...]
Clayton Glass Sign Deal To Purchase Two Insulating Glass Unit Facilities
Fenestration industry M&A activity gears up again in the glass sector as Clayton Glass announce they have done a deal with Saint-Gobain to purchase [...]
S P O N S O R N E W S
Merchant Q1 Sales Up +0.9% Year-On-Year, March Sales Jump +7.2% Year-On-Year
The latest Builders Merchant Building Index (BMBI) report reveals [...]
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 [...]
D G B P A R T N E R S
profine Group Acquires EFP International B.V.
Today (07.10.2024), profine Group announced the acquisition of EFP International B.V. (EFP), a Dutch-based company with a global footprint, specializing in the design, development, and [...]
How Our Sector’s Biggest Publicly Traded Companies Have Fared
The fenestration sector, encompassing manufacturers of windows, doors, and glazing, has been navigating complex market dynamics in 2024. Key players like Eurocell, Deceuninck, Pilkington, [...]
Eurocell Share Price Sees Robust Gains
As of October 2024, Eurocell PLC, a leading UK manufacturer of UPVC products for the fenestration sector, has seen a significant rise in its [...]
Eurocell Reports Profit Surge In H1 Of 2024
Earlier this month Eurocell published its full results for the first half of this year. Despite a drop in revenues, which is fully expected [...]
UK Doors Online Acquires Performance Glass
We have fresh M&A activity in the fenestration sector once again as UK Doors Online announced that they had acquired Huddersfield-based Performance Glass in [...]
We’ve Focused Too Little On Ventilation
Over the past decade and longer, our industry, along with the wider construction sector, has been working hard to make sure that the product [...]
Vanishing Act
This is a sponsored article by Window Ware With its super compact, low-visibility design and wide colour choice to blend in with any style [...]
The Enduring Issue Of Trickle Vents
My most read post of ALL TIME on this website is a little post I wrote all the way back in 2009 and was an [...]
Trickle Vents Are The Marmite Product In The Window Industry
If there was ever a product that has split the opinions of the industry and home owners alike it has to be the humble trickle [...]
Why People Hate Trickle Vents
If we were to pluck out of thin air a product in our industry that has an almost universal disliking by the general public [...]
Apple’s iOS13 Will Crash Yale’s Conexis® Lock App
I have a long held belief that when it comes to smart door tech, no matter the product, there should always be some kind [...]
Smart Window & Door Tech Will Only Be A Success If Its Easy To Use
This year has seen a lot of smart window and door tech launched, most of it at the FIT Show. Whilst there have been [...]
DGB Joins Instagram!
I've done it. I've finally given in and decided to create a DGB Instagram account. There is much I don't like about social media, [...]
43% Believe The Fenestration Industry Is Ready For Smart Tech
Another week and another DGB poll has ended, this time with results that I would say are less than conclusive. At the start of [...]
NSG Group And Ubiquitous Energy To Jointly Develop Transparent Solar Windows
This article was originally published on the Ubiquitous Energy website Redwood City, CA – NSG Group (Nippon Sheet Glass, Co. Ltd. ), one of the world’s [...]
What Do Homeowners Really Think About Sustainability?
Sponsored news from Deceuninck UK: Rob McGlennon. Managing [...]
New-Build Homes Are Woefully Unprepared For Hot Weather
In the grand scheme of British summers, this one [...]
CNC Recycling – Investing For The Future
Sponsored news from CNC Recycling: CNC Recycling is delighted [...]
Eurocell Enhances Outdoor Living Solutions To Meet Increasing Demand In The Sector
This is sponsored news from Eurocell: Eurocell has extended [...]
CNC Recycling Strengthens Sales Team
This is a press release from CNC Recycling: UPVC [...]
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