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Yesterday brought to our desktops, the amazing fact that Wallace & Gromit were celebrating their 20th birthday. So today (5/11), the expectation was that the celebration would be of the failure of the plot by Guido Fawkes to kick back at the establishment. Alas no, the world is being sanitised – Sesame Street is 40. However, we have in the Fenestration Industry our own Yorkshire Men endeavouring to be just as radical – they have given us and entertained us at 'glasstalk'.

Pilkington energiKare™ tackles CO² emissions

Spectus Windows announces new management team

'Seniors Acquire AWJ Glass'

frameXpress provides a more secure future.

Carl F and Groupco Combine Forces.

Dibutyl Tin Compounds in Building Products Banned - New PVC Recipes on the agenda at the PVC Formulation 2010 Conference in Cologne

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glasstalk - the event the industry has been waiting for?

As a follow up to the earlier glasstalk networking event, Andrew & Matthew Glover along with Paul Godwin have done it again, they managed to get the good and the great from the industry together under one roof once more. glasstalk at first seems too simplistic and benign an idea to have much relevance to anyone, but it works. It works in ways even those that attended still haven’t probably grasped.

The day started off in the now familiar ‘glasstalk’ speed networking format, a combination of speed dating, and hi my name is “xxx” and I’m an alcoholic. It works, it works in a way that people get to meet others offering services and products they probably didn’t know they needed.

After a few sessions of table hopping and speed networking the session moved into the ‘on the couch’ phase. This was handled by Paul Godwin in a sort of Michael Parkinson/Robin Day style – it’s the person being interviewed and not the interrogator that matters. The warm up act was the all knowing Chris Ball of MBA associates; the subject was how and why companies fail. Given his wealth of experience with many of the well known names in the industry he has a lot to share. However, Paul missed out on asking Chris the most important question of all “Given your vast experience, what would be the System Company you would choose?” Strangely a question that Chris was more than prepared to answer.

Next up on the couch to face Paul was Dave Ruzicka, Sash UK. It was billed as a conversation on dominant suppliers and phoenix operations. However, it didn’t quite come over that way. The view given, and I am sure I am going to get corrected on this later, was ‘that without the competition Sash UK would be in a better place today’, which had us all looking in amazement at one other, and asking was that really what was said. Given that this was then repeated, people were left unsure of where this idea was coming from.

I would suggest that it is precisely because of competition, whether it is large, small, established, or a start-up, that Sash UK enjoys its position in the market place - it is these annoyances that make it a better company.

The afternoon session saw ‘Glass Pricing’ on the agend ...[ more ]

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In Box

Letter to the Editor

Dear Ian,

May we offer a cautious welcome to the emergence of the new Fabricators’

Alliance. As I have often said, anything that helps to bring structure to this industry is always to be encouraged.

What concerns us however is the group’s apparent shyness about its own infrastructure. Unless they all met by chance like ‘Strangers on a Train,’ can we assume they are bonded by some common factor and, if so, do they have some reason not to share this with us? ...[ more ]

John Ogilvie

Managing Director, Network VEKA

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Quickslide
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Technal
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A glazing system from architectural aluminium specialist, Technal, was chosen for Hafod Eryri – the acclaimed new visitor’s centre on the summit of Snowdon, and the highest buildin ..[  ]

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Windowbase
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Focal customers have been contacting Windowbase after being told that they will no longer be supplied with prospect data for window installers. In a recent letter to customers, Foc ..[  ]

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FrameXpress
frameXpress provides a more secure future
Leading fabricators frameXpress Ltd has recently been accredited with BS7950 : 1997 certification on casement and tilt and turn windows. The company is now entitled to use the Sec ..[ ]

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D&G Consulting
D&G report Cellular Foam Roofline Market will not
Hot on the heels of their recent PVC-U Window Industry study, independent window and roofline research specialists D&G Consulting announce the launch of the fifth annual PVC-UE Cel ..[ ]

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Sternfenster
Sternfenster has expanded despite the economic cli
Sternfenster is Lincolnshire’s largest manufacturer of windows doors and conservatories. They are more than keeping above water in this recession. Throughout the past two years Ste ..[ ]

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HL Plastics
Liniar launches new Mock Sash Horn
Liniar has launched a new mock sash horn for its sculptured suite. The mock sash horn is a decorative finish that adds character with a feature from traditional vertical sliding sa ..[ ]

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Carl F Petersen
Carl F and Groupco Combine Forces
Following a successful year celebrating its twentieth anniversary supplying window and door hardware to the UK market, Carl F Petersen Ltd is moving forward under new ownership. Th ..[ ]

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Newstead Trade Frames
Residents take a shine to new windows
It was an open and shut case to celebrate for residents at sheltered accommodation in Cheshire following the completion of a housing makeover which left them as clear winners. - Wi ..[ ]

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Door-Stop International
Door-Stop Wins a BEMA for Direct Marketing Success
Door-Stop International Ltd, the composite door supplier that delivers in three days, has been announced winner of the Best Use of Direct Marketing category in the much coveted Bui ..[ ]

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K2 Conservatories (The Burnden Group Ltd)
Contemporary aluminium on top
Much has been written about the history of the conservatory, but what of the future? K2’s aluminium roof system is increasingly being used in more contemporary conservatory install ..[ ]

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Window Widgets
Widgets and WERS show off
There were many that doubted the rationale for exhibiting at this years’ Glassex, yet Window Widgets had a very successful show, thanks to their Werbar window energy reinforcement ..[ ]

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Kestrel-BCE
Dibutyl Tin Compounds in Building Products Banned
The Commission of the European Communities has confirmed in its Directive 76/769 that Dibutyl Tin (DBT) compounds such as those used in tin stabilisers for PVC building products wi ..[ ]

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