Building Our Skills – Making Fenestration A Career of Choice (BOS) has embarked on a recruitment drive with a difference - ‘highlighting the need for the industry to come together and eliminate its ever-growing skills gap’. Continuing to build on its key objective, heighten awareness of the Fenestration industry to new and young people, [...]
Masterframe Windows is one of the very few vertical slider manufacturers to have achieved the British Board of Agrément “Whole of Life” performance tested status for all the sash windows it produces. The onerous 20, 000 cycle endurance test simulates a “whole of life” test to prove longevity and guarantees a full BBA approval. [...]
For Kolorseal, one of the UK’s leading colour coating companies, there has been a recent surge in orders for striking new colours in the range. Despite tough market conditions over the last 12 months, homeowners have continued to invest in their houses and drive the market forward. For Deborah Hendry, Managing Director at Kolorseal, [...]
Building Our Skills has had confirmation from the Midlands Energy Hub and BEIS that the funding provided for skills training is unaffected by the cancellation of the Green Home Voucher Scheme. Speaking about the announcement and the funding, Building Our Skills Ambassador John Ogilvie commented “I think there had been a feeling for some [...]
On that one day, everything changed, everyone thought they saw it coming but nobody thought it really would, a lockdown, and a pandemic so serious that it would force Masterframe, along with many other manufacturers and businesses to close its doors. In procession of a full order book, it seemed for a brief while [...]
Onsite 7 the new cloud-based job management software designed for the trade by the trade, has been attracting attention from many installers looking to make job management more straightforward. Rhys Hoddinott, CEO at Onsite 7, said: “As industry people ourselves, we know what installers really need to manage their jobs efficiently. It’s why we’re [...]
Integral blinds manufacturer Morley Glass & Glazing is set to make a big impression with its 110m2 exhibition stand at the FIT Show in September. Managing Director Ian Short said: “We are taking more than three times the amount of space than in 2019. The extra-large stand will have access from all sides to [...]
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 2022. Gary Morton, the founder of GM Fundraising, said: “Having already postponed our scheduled 2020 event back to 2021 due to the pandemic, we are disappointed to reschedule again. With [...]
Worksop-based We-Fit Windows, Doors and Conservatories are capitalising on the trend for solid roof conversions. Gareth Matusevics, We-Fit’s Managing Director, says that Leka Systems is one of the reasons why. He said: “The market for solid conservatory roofs is growing rapidly and in the Leka Warm Roof and the Leka Orangery Roof, we have [...]
Innovation can take many forms. For Liniar, this means launching new, cutting-edge products and continually improving its existing product range to be more efficient in terms of security, safety or energy efficiency. The latest new development has now been launched and relates to Liniar's ModLok™ Patio Door system – providing fabricators with the ability [...]
