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This week in short

Deceuninck:- new Heritage Window Collection offers a range of elegant, technologically advanced timber-alternative windows and doors, with a fully comprehensive marketing support package to ignite imagination.

Super Spacer:- receives award from the Passive House Institute, all three certified Super Spacer products exceed the required minimum levels of specific edge resistance for arctic climates and every climate zone lower.

Smartglass:- reveal pioneering, self-tinting glass technology for conservatories. This new glass technology represents the dawn in a new era of dynamic conservatory living, importantly for installers it can be handled in the same way as any other glass unit.

Pilkington:- advanced glazing helps Cambridge University ‘blue skies’ research centre achieve BREEAM excellent status. The University of Cambridge wanted the building to deliver cutting edge performance in terms of sustainability, and achieving BREEAM Excellent was a key goal for the project.

DW3 Products Group:- has launched a new IQD Quality Mark to mark its brands’ commitment to innovation, quality and design. Solidor, Residor, Window Widgets, and Residence Collection will display the QualityMark on their marketing communications.

Carl F Groupco:- has expanded its range of door locks with the addition of the Excalibur split spindle door lock from Kenrick.

Brisant:- sales have quadrupled in the last year as more door manufacturers have switched to sell Ultion security in their doors as standard.

Sealco:- timber and PVCu window fabricator Norscot is hugely impressed at the ease of fitting and enhanced function of the new, fully reversible Yale Revolution Hinge, available exclusively from Sealco.

blu™:- when PWG was looking to offer its customers an enhanced range of Marine Grade 316 stainless steel hardware, it scoured the market looking for a supplier that matched its own high standards and found that in blu™.

TuffX:- since the launch of the Ambience Ultra-Grey glass last year, they have noticed an increase in sales for the contemporary tinted conservatory roof glass and the hype for the product keeps on growing.

Letter to the Editor: DOORCO our pricing Jayne Sullivan

Dear Ian

In the spirit of transparency, back in Autumn DOORCO publicly set out our pricing strategy post-Brexit. While others took immediate action to hike prices, we pledged to keep an eye on the currency markets to see how things played out. With no signs of recovery however, this unfortunately resulted in us being forced to introduce a price surcharge. But unlike those suppliers who imposed a blanket price increase – some as high as 20% - we introduced a flexible surcharge index that we promised we’d keep under review and revise quarterly...[ more ]

Jayne Sullivan,
Jayne Sullivan, Operations Director DOORCO

Letter to the editor - Aluminium in conservation areas

Dear Ian,

See talk of heritage and conservation in the trade press, and more often than not the conversation’s dominated by timber – how it’s the quintessential vintage glazing material, and how manufacturers and fabricators have striven to produce something that has all its charm and elegance but with the exceptional performance and easy maintenance of uPVC.

In a sense, that’s not surprising –..[ more ]

Yours sincerely,

Tony Drake,
Managing Director of Fenster Fabrications

A progressive step forward to bridge too far for ‘over-taxed’ businesses?

Michele Wietscher, who is the joint founder of Newview Windows & Conservatories, says that although the introduction of the National Living Wage is the right thing to do, it comes at a time when businesses are facing rising rates, energy costs and the introduction of auto-enrolment.

On April 1st 2017, the National Living Wage is set to increase to £7.50 per hour for workers aged 25 and over in the UK.

The decision has been lauded as a step towards financial equality in the UK as the government plans a shift from a low wage, high tax, high welfare society to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society. –..[ more ]

Michele Wietscher,
Michele Wietscher, Director Newview Windows & Conservatories