OUTDOOR LIVING SPECIALISTS MILWOOD GROUP KEEP IT SIMPLE FOR INSTALLERS WITH NEW SIMPLICITY 6 VERANDA SYSTEM

Milwood Group, the UK’s leading manufacturer of aluminium verandas, canopies and carports, has introduced a brand-new addition to their offering. Designed to help both fabricators and installers break into the thriving outdoor living market, the Kent-based firm has launched Simplicity 6 – a high-end, multi-purpose veranda system.

Designed with versatility in mind, Simplicity 6 provides a solution that is suitable for multiple applications, whether it’s as a veranda, canopy or a luxury glass room. Easy to install and available with 6mm toughened glass, the Simplicity 6 can easily accommodate any budget or project.

“We’re delighted to launch our new Simplicity 6 system, a solution that has been designed to help businesses maximise the opportunities presented by the thriving outdoor living market,” explains Mark Wood, Managing Director of the Milwood Group. “As homeowners place greater emphasis on the exterior of their property and better connecting inside and outside spaces, Simplicity 6 is perfectly suited to help installers capitalise on this demand and for fabricators to best support their customers.”

Manufactured in the UK using the highest-quality aluminium, Simplicity 6 is available with a pitch between 2.5 and 22.5 degrees, and projections up to 3.2 metres. The system, which can also be colour matched to any RAL colour to complement aluminium sliding doors, can span any length to create a practical outside space for any size of a property.

“The Simplicity 6 is completely customisable to provide a high-specification, durable solution for any project,” adds Mark. “From a simple carport, to a deluxe veranda or glass room complete with self-cleaning glass, there are endless possibilities. The system can even be upgraded to include infrared wall-mounted heaters, integrated lighting, Victorian-style embellishments or the glass room package, which turns the veranda into a fully enclosed, luxury outside space complete with sliding doors.”

Quick and easy to install, the Simplicity 6 is uniquely glazed from underneath to avoid extended time working at height. Available with rapid delivery from Milwood’s centrally-located operations centre in Leicestershire, and with a full 10-year guarantee, the Simplicity 6 aims to be the most accessible shelter solution for both tradespeople and consumers.

For more information call the Milwood Group on 0330 404 9086 or visit www.milwoodgroup.com

Specialist extruder, Euroseal has reported that it has won two new major orders, worth more than £2million combined.

With one of the UK’s most technically advanced extrusion facilities, Euroseal is said to have extensive experience in the manufacture of a diverse range of thermoplastic extrusions, including rigid profile and co-extrusions in PVC, wood composite, HDPE, Polystyrene, Polypropylene and ABS.

Euroseal’s managing director, Chris Byers, said the new agreements represented a ‘very positive start’ to 2018: “Winning two very substantial contracts right at the beginning of the year, puts us in very good stead right at the outset.

“That in turn means that we have the confidence in the market to sustain our continuing programme of investment, switching on new lines, as well as expanding our operation to deliver increased capacity.”

This includes the six-figure investment made by the specialist extruder in a new twin-screw extrusion line, mezzanine floor and the construction of a new tooling design workshop and servicing facility.

Euroseal’s fifth twin screw line – and with a further four single screw lines, it’s ninth in total – the investment gives Euroseal a high level of service and product flexibility.

With the flexibility to extrude profiles from 40g to 6kg per metre and 0.7mm to 10mm thick, this includes construction products including curtain walling pressure plates, conservatory and window profiles, and cladding. It also manufactures electrical extrusions; automotive profiles; hygienic wall and ceiling profiles and garden decking.

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From left and right: Mark Herbert and Matt Prowse, joint managing directors of Mackenzie Glass, with Pilkington manager director, Matt Buckley

Bristol based glass merchant, MacKenzie Glass, has celebrated its official launch since acquiring Pilkington Bristol from NSG at the end of last year, a move that also sees it become Pilkington’s first ‘Regional Partner’.

The acquisition, that took place on 1 December, included the purchase of stock, a 37,000ft² purpose-built facility and the transfer of 46 members of staff.

While it is part of the wider Cornwall Glass Group, MacKenzie Glass will operate as standalone, independent business. Last year it supplied more than 1 million square metres of flat glass throughout the South West, South Wales, Southern England and Central Southern regions, and also offers a range of toughening, cutting and polishing services. As Regional Partner, it will actively promote and have full access to Pilkington’s full product range and delivery service, although it will also offer product from other manufacturers when necessary.

The new MacKenzie Bristol site reportedly has the capacity to supply more than 300 tonnes of glass each month, the majority of which is for IGU manufacture, with Pilkington KS (soft coat) said to be a ‘key staple.’ However, the company is keen to capitalise on its value added premium products and technologies in order to deliver maximum growth in the future, as Matt Prowse, joint managing director, explained: “If you have bought from Pilkington, the products that you have always bought will continue to be available on the same or better lead times.

“Going forward, however, we see significant opportunity for growth in added-value products like coatings, laminates – such as Pilkington’s Pyrostop, Optiview, Optimirror and Activ Range – which we believe can generate higher margin opportunities for our customers.

“The other point to make is that we are independent and have the additional flexibility to supply product from other manufacturers. If we can’t deliver it from within our own or Pilkington’s range, we’ll supply it from someone else.

“Culturally, we’re also perhaps a little bit different. The team of directors share a background in glass processing and we’re committed to working in partnership with our customers to add value to that relationship.”

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Specialist extruder, Euroseal has reported that it has won two new major orders, worth more than £2million combined.

With one of the UK’s most technically advanced extrusion facilities, Euroseal has extensive experience in the manufacture of a diverse range of thermoplastic extrusions, including rigid profile and co-extrusions in PVC, wood composite, HDPE, Polystyrene, Polypropylene and ABS.

Winning two new undisclosed clients at the beginning of this year, Chris Byers, Managing Director Euroseal, said with a combined value of more than £2m, its new agreements represented a ‘very positive start’ to 2018.

He said: “Winning two very substantial contracts right at the beginning of the year, puts us in very good stead right at the outset.

“That in turn means that we have the confidence in the market to sustain our continuing programme of investment, switching on new lines, as well as expanding our operation to deliver increased capacity.”

This includes the six-figure investment made by the specialist extruder in a new twin-screw extrusion line, mezzanine floor and the construction of a new tooling design workshop and servicing facility.

Euroseal’s fifth twin screw line – and with a further four single screw lines, it’s ninth in total – the investment gives Euroseal a high level of service and product flexibility.

With the flexibility to extrude profiles from 40g to 6kg per metre and 0.7mm to 10mm thick, this includes construction products including curtain walling pressure plates, conservatory and window profiles, and cladding. It also manufactures electrical extrusions; automotive profiles; hygienic wall and ceiling profiles and garden decking.

It has also built on its established partnerships with global tooling and extrusion machinery manufacturers to include an in-house tool design service – also offering financial support for customers to invest in tooling on larger volume projects.

Byers explained: “We’re seeing a lot of peaks and troughs in the market at present. That clearly presents a number of challenges for us or anyone else.

“Where we’re perhaps benefitting is that if you are at capacity or want to bring a new product to market as a systems company or building products specialist, those peaks and troughs make it difficult to justify that capital investment.

“And that’s really where we come in. We become an extension of their own operations, we work in partnership with our customers and to their processes and their own standards, giving them that capacity without the cost or the potential risks associated with major capital investment.”

For more information call 0121 344 4100 email sales@euroseal.co.uk or visit www.euroseal.co.uk

Enabling trade professionals to raise their game without incurring extra spend. Bosch Professional brings the GDR 18 V-160 Professional Impact Driver to the marketplace. Top of its class, the Bosch GDR 18 V-160 Professional Impact Driver leads the industry’s 18 V cordless professional impact driver class on price-to-performance ratio, says Bosch.

Users benefit from an impressive 160 Nm maximum torque, with variable speed control – up to a rapid 2,800 rpm – and an impact rate that reaches 3,200 bpm. The result is fast and easy work progress, even in heavy applications.

Weighing just 1.37 kg, including the 2.0 Ah battery, and a head length of 150 mm, the impact driver can be used with little effort. Its compact size is ideal for operation in tight spaces and when working overhead. The ergonomic design features a slim handle, whose 110 mm circumference and soft-grip covering add further comfort and control. A handy belt clip, a screwdriver bit and an LED light for better vision in dark workplaces are included in the standard specification.

Robust construction and easy serviceability, together with proven performance capabilities, make this an ideal tool for a wide variety of tradespeople. It is aimed at trade sectors like carpentry, building and electrical, as well as heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC).

Specific applications range from wood screwing and drilling to installing and maintaining HVAC systems, assembling wheels, constructing metal and erecting high racking. The driver comes with a quarter-inch hex bit holder and shank, compatible with a multitude of accessories.

As part of the Bosch Flexible Power System, the Bosch GDR 18 V-160 Professional Impact Driver is fully compatible with the comprehensive Bosch range of 18 V power tools, chargers and batteries.

It is now available from specialist retailers in a choice of packages. The Bosch GDR 18 V-160 Professional Impact Driver can be supplied in a Bosch L-BOXX carrying case, without batteries, at recommended retail price of £123.09. A kit containing the tool, two 2.0 Ah batteries and a charger, in an L-BOXX, sells at an RRP of £219.99. These prices are exclusive of VAT and are subject to change.

For further information, visit https://www.bosch-professional.com/gb/en/ 

The best way to speed up housing delivery is to get more small builders back into the market and focus more attention on the potential of smaller sites, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).

In response to the Prime Minister’s speech, Building a Britain fit for future, Brian Berry Chief Executive of the FMB said yesterday: “Small sites tend to deliver more quickly and smaller builders, for whom short term financing is more of a concern, have every incentive to build and sell quickly. More opportunities for these smaller developments will diversify the market, boost capacity and speed up delivery. The Government has clearly recognised this, and is today setting out a raft of changes to national planning policy that will encourage more small sites to come forward. We particularly welcome the move to ensure that at least 20% of the sites identified for housing in local authority’s plans are smaller sites.”

Berry continued: “However, we also need to be aware that the pace of building homes cannot be simply dictated. Those whose business is building houses have very few incentives to just sit on land. SME builders in particular have every incentive to build and sell as quickly as they can, so that they can recoup their investment and move on to the next project – nothing else would make financial sense. But developments can be stalled and slowed down for perfectly good reasons – from the financing difficulties which can often affect smaller builders, to downturns in market conditions. Building a house is a very significant investment, and house builders who build without being sure they can sell, don’t stay in business very long.”

Berry concluded: “There is reason to push back against developers who have a particularly poor track record of delivery, and those who seek planning permissions purely for speculative purposes, but the Government needs to make sure that rhetoric doesn’t get ahead of reality. It should recognise that attempts to force building at a rate which makes poor commercial sense could end up slowing down delivery. This could end up discouraging rather than incentivising the SME builders and new market entrants we need to diversify the market.”

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Glass Technology Services Ltd (GTS) will be bringing its expertise in glass research and development, analysis, testing and consultancy support to the 2018 Materials Research Exchange & Investor Showcase (MRE2018). GTS is attending the conference and will be exhibiting throughout the event, which takes place at London’s Business Design Centre on March 12 and 13.

GTS’ advanced materials-based research projects have attracted more than £4 million in grant-funding – for developments spanning glass, medical, defence, energy, laser, photonics and waste sectors. This makes the event the natural place for GTS to showcase their extensive capabilities in this field, discuss their innovations in glass and further engage and network with peers, project partners, funding bodies and potential clients.

GTS will present the latest glass technologies that it is currently working on, which include biomedical glass materials, ‘laser’ glass systems, 3D printing of glass components, glasses for the nuclear sector and novel ‘dissolvable’ glasses – designed for controlled release of ions and currently under development for use in the biomedical, oil and gas sectors.

Dr Nick Kirk, Technical Director of Glass Technology Services Ltd said:

“Glass is an advanced material with untapped potential to revolutionise our daily lives – from medicine, packaging and architecture to renewable energy, electronics, and aerospace. We are delighted to be exhibiting at the 2018 Materials Research and Investor Showcase to highlight the excellent research capabilities that we hold in this field. Our team will be providing examples and discussing the variety of applications in which glass is being used in the technologies of today and tomorrow.”

“If you are attending the event and would like to schedule some time with GTS to discuss a new project idea or any glass related research, analysis or support, please don’t hesitate to contact the team today – or visit the GTS stand at any point during MRE2018.”

Organised by Innovate UK and the Knowledge Transfer Network and supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (dstl), the conference will showcase a wide range of materials research and investment opportunities and provides visitors an ideal opportunity to hear about the latest trends and take a glimpse of future innovations.

The event organisers expect over 1,400 delegates to attend and conference sessions include key influencers from Ford Motor Company Limited, TATA Steel, NSG Global R&D, the Knowledge Transfer Network, SPECIFIC IKC, Henry Royce Institute, 7TH Design and Invention, Faraday Institution, BP International Centre for Advanced Materials and many more.

Glass Technology Services Ltd provides analysis, consultancy, testing and research and development support to all parts of the glass supply chain – from raw materials to the end consumer. GTS prides itself on its confidentiality and independence and is accredited to ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025 standards. For more information please visit www.glass-ts.com  email enquiries@glass-ts.com telephone +44 (0) 114 290 1801 or subscribe to the GTS newsletter.

Leading European systems company Aluprof have been awarded further prestigious Q-Mark Product Certifications by Exova BM Trada, for several of their window and door systems.  The Q-Mark scheme offers independent and impartial third party assessment of manufacturers claims as to product performance and quality.

Specifiers are beginning to place more emphasis on the Q-Mark scheme as it not only confirms the products claims, but also can be followed through to site installation by using the ‘Q-Mark window and door-set survey and installation scheme’ for installers.  Whist initial audits are carried out when certificates are successfully awarded to systems suppliers and installers, retaining certification requires passing future company audits.  Both schemes ensure that specifiers obtain the expected quality of the finished installed product.

Fabricators and installers who are Secured by Design members can use the Aluprof Q-Mark approved systems to offer fully compliant Secure by Design installations which combine the principles of ‘designing out crime’ with physical security.

Aluprof currently have their MB-70 open in and open out window certified, their MB-86 open in window certified and their MB-70 & MB-86 doors certified by Exova BM Trada.   MD of Aluprof UK, Wojciech Brozyna explains, “We have long recognised that ‘installed quality’ is the basis of why construction professionals continue to specify both systems, and sub-contract companies, for fenestration products on their projects.  The Exova BM Trada scheme is becoming well recognised as the independent and impartial third party assessment scheme of choice.  At Aluprof, we continue to pride ourselves on systems design, quality and service, this scheme recognises our efforts in all these areas.”

To complement the existing certified systems from Aluprof, the company has a further twelve products which are currently under audit, pending certification.

Aluprof’s extensive range of systems extend to unitised curtain walling, sliding folding doors, commercial doors systems and a wide range of window systems, all of which are increasingly being specified on a variety of residential and commercial projects across the UK and overseas.  All systems are designed and installed by selected, specially trained companies to ensure each product meets Aluprof’s exacting standards.  Further information is available on the company website at www.aluprof.co.uk