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The Paddle2Pedal GM Fundraising team has completed its challenge of canoeing 100-miles down the river Wye, abseiling down the rock face at Symonds Yat, and then cycling 120-miles back up to Oswestry, raising more than £90,000 for Hope House Children’s Hospice in the process.

Sponsored by the Epwin Group, Paddle2Pedal is GM Fundraising’s first all-female challenge, with seven members of the team having previously never ridden a bike before, and only one member having any experience of paddling a canoe.

The team is hoping to raise over £100,000 in total and donations can still be made at the following Just Giving page: www.justgiving.com/companyteams/GMFP2P

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Image Above:  (Left to right) Photo shows Ian Short, managing director of Morley Glass and Glazing; Oguzhan Kukul, mechanical engineer at Best Makina and Jolyian Lee, agent and engineer, JSL Euromatics.

Morley Glass & Glazing, which specialises in manufacturing Uni-Blind® sealed units with ScreenLine® integral blinds inside, has invested £700,000 to increase production capacity at its factory in Leeds.

The fast-growing business has added a second IGU production line to the 50,000 sq ft factory premises it moved into 12 months ago.  It can now manufacture 3000 sealed units with integral blinds inside per week.

Ian Short managing director at Morley Glass & Glazing said: “We moved into these larger premises last year and used the opportunity to set up a production line specifically to manufacture sealed units with integral blinds inside. At the time, we invested in a 58-metre long automated sealed unit production line from Best Makina.  We’ve been so impressed with the quality and efficiency of the equipment that we’ve now invested in a second line to further enhance our capacity and meet customer demand for our popular product range.”

Morley Glass has achieved 30% year-on-year growth as demand continues to increase for its Uni-Blind® sealed units with ScreenLine® blinds inside, and this growth is set to continue.

The Uni-Blinds® range provides the widest choice of integral blinds in double and triple glazed units, with all manual, solar and motorised versions available in the industry’s shortest lead-time of 10 days from 11amany Friday.

Morley Glass & Glazing provides unrivalled technical support for Uni-Blinds® customers too, being the only UK supplier of integral blinds to have dedicated customer support engineers on the road. It also stocks the largest range of ScreenLine® system spare parts in Europe with the enlarged factory enabling it to stock £1 million of Screenline® components with most parts supplied within 24 hours.

For more information about Uni-Blinds® visit www.morleyglass.co.uk.

David Walker, Caldwell managing director

Having posted its mid-term financial results, hardware manufacturer, Caldwell UK, says it is on-course to end the year having ‘significantly increased’ turnover on the previous year, with the final results to be announced in December.

The company describes this as a ‘major achievement, considering the economic and industry climate’.

David Walker, Caldwell’s managing director, commented: “When you consider macro-economic factors such as Brexit and the general election, the results are pleasing.

“At a customer level, we have also brought on a record number of new accounts. This has been partly offset though by a dip in demand for some products, from a small number of existing customers. This has been due to what seems to be a national decrease in consumer spending on new windows and doors.”

David says that demand for its core offering of products for the vertical sliding sash window market has remained strong though, with the recently upgraded Ultra Lift 6 and Torso II proving to be ‘very popular’ with manufacturers.

Caldwell says it has also invested heavily in resources and infrastructure in 2017, launching its new robotic bi-fold testing facility, which tests the strength and durability of bi-folding doors and their hardware.

The business is also set to launch a state-of-the-art automated cyclic door testing rig, to test resistance against security attacks and ensure PAS24 compliance.

www.caldwell.co.uk

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Cambridgeshire based window and door hardware specialist, Mighton Products, has completed a new warehouse that will reportedly allow it to expand its existing on-site warehousing capacity and help cater for increased demand from new and existing customers.

The company, which is said to be the UK’s oldest established sash window hardware specialist, manufactures and distributes a wide range of products, including those designed specially for the timber sash and casement window market, and says the addition of the warehouse is part of a larger expansion plan that will aim to further improve and expand its product offering.

Mighton’s chairman, Mike Derham said: “We already offer a comprehensive range of over 2,000 market leading sash, casement and door products, and the completion of our new warehouse, which started in February this year, is part of a larger investment that will allow us to develop that offering even further, including our new and exclusive Mighton Ultra range of exterior paints and coatings for joinery, as well as range of high quality portable woodworking machines for joinery.

“The introduction of the new warehouse will also allow us to offer a bigger and better trade counter for our customers,” Mike continued. “We are one of the oldest and most respected suppliers of hardware in the UK, and this recent expansion is another landmark in the history of the company as we continue to grow and improve. The bigger warehouse has also meant we can take on two new employees, which together with the investment in stock and capacity, will ensure we have a great team in place to help meet future demand and further advance our customer service.”

www.mightonproducts.com

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A marketing summit to debate the timber industry’s priority marketing and communications campaigns post-Grenfell is being organised by the UK’s wood promotion campaign, Wood for Good.

The half-day event takes place on 14 September at the Friends House, Euston Road, London.

The agenda will include an examination of the implications of the Grenfell Tower fire for the timber industry, including a presentation by the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) on timber sales impacts. There will be further presentations by building control specialist Geoff Wilkinson, MD of Wilkinson Construction Consultants, on the regulatory industry’s current attitudes towards timber, and by Liz Male MBE, director of construction PR agency LMC.

Attendees will be provided with advice on how to identify the right opportunities, maximise the benefits and increase return on investment from trade shows and exhibitions, with expert insights from Stuart Devoil, head of marketing and brand at MEDITE SMARTPLY, and Trevor Crawford, MD of Event Marketing Machine.

Christiane Lellig, campaign director at Wood for Good, said:

“This marketing summit is a timely opportunity for the timber industry to identify the priority issues for Wood for Good’s marketing strategy in 2018 at a time of huge change in construction. It also allows the industry’s marketing and communications professionals to benefit from a supportive community and network of similar interests, all involved in promoting the benefits of wood and wood products.”

A networking lunch will provide further opportunity to discuss key matters with other attendees via an ideas exhibition. Members of the Wood for Good campaign committee will be attending including TRADA, the British Woodworking Federation (BWF), the Structural Timber Association and Swedish Wood.

Tickets are free for Wood for Good supporters, and £50 plus VAT for others. When booking, attendees can put forward three key issues they want to discuss at the summit, and suggest three topics they would like Wood for Good to include in its 2018 campaign.

woodforgood.com

Image Above:  ISO CHEMIE’sISO-BLOCO One tape was used to seal windows to a 0.8W/M2k rating with added 63dB of sound reduction at London’s new Whitechapel Hotel

ISO-CHEMIE’s high performance foam tapes have been specified to provide effective sealing of small tolerance gaps around new windows installed at a 30-room hotel development in London’s East End.

The ISO-BLOCO One tape was used to seal dozens of heritage-style aluminium windows to a 0.8W/M2k rating with added 63dB of sound reduction at the striking Whitechapel Hotel, which stands on the site of a former textile factory close to Brick Lane’s galleries and Asian restaurants.

The quick and easy-to-use self-adhesive tape accommodated external frame apertures, which varied in size from 2mm to 8mm, ensuring that the hotel’s industrial appearance is retained.

Installation of the new windows, which featured small profiles specifically designed to replicate the appearance of the previous Crittall steel framed ones, was undertaken by Suffolk-based GS Installations as part of a multimillion-pound overhaul of the site.

As well as providing a high performance and long lasting airtight solution, the tape ensures that the windows will remain weather proof to 1000 Pa – the equivalent to 130mph of constant driving rain.

Liam Scopes, joint director of GS Installations Ltd, said: “ISO-CHEMIE’s tape is an excellent product, meeting the requirements for effective sealing of small tolerances.

“It also enables us to stay ahead of the competition and undoubtedly enhances the overall look of this eye-catching hotel.”

Construction work was undertaken by CMT Construction, while Salisbury-based Synthesis Architecture oversaw design and project management.

Up to 70% cost savings can be achieved using the ISO-BLOCO ONE foam tape because it enables installers to seal windows from inside the building, avoiding the need to use time consuming and costly external access systems like scaffolding and ladders, in any weather.

The tape offers a single product ‘fit and forget’ solution for fast and effective sealing based around the European RAL principles of three level sealing – the inside seal area is more airtight than the external one, allowing any trapped moisture inside the joint, or within the wall, to escape outwards rather than into the building.

The external seal area provides weather resistance and breathability, while the intermediate seal area provides extra thermal and acoustic properties and the internal one air tightness and humidity regulation. All three levels are designed to accommodate movement between the adjacent materials.

The internal air tight seal has been tested at 1000 Pa pressure difference (20 times more than UK Building Regulations) and tested to achieve 0.00 m³ of air loss. At the same time, depending on tape width, it will also supply a U-Value as low as 0.55W/m2K and reduce sound by up to 63 dB, straight from the box. Product complies with energy saving regulations (EnEV) on windows and doors as well as the RAL quality assurance association and can accommodate extremes of temperature changes – from -30°C to + 80°C. More at www.iso-chemie.co.uk

Specialist building products extruder, Euroseal has launched a new service offer, geared towards supporting fabricators and plastics specialists in increasing efficiencies and lowering costs, by putting down their own and project specific extrusions.

Offering rapid turnaround and flexible capacity, Euroseal says it can support fabricators and plastic building products specialists reduce their own overheads through bespoke extrusion of products.

This includes extrusion to project specific requirements, reducing wastage and costs, as well as product development.

Chris Duff, Business Development Manager, Euroseal, explained: “We operate without any real limitations because everything we do is bespoke. It means we aren’t constrained by standard lengths or dimensions.   If you want something that’s normally available at a 3m length at a 2m length, then we’ll cut it for you.

“This means you reduce waste and either increase margin, or the competitiveness of your quote, because you don’t have to factor it into your cost model.

“In the same way, if you want a particular colour for a specific project, we have the flexibility to do it.”

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.

With capacity to extrude profile 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.

“One of the other things that we can do is work with fabricators, plastics suppliers or even installers to refine products”, said Duff. “We have so many conversations with people commenting on the off-the-shelf profile that they buy where they say, ‘if only it was slightly different it would be much better’ – the point is it can be!”

Euroseal offers a complete extrusion service, from initial concept to delivery. This includes, design and CAD creation and manufacture of tooling, to extrusion, quality control, personalization and packaging, plus shipment either for own distribution or direct to customers. It also offers financial support to its customers to invest in tooling on larger volume runs.

“Extruding your own profiles and putting down your own tooling takes away the limitations. It can also deliver significant savings on larger projects and in-house efficiencies. The volumes don’t have to be that big for the financial savings or return to stack-up.”

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

Devoted to Progress – Everglade’s 2017 Customer Conference proved a massive success at its London HQ and Showroom on Friday 7 July. Everglade customers and prospects gathered for the annual event, to hear about the latest trends in glazing from architect Emily Osler from London-based Granit Architects, what Brexit could mean for business from PwC’s Anna Wallace and the benefits of being a part of the GGF from James Lee.

Sales & Marketing Director, Jay Patel also launched three brand new products: Ecotherm 70HI, high insulation aluminium windows; aïr MOD-Series, new generation entrance doors and aïr 20SL, minimal frame sliding doors. Jay said: “The Everglade Trade Customer Conference has become a real highlight of our year and we love inviting customers and prospects to get the first-look at new products, learn about what’s going on in the wider industry and join us for our legendary hospitality. This year, we’ve gone the extra mile with some fantastic guest speakers. Emily gave us a great insight into what architects and homeowners are looking for in glazing. Most trends she identified overlapped with an Everglade product so our customers know that they can go out there and win that business right now. Anna from PwC talked to guests about Brexit. It’s the word on everyone’s lips at the moment and I think her talk has provided some much-needed information and reassurance for all of us. We also heard from GGF’s James Lee, who talked to our customers about how they could make the most of a GGF membership and its consumer schemes.” Jay added: “It’s our customers who join us year after year that make these events really special, so we always want to make sure that they get a lot out of joining us for the afternoon.”

As well as all of the information from the conference presentations, guests were treated to lunch, dinner and signature aïr cocktails from a professional mixologist at the event.

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Over the years PVCu System House Supplier, Selecta Systems, has grown a reputation for being the caring, friendly and supportive window and door profile system supplier, providing fabricators with a flexible and personal support package. The only UK based, independently and family owned window and door profile system supplier is building on its core values and ethos of providing a personal fabricator support and service package, as Marketing Manager, Mark Walker explains, with current and future developments from the marketing team at Selecta.

“Over the last 16 months we have expanded the marketing and customer sales support team, giving fabricators their own personal contacts for all their marketing and sales support requirements. The addition of Donna and Michele has enabled ourselves to focus exclusively on ensuring customers have access to all the latest marketing brochures and materials, whilst also providing support to the sales team. This pro-active approach has ensured that we make certain that customers don’t run out of marketing support materials, whilst giving them confidence that their requests are being dealt with effectively and efficiently and not miss out on promoting their range of products and sales opportunities.”

“This is backed up with a new range of elegant and lavish marketing brochures, with bold and fresh imagery displaying products in their surroundings whilst highlighting their benefits and technical innovations. Every piece of marketing material is not just a representation of Selecta, but a depiction of our customer and so it was important for ourselves to ensure that the marketing brochures stood out from the competition, something I believe we have achieved. The ever expanding marketing material collection does not end there with a series of new consumer product brochures and information based marketing and sales support materials in the design and development stage, whilst a 76+ page Profile Specification Guide will be launched and available in the very near future.”

The advancement in technology and digital presence, most notably through video and social media has seen businesses change the way they market their selves, their products and services. These are powerful platforms that if used correctly can reach a huge audience with very little expenditure. Selecta are certainly moving in the right direction and providing their customers with the promotional tools to take advantage of this lucrative area of marketing, as Mark highlights.

“New to our marketing armoury is the facility to offer fabricators branded promotional videos and electronic brochures. These really do provide customers with a personalised marketing package ready for use on their website and social media channels. The branded promotional videos have been a huge success, as they demonstrate the operation of products and work well on customers Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and other social media channels. The branded electronic brochures also work well especially when viewed as flip books on websites, providing a better visual presence. These compliment the hard copy versions and gives customers another avenue to promote their product range.”

Mark continues, “Talking of websites, we have just launched a brand new, fresh and easy to navigate website. The website is built around the new Selecta Systems and Advance 70 branding with defined sections for fabricators, installers, commercial and homeowner visitors. The website build has ensured that we focus on the Advance 70 brand and allows sales leads to be generated and passed on to our expanding pool of fabricators and installers. Phase two of the website development will see the launch of the Selecta Support Centre, which will be a dedicated customer only area with all marketing, technical and general literature downloads and information available to every Selecta fabricator. What this means is that all product related information is just a few clicks away whether it be images and brochures to technical manuals and test reports – information at their fingertips for their own promotional campaigns and website builds or for commercial and specifier requirements. There are other features in the pipeline that ensure that customers’ needs are met and surpassed.”

One of the key elements of the Selecta marketing package is that everything is prepared in-house in regards to design and creation. This gives flexibility and total control over everything that is produced for customers, with a graphic design service also available to those that require that extra support. This enables relationships to be built with a personal approach to customers’ requirements.

Mark concludes, “Ensuring that we offer a quality and comprehensive marketing and customer sales support package is of paramount importance to Selecta and that our products brand, durability and quality is well represented in front of the consumer. This in-turn gives our customers the right materials and confidence to promote and sell their range of products.”

If you’re interested in becoming a fabricator or installer and want to #bepartofthefamily contact us now on 0121 325 2100 or email marketing@selectasystems.com Visit www.selectasystems.com

Written by Mark Walker, Marketing Manager, Selecta Systems Ltd.