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Industry NewsNEWS IN BRIEF• Hardware distributor Carl F Groupcoreports exceptional growth in orders fortilt & turn fittings.Carl F Groupco’s managing director, JohnCrittenden, said: “Credit must be given toour team who provide a comprehensive andresponsive service to our customers.“Specific focus has been given to tilt &turn product lines, including support andpromotion for Roto’s NT tilt & turn solution:the system, which was added to ourcatalogue in February 2019, has widened ourselection for customers, particularly withinthe commercial and specification sectors.”• Industry fundraiser, GM Fundraising, iscelebrating its 25th anniversary in 2020.Gary Morton, founder of GM Fundraising, said:“When we started GM Fundraising 25 years agowe had no idea what it would become.“Together, we’ve raised an incredibleamount for Hope House Children’s Hospices,which is the most important achievement.”To mark the anniversary, GM Fundraising ishosting a Silver Jubilee ball on 16 May 2020at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales.Email sarah@gmfundraising.co.uk orgary@gmfundraising.co.uk for further details.• Hardware specialist, Window Ware, hasbeen appointed as an approved hardwaredistribution partner for PVC-U systemscompany Kömmerling.The new partnership will give Kömmerlingfabricators exclusive access to WindowWare’s new Glide Hardware range ofpremium products for inline sliding PVC patiodoors, custom designed and manufactured byCiiLOCK Engineering.Fully compatible with the KömmerlingPremiLine system, this range comes tomarket thoroughly tested and endorsed bythe profile giant.Find more industry news at: www.total-fabricator.co.ukGLAZING SUMMIT LAUNCHES AWARDSAn awards event focussing on organisationalexcellence within the industry is set to take placeat this year’s Glazing Summit.The Glazing Summit Awards has been announcedas the newest addition to conference, whichtakes place on Thursday, 8 October, at EdgbastonStadium, Birmingham.Andrew Scott, founder of the Glazing Summitand CEO of organiser Purplex and Insight Data,explained: “We have some wonderful industryawards in the glazing calendar and the GlazingSummit Awards will be very different andcomplementary to these existing and wellestablishedindustry awards.Andrew Scott, founder of the Glazing Summit.Experience Award; Corporate Deal of the Year;“The Glazing Summit is all about raising standards Family business of the Year; Start-up businessand focussing on industry excellence and we’re of the Year; Fast-Track business of the Year; anddelighted to announce the Glazing Summit Awards Entrepreneur of the Year.as an exciting addition.”The awards are free to enter, with a ‘transparent,The list of award categories will include:independent judging process’, and entries open onSustainability Award; Employer of the Year Award; 1 March and close on 30 June.Outstanding Achievement Award; Customer www.glazingsummit.co.ukGROWTH IN WARM EDGE EXPORTThermoseal Group has reported and increase trialled by manufacturers far and wide.”in demand for its highest performance warmThermoseal will be exhibiting at a range ofedge spacers.exhibitions in 2020, including Glasstec DusseldorfThermoseal Group’s sales director, Mark Hickox (20-23 October), where it will once again be(pictured below), announced a 10% growth in the holding its popular ‘ThermoBAR’.Group’s export business which now supplies IGMark added: “Glasstec Dusseldorf is alwayscomponents to 48 countries in five continents.the biggest show for us and this year is setMark said: “We have seen significant interest in to be no different. We are again planning ourour products from a variety of export markets to popular ThermoBAR at McLaughlin’s Irish Barsuggest that this growth in sales will continue in the Altstadt on the Wednesday evening ofthroughout 2020 and beyond.the show. As usual, it’ll be free drinks, foodand entertainment, but you’ll need a“In 2019, we saw a 41% growth indedicated entry band to get in,sales of Thermoflex warm edgeso if you’d like to reserve yourspacer and the range of manualbands now, please e-mailapplication equipment wemarketing@thermosealgroup.supply. This product alone iscom and we’ll make sure you’renow sold in 15 countries acrosson the list to get yours.”four continents and is being10 TF FEB/MAR 2020 CONNECTING THE WINDOW, DOOR & ROOF FABRICATION SUPPLY CHAIN
AMA PREDICTSBI-FOLD BOUNCEA new report into the prospects for bifoldingdoors through to 2023, paints apicture of growth within an increasinglycomplex market.While forecasting headline increases, the BifoldDoors Market Report – UK 2020 to 2023from AMA Research, suggests significantshifts in prices and sector reach, defined by aseries of drivers.These extend from a growing pressure on pricepointin trade supply and potential challengesfrom other product areas, to consumerconfidence post-Brexit, and its impact onhome improvement and new-build sectors.Jane Tarver, senior research analyst, AMAResearch, said: “We saw market growthin bi-folds slow last year in comparisonto very positive growth between 2014 and2018, something subdued by the uncertaintysurrounding Brexit. We perhaps now havemore clarity about the UK’s directionof travel, and we expect this to lead tosustained growth through to 2023, albeit at aslightly lower rate.”AMA is forecasting growth in the bi-foldingdoor market across sectors of 7% this year[2020] but it argues that this may slow to5% by the end of the three-year period.Nonetheless, this represents total marketvalue of £113m by 2023. Aluminium remainsthe most popular material type, with themajority of bi-folding doors supplied, asexpected, as replacements for older inlinesliding products.NEW SUPPLY AGREEMENT: IG Doors of Blackwood, South Wales, has just signed a new three-yearsupply agreement with systems house, Spectus. Rhys Davies of IG Doors, which buys the Elite 70bevelled door outerframe from Spectus, said: “We continue to work with Spectus because the productquality and service is superb and they continue to proactively support our business needs.”8% INCREASE IN RECYCLING FIGURESEurocell, the UK manufacturer, distributor andrecycler of PVC-U window and door systems, hasannounced that it processed the equivalent of 3.2million PVC-U window frames during 2019 – ayear-on-year increase of 8%.Having invested millions in developing thecapabilities of its recycling facilities in recentyears, the company says it was able to stop tensof thousands of tonnes of PVC-U from ending upin landfill – approximately the same weight as3,700 double-decker buses.Eurocell has continuously upgraded thecapabilities of its Ilkeston and Selby-basedrecycling operations since 2009.Commenting on the announcement, Chris Coxon,Group head of marketing at Eurocell, said:“Operating in a sustainable and environmentallyfriendlyway has never been more important – ortopical. It’s something that we’re highly consciousof – and have been acting on - for more than adecade now. So it’s fantastic to have once againmade significant progress in output.”“We’re working hard to ensure that EurocellRecycle, our dedicated recycling division,continues to make a real impact. We plan toconsistently increase these figures announcedtoday and lead the positive work going on withinour industry.”The report, however, identifies a number ofkey trends, which have potential to redrawthe market. This includes the impact oflowered retail price points, which the authorsof the study identify as having the potentialto erode sales in some areas, while growingthem in others. www.amaresearch.co.uk“CONNECTING THE WINDOW, DOOR & ROOF FABRICATION SUPPLY CHAINFEB/MAR 2020 TF 11
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