April 2022

News Roundup
TAKE OFF FOR VEKA
L-R: Simon Scholes; Andreas Hartleif; Norburt Bruns;
Edward Lipinski-Barltrop
VEKA Group CEO Andreas Hartleif has
officially opened VEKA Recycling new £15
million recycling plant at Wellingborough
– 15 months after the facility came fully
on-stream.
This is the third to be built by VEKA since
1993 and said to be Europe’s most
advanced. Andreas was accompanied
by Norburt Bruns, VEKA Recycling Group
Chairman and Managing Director of VEKA
Umwelttechnik GmbH, the specialist division
of which VEKA Recycling Ltd is a part of,
UK Managing Director Simon Scholes, and
Operations Director Edward Lipinski-Barltrop.
Restating VEKA Group’s commitment to
a holistic approach towards PVC-U, Herr
Hartleif told staff that the UK remained one of
the company’s most significant markets: “As
one of the World’s largest users of PVC-U the
UK remains a key market for VEKA Group.
“As such it is important for UK to be as
self-sufficient as possible, and now served
by a recycling facility that allows the full
processing of PVC-U without the need for
transport overseas.
“The completion of this site has been
a remarkable achievement, against the
toughest conditions created by the global
pandemic, and also for advancing the quality
of material now achievable through recycling
end-of-life frames.”
www.veka-recycling.co.uk
ROLE SPECIFIC DASHBOARDS LAUNCHED
Business Pilot has brought in dedicated landing
dashboards defined by job function within
installation businesses.
Up until now, all users regardless of the role that they
perform, have landed on a ‘standard dashboard’
when they have logged onto Business Pilot.
Going forward, a major update of the installer
CRM and business management tool means users
can choose a dedicated dashboard depending on
the role or roles that they perform.
This includes its Sales Dashboard, Survey
Dashboard, Service Dashboard, and Ops Dashboard.
Each is designed to bring the most useful tools,
Edgetech has responded to
the worsening humanitarian
situation in Ukraine by
donating to the Disasters
Emergency Committee’s
Ukraine Crisis Appeal.
Edgetech UK has donated
£5,000 to support the organisation’s efforts to help
those affected by the conflict.
The company’s employees have also donated
goods to be sent to the region, collaborating
with Feed the Hungry Coventry Food Bank, a
dependent on role, to the fingertips of users.
It also allows users who perform multiple roles
within a business to switch between them,
bringing the tools they use to perform each role
into a single dedicated dashboard. The update
delivers a big visual change”, explained Elton
Boocock, Managing Director, Business Pilot.
He continued: “It simplifies what you see when
you log in, pulling in the elements that as an
individual you need to access, depending on what
you do, so you can get straight into what you need
to do.”
www.businesspilot.co.uk
EDGETECH SUPPORTS UKRAINE APPEAL
Thanks to recent strategic investments,
February was a record month for arched and
angled frame manufacturer Premier Arches,
outperforming the same period last year by an
impressive 105%.
The company has also beaten its October 2021
sales by 29% and its November 2021 sales by
12%, typically two of its busiest months of the
year.
Managing Director Sean Greenall commented:
“Sales in February outperformed all previous
months since the birth of Premier Arches in 2015,
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local charity Edgetech has
supported previously.
Meanwhile, Edgetech’s
European arm has donated
5,000 Euros to German aid
charity Aktion Deutschland Hilft.
Edgetech Managing Director Chris Alderson
commented: “We routinely supply customers
across Ukraine and the wider region, and our
thoughts are with them at this incredibly difficult
time.” www.edgetechig.co.uk
A RECORD BREAKING MONTH
including last summer, which is unheard of seeing
as February is both a short and typically quiet sales
month in the fenestration industry.
“Through December and January, we have made
significant improvements to our machinery,
manufacturing flow, training and recruitment,
meaning we are confidently set up to grow.
“We are ready to onboard many more new
customers as well as deal with increased demand
from our existing fabricators, trade counters and
installers.”
Email: info@premierarches.co.uk
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