Clearview National January 2018 - Issue 194 | Page 30

UKPAVILION
Export prospects for Korniche at Fensterbau
» » MADE FOR TRADE IS DELIGHTED
to be taking the Korniche Aluminium
Roof Lantern to Nuremberg this March
and joining other companies eyeing the
export market on the GGF organised UK
Pavilion.
MFT hopes to drum up maximum interest
for the stand by continuing its crowd-
stopping product build demonstrations
which many will remember from the 2017
FIT Show. The demonstrations will show
the European market how the innovatively
engineered Korniche can be quickly
installed by an amateur without the specific
product experience required for many of the
competing systems. The four-strong team,
array of product samples and the demo roof
will all be on hand to ensure maximum
impact with the international crowd.
Chris Wann, Business Manager at MFT,
said: “The Korniche Lantern provides us with
a great opportunity for export sales across
Germany and Eastern Europe and to help
encourage potential international partners
we can provide marketing material, POS and
the KwikQuote online pricing tool in any
language or currency.”
The daily demonstrations went down a
storm at the 2017 Batimat show in Paris
and MFT has been really impressed with the
positivity, and subsequent enquires received
from the French audience. With flat roofing
projects a more common sight in Germany
and the countries penchant for high quality
engineering, it is anticipated that Fensterbau
Frontale will be just as successful.
Bradley Gaunt, Manager Director,
explained: “Everyone we show the Korniche to
has been blown away by the product quality
and the innovative engineering visible in the
lantern. Re-sellers can immediately see the
potential in pushing the product and how the
on-site installation efficiency, slim sightlines
and class leading ‘timber’ aesthetics will appeal
to their customer; the product sells itself in all
languages.”
Chris added: “The sales of the Korniche
have over-run all expectations in 2017 and
the effect of all the extra exposure has pushed
sales of both our bi-fold and conservatory
roof into overdrive. We have reacted with
investment in new staff, premises and
machinery to place us in the best possible
position for servicing markets both at home
and abroad in 2018.”
GQA QUALIFICATIONS JOINS UK
PAVILION AT FENSTERBAU 2018
QUALITY THROUGH
QUALIFICATIONS
GQA Qualifications, the fenestration
industry’s only qualifications writing and
awarding body, will once again be a part of the
UK Pavilion at Fensterbau in March 2018.
Under their over-arching theme of ‘Quality
through Qualifications’ GQA will once again
be promoting how better qualified employees
can deliver better results for business,
including benefits to the bottom line.
Speaking for GQA Qualifications CEO
Mick Clayton explained their passion for
delivering better qualified employees to the
industry; “We have been writing industry
specific, work-place relevant qualifications
for over 25 years now, and under the banner
of ‘Quality through Qualifications’ we will
be explaining to employers how, by having
formally qualified employees in their business
they can deliver better products, better
services, and ultimately a better bottom line
performance”.
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“We have over 100 industry relevant
qualifications, and we are delighted to be
seeing an increase in the number of industry
employers engaging with our 70 Approved
Centres throughout the UK. Being a part
of the UK Pavilion at Fensterbau gives us
the ideal platform to raise our profile both at
home, with other UK businesses who visit at
Fensterbau, and abroad”.
‘make young people aware
of our industry sooner’
CSCS CARDS
During 2017 GQA‘s existing Q-card scheme
became a formal partner of CSCS, becoming the
sole provider of CSCS Cards to the Fenestration
industry in the UK, another significant
recognition of the important role GQA plays
in helping to deliver quality at all levels, and a
natural bolt-on to the work it does in raising and
maintaining standards in the sector.
BUILDING OUR SKILLS
IN FENESTRATION
GQA will also be promoting its newest
initiative ‘Building Our Skills in Fenestration’, a
campaign devised alongside industry employers
to help attract new young entrants to the sector to
bridge the ever-widening skills gap.
“Building Our Skills in Fenestration
is entirely complementary to the work
we already do in trying to get a qualified
workforce into the industry. This new drive is
designed to make young people aware of our
industry sooner, and to encourage them to the
make the Fenestration industry their career of
choice.”
www.gqaqualifications.com