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PROUD SPONSOR OF INDUSTRY NEWS
MAKING A FASHION STATEMENT
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MIGHTON PRODUCTS RECENTLY made its catwalk debut at a prestigious London fashion show on 18th May, thanks to an unusual request.
Student, Harry Gibbs, who is in his final year at renowned arts college, Central Saint Martins, was researching alternative materials for the university’ s end of year runway show, when he stumbled across Mighton’ s stainless steel sash chain. After originally planning to use the sash chain for jewellery, he ended up creating a full outfit from the product, and contacted the hardware specialist with a request for sponsorship in order to help him realise the designs.
While Harry’ s appeal was definitely one of the most bizarre to ever land in the company’ s inbox, arrangements were made to supply a total of thirteen 15m rolls of sash chain to help with his project. Mighton’ s Kelly Softley said:“ After realising the effort and dedication he’ d put in to his work, we were only too happy to help.”
Harry’ s garments, which took around 70 hours in total to complete, were part of the Central Saint Martins College fashion show, which was attended by around 75,000 people and has previously been judged by the likes of Celine and Luis Vuitton and covered by Vogue.
www. mightonproducts. com
CELEBRATING A YEAR OF INTEGRATION
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THE SMALL MATTER OF a long overdue high-speed broadband installation may be seen by some as the conclusion of a year-long transformation of the former City Beads Halo fabricator into part of The Glazerite UK Group but in many ways, it was more like the beginning.
“ Up to then, everything had been paper-based for the 32 years of our existence,” Mark Smith, former MD of the Peterborough company and now director designate of the new division,
Glazerite East, explained:“ Only when that changed could we really begin to move forward.”
‘ we made the best use of that time’
Group Director, Jason Thompson, said the lack of broadband strength, and the delay in the provider remedying the problem were a major setback:“ This meant we were not able to introduce our Evonet management and other systems for the better part of a year. However, we made the best use of that time.”
Over £ 125,000 was spent on new quad and crucifix welders from Winmac, another £ 50,000 went on bringing the IT in line with the existing Glazerite systems and more was spent on signage, vehicle livery and new windows and doors to bring the site inline with the new group brand.
www. glazeritewindows. co. uk
New HQ shows commitment to UK and Ireland markets
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SWISSPACER, THE leaders in warm edge and innovation, announces the opening of its new UK HQ, demonstrating its commitment to building its markets in UK and Ireland.
The modern and spacious building is built for growth and includes offices, meeting facilities and a showroom in one
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of the most conveniently located industrial estates in Milton Keynes. Agnieszka Wronska, Branch and Operations Manager and Geoff Davies, Sales Manager for the North, Midlands and Ireland have been appointed, in addition to staff who will process customer orders.
From mid-June, sealed unit manufacturers and fabricators
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can collect SWISSPACER’ s warm edge spacer bars directly from the new centre. In addition, the new HQ will be a centre for events, such as Passivhaus conferences, CPD training sessions and customer meetings. SWISSPACER’ s new Laser Marking Service will also be based in the building. |
John Cooper, Head of Marketing and Sales UK & Ireland, says:“ SWISSPACER has always led the way in product innovation, and with more and more direct customers joining us, we felt it was the right time to invest in our UK distribution.”
Call 01908 335190.
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