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GLASS&SEALEDUNITS
NEW APPOINTMENT AND GLASS FOCUS AWARD WIN
» » FLAT GLASS MANUFACTURER SAINT-
Gobain Building Glass is celebrating winning
the Strengthening People Through Business
Award at the 2018 Glass Focus Awards, run by
British Glass, which has also appointed Steve
Severs, managing director of Saint-Gobain
Building Glass, as its new president.
The award win comes after the company
commissioned a full review of its business
processes, and then set about empowering
local teams to build their vision of the best
way to provide the service-driven delivery
Saint-Gobain is committed to.
Staff were asked for ideas from current and
previous workplaces and undertook a total of
1,300 hours of external training. A team of 35
documented the existing working practices,
envisaged the ideal way forward, then put the
plan into reality.
Steve Severs says: “Visibility and
communication between disciplines has
massively increased, together with respect for
colleagues’ challenges and a willingness to
work together. Despite exceptional market
forces and multiple manufacturing issues, this
has enabled strong decision making, higher
levels of customer satisfaction, lower stocks
and a much calmer, in-control mood in all
corners of the business.”
Taking place at the Millennium Gallery in
Sheffield, the award ceremony included six
categories open to all companies working in
or with glass manufacturing, covering areas
including health and safety, sustainability,
innovation and apprenticeships. The Glass
Focus Awards aim to showcase the outstanding
breadth and quality of achievement in the glass
industry and are organised by British Glass.
Also announced at the British Glass Annual
General Meeting, was the election of Saint-
Gobain Building Glass managing director
Steve Severs as the new president of British
Glass for a two-year term, effective from
January 1, 2019.
Mr Severs’ appointment will see him join
the trade organisation’s board and work with
his industry colleagues to raise the profile of
the industry as a whole. He will take over from
Encirc managing director, Adrian Curry.
The glazing industry’s representative body,
British Glass works with all parts of the supply
chain to ensure that glass manufacturing,
particularly in the UK, has the resources,
influence and skills to remain commercially
successful, innovative and sustainable.
uk.saint-gobain-building-glass.com
Million-metre milestone
Uni-blinds® integral blinds manufacturer
Morley Glass & Glazing is celebrating
a special milestone alongside spacer
bar specialists Technoform.
» » OVER ONE MILLION
metres of warm edge spacer
bars have been supplied to
Morley in the four years since
the business teamed up with
Technoform to introduce
its warm edge spacer bar
technology to its Uni-Blind
double-glazed sealed units with
integral blinds inside.
Following a two-year
development programme in
conjunction, with German
glass insulation specialist
Technoform, from 2014 every
Uni-Blinds double-glazed
sealed unit has come complete
with a warm edge spacer bar as
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standard. The technology gives
fabricators and installers the
scope to provide windows and
doors featuring integral blinds
without compromising thermal
performance.
Integral blinds also offer an
extra layer of insulation along
with powerful solar shading
to keep homes cooler during
summer months. These added
benefits give installers a great
opportunity to enhance their
window and door proposition,
increase thermal efficiency and
their profitability.
www.morleyglass.co.uk