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AUGUST 2016 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
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Window Manufacturer Wins
Business Growth Award
Swish fabricator Building Product Solutions (BPS) has celebrated
winning the Business Growth Award, recognising its growth
in turnover of more than 60% over the previous 12 months.
CAMDEN
GOES RAPID
Leading trade frame manufacturer,
Camden, has recently commissioned
three new cutting machining centres from
Italian machinery supplier Emmegi. They
will be installed at Camden’s state-ofthe-art manufacturing plant in Antrim.
The machines, manufactured
by German based Rapid are
part of Camden’s quest to
see a programme of continuous improvement across
the business and add further
resource and support to its
two other cutting machines
which are already installed
at the site.
Seamus Lavery said about the installation: “Customers are looking
more and more for their chosen
fabricators to supply products
faster and our customers are no
different.
“The Rapid machines are one
of the fastest and most accurate
PVCu cutting machines on the
market, and their introduction will
further enhance our manufacturing capabilities, increase production efficiency and help us keep
pace with the growing demand for
our market-leading Inliten range
of windows and doors.”
A key feature of the newly fitted
Rapid VIAFC is its modular construction, and how by separating
the sawing unit and processing
module, productivity is increased
significantly.
Jim O’Connell for Emmegi commented: “I’ve been working with
Camden on this and other projects
installing new machines, and it’s
good to see a company which
puts innovation at the heart of
their business, recognising their
customers’ demands and acting
on them through investment and
continuous improvements.”
The three new Rapid machines,
alongside further investment in
automated and robotic technologies, are an integral part of Camden’s drive to reduce turnaround
times at the same time as driving
through product quality.
The latest investment is part of
Camden’s ongoing commitment to
capitalise on world class production capabilities. Camden operate
one of the most advanced start to
finish window and door manufacturing plants in Europe – with
state of the art recycling, profile
extrusion, frame fabrication, composite door production and glass
sealed unit facilities all on-site.
Building Product Solutions
won the accolade in July
at the Sheffield City Region
Awards 2016. The company
which was presented with
the award in front of over
500 guests at the Magna
Science Adventure Centre
in Rotherham was highly
commended on its business
growth.
“The judges recognised that we
have increased our turnover by
over 60% in the last 12 months
and we have now increased our
staff to 70,” said Lynne Darwin,
Building Product Solutions Sales
Director.
On top of that, Lynne was also
named in The Manufacturer’s Top
100 and even singled out as an
exemplar. “I am a big believer
that if you get the right people,
you can do a lot of good things,”
she said. “And it’s nice to get
some recognition for all the hard
work we have all put in over the
last year.”
Building Product Solutions
specialises in the niche new-build
sector, with its expertise winning
a client base that includes the top
ten house builders. The company
currently supplies 1,500 windows
a week, using the Swish 24/7
system, to over 165 sites within
a two-and-a-half hour drive of its
base in Rotherham.
www.buildingproductsolutions.co.uk
Strongest sales from northern
builders’ merchants
Builders’ merchants in the
north have reported the
strongest sales in the country compared to this time
last year, according to the
Builders Merchants Federation (BMF).
The federation has released data
which shows that sales rose, despite the uncertainty which led up
to the EU referendum.
The BMF’s sales indicators report
showed that June sales in the
northern region were up 13.9%
compared to 2015. This compares
to an increase in June sales across
the country of 3.1%.
This upwards trajectory for
builders’ merchants is in contrast
to the wider construction sector
which according to the Office for
National Statistics (ONS) showed a
decrease in construction output of
‘our core customers
seem confident in
level of demand
for the second
half of the year’
0.4% in quarter 2, 2016, following
a decrease of 0.3% in the previous
quarter.
Steve Robinson, north east
regional chairman of the BMF
and managing director at builders’
merchants JT Dove said: “JT Dove
continues to experience brisk
demand throughout its branch network in the north east, Cumbria
and Scottish Borders.
“There has been lots of speculation about a downturn in the
building trade as a result of the
uncertainty leading up to Brexit,
but our core customers seem confident in level of demand for the
second half of the year.”
John Newcomb, Managing Director of the BMF, said: “Economic
and political uncertainty in the
run-up to the EU referendum was
expected to cause a slow-down
in the construction sector. However, sales data from our builders’
merchant members is telling a
very different story, particularly in
the north.
“We are confident that our
members will continue to perform
strongly, and the BMF will work
with the government to ensure the
best outcomes for our members as
the Brexit deal is negotiated.”
www.bmf.org.uk