38 | FEBRUARY 2019
Business News
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FREEFOAM’S ‘FIVE-STAR SERVICE’
SUPPORTS NORTHERN BUILDING PLASTICS
Northern Building Plastics Ltd
(NBP), is a fast-growing independent
stockist of maintenance-free PVC building
materials covering England and Wales
through two large supercentres in Leeds
and Bolton. NBP has been a Freefoam
supplier for over seven years, and has
recently noticed a significant change in
customer buying patterns, with a marked
increase in sales of Freefoam’s coloured
products.
NBP also offers a bespoke service that
sprays Freefoam products in any RAL
colour, offering customers a full suite of
matching products.
Freefoam is a leading manufacturer of
PVC-U and PVC-UE building products for
roofline and rainwater applications with a
range of 16 attractive colours for soffits and
fascia and six colour options for rainwater
guttering and downpipes. A comprehensive
support package for independent stockist
partners helps them build their business.
The package includes a range of marketing
materials to help them and their installer
customers boost sales.
“We use Freefoam as they offer good quali-
ty products and their support to independent
companies is unrivalled. Other manufacturers
are stockists as well as suppliers, so they don’t
have the same commitment to supporting
independent businesses,” explains Martin.
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Carl F Groupco Storage Investment
Supports Brexit Initiative
As part of Carl F Groupco’s Brexit
planning, the hardware supplier has
expanded its storage facilities to house
increased stock. Additional eight metre
high racking installed at the company’s UK
warehouse in Peterborough represents an
investment of £30,000. The customised
racking has been designed to accommodate
two metre long double pallets, which will
house multipoint door locks in over 250
locations plus tilt and turn hardware in over
140 Euro pallet locations.
Carl F Groupco is also committed to a
further £1milllion investment for stock
provision as part of its Brexit strategy to
maintain its high service levels and On Time
In Full delivery commitment.
The hardware distributor offers an ex-
panding catalogue of over 7,000 hardware
lines including its own-brand SmartSecure
electronic locking solutions.
Uni-blinds® integral blinds manu-
to reflect the quality of the products and
services available, so that all customers can
proudly build their reputation on ours.” facturer Morley Glass & Glazing is celebrat-
ing 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. Laid end-to-end, the million
metres of spacer bars used by Morley since
2014 could stretch the entire length of the
UK, from John O’Groats to Land’s End.
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 standard. The technology
gives fabricators and installers the scope to
provide windows and doors featuring inte-
gral blinds without compromising thermal
performance.
Integral blinds also offer an extra layer of
insulation along with powerful solar shad-
ing to keep homes cooler during summer
months. These added benefits give installers
a great opportunity to enhance their win-
dow and door proposition, increase thermal
efficiency and their profitability.
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NEW FACES AND A NEW FOCUS
FOR VEKA’S MARKETING TEAM
The marketing department of in-
dustry-leading systems supplier VEKA
Group is strengthening its digital focus and
introducing some new faces.
Marketing Director Dawn Stockell ex-
plains; “We’re delighted to have welcomed
Angela Wales to the team as Marketing
Communications Manager and Jessica Hus-
band, who joined VEKA in 2017, has been
appointed Digital Marketing Manager.
“Both Jess and Angela have marketing
agency backgrounds and have come from
jobs outside of the fenestration sector, so they
bring wide-ranging experience and a fresh
outlook to these roles, which complements
VEKA’s ethos of continuous improvement.
“Our marketing department has the
important job of ensuring that all VEKA
Group brands (VEKA, Halo and Imagine)
continue to lead the industry and maintain
their strong presence in the market. The
team strives to ‘challenge the norm’ and
make sure that we employ best practice in
marketing, as we do in all areas of business.
The marketing of our brands must continue
Million metre
milestone for
Morley Glass
& Glazing