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42 | JUNE 2026
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Mila celebrates 100 days of 100 % nextday despatch on-time
The milestone, reached on Tuesday 2nd May, reflects a consistent team-effort to be customer-centric and ensure the right products are picked, packed, and dispatched on time, and includes over 99 % despatch in-full.
It comes at a time of continued investment across Mila’ s product portfolio, as the business strengthens its offering with a dual focus on dependable supply and innovative, high-performance hardware solutions.
These include the Harbour Collection, a fully suited premium range covering door and window applications, and the Eurospec Multipoint Door Lock range, a high-performance locking system designed for PVCu and aluminium doors.
Mila also continues to expand its range of colour and finish options, providing ever-greater flexibility to help customers achieve design consistency.
Julie Holmes, Sales Director at Mila, comments:“ Achieving 100 % on-time despatch and over 99 % in-full across 100 consecutive days is a fantastic achievement, showing the dedication and precision of our teams at Mila. Combined with our ongoing product innovation, it underlines our commitment to providing the best service we can for our customers.”
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BFRC JOINS GLAZPARTNERS
Glazpart is pleased to announce that BFRC( British Fenestration Rating Council) has joined the Glazpartners initiative.
The British Fenestration Rating Council( BFRC) is the UK’ s most trusted rating council for verifying the energy performance of windows and doors.
Founded to establish the window energy rating system for the UK, to raise standards and drive performance in the industry, BFRC is Europe’ s No. 1 ratings council, with the most widely used rating system. But BFRC is now so much more than that.
Collaborating with all kinds of organisations across the window and door industry – from big names to small businesses, private and government, both in the UK and internationally – BFRC offers products and services that help raise performance standards and in turn make buildings more energy-efficient.
As well as continuing to promote best practice, BFRC supports those fabricators and installers striving to do the right thing by engaging with the commercial sector to help them gain information about product performance in their buildings. It’ s a tough market with constantly changing legislation that is only set to get stronger and more onerous.
Led by Managing Director Richard Sellman, the experienced BFRC team is prepared to go the extra mile to deliver a professional, timely and reliable service. BFRC is committed to exceeding its clients high standards and expectations and continue to build on their reputation as a collaborative partner, on hand when needed to make testing and certification easier. On BFRC joining the Glazpartners initiative, Richard Sellman commented;
“ At BFRC, collaboration is key to the success of what we do and with that in mind, we’ re delighted to become a Technical Glazpartner and support this unique initiative to support its customers.
With ever changing legislation and increasing scrutiny being placed on the construction industry as a whole, it’ s important for companies to ensure they have the latest information and access to people who can support them in these challenging times. We’ ve been working hard at BFRC to develop our offering to ensure we can provide relevant and necessary testing and certification for the window and door sectors, and we’ re excited to be able to demonstrate through the Glazpartnership initiative.”
Dean Bradley, Glazpart Sales Director added:
“ We are delighted that BFRC has joined Glazpartners. BFRC are pioneers of window energy ratings and product standards with an industry wide reputation for delivering first class testing and certification. Just like Glazpart and Glazpartners their aim is to help companies comply with regulations and to promote the best in our industry. We are looking forward to working with the BFRC team starting next month at PiGs Talking Shop in Bristol where Richard Sellman will be one of our Technical Experts.”
BFRC’ s services include: CWCT Testing Services, Barrier Testing Services, IGU Evaluation Services, U-value calculation, Energy Rating certification, BS EN 1279 – Part 6: 2008, Weather rig testing R & D services and more.
The award winning Glazpartners Programme offers the following promotional benefits for all participating companies.
• Listing and logo on the bespoke Glazpartners webpage
• Logo, listing and profile in the Glazpartners annual brochure
• Branding on Glazpart’ s graphics at trade fairs / exhibitions.
• Joint articles for the trade and regional media
• Use of the Glazpartners Logo
• Promotion, news and information via social media channels
• Receipt of Glazpartners News – a monthly e-newsletter delivered direct to your inbox with the latest Glazpart news
• Invitations to Glazpart private events( e. g. Talking Shops, G-Awards Pre- Drinks)
If you are interested in becoming a Glazpartner, please contact Dean Bradley – Glazpart Sales Director dbradley @ glazpart. co. uk or visit www. glazpart. com
You can find out more about BFRC via www. bfrc. org