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PRO INSTALLER OCTOBER 2013
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For the first time since pre-recession days, Britain’s domestic glazing market appears to be
returning to growth. Palmer Market Research (PMR), the industry’s most widely respected
forecaster, is predicting five consecutive years of growth across almost all products, and an
overall increase of 15% in market size to an installed value of £4.15bn by 2017.
The 2012 market itself
was not much to write
home about, down on
the previous year by
4.8% to £3.6bn, wiping
out even the very small
increase in value terms
that caught the industry’s interest in 2011.
However the five-year
forecast provides some
much-needed optimism
to a sector all-too used to
bad news, even though the
predicted 2017 figure is a
full quarter lower than the
market’s 2006 peak.
PMR Director Robert
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Palmer projects growth for
domestic glazed products
in New Housing, and the
crucial Home Improvements
market, as more potent than
expected government-driven
schemes such as Funding
for Lending and Help to
Buy, plus increased consumer confidence, help to push
up housing transactions.
The glazing market in New
Housing also continues
to benefit from the move
from flats to houses, with
on average over twice the
number of windows per
dwelling.
The Social Housing sector
will continue to take a
battering for a couple more
years, as funding becomes
ever scarcer, before starting
to grow again in 2015.
Although tiddlers in the
market, bifold doors are the
stars of the report. This is
not just because they were
one of only two products
to show growth last year
(alongside French doors),
and because they are
predicted to double in size
over the forecast period, but
because they look to be real
market changers. According
Roof Plant
Closure
Ultraframe has today announced
it will close its Newton Abbot
manufacturing facility at the end
of this year. The Devon-based plant
exclusively produces the Quantal
roof system; all of this production
will move to Ultraframe’s main
production plant based in Clitheroe,
which produces both Ultraframe
and Wendland roof systems.
Julian Slade, Ultraframe
CEO comments on this
move: “any decision
directly affecting staff
is difficult and we have
given serious consideration to a range of
options.
However, we can best
serve the Quantal brand
and Quantal customers from
Clitheroe. By moving production we will utilise our
broader capabilities, which
include enhanced research
and development resources,
as well as additional complementary products and
services.
“The Quantal brand is a
key component of the Ultraframe business and we want
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