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PRO INSTALLER SEPTEMBER 2014
PRO NEWS
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Does the Double
Glazing Industry need
a complete overhaul?
I don’t think so, says Danny Basden, editorial contributor for the Pro Installer.
During the last two
months on a number of
the forums, one industry commentator has
repeatedly called for
a complete overhaul
of the double glazing
industry. When I posed
questions to him on
the forum, in my opinion, the answers were
non-factual and could
not really be substantiated. The main gist
and prime mover for the
comment was that the
industry had shrunk.
Yes it has - and there are a
number of good reasons for
it. To understand what is going on in the double glazing
Industry, it is necessary to
get down to grass roots level
- to understand why it has
shrunk, what caused it and
also to prepare for the rise
again to the levels it attained
prior to the economic problems of 2008.
When the austerity period
started to bite, it was felt by
the whole country. A number of the larger fabricators
were caught in t