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Doncaster-based aluminium systems company Exlabesa has just launched a brand new curtain wall suite. With its 50mm profile widths, the system offers stunningly slim sightlines that maximise the glazed area.
Leading hardware company the Trojan Group launched the industry’s next generation of door hinges, The Athena Range, at The FIT Show in April this year and has seen astonishing demand for the product ever since.
To meet the needs of curved glass, Wood’s Powr-Grip offers a concave style pads with a unique shape that allows the sealing edge to flex and shift while keeping a firm seal on the glass.
Customizable glass doors: many solutions and customized decorations proposed to you architects.
H&M’s 5th Avenue flagship required oversized, high-performance, LowE coated glass for their incredibly large, west-facing facade.
Boosted by the upsurge in Aluminium fabricated windows and doors, Anthracite Grey has become one of the most requested powder coating colours.
GEZE UK has provided the perfect prescription for a stunning world class hospital in Glasgow. The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital received the GEZE ‘treatment’ as part of a £842 million development which incorporated its automatic swing doors…
Sapphire’s innovative offsite balcony system with glide-on connectors has enabled all 20 balconies for one of the new apartment buildings at North London’s Woodberry Down to be delivered and installed in a single day.
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, is collaborating with Insight Data to receive data and market intelligence on the UK glazing industry.
Various architects are finding different ways to make museums and galleries even more exciting by playing with ideas for the exteriors.
PPG has posted a new video to the online PPG Glass Education Center demonstrating how bent and laminated glasses are manufactured.
The 6th Engineered Skins symposium was successfully organised by gFT on the 1st September 2016 in Cambridge.
Laidlaw Structural Glass offers high levels of safety and simple lines, manufactured from structural toughened glass with stainless steel or timber capping and handrail, it enables specifiers the chance to create a continuous glass structure.
The contracting division of GLASSOLUTIONS, part of Saint-Gobain UK, has invested £5 million and restructured its operating model to enhance its national UK business with a clear aim to become a market leader.
Ever since we manufactured our first sliding sash window in PVC-u over 15 years ago Quickslide have been on a mission to replicate the traditional window as originally used in construction as far back as the middle ages.
Next year’s FIT Show is set to be the BIGGEST yet. Not only are we moving to the UK’s number one exhibition venue, with our new home at the NEC, but we’ll be offering our exhibitors and visitors more than ever in 2017.
Nigel Rees, GGF Chief Executive has decided to retire at the end of 2016. Nigel, who has been employed by the Glass and Glazing Federation since 1994, has been at the helm of the industry’s leading trade body for 15 years and under his leadership…
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Chiswick Point features high performance aluminium curtain walling from Wicona, as well as window systems and a new lifting sliding balcony door.
GLASSOLUTIONS worked with leading architectural aluminium systems company Metal Technology to supply and install glazing in a contract valued at around £2.5m.
Wrightstyle were definitely hired to supply advanced glazing systems for a high-end apartment complex in Camden Town, London which featured in the last series of TV’s The Apprentice.
After being confined to darkness for decades, the once abandoned Waverley Arches in Edinburgh have been given a new lease of life – and copious amounts of daylight- thanks to an ambitious restoration programme and new glazing package from Senior…
Development Begins on World’s First Electricity-Generating Windows for Retrofitting Existing Homes and Commercial Buildings
Carl F Groupco’s SmartSecure electronic door locking and smart access control brand captured the market’s attention at the FIT Show.