THE GL@ZINE @ GLASSEX 2006

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Glassex Show Issue 6th March 2006
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Valuable New Spoke to RoofWright: Stand C084
The latest version of RoofWright, the professional conservatory design programme, is to be launched at Glassex. A key new feature of this updated edition is the ability to specify custom gable designs. No longer restricted to a standard set of designs, installers will now be able to create custom gable designs to exactly match the customerís needs.
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Velthec Integral Blind System: Stand G010
RegaLead will be using Glassex 2006 for the launch of a new system of made to measure Venetian blind kits that can be easily fitted inside insulated glass units. Having seen the market grow rapidly for these types of products over the last few years in the UK, Italian manufacturer Finvetro was keen to develop UK and Irish distribution for the company’s Velthec system and approached RegaLead to work as partners in developing the market.
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Silicone, Live at Glassex: Stand F110
The glazing industry has long known and trusted Dow Corning silicone sealants and accessories from Geocel as a comprehensive and quality product range, with sealants to suit every substrate and application, and cleaners and accessories to make any window fabricator or installer's job easier and more profitable. Glassex 06 will see the two companies joining forces once more with live demos and product launches on stand F110.
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Stuga Cutting and Prepping
Stand B020
Stuga will be showing the latest versions of the company’s innovative cutting and prepping centres. Following a successful launch at Glassex 2005 the Flowline-ZX4 will be giving demonstrations of how and why it can produce 800 to 1,000 windows per week
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Renaissance VS in Bar Length : Stand B033
As the market for vertical sliders continues to grow Renaissance Vertical Slider Window Systems will be launching the company’s vertical sliding window, previously only available fully manufactured, as a system to allow fabricators to produce their own high quality VS windows
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KBE System 70: Stand B120
KBE Window Systems launches SYSTEM70, the new fully integrated 5-chamber window & door system, comprising 11 main profiles plus a complete range of ancilliary profiles, designed for the UK & Ireland
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Smart Poly from Nick Gray: Stand A128
After a two year absence Nick Gray returns to Glassex promoting Smart Poly. To create Smart poly a solar reflective material is inserted into the flutes reducing solar heat gain by 80%, whilst still allowing light to pass through, over coming the reduction of light associated with using other solar control panels
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New World Launches Monno: Stand: H020
Having launched Apeer, the double rebate composite doorset at Glassex in 2003, New World Developments is taking its new Monno flush-fit GRP range to this year’s exhibition. With many local authorities looking for a first class single rebate composite doorset, Monno has been designed to fulfil this need
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Harnser Gives Glassex a Lift: Stand A120
Harnser - the all-new portable window lifting device from Eazi Lift - makes its show debut at Glassex 2006. Visitors will have the hands-on chance to operate it at the Harnser Systems Limited stand
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Nice Door Panels: Stand D055
This year’s Glassex will see Nice Door Panels exhibiting its range of Solidor composite doors and Nice door panels on stand D055. It will be the first time that the pas23-24 range of composite doors and iso9001 manufactured door panels have been on display to the trade
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POLYTEC's Tenth Outing: Stand A070
POLYTEC is exhibiting at Glassex for its tenth consecutive year and in prime position, at the entrance to the Hall and this year is launching a new concept in low pitch roof systems
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Goldweld.co.uk Launched at Show: Stand H095
Goldweld.co.uk is exhibiting for the first time at Glassex 2006 at the NEC in Birmingham from 5th to 8th March 2006. Goldweld.co.uk is a new online shop selling Goldweld brand Teflon® (PTFE) coated welding fabrics directly to PVC-U window, door and conservatory fabricators
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Promac Delivers Machinery Innovation: Stand G070
Promac, the machinery and consumables supplier to the PVC, Aluminium and glass industries will be using Glassex to showcase new and innovative products that have previously never been seen in the UK market
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Plastmo Sets Out its Stall: Stand G080
Perhaps using the event as a physical statement of the company's continued success despite difficult market conditions, systems supplier Plastmo is again increasing the size of its exhibition stand at Glassex 2006
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Just Roofs: Stand C90
Although only two years old Just Roofs Ltd has taken stand space at Glassex 2006. Md Mark Curtis explained that the company had increased its customer base through prudent advertising, and word of mouth, but was still surprised at the number of companies who turned aluminium work away because of lack of knowledge of the systems available
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HomePro: Stand C085
HomePro's presence at this year's Glassex will be in the guise of group companies HomePro Insurance and FairTrades - respectively Britain's leading provider of Insurance Backed Guarantees (IBGs) and foremost multi-trade association
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Haffner Cutting and Machining: Stand C70
The SBA cutting and machining centre from Haffner GB has repeatedly been described as one of the best machining centres on the market by the numerous fabricators who have bought the machine. With an internal policy for continuous product development, Haffner GB has recently introduced several improvements to the machine for maximum product performance
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Baypolejacks One-Stop Shop: Stand F065
Baypolejacks.co.uk will be exhibiting for the first time at Glassex 2006 with a range of Fensa-compliant baypole jacks and spreader plates which have been designed to cover over 30 of the main window systems on offer in the UK
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Cervoglass: Stand G105
Cervoglass the specialist conservatory roof glass manufacturer will be exhibiting for the first time in its own right at Glassex on stand G105 and will be using the show to introduce the company’s comprehensive range of roof glasses
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Glassex ’06: A Promising Start

Glassex has kicked off with a tentative, yet promising start, with figures slightly down by lunchtime yesterday but a surge of visitors later in the afternoon which should have balanced the account!

Most people we talked to reported a steady flow, and Jason Currall on the Listers/Halo stand said they were quite busy with a marked interest coming from Irish visitors.

Andy Scott at Purplex was 'overwhelmed' with individuals wanted to sign up for his seminars.

Rehau reported brisk business during the afternoon, while Plastmo and Veka were encouraged by consistent stream of visitors.

Please have a good look at the detailed information in this special Glassex Show issue, which features some late breaking stand news, plus new product launches, to help in your decision if you are still wondering whether to make the effort to get up to the NEC. The show ends on Wednesday 4pm .

Glassex ’06: 'The Most Diverse for Years'
Glassex has long been regarded as the barometer of the glass and glazing industry, with the event in recent years of course more closely representing windows, doors and conservatories.
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Get 'Six Appeal' at G06!
Make Friday 15 September a night to remember - the date for the G06 Awards Presentation, the industry's most sparkling event, has been announced.
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Industry Wide Seminar Set for May 10th 2006
Keeping up to date with rapidly changing energy efficiency issues and environmental legislation is of paramount importance to everyone in the window and glass markets. Edgetech UK and other industry experts are holding a free one day seminar on May 10th at Coventry football team's home ground the Ricoh Arena.
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Synseal Takes Pole Position: Stand B070
For the third year running Synseal, the UK manufacturer of PVC products, takes pole position at Glassex, right by the entrance. This year's stand features the latest developments from Synseal with Global 600, the new concept in low pitch conservatory roofing. Also showcasing is SynerJy blu, the fully sculptured suite that seamlessly integrates windows, doors, patios and conservatories, in blue-white.
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Ultraframe Unveils Industry First: Stands B90 and B100
Ultraframe, the designer and manufacturer of conservatory roofing systems, will be unveiling a number of new products at Glassex in March. Stands B90 and B100 will feature new product innovations including Framelock, the industry’s first Clicklock side frame system, Ultraframe’s Tie Bar Replacement Kit, a fitter friendly alternative to the traditional tie bar, and Polyspan Optimum, the industry’s most thermally efficient polycarbonate, as well as brand new customer service offerings.
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Unique Opportunity at Glassex: Stand F103
'This will be waiting for visitors to the company's Stand F103,' says Maureen Green, Sales Manager at Windowscreens UK. 'Retail outlets and showrooms for flyscreens are virtually non-existent in the UK. Windowscreens UK's first appearance at Glassex offers a rare opportunity for those interested in offering or required by regulations to install flyscreens, to see, touch and operate them.
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Window Widgets Mighty Mullion: Stand F060
Window Widgets will be using Glassex as a vehicle to launch the new Mighty Mullion range, which will be the company's first development of products designed exclusively for the conservatory sector.
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WHS Halo Launches Gallery Doors: Stand G110
This year's Glassex will see WHS Halo previewing its new Gallery collection of high quality and performance composite doors. While the demand for composite doors has been growing, the sector has been beset by production, delivery and reliability issues - and WHS Halo believes it is the first business able to successfully offer a cost effective product that is both technically unbeatable and simultaneously supported by industry-leading standards of service.
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VEKA Provides Party and Goodies: Stand E100
VEKA's giant 400+ metre2 Glassex stand will not just offer an enormous stage for the company's 20th anniversary in the UK and 10 years of Network VEKA, but will also be used as a platform to launch a host of new products and initiatives. VEKA's new VS Vertical Slider window, due for launch later in the year, will be previewed, a product that we are promised will bring a number of innovations to the style in addition of course to continuing the 'all solutions' promise of VEKA's Matrix suite.
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Swish Package: Stand B060
Swish Window and Door Systems, the branded systems company, has taken a prominent stand at this year's Glassex exhibition. The company will be demonstrating a range of new products at the event and showcasing its new improved fabricator and installer support package.
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Unique Window Systems
Stand A095
Unique Window Systems Limited will be presenting the company's full product range in its first year at Glassex. Quality manufacturers of fenestration products made from Plastmo Profiles and Seniors Aluminium Systems, supplying to the trade and commercial markets, utilising state of the art manufacturing equipment.
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Selecta 21 at Glassex: Stand E080
Selecta Systems is once again taking a stand at Glassex 2006. The Birmingham-based firm, which this year celebrates 21 years of extruding PVC-u window systems, has never missed a show. Selecta has doubled the size of its stand to make adequate space to showcase its Advance 70 profile, which has been engineered to make fabrication and installation quick and easy.
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Rehau-Dimension Plus: Stand D030
Glassex will mark the official launch of REHAU's complete conservatory superstructure system - REHAU-Dimension Plus which includes the new REHAU-Dimension conservatory roof and REHAU's stand will be focused exclusively on these two new products.
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Reflex Conservatory Glass: Stand A090
The conservatory roof glass reflex will be exhibited at Glassex 06 on stand A090 with some updates. ‘Many conservatory installers have switched to the reflex product because of the powerful branding, with the logo inside the units and on all the packaging homeowners know they are getting the real thing and not a cheap alternative.’ says the company.
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Radius Quadruples Glassex Stand: Stand BO85
Radius Plastics Ltd, the profile bender and specialist frame maker, will make its mark at Glassex with a stand that has grown by more than 400% since the company committed to the exhibition just three years ago. Since then however Radius has seen its share of the arched frame and specials sector rise to more than 40% of all business in this niche, a figure that continues to rise.
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Two New Fux Machines at Glassex
FUX will be launching the new 30-PB-00 pneumatic dry profile bending machine with live hourly demonstrations. and the new 83-PLM-300 PUR hot melt profile lamination machine with an infinitely variable speed to 30 m/min.
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Carl F on DeWalt Stand: AA20
As a leading distributor of DeWalt lines, Carl F direct is working with the company on its stand at Glassex 2006. DeWalt's high performance portable power tools and accessories including drill bits, saw blades and the ever popular 'worksite sets', as well as branded clothing & footwear, are flagship products for the Carl F direct catalogue.
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Boost Sales with Log Cabins: Stand HO60
A far cry from your typical garden shed, log cabins from Dunster House are attractive and useful additions that can extend a property and add extra room, and which may be used as a home office, summerhouse, games room, play room, workshop, or spa room.
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Our Glassex Preview is here. We also have exclusive details of some of the winners of the Glassex Conservatory Design Competition, full editorial on the stand presentations of over 70 companies, the fully updated Exhibitor List (with over 20 new exhibitors listed) full details on the excellent Seminar Programme, which has been changed in the past few weeks. The Gl@zine, by the way, will be exhibiting on stand G095, so we hope to see you there.

The B2BZine Team:

Tony Higgin
tony@theglazine.com

Richard and Debbie Schwarz
news@theglazine.com

GLASSEX SEMINARS

Look And Learn With New, Focused, Fast-Track Seminars At Glassex
‘An hour at one of this year’s Glassex seminars may be the most valuable you have ever spent.’ That is the proposition from the organisers of this year’s Glassex who say that the event’s revised seminar programme is designed to allow delegates to take what they learn and put it to work immediately.
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One-Day Conference, Tuesday 7th March

Glazing in the Public Sector: Focus On Housing
Building Regulations: Disability: Environment: Training

10.30
Plenary Address
Part L, 2006: Background And Technical Detail
Speaker: Ted King, Buildings Division of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

11.30
Disability And Housing: Beyond The Legislation
Speaker: Paul Gamble - Director of Development, Habinteg Housing Association

12.15
Window Energy Rating - The Benefits To RSLs And Their Tenants
Speaker: Dr Robin Kent

13.45
Training On The Job: Recent Case Studies Of NVQ Window Installation Programmes By Housing Associations
Speaker: Phil Thomas, The Essential Support Team

15.00
Recycling In Reality: How The Recovinyl Initiative Can Benefit Local Authorities And Housing Associations
Speaker: Roger Morton - Director of Axion Recycling Ltd and UK agent for the Recovinyl initiative

Half-Day Conference, Wednesday 8th March

Make More Windows ... Faster, Cheaper

10.30
Investments In Technology And Profitability
Speaker: Craig Yamauchi, Friedman Corporation

11.15
Automation For The Small Fabricator
Speaker: Andy Robson, Elumatec UK Ltd

12.00
The Current State-Of-The-Art In Frame Production
Speaker: To be confirmed

12.45
Can You Handle Yourself?: Efficient Logistics Add Margin
Speaker: Greg Smith, Hegla UK Ltd

GLASSEX CONSERVATORY DESIGN COMPETITION

Entries Up by a Third as Conservatory Design Competition Reaches New Heights
The Glassex Conservatory Design Competition, in association with Ultraframe, was created as part of Glassex 2004. Its aim was to recognise, reward and promote excellence in conservatory design, manufacture and installation, at a time when the industry was showing remarkable growth and conservatories were becoming established as a must have for homeowners, as well as an increasingly desirable solution for commercial and public sector landlords.
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GLASSEX EXHIBITOR NEWS

Steve Davis Right on Cue for Network VEKA
Snooker champion Steve Davis OBE is to be the new face of Network VEKA, and appeared on the opening day of the show on the VEKA stand. The signing of the sporting legend and TV celebrity was announced at the organisation's AGM where delegates were told his image of sincerity and dependability was ideal for the Network's brand values and its motto, 'Reliable in the Extreme.'
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Le Mans Winner at Glassex!!
Three times GT1 Class winner at Le Mans, Oliver Gavin, will be making an appearance on the GlazeKart stand (A129) at Glassex on Tuesday, 7th March. Oliver is a works GM driver and heads the driving line-up in the works Corvette C6.R
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Mila's 5th Comedy Night at Glassex
Mila Hardware would like to invite customers and friends to join them for a night of comedy on Tuesday 7th March. Now in its 5th successive year, the Mila Comedy night during Glassex is an unmissable social event for exhibitors and visitors alike.
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Window Widgets Stacks Them High At Glassex
Window Widgets will be giving away 4,500 sample boxes at Glassex and over the next few months as it launches a number of new and exciting products for the installer. These sample boxes have been produced at a cost of over £25k and include the new Mighty Mullion Range, Baypole Jacks, 70mm couplers and a new range of fixing lugs.
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Unitec Secures the Threshold of the Future
Unitec Hardware Ltd has announced an exclusive partnership deal with one of Europe's leading hardware manufacturers, BKV-Gluske, to distribute the company's Eifel T Threshold system in the UK.
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Whiteline's Mexico 86' Footballing Hero at Glassex
Mexico 86' star, Gary Stevens, will be at Glassex this year under the Profine Group umbrella. He will be talking about the use of sport for team building at fabricator Whiteline.
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Glass Inserts Aims to Revolutionise Decorative Glass
Glass Inserts Ltd says that a revolutionary step forward in decorative glass technology is being launched at Glassex. ‘It is rare for such innovation to appear in the conservative, traditional window / door / and conservatory industry’ says the company ‘but Glass Inserts represents a genuine revolution in the design and manufacture of decorative glass.
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Edgetech Supports Promac, NWD and Reflex at Glassex
Super Spacer® manufacturer Edgetech I.G. Inc. will have a significant presence at Glassex this year, on stands by Promac, New World Developments, Reflex and the Energy Saving Trust (EST).
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Installers to fit aluplast Ideal 70 in Glassex Challenge
aluplast is sponsoring the Glassex Challenge competition this year in conjunction with two aluplast fabricator customers. The daily competition will give installers competing in the bay window and door sections a hands-on experience with the aluplast Ideal 70 window and door system.
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Installers to Fit Masterframe Vertical Sliders in Glassex Challenge 2006
Masterframe Windows Ltd, specialist manufacturer of high-quality PVC-U sashes, is sponsoring the Glassex Challenge competition again this year. The competition will run daily, and installers from all over the UK will compete to install a door, a bay-window, a conservatory roof and a Masterframe vertical slider.
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Newly Formed ODL Europe at Glassex
In January 2005 Viewlite Ltd of Liverpool was acquired by ODL. ODL which is based in Michigan USA is a market leading manufacturer of decorative door glass and associated products for the building industry. During the past twelve months the Viewlite range of cassettes and glass has been combined with ODL's range of blinds, shades and tubelights.
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K2 Returns to Glassex
After an absence of two years, conservatory systems manufacturer K2 has announced it will attend this year's Glassex. The company will appear alongside its sister business K2 Glass which has appeared many times and intends to make its return in style.
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