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MACHINERY

PROMAC TO SHOWCASE NEW
GENERATION MACHINERY AT FIT
»»THE PROMAC GROUP WILL BE
showcasing its new generation window and glass
manufacturing machinery on stands 142 and
144, Hall 1 of the FIT Show on 12 -14 April.
This includes the Graf Synergy SL4-FF Evo
seamless welder, which eliminates grooves
from welded corner joints alongside the Quad
Vario – U-R-B-A-N’s latest high performance
welder.
Joe Hague, Managing Director, Promac
Group, said: “Foils, colours and specialist clad
products are gaining market share year on year
as consumer choice widens.

“U-R-B-A-N and Graf Synergy have
developed machinery that produces furniture
like quality that complements high production
factories but in a growing and still demanding
market, also produces the efficiencies in
manufacture that are key.
“The FIT Show is a chance to find out
just what we and our machinery can do for
fabricators and glass processors.”
The Promac Group supplies the UK’s most
extensive range of PVCu, aluminium and glass
processing machinery and represents among
others FOM Industries, BDM, Forel and Pertici.

For more information visit stands 142 and
144, Hall 1 of the FIT Show on 12 -14
April. Alternatively, visit www.promac.co.uk
or call 01788 577 577

Westcountry Glass expands
and invests in machinery
Westcountry Glass, part of the Cornwall Glass Group, has made its largest
investment in 37 years of trading – including purchasing state-of-the-art machinery.
»»THE INSULATED GLASS
(IG) sealed unit manufacturer,
previously located in Saltash, has
now relocated to its new factory
in Plymouth. The new building is
four times the size of its previous
site.
The company spent much
time, effort and research visiting
machinery manufacturers in

Romania, Italy, Spain, Ireland,
China along with visiting
many ‘like-minded and kindly’
UK glass processors and IG
manufacturers, before the key
purchasing decisions were
made.
The new factory was officially
opened by Lord Mayor of
Plymouth Councillor Dr John

Mahony who cut the opening
ribbon with Westcountry
Glass company directory Mark
Norcliffe.
The new building houses a
range of equipment including: a
new toughening plant and CNC
processor; an AG-Series gapless
forced connection glass tempering
furnace; an Intermac CNC
Master 33; automated concertina
racks and two new jumbo
Intermac cutting tables, one for
laminated glass and the other for
float (monolithic) glass.
In addition, there is a new
Bystronic IG Line with first
production on Thermobar Warm
Edge spacer from Thermoseal
Group. This line will produce up
to 2700 x 5000mm size units,
double and triple glazed.
An investment approaching
£5million has been allocated to
this ambitious project, with the
anticipation over the next 24
months of creating an additional

40 jobs to add to the group’s
current total workforce of 240.
The whole project was planned
and implemented over a tight but
momentum fuelled 12-month
period.
Aside from this milestone
investment, the Group’s other
two major manufacturing
sites (St Austell, Cornwall and
Highbridge, Somerset) have
made substantial investments in
Waterjet cutting, Straight Line
Edgers processing and Sealed Unit
Lines.
Company Director, Mark
Norcliffe said ”The new expansion
will see Westcountry Glass’
delivery routes go up the M5
corridor and across the M4,
growing the reach of the Cornwall
Glass Group to new counties and
customers, with exciting new
possibilities.”
Source: Thermoseal Group,
www.thermosealgroup.com

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