Pro Installer January 2014 - Issue 10 | Page 34

34 JANUARY 2014 PRO INSTALLER PRO PRODUCTS www.proinstaller.co.uk Energy-efficient glazing range Introducing Pilkington energiKare™ Advantage – the brand new IGU by the NGS Group, which achieves triple glazing performance with only two panes of glass. UPDATE TO CONSUMER WEBSITE IN RESPONSE TO VISITOR SURGE REHAU is following the same advice it offers to all its fabricators and is keeping its consumer website fresh and updated. The site at www.rehauhome.com has just received its latest makeover, which has made it both more appealing to homeowners and easier to navigate. New photos showing the most stylish recent installations have been added to the website and the homepage has been redesigned to make the ‘calls to action’ clearer and easier to use. There is now a more direct prompt for visitors to search for a REHAU Authorised partner in their area and a new Geolocation service means that the site can identify a visitor’s location automatically without them needing to enter their postcode. REHAU has matched improved functionality with improved SEO and has added new drop down menus and instant access to the consumer brochures for REHAU’s window, door and conservatory ranges. Links have also been included to both Facebook and Pinterest, again in line with the company’s recommendations to its customers. Customers who want advice on how they can update their own websites or create a mobile version, can contact REHAU’s marketing team on: 01989 762600 or via enquiries@ rehau.com or Twitter (@ REHAUwindows) Designed for applications requiring an optimised Ug value the new product combines hard coated Pilkington K Glass™ OW on surface 4 with Pilkington Optitherm™ S1 Plus on surface 2 - to reach a remarkable U-value of just 0.9 W/m2K. Andy McDowell, Commercial Director, Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, said: “The Pilkington energiKare™ range is very popular with customers and homeowners and we wanted to continue to innovate and offer more energy-efficient products within the offering. With Pilkington energiKare™ Advantage homeowners will receive superior ‘homeowners will receive superior thermal performance’ thermal performance, so they can benefit from the sort of energy and cost savings previously associated only with expensive triple glazing. Meanwhile, window installers, fabricators and stockists will be able to push these benefits to their customers, without investing in the additional time, cost and raw materials required to produce triple glazing.” As an advanced form of the original Pilkington K Glass™, it provides better light transmission and allows in more free heat from the sun to enable householders to reduce energy usage and save money on heating bills. “Phenomenal” year of trading As they fast approach their first decade in business, Sunsquare Ltd are celebrating a “phenomenal” year of trading in 2013. The UK’s market leading flat roof skylight designers and manufacturers, Sunsquare have seen an incredibly successful last 12 months with turnover more than 30 per cent up on 2012. The Suffolk-based company celebrates its 10th birthday on 16th January 2014, and has enjoyed double-figure growth every year since launch. Sunsquare also recently moved factories into a new state-of-the