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JANUARY 2016 PRO INSTALLER
PRO BUSINESS
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Athena revamps
showroom on
strength of Lumi
Northern Ireland based installer Athena Windows has
introduced Apeer’s range of
Lumi frameless windows and
bi-folding patio and residential doors.
Managing Director of Athena
Windows, Colm O’Neill, saw
Apeer’s composite, bi-fold and
French doors at the company’s
stand at the SelfBuild & Improve
Your Home Show in Belfast last
year.
He said: “When I first saw Lumi,
it wasn’t just the aesthetics or high
standard of the frameless design
that made an impression but the
performance.”
After receiving a positive response from a number of Lumi
door and window samples, Athena
has recently become one of Apeer’s approved Lumi suppliers and
has revamped its showroom in
order to capitilise on demand for
the new system.
Lumi is a new range of contemporary frameless windows and
doors that combines ‘edge-to-edge’
glazing with the strength, security and internal styling of more
traditional products. The design
features energy efficient triple
glazing that is structurally bonded
to a core of high strength, glass-fibre reinforced profiles.
‘setting up a Lumi
dealer network’
Apeer has announced that it
will be exhibiting at SelfBuild &
Improve Your Home at the Titanic
Exhibition Centre, Belfast, in
February 2016 and as well as displaying the full range of its Lumi
products, including its windows
and composite, French and bi-fold
doors, it will also be setting up a
Lumi dealer network in Northern
Ireland.
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Roof Maker Achieves
Record Growth Results
Roof-Maker is set to grow its international
business as far as Australia in 2016 as well as
launch new products to match its roof lights.
The specialist manufacturer of aluminium and
glass roof lights ended
its 2014/15 financial
year by completing its
best year of trading
since incorporating in
2001.
It finished on a record
couple of months averaging 175 roofs a week being
dispatched from its Leicester
manufacturing site during
September and October
2015.
With turnover touching
£10 million, the company
has seen continued growth
year on year for its super
contemporary glass roof
product range.
Now in its 14th year
of trading, the company
achieved milestones during
2015 including the launch
of products such as self
tinting solar control glass,
super insulated lightweight
hinged and slide opening
roof lights.
Energy efficiency interest
at China exhibition
2015 also saw the appointment of a senior board of
directors - Andrew Huddleston as CEO, Ian Poore as
CFO and Chris Anthony as
Sales Director, with more
new faces joining as the
company expands its dealer
network of installers and
customers. The existing
management team was also
strengthened with Quality,
Marketing and Purchasing
Managers.
Andrew Huddlestone
said: “With close to 70
people in the business, we
are well poised to manage
the continued growth of
the company into 2016 and
beyond. Customers are
clearly enjoying the ability to buy direct from the
manufacturer rather than a
middleman.”
The company has further
growth plans for 2016 as it
expands the Leicester manu facturing site into neighbouring factories and land.
www.roof-maker.co.uk
Swisspacer recently exhibited at the
13th Fenestration China show, held
this year in Shanghai. The exhibition
covers windows, doors, skylights and
curtain wall technology, components
and prefabricated units. Visitors
came from all provinces of China,
with more than 60% from the window
and façade industry.
Interest in thermal efficiency is increasing
rapidly in China, so Swisspacer’s stand was
of interest to those wanting to know more
about energy saving windows. Mr Xu Zhiyong of the Passive House Alliance was one
of many visitors to the stand.
Swisspacer also demonstrated its Caluwin
app - a way for installers to calculate their
windows’ energy performance. The stand
included Swisspacer’s range of colour
spacer bars, 17 in total.
Marketing and Sales Director Peter
Appel was at the show and said: “China
is a growth market for energy efficiency
windows so it was a busy few days. It
was also good to see that our warm edge
spacer bars weren’t only on show on our
stand. Seven other window companies
with stands at the exhibition displayed
window products with Swisspacer inside.”