NOVEMBER 2018 | 15
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LINIAR LINES UP
AWARD NOMINATIONS
After adding a Queens
Award for Enterprise In Innovation
to the trophy cabinet last year,
Liniar has now been nominated
for three more prestigious awards,
underlining the brand’s continued
success both in the industry and
as a UK manufacturer.
Amazon Growing
Business Awards
Liniar’s trading company, HL
Plastics, has been announced as
a finalist in the Amazon Grow-
ing Business Awards 2018, in the
Santander-sponsored Larger Com-
pany (Turnover £50m+) category.
HL Plastics won the 2014 Grow-
ing Business of the Year Award
for Mid-sized Companies, when
its turnover was between £25m &
£50m. To now be shortlisted in the
Larger Company category is tes-
tament to how much the firm has
developed and grown since then.
Winners will be announced at
a ceremony in London on 28 No-
vember 2018.
Midlands Business
Awards
HL Plastics has also been short-
listed in the esteemed Midlands Busi-
ness Awards 2019 in the Midlands
Manufacturer of the Year class.
The category is for manufactur-
ing organisations that have shown
outstanding leadership leading to
long-term business success.
ATLAS WINNERS DELIGHT
WITH SHOWSTOPPING
LANTERN INSTALLATIONS
A growing number of homeowners
National Fenestration
Awards
Liniar has also been nominated
in two different categories in the
National Fenestration Awards;
Systems Company and Bi-folding
Door Manufacturer for the Mod-
Lok TM bi-fold.
Winners are selected by a
voting process, Go to http://www.
fenestrationawards.co.uk/2018-
categories to vote.
“We’re very proud to have been
shortlisted for all of these major
awards,” commented Sue Daven-
port, Liniar’s Marketing Director.
Vision Conservatories
Sherborne Windows
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Village Conservatories
are asking for the Atlas lantern by name
and now three installers have proved that
no other lantern can match it for looks and
style. Vision Conservatories, Sherborne
Windows and Village Conservatories have
completed three extraordinary Atlas instal-
lations which not only met with exacting
customer demands but were also winners
in the Atlas Installation of the Month com-
petition.
Vision Conservatories created a large
rear extension on a family home, making
a stunning architectural statement with
three Atlas lanterns in two styles. The new
space features a super-slim contemporary
lantern in the centre with two regular Atlas
lanterns on either side.
Third time Atlas Installation of the Month
winners Sherborne Windows didn’t hesitate
in replacing a tired gable ended conserva-
tory with an impressive T-shaped orangery,
complete with a spectacular Atlas lantern.
‘No compromises’ was the brief for
Village Conservatories when it designed
a sensational extension for a Dorset
farmhouse – a novel setting for a vodka
distillery. The customer was very keen to
impress visitors, so every element of the
extension needed to be luxurious.
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PM’s housing announcement a
‘victory for common sense’
The Prime Minister’s an-
nouncement that the Government
will lift the borrowing cap on
councils to allow them to build
many more homes is a victory for
bold thinking and common sense,
according to the Federation of
Master Builders.
Brian Berry, Chief Executive of
the FMB, said: “This is the most
exciting, and potentially trans-
formative, announcement on
council housing for many years. It
is something the house building
sector and local authorities have
been crying out for since the last
economic downturn as a means by
which to increase house build-
ing. Indeed, the only times the
UK has built enough numbers of
homes overall is when we’ve had
a thriving council house building
programme. Local authorities have
a strong interest in delivering
new affordable homes and many
would have the appetite to directly
fund this but have been frustrated
from doing so by an artificial cap
on their ability to borrow against
their assets to build homes.”
Berry continued: “We believe
this could also have the added
benefit of expanding the capacity
of the private sector by providing
more opportunities for SME build-
ers. In this way, a stronger public
sector house building programme
can complement and help support
a stronger, more diverse private
sector. The private sector will con-
tinue to take the lead in delivering
new homes, and to ensure it can
do so, we need to continue to
lay the foundations for a diverse
private sector in which new firms
can more easily enter the market
and small firms can more easily
prosper and grow.”
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