Following a successful rebrand, premium timber window and door manufacturer Glyngary Joinery has reported significant business growth, closing 2025 almost double its 2024 size, with a 95 percent year-on-year increase in top-line revenue. The results underline the company’s strengthening position within the timber window and door fabrication sector.

The Cheshire-based manufacturer attributes this growth to a steady stream of new trade customers – particularly installers and trade...

The calm after the storm
By Neil Cooper-Smith, Senior Analyst, Business Pilot

February’s figures suggest the market is beginning to settle into a clearer rhythm after January’s seasonal reset. While the new year often brings a surge of early enquiries followed by cautious decision-making, February shows signs of strengthening momentum: particularly in sales performance and order values.

Eurocell has launched the Peak Collection, a new range of 48mm solid timber-core composite doors, giving installers access to a high-end entrance solution designed to deliver enhanced security, thermal efficiency and standout kerb appeal.

Available across Eurocell’s network of over 210 branches from 24 February, the launch enables installers to source a complete entrance door offer from one supplier, supporting upsell opportunities while simplifying ordering.

Bill Butters Windows has completed a stunning installation of Sheerline’s Classic heritage door at a property located in the seaside town of Lyme Regis.

Installed to separate the swimming pool and home gym, this internal partition looks so striking, it’s won Sheerline’s Installation of the Month competition. It includes the Classic heritage door with side screens finished in jet black textured with clear laminate glass on both panes.

VBH has announced that its popular greenteQ Velocity door hinge range has been further expanded with the addition of two new colour options.

The hinge is now available in RAL 7038 agate grey and antique black finishes from UK stock.

VBH advise that Velocity is a two-knuckle ‘T-Hinge’ designed for rebated doors with a sash upstand dimension between 16 – 24mm, making it ideal for PVCu single and double doors.

The Tremendous 10 promotion from Hörmann Truedor provides installers and dealers a compelling opportunity to capitalise on fast-turnaround composite doors that combine strong consumer appeal with excellent value for money, says the company.

The Tremendous 10 promotion offers a carefully curated range of 10 best-selling composite door styles, available in 10 popular colour options, all delivered in just 10 working days. With prices starting from £450.00 plus VAT, the promotion has been designed to help...

FENSA has clarified its role in the glazing industry, emphasising that it is not a rule-maker, but a structured support system that helps installers operate compliantly within a regulated market.

In periods of legislative change, certification bodies can become the visible face of compliance, and therefore the focus of frustration.

However, Building Regulations are set by government bodies, not by competent person schemes.

Veka plc has strengthened its research and development capability with the introduction of a dedicated in-house weathering rig within its workshop facility. The equipment, supplied by ift MessTec, part of ift Rosenheim, enables controlled environmental evaluation of window systems as part of Veka’s technical support service.

Supporting early-stage performance evaluation

The facility is used for indicative performance testing, allowing Veka to work collaboratively with customers to assess system behaviour...

More than 200 business leaders from the glazing and allied trades turned up online to hear industry expert Andrew Scott share tips and tricks for growth in his latest webinar.

Andrew, CEO and founder of Purplex Marketing and Insight Data, presented the webinar on February 25 to an audience hungry for advice gleaned from more than 30 years in the glazing industry.

While he acknowledged that the sector has faced challenges...

Trade fabricator Emplas has hosted its fourth annual CORE customer focus group, bringing together fifteen key customers and supply chain partners to discuss the latest industry developments and preview new product innovation.

Held at the prestigious Holland & Holland Shooting Grounds in Northwood, Middlesex, on 29th January, the event provided an opportunity for open discussion around the market outlook for 2026, emerging consumer trends,

Well known fenestration marketers Michelle Wright and Lauren Edwards have joined forces to launch DoBetter Marketing, a marketing partner built to support manufacturing and trade businesses by delivering genuine value at a realistic cost.

Between them, the duo bring extensive hands-on experience across the full fenestration marketing journey, from supporting fabricators and installers through to driving effective homeowner marketing. Having worked inside the sector, they understand the commercial...

One of the largest privately owned home improvement businesses in the South East is increasingly turning to Stronghold, a revolutionary internal safety system, to keep installations moving safely and efficiently when traditional scaffold simply isn’t an option.

The Romford-based Crystal Windows and Doors has seen Stronghold transform how it approaches complex window installations where external access is restricted or impossible.

Eurocell has issued a replacement window specification directly to every social housing provider in the UK, designed to help providers improve compliance, reduce risk and bring greater certainty to window installation and retrofit programmes.

Eurocell says the exercise responds directly to the growing regulatory and operational pressures facing registered providers, particularly where legacy window specifications are still being reused and may no longer meet current standards for upgrades.

Timber window and door manufacturer Allan Brothers is celebrating Women in Construction Week (March 1 – 7) with the appointment of Linzi Jo Watson as its first female production manager at its factory in Berwick upon Tweed.

In her new role, Linzi is responsible for all factory operations, from the delivery of raw timber to the operation of the machine centre, assembly, and finishing, and managing a team of over 50 operatives.

Howells Patent Glazing has announced that its Ultraline flat rooflight and double-hipped rooflight have successfully retained PAS 24:2022 certification, reaffirming their compliance with the UK’s most rigorous enhanced security standard, says the company.

Awarded by UL Solutions, this accreditation assures specifiers, contractors and installers that these rooflights deliver proven resistance against forced entry and can withstand an...

Children and young people with additional needs in Castle Vale are benefiting from a newly redeveloped sensory room designed to provide a calming, inclusive environment tailored to their needs.

The new space has been created through a collaboration between The Pioneer Group and Nationwide Windows & Doors, helping transform an existing room into a modern sensory environment that better supports local families and young people accessing services in the area.