Chancellor Rachel Reeves had no option but to walk into the traps set by the last Conservative government. Anyone who has been awake for the past 14 years will realise that, if we want the finances sorted, this was a no-option budget. It had to be tough and rough.

Previously managing director for Veka Recycling, Simon Scholes has acquired environmental consultants, Oakdene Hollins,

Jade Engineering has successfully renewed its ISO9001:2015 accreditation for quality management.

Neil Dattani has joined AluK as Midlands area sales manager.

Dudley’s Aluminium has made three new appointments to its team in Cardiff.

Garden of Eden, one of Sheerline’s original fabricator launch partners, has now added the new Index bi-fold to its range.

Reynaers Aluminium has developed an acoustic calculator to indicate the level of noise protection offered by its systems

This year’s business forum, Contemporary Façade Design and Delivery saw presentations from Ffion Lanchbury and Andrew Baker of Rio Architects whle Oliver Bridge of Total Facade Solutions offered an in depth talk about façades.

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"We made a simple promise on thermal performance: that all our products would meet the part L regulations introduced in 2022" Roger Hartshorn issues a challenge.

The topics at this year’s glasstec were ‘decarbonisation, digitalisation and circular economy’. We speak to Ulrich Knaack, from the Technical University of Darmstadt and Linda Hildebrand, junior professor at the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University Aachen.