Clearview National January 2016 - Issue 170 | Page 4

FROMTHEEDITOR
INDUSTRYNEWS

Stephanie,
Clearview Editor

Happy and
Prosperous
New Year
»»2016 is here and for most of us this is
an opportunity to start ‘afresh’, building on the old to
develop something new. And that’s exactly what appears to
be happening in our extended ‘Moves and Shakes’ feature
this month.
Congratulations go to all the individuals who are starting
the New Year in a new role, including, Andy Jones. Andy, a
prominent figure within the fenestration industry will be
joining Synseal as their group sales and marketing director,
after spending the last 13 years as managing director of
Edgetech.
Ian Cocken also joins aluplast as Director of Sales and
Marketing. Cocken’s appointment reforms a partnership
with Keith White, aluplast’s Managing Director having
worked together at conservatory systems company
Wendland and also within the Epwin Group’s Systems
Division.
A constant theme running through this month’s issue is
the amount of companies who have experienced growth
throughout last year - such as Atlas Roof, with sales of its
Skyroom product almost doubling in the last six months
of 2015 and hardware specialist VBH who is currently
overseeing a £250,000 expansion at its facilities in Kent.
Clearview Group Managing Director, Steve Sidebottom
was invited to Roto-Frank’s 10th International Trade Press
Day in Vienna, Austria in December 2015 and tells how
Roto, presented to 80 press delegates from 19 different
countries on their worldwide market successes and losses
and how they are looking to continue to strive to ensure
all their products were developed with the knowledge
that homeowner protection was at the core of their
developments.
With another successful year in 2