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AUGUST 2016 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
www.proinstaller.co.uk
Truemans celebrates
strong relationship
with Rehau
Leading PVCu trade counter
chain, Truemans, celebrated
continued growth and successful relationships at its
staff summer party with help
from profile giant Rehau.
Managing director Joe Trueman
said: “We’d all like to say a huge
thanks to Rehau for its donation
towards our summer party. We like
to get all staff together at least twice
a year and this time with Rehau’s
support we had an incredible night
out at Hotel Football, Manchester.”
Truemans started buying Rehau
profile back in 2011 and now
supplies over 1,000 frames a week
to local installers in the north of
England. Joe added: “The strong
and successful relationship we
have built with Rehau and our sup-
pliers is extremely important to us
and our continued growth and development. Rehau has been on this
journey with us from the start and
we will continue to support each
other in future. We share the same
emphasis on quality and customer
service and that commitment sets
the foundation for a very positive
future together.”
CUSTOMADE TAPS
INTO ALUMINIUM Double Celebration
Customade is helping its installer network to tap into the potential
of aluminium. ‘REAL Aluminium’ delivers everything the installer
needs to promote and sell an extensive range of aluminium
windows, doors and lantern roofs from a single supplier.
The move will help installers
make the most of the universal popularity of aluminium
and its greater profit margins. Customade has also
developed a comprehensive
and personalised marketing
support package for installers.
Gareth Thomas, Sales and
Marketing Director at Customade
Group, said: “Aluminium is predicted to grow by around 40% in
the domestic market and is fast
becoming the material of choice
for desirable home improvement
products like bi-folds and lanterns.
Despite the boom in aluminium,
installers are constantly plagued
with unreliable service levels,
long lead times and complicated
pricing models, which lag way
behind PVCu. That’s why we set
about creating a solution to help
PVCu installers successfully enter
the world of aluminium with
complete confidence and enhance
their profits.
“It is designed to eliminate every
installer frustration and make
sourcing aluminium as easy as
buying PVCu. The profiles and
components are held in stock in
four colours - white, grey, black,
and dual grey on white - at Customade, so lead times are much faster than average at just two weeks
for products within the range. And
every product is available from
one single source, which makes
life so much easier for installers
who have been juggling multiple
suppliers.”
Customade has made a string of
strategic investments to REAL Aluminium. A purpose built 34,000 sq
ft factory in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, exclusively manufactures
the range of aluminium windows,
bi-folding doors, sliding doors,
French doors, residential doors,
composite doors and lantern roofs.
To meet shorter manufacturing
lead times, the factory holds more
than 100 miles of aluminium extrusions in white, grey black and
dual grey/white. The new factory
has safeguarded the group’s OTIF
(on time in full) record of 99%.
Customade has also invested in
sophisticated, bespoke window
surveying and pricing software
allowi ng installers to access prices
and create quotes instantly. Customade provides a 24-hour turnaround on quotes and supplies
a price book with all windows
priced individually if installers prefer to price windows themselves.
REAL Aluminium customers also
have exclusive access to dedicated
aluminium marketing and showroom support, which includes
overprinted brochures, showroom
marketing and a dedicated 36page retail brochure.
To find out more, please
call 01453 826884 or visit
real-aluminium.co.uk
For more information on
Rehau windows from Truemans
please visit the website www.
truemanswindows.co.uk/rehau
For ISO-Chemie
Sealing solutions company
ISO-Chemie UK is celebrating after becoming a full
member of the Glass and
Glazing Federation (GGF).
The firm has also been
awarded its Glass Charter
Bronze Level 2 certificate
highlighting the health and
safety levels it has achieved
under the GGF’s Glass Charter scheme.
The company’s general manager Peter Thompson said: “All at
ISO-Chemie are very pleased to
now be a member of the GGF. We
aim to attend relevant meetings
to share our technical knowledge
and to network with other companies in our sectors.
“We are strong supporters of
raising health and safety awareness and standards within the
industry and with the general public. Health and Safety
should not simply be a stick to
hit people with or some sort of
‘jobs worth’ or ‘tick box’ excuse.
It should be there to protect our
employees, as well as the public,
and done in a realistic manner
that allows people to get on with
their work. I believe the right policy implemented realistically will
benefit both business growth and
the guys doing the job.”
If you are already on the GGF
Glass Charter and want to
progress, please contact the
GGF Health and Safety Team.
If you have not joined the GGF
Glass Charter but would like
more information please contact
by e-mail either ppinnington@
ggf.org.uk or [email protected].
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