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DECEMBER 2014 PRO INSTALLER
PRO NEWS
www.proinstaller.co.uk
The VEKA UK Group:
Proud to support
The Poppy Appeal
The VEKA UK Group’s
chosen charity for the
second half of 2014
has been The Royal
British Legion and the
industry-leading systems supplier is proud
to have raised funds for
this valuable charity in
a number of ways over
recent months.
New Products
And Customer
Service Director
For Synseal
Steve Brown has been promoted
to the role of Products and
Customer Service Director at
Synseal, one of the UK’s leading
PVCu system manufacturer.
Since joining Synseal
from Eurocell in 2011,
Steve has headed up
Synseal’s product development, technical,
quality, order processing and customer service teams in the busy
role of Head of Customer Care and Product
Strategy.
As Synseal operations have
evolved and grown, Steve
has overseen substantial reorganisation of the diverse
teams under his control to
meet the changing needs of
the business.
Derbyshire-based Steve
has also led the charge
in driving through new
product development and
his creative thinking led to
the recent introduction of
WarmCore; Synseal’s innovative new “warm aluminium”
folding sliding door range.
With 25 years of experience working in the UK
window industry, Steve is
a renowned figure and has
played an active part on the
Synseal Operations Board
for several years prior to
moving up to his new position, with full Directorship
status.
David Leng, Synseal Chief
Executive, said: “This appointment reflects Steve’s
growing strategic contribution to our business, and all
the other Directors join me
in congratulating Steve on
this important and well-deserved step in his career at
Synseal.”
Founded in 1980, Synseal
is one of the UK’s fastest
growing window and conservatory systems manufacturer. The management
team drive Synseal’s commitment to provide the best
products, at competitive
prices and with unrivalled
support for and interaction
with its fabrication customers.
For more information visit
www.synseal.com
Most recently, a team from
VEKA’s HQ in Burnley competed in the 5k Poppy Run
in Accrington.
Head of Human Resources, Gabriela Hammond,
explains: “A team of us here
at VEKA were delighted to
take part in the 5k Poppy
Run to raise money for The
British Legion and Poppy
Scotland.
“It was hard work, but it
definitely helped keep us
motivated that we were
contributing to such a good
cause!
“The first seven ‘Poppy
Runs’ took place in 2012,
and the number of these
events held annually has
grown year on year. Apparently, there were 300
Poppy Runs organised this
year across England and
Scotland.
“As a company, our
charity efforts have been
focused on The Royal
British Legion since July.
Staff from Bowater Doors
and Bowater Projects have
been selling poppies on
the streets of Birmingham
as part of the city’s official
fundraising day.
“Network VEKA collected charity envelopes at
the organisation’s annual
Awards Evening, we’ve had
a charity ‘dress down’ day,
a golf day and students
from our partner school,
Hameldon Community
College organised a charity
car wash, with half of the
proceeds going to their
Young Enterprise Fund and
the other half to the Poppy
Appeal.
“We’ve raised a considerable sum of money for The
British Legion and we’re
not finished yet!”
For further information
visit www.vekauk.com
Living in a
Box Challenge
Heightens Autism
Awareness
‘Living in a Box’ took on
a whole new meaning
for REHAU fabricator,
UK Window Systems
when it provided a bespoke 3m x 2m glazed
cube for its chosen
2014 charity and their
latest fundraising challenge.
The ‘Locked in for Autism’
challenge organised by Caudwell Children, saw Stokeon-Trent Mum, Ally Nicklin,
spending 50 hours locked
inside the box at the local
Tesco store.
The aim was to raise funds
for Caudwell Children’s
Autistic Children’s Therapies
programme, and to increase
awareness of the condition
and the isolation and frustration felt by sufferers. The
event was a huge success
with more than £5000 donated by supporters online and
in-store in just 50 hours.
The charity now plans
to repeat the ‘Locked in
for Autism’ event at other
locations and UK Window
Systems’ trade counter
manager Rob Horton has
already agreed to rebuild
the cube at another Tesco’s
store in Crewe for another
willing volunteer to take on
the challenge.
UK Window Systems
designed and built the
glass box free, as part of its
commitment to Caudwell
Children which is its chosen charity for 2014.
A spokesman for the charity said: “Caudwell Chil-
dren has received fantastic
support from UK Window
Systems throughout the
year, but their dedication to
this particular project was
outstanding.”
The REHAU fabricator, which is based at an
impressive new 30,000sqft
premises in Cobridge,
Stoke- on-Trent, is helping
the charity to raise funds
to benefit disabled children
and their families across
the UK.
For more information visit
www.rehau.co.uk or
www.ukwindowsltd.co.uk