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MARCH 2014 PRO INSTALLER
PRO BUSINESS
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£100 MILLION SALES ARE
JUST THE TICKET AT SYNSEAL
Synseal are issuing £140,000 worth
of special “Golden Tickets” its
network of fabricator partners and
Synseal Registered Installers, to celebrate an important milestone in the
company’s dynamic 30-year history.
“We are delighted to announce that Synseal has achieved £100 million sales turnover on a rolling year basis for the very first
‘Valid up to the end of April’
time since our formation back in 1980!” says
Chief Executive David Leng. “To say thank
you and give a little something back as we
celebrate this £100m milestone, we have
presented a “Golden Ticket” worth £100 to
each of our 1400 approved fabricator partners and verified Synseal Registered Installers based in the UK and Ireland. This special discount offer applies to an order for
a Synseal or K2 orangery with Celsius roof
glass – our impressive range now includes
Global Summer, Capella, Integra, Venetian,
Rio or Modena orangery solutions.”
In true Willy Wonka fashion, the “Golden
Ticket” can be redeemed just once and will
be valid up to the end of April 2014. Newly
verified Synseal Registered Installers who
successfully apply to join Synseal’s approved network will also receive a “Golden
Ticket” worth £100.
Seven Associations Alliance
Pulls No Punches With Budget
Proposals To Osborne
The BPF-led Seven Associations Alliance (SAA)
has pulled no punches
in a letter it has sent
to Chancellor George
Osborne with its proposals for his 19th March
Budget Statement.
Business
Secretary Opens
Veka UK’s New
Mixing Plant
‘A European success story’.
The VEKA UK Group
welcomed Vince Cable
back to the company’s
Burnley HQ to open
officially the system
supplier’s new mixing
plant.
The Business Secretary
enjoyed a tour of the Farrington Road site with the
UK Company Directors and
Global VEKA Group Board
Member Boni Eichwald,
who had travelled from Germany to attend the opening
of the state-of-the-art mixing
plant, which has seen investment of £5m.
Before unveiling a commemorative plaque of the
official opening, the Business Secretary discussed the
scale of the development
and described it as “a Euro-
pean success story” which
will strengthen trading
relationships across the UK
and abroad.
The VEKA UK Group’s
new facility is now the most
technically-advanced mixing
plant in the UK. It has been
designed with future expansion in mind, which could
potentially take capacity
from the current 48,000
tonnes to a possible 72,000
tonnes. The plant features
two mixers and three coolers and is fully automated to
ensure absolute efficiency.
VEKA plc,
01282 716611,
www.vekauk.com,
[email protected]
The SAA proposals are
summarised here, with
comments by Peter Davis,
Director-General of the British Plastics Federation:
Housing and Construction. On energy efficient
products such as EPS insulation and PVC-U double
glazing reduce the rate of
VAT to 5%.
“Completely review the
“Green Deal” which has an
unattractive payback and is
complex”.
Shale Gas Extraction.
Reducing the tax rate for exploration is most welcome.
“It is important that the
local communities benefit from jobs in the new
industries it creates, in
addition to the community
benefits the Government has
announced. The energy and
plastic raw materials created
must not be exported when
this comes on stream in the
2020s”.
Energy. “We cannot accept
Ministers’ reassurances that
there is no risk of energy
not equalling demand in the
next decade”.
The Government does need
to act with more urgency to
ensure costs to industry are
kept low and affordable and
to speed up the replacement
of power generation capacity, using Energy from Waste
which can provide 11% of
UK power needs from unrecyclables.
Landfill Tax. We urge
the Chancellor to greatly
increase Landfill Tax to £200
per tonne certainly by 2020,
to drive recyclable waste
from landfill.
“Some of the increased
receipts for the Treasury
could be used as grants to
stimulate investment in more
recycling and Energy from
Waste facilities”.
Finance for Business.
Lending to Business sank
3.9% in November compared
to a year ago.
“The Government needs
to provide more coherent
access to small business
lending under the auspices
of the British Business Bank.
This Bank needs to be
capitalised to lend directly
to companies, not through
existing banks”.
Business Rates. Capping
Business rates increases to
2% in April does not go far
enough after years of above
inflation increases.
“We want the Chancellor to
either freeze or cut Business
Rates”.
Capital Allowances. “We
have urged the Chancellor
to extend the £250k tax free
allowance for companies
to upgrade equipment and
expand production. This
should improve manufacturing productivity which is
0.8% lower than pre-recession levels”.
Shortage of Technical
Managers. “We do believe
Government should reduce
the tuition fees for certain
science and engineering
courses to increase the number of students studying for
these degrees”.
Pointless ‘Green’ Taxes.
In their proposal for a 5p
charge for plastic carrier
bags, DEFRA has ignored
the high 70% re-use of such
bags and their minimal
environmental impact. The
Commons Environmental Audit Committee has savaged
DEFRA for exaggerating the
environmental impact and
exempting paper and bio
bags.
“We hope the Government
will withdraw this proposal
and steer clear of other similar flawed ideas”.
In the letter, SAA, which
has 310,000 employees from
6,100 companies and represents all sectors of UK manufacturing, said its members
were reporting “increasing
optimism for the recovery”.
They also congratulated the
Chancellor on “sticking to his
austerity policies in reducing
Budget deficits by a third.”
But they agreed with the
Chancellor’s own comment
last month that said “the
job’s not half done”.