It’s the time of year again when the trade magazines ask representatives from across the industry ‘How was it for you?’ and this week I have been giving my thoughts to Glass News.

Despite the fact that the overall fenestration market is down, for The Window Company (Contracts), 2019 was actually another year of growth. We saw no discernible downturn in work from our major social housing clients, and a big increase in work in high end and new build projects.

We increased our volumes in PVC-U and broadened our supplier base to ensure that we continue to provide the best value and best service to our customers, but the biggest area of growth for us has come in aluminium. We’re working on some really high profile, private residential projects in central London at the moment and during the course of the year, we have also worked on educational, retail and workspace developments fitting almost exclusively aluminium windows and doors.

We were delighted to be invited last week to the inauguration event at Auva Certification in Witham, who are our new supplier for our UKAS ISO9001, ISO14001 and soon to be ISO45001 audits.

We received our new Auva ISO9001 and Continue reading →