BMI UK & Ireland has enhanced its portfolio of market-leading pitched and flat roofing technology solutions with new Green and Blue ‘Active Roof Systems’. Active Roof Systems is how BMI UK & Ireland describes roof coverings that perform a greater function beyond shelter and protection. While weather-tightness is the primary purpose of a roof, with […]

A £60 million ‘new concept’ motorway services area being developed on the M1 near Leeds will be safeguarded by Visqueen gas protection systems when it opens in January. Some 4,000 square metres of Visqueen Gas Barrier have been installed, providing protection for the main food court-style facilities building and a 100-bed hotel that connects to […]

Specialist private investment firm Cairngorm Capital has added independent builders merchant Grant & Stone to its portfolio. Established in 1987, Grant & Stone has three specialist building, plumbing and electrical divisions,  giving it 29 branches across the Thames Valley, consisting of builders’ merchants, electrical wholesalers, plumbers’ merchants, timber merchants, as well as eight kitchen and […]

Marley Alutec, the UK leader in innovative aluminium rainwater and eaves solutionsis reducing delivery times from five working days to two working days for the company’s most popular product ranges. Effective immediately, the lead times for selected products in Marley Alutec’s Evolve, Traditional, Aligator, Tudor and Elite ranges have been reduced to two working days, […]

MacDonald Plumbing & Heating Supplies Limited has become the first business to take advantage of digital specialist RNF’s partnership with Sharp-aX Computer Systems Limited. The partnership means any wholesaler using Sharp-aX ERP System can seamlessly integrate with  RNF’s Beam Commerce Platform, enabling them to offer customers 24/7 online ordering via a multi-platform app that works across […]

For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place, The flood may bear me far There are times when I hate living in a hilly town. Usually when I’m trekking back from the station, in the cold and the dark and there just doesn’t seem to be enough puff left in me to get […]

Responding to consumer appeals for a quiet power shower, Triton, has re-engineered its popular AS2000 range to be silent. The new AS2000SRhas been awarded the Quiet Mark approval as a result of its low noise and high performance. Designed for low-pressure systems, and ideally suited to the replacement market, the product provides continuous running performance […]