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City Plumbing Supplies customers smash fundraising target
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Long-standing customers of City Plumbing Supplies (CPS) Bridlington, have raised £3,184 for CPS partner charity, Teenage Cancer Trust, by driving a plumbing themed car to Monte Carlo in just three days.

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Flame ‘burns brighter’ with scale-up success
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John Savage, the Managing Director of the North East of England’s fastest-growing heating and plumbing merchant, has been recognised by a leading membership organisation at its annual awards. Mr Savage, of Flame Heating Group, was a finalist in the Entrepreneurs’ Forum’s Scale-up Award category, at its North East E ntrepreneurial Awards. He started his career […]

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Big, Bigger, Biggest?
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Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, I had a whole blog planned for yesterday morning about energy prices, shortages and Insulate Britain, with their highly reasonable conviction that one of the best ways of tackling our climate change problem is to properly insulate our houses and buildings. But, also, their ridiculous idea […]

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Border welcomes Stockport timber merchant on board
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Stockport timber merchant Tomlinson Parbans has invested in the latest CounterAct software from Border Merchant Systems in a bid to improve customer service and business efficiencies.

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Why should Builders Merchants and other distributors make a digital transformation?
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With technology advancing at a rapid rate it is no wonder that changes to the industry pose a greater threat to customer demand, internal procedures and service expectancy. The business landscape has witnessed an eye-opening change in recent years, which has impacted operations across countless industries. As a result of this, corporate bosses must recognise […]

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Moores reaches new sustainability milestone
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British kitchen furniture manufacturer Moores saved a total of 7,726 tCO2e (tonnes carbon equivalent) over the last six years after moving from traditional gas-fuelled boilers to highly efficient bio-fuel boilers. “We have been actively pursuing a number of sustainability goals since 2014 and are delighted to begin sharing our many achievements with both the kitchens […]

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How Safe is PEX Tubing? | GreenBuildingAdvisor.com
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Cross-linked polyethylene tubing is gaining ground in residential plumbing systems, but a poster wonders whether chemicals leach out of the material into drinking water. Builders have climbed on the PEX bandwagon in droves. Cross-linked polyethylene tubing is ….. Oh and more, Uponor has integrated sprinkler system parts, and plastic fittings that are my choice also. […]

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