Solar Energy Plumbing Solutions … Integrated Collector-Storage: Also referred to as a batch collector, the integrated collector-storage system consists of an insulated box that contains multiple black tanks or tubes. First, water …

Jayson Richards from City Plumbing Supplies and Jade Terry of Naylor Industries walked away with the top prizes at the BMF’s prestigious Young Achiever of the Year Awards last week. Richards was named as Young Merchant Achiever 2019 and Terry as Young Supplier Achiever 2019. Fergus Bell of Bradfords Building Supplies took the silver runners-up […]

Keyline Civils Specialist, the civils and drainage products merchant, has opened its first dedicated Keyline Plastics Specialist branch.  The branch, in Gravesend, offers customers an increased range of plastic civils and drainage products including underground drainage, utility ducting, stormwater management solutions, duct and access chambers, channel drainage, manhole covers and gully grates, geotechnics, service pipes […]

MKM Building Supplies is looking forward to bowling over customers with its new flagship branch in Barnsley. To celebrate the opening, the UK’s largest independent builder’s merchant invited world-famous Yorkshire cricketing legend Dickie Bird OBE to officially open its doors at a special launch event earlier this week. To mark the start of play for […]

The Builders Merchants Federation has announced  that Olympic medallists Steve Backley OBE and Roger Black MBE will be Keynote Speakers at the Virtual BMF AGM and Members Conference on 17 September 2020. Created by DPE, Copyright IRIS 2009 The sporting duo will also host one of the “Training Taster” sessions taking place on the day. […]

Panel Systems, the manufacturer of architectural, decorative, lightweight, sandwich and composite panels, has invested in a new state-of-the-art CNC machining centre for its factory in Sheffield. The new SCM Morbidelli x400 Nesting Machine Centre, includes a 3.1m x 2.1m matrix vacuum flatbed which means the company can now fabricate and router panels up to 3m […]

If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber. Back in the olden days – before Covid,  the credit-crunch and the 2008-financial-crash, it was a truth, universally acknowledged, that one of the easiest things to do in this industry was set up a plumber’s merchant. All you needed was an industrial […]