David Lee, director of the Electric Heating Company, would like to see industry calls for a boiler scrappage scheme extended to cover electric heating products.

Wigan-based spade and fork manufacturer Rollins Bulldog Tools has purchased the assets of Caldwells Manufacturing, which entered administration in June 2009.

Lock and security manufacturer ASSA ABLOY is replacing its Chubb brand with other leading brands from within the group for most locks and secondary security products.

The Metropolitan Police has warned hire companies to be extra vigilant following a spate of thefts of plant and equipment by bogus construction firms.

North West based plumbers' merchant, James Hargreaves, has taken on the bisTrack range of business software products from Progressive Solutions.

There is unlikely to be any real recovery in the construction industry before 2011, and it might be a further 10 years before output is back to 2007 levels.

Shower manufacturer Hansgrohe has relaunched its Aquademie showroom at the UK head office in Esher.

Boiler manufacturers Vaillant and Worcester have been named as the two most reliable brands by the Consumers' Association magazine Which?

The latest statistics from NHBC show the sixth rolling quarter on quarter rise in applications to start new homes in the UK.

If the Conservative Party wins the next general election, it will aim to create a "nation of housebuilders", Grant Shapps has said.