Plumbers merchant City Plumbing, has boosted its offer to housing associations and local authorities with the launch of a new Integrated Solutions brand. Integrated Solutions at City Plumbing is a team of experts providing repair and maintenance material supply chain solutions to the affordable housing sector. Supplying in house repairs, …

Builders merchant group MKM Building Supplies has rebranded its Sheffield South branch as MKM Sheffield Parkway. Located just off the  A57 parkway route in and out of the city’s east side,  the branch has also undergone a modern renovation and expansion to its facilities. The kitchen and bathroom showroom has doubled …

What’s gone, and what’s past help, Should be past grief. The trouble with there being so very many things to get angry about is often that you don’t know where to begin and so your anger gets dissipated. I’m rather afraid of this happening right now. I wrote quite a …

The Minister for Levelling Up, Michael Gove MP, has issued a strongly-worded letter to the Construction Products Association, accusing it of  ‘coming up with excuses to do nothing slowly’, in the after-math of the Grenfell Tower fire and the ongoing Grenfell Inquiry. The Department for Levelling-up revealed that 35 house …

Snickers Workwear’s LITEWork working clothes combine comfort and protection for working in spring and summer on site. Its fabric technology is quick-drying and functional, and provides UPF 40+sun protection. The range includes trousers, shirts, shorts, and jackets and a high-vis range with new styles and stretch features, plus trousers that …

The Proplas Tile range of decorative PVC wall panelling has added two new Metro Tile designs. Light Grey Metro Tile and Dark Grey Metro Tile join the popular White Metro option already available, giving customers a wider design choice. The panels are designed to deliver the look and feel of …

The electrical division of south-east merchant group IBMG has opened a new Grant & Stone electrical wholesaler on Hainault Rd, Romford, Essex. The branch is a specialist containment branch, providing customers with a wide selection of tray and trunking, and solutions to all their containment needs, offering a broad range …

Are Modern Methods of Construction a threat to builders merchants’ business, or do they present untapped opportunities? That’s a question that the Builders Merchants Federation’s Annual Members Conference in September will take a closer look at answering. MMC is high on the Government’s agenda to fast-tracking energy efficient new homes, …

Sika UK has finished a large-scale redevelopment of its Wishaw plant near Glasgow,  which makes a range of mortar and render product lines. As a result, the Wishaw site is projected to allow the production of up to 35,000 tonnes of mortars and 12,000 tonnes of Sika’s single coat render, …

Covers Timber & Builders Merchants welcomed Greg Clark, the Conservative MP for Tunbridge Wells, to its depot on Friday 25th March. Clark was given a tour of the depot by store manager Max Dempster who explained its operations and products as well as how the business gets involved with community projects and …