Timber doorset manufacturer JELD-WEN has announced that relocation of it production machinery to the company’s new facility at Bessemer Park in Sheffield is now well underway. The new manufacturing facility, which will be fully operational later this year, forms part of the company’s long-term strategy to strengthen its UK manufacturing …

No one is useless in this world who helps lighten the burdens of another. It’s not Help to Buy, but it will Help to Buy.  Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to introduce a new scheme to try to help people onto the property ladder, specifically those who may have given …

Drywall manufacturer Siniat’s new moisture-resistant plasterboard Siniat Universal™ MR Board is engineered for demanding, high-impact environments. It combines impact resistance, fire and acoustic performance in a single layer. Ideal for high-traffic buildings, such as multi-residential developments, schools, and healthcare facilities, it delivers enhanced H2 moisture resistance (EN 520), and fire …

Avtar Construction, the groundworks contractor that specialised in the housebuilding sector, owed suppliers and subcontractors £4.4m when it went into administration. That’s according to a report filed at Companies House by administrators from FRP Advisory.  Avtar had been in business since 2010, working for regional offices of major house builders …

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that young men and women entering the UK building materials sector as a career either tend to be in and out of it, or they stay for …

Builders merchants trade association, the BMF (Builders Merchants Federation) crowned its top merchant and supplier achievers at a gala dinner last night (September 17). The winner of the Young Merchant Achiever Award 2026 was Daniel Broadhead, marketing manager at Tippers. Runner-up was Lawson’s Elliot Young. Winning the Young Supplier & …

Builders merchants trade association the Builders Merchants Federation has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to urge him to take action on housing, social mobility, inheritance tax and the cost of doing business, in next month’s Budget. Measures the BMF would like to see are changes to Stamp Duty, …

 I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, What do you get if you take a boiling hot May day, 180 golfers and assorted supporters and hangers-on, and a drive to do something positive for the future of the industry? You get the launch, earlier this year of the Maddie …

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day I’m going to jump about a bit here, so bear with me, gentle readers. When the market has been this difficult for this long, businesses have to make decisions that serve the best interests of shareholders, owners, …

Steve Durdant-Hollamby has been appointed chairman of H&B, the independent builders merchant buying group, which has over 100 members. He brings a wealth of experience from across the building materials industry, including senior leadership experience with Lords Group Trading and Genuit Group. Having worked across both merchanting and manufacturing, Durdant-Hollamby …