The Builders Merchants Federation has announced that its All Industry Conference 2025 will take place in Barcelona. The event, held every two years alternatively with the NMBS Conference, will be held from Thursday June 12 to Sunday June 15. The venue is the Torre Melina hotel, and was announced by …

I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory! Good luck! 6 am June 6, 2024. Gatwick Airport, Surrey. Thousands of people queuing, waiting – some patiently, some impatiently – for what is about to come. Clutching …

A three-month redundancy consultation process at the Lenham factory of plumbing conglomerate Aliaxis, was announced yesterday (June 4th). The group, parent company of parent of Marley Plumbing and Drainage, Hunter Plastics and Marley Alutec, has said that the plant might close. Around 200 people could be affected, Kent Online reports. …

They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse. It’s a truth, universally accepted, that you …

Leading building materials merchant, PDM has today (June 3) unveiled a major upgrade to its Kilmarnock branch. This investment will better support the needs of both existing and new customers with a significantly expanded product range across a retail floorspace that has tripled in size. The upgraded facilities were officially …

The UK’s newest aggregate manufacturing plant has been officially opened in Wellingborough, and will transform around 200,000 tonnes per year of incinerator bottom ash (IBA) left over from the energy-from-waste process into EcoBlend, a sustainable manufactured aggregate for use in the built environment. The £20m facility was formally opened by …

The 2024 BMJ Industry Awards are now open for voting at www.bmjindustryawards.co.uk/vote. Once you have cast your vote for your favourites in as many categories as you like – though only once for each category – head over to www.bmjindustryawards.co.uk/tickets to secure your tables and tickets for the event of the year, on …

Cheltenham-based independent family-run builders merchant George Bence & Sons Ltd is celebrating its 170th anniversary. The company was started in 1854, in the early Victorian Era, when deliveries were made with horse and cart from the central location of Cheltenham Spa town, , where the headquarters is still located. Since …

The first batch of reusable green, RFID-tagged* pallets from The Pallet LOOP, part of the BSW Group, have started entering the construction supply chain, en masse. This marks a fundamental shift towards circular economics in the transportation of building materials in the UK. Over the last few weeks, The Pallet …

Henco, the manufacturer of pipes and fittings for the sanitary and heating sector, among others, has started producing pre-insulated pipes in-house as of April 2024. The company has invested 10 million euros in a new foam line, providing insulation to the Henco multilayer pipe. The investment brings major benefits in efficiency …