News

Next month sink maker Carron Phoenix will celebrate its 250th birthday at the Falkirk site in Scotland.

The August issue of Builders Merchants Journal is out this week and includes an interview with BMF managing director Chris Pateman on the fundamental flaws with the government's Carbon Emissions Reduction Target scheme.

Plumbers merchant chain PTS is backing an industry call for the Government to introduce a boiler scrappage scheme.

A timber structure that is older than Stonehenge has been unearthed by university archaeologists in Plumstead.

Members of staff at Newcastle builders merchant JT Dove are aiming to raise £5,000 for their nominated charity - Toma Fund - this year.

The Bicester branch of builders merchant Travis Perkins is helping a local playgroup whose building was condemned.

Everbuild Building Products, the manufacturer of sealants, adhesives, fillers and building chemicals, has doubled the size of its fleet of branded articulated vehicles.

Construction market activity fell again during the second quarter of 2009 according to the latest Construction Trade Survey from the Construction Products Association.

Three members of staff at Middlesex builders merchants Crescent Building Supplies cycled from London to Brighton to raise money for the British heart Foundation.

Building materials giant Hanson could sell off some of its businesses - including the brick division - as early as the end of 2009, according to press speculation.