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Heating manufacturer Glow-worm has announced a new 12-month corporate sponsorship agreement with construction industry charity, Band of Builders. Band of Builders is a UK-registered charity that supports tradespeople, construction workers and their families during times of crisis, operating a 24-hour wellbeing and crisis support service on which construction workers can …

Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins is trialling a new aggregate product consisting of part-recycled materials. Travis Perkins has partnered with Day Aggregates, suppliers of aggregates to the builders’ merchant and construction industry, to launch the trial. The merchant is putting an initial 25,000 bags of the newly formulated Ecoblend, which includes …

Plumbing product manufacturer, Instantor, officially celebrates its 100th anniversary on February 4 2026. To mark its centenary, Instantor has planned a full programme of celebrations throughout 2026. Activities will include exclusive product promotions for installers and merchants; customer, employee and community engagement initiatives; new merchandise and brochures; and an increased …

The nominations window is now open for the BMJ Industry Awards 2026, the merchant industry awards programme that truly reflects the opinions of the industry, because it’s voted for by the people who work in the sector day in day out. Merchants, their customers and their suppliers are the ones …

Family-run builders merchant Carvers Building Supplies has announced Julian Aleksandrowicz as the winner of its Driver of the Year 2025 award. The award recognises excellence across several key areas including reliability, delivery efficiency, customer service, and punctuality—all of which contributed to the points Aleksandrowicz consistently accumulated over the last 12 …

Specialist flat roofing supplier Flex-R has become a supplier member of the Builders Merchants Federation. The decision comes after the company won two merchant supplier awards last year and, the company says, demonstrates its commitment to supplying the builders merchants sector. Flex-R has been selling synthetic single-ply EPDM membranes to …

Builders’ merchant Travis Perkins has expanded its plant, tools, skips and equipment hire offering, via a new ‘pay-as-you-go’ service. Pay as you go Hire sees customers without a Travis Perkins trade account able to hire all tools, machinery, plant and site equipment for their vital trade and construction needs for …

Wokingham-based Anderson Roofing Supplies Ltd has become the latest merchant to join buying group NBG as a Partner, to benefit from access to its online Hub, Supplier deals and a wider support network of fellow independent merchants. Anderson Roofing, which started up in 2003, has a second branch in Camberley, …

The Construction Products Association has downgraded its Winter forecasts, expecting overall construction output to rise by just 1.7% in 2026, a significant drop from the 2.8% growth forecast in October. The slowdown in activity in key sectors has persisted and in the largest sector, private housing, there is little to …

Lawton Tubes, a supplier and manufacturer of recyclable copper tubes and fittings, is set to open a new £20 million facility next year to meet growing domestic demand. The new solar-powered premises, across the road from its current headquarters in Coventry, will include a 107,768 sq ft warehouse along with …