Plastic piping solutions manufacturer Polypipe Building Products is helping to free waterways of leftover fishing lines. A team of volunteers from the staff at Polypipe toolmakers Mason Pinder, in Doncaster, worked over a weekend to create more than 100 plastic bins from Polypipe stock which will be used to collect unwanted …
Read More »Shower manufacturer Triton has won a Bathroom Manufacturer’s Association Sustainability Award in the Workplace Initiative category, in recognition of its efforts to involve staff as part of its Moving the Dial campaign. With a target of becoming carbon net-zero by 2025, the shower manufacturer has placed emphasis on engaging its …
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Plumbers merchant group Wolseley UK has announced agreements with Saint-Gobain for the acquisition of Neville Lumb, DHS and Bassetts, and entered into exclusive negotiations for the acquisition of Ideal Bathrooms. Together the four brands represent around 485 employees and in 2020 generated a turnover of approximately 130m Euros. Keith Dorling, …
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UK brick manufacturer Ibstock Brick Ltd, has been fined for safety breaches after an accident caused a maintenance worker to lose his forearm. North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard how, on 28 February 2020, the maintenance engineer was in the process of polishing a metal shaft as it rotated in a …
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Builders merchant Selco Builders Warehouse is sponsoring Essex grass-roots football team Bowers & Pitsea under 14s, who will carry the name of Selco Builders Warehouse on the front of their shirts. The team is currently top of the Eastern Junior Alliance Under 14 Green Division having won nine matches out …
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Building materials supplier, Aggregate Industries, visited the University of Bath to talk to postgraduate students and academic staff in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering about the practical challenges of a low carbon transition for the construction industry. Veronika Elfmarkova, ECOPact Product Manager for Aggregate Industries’ London Concrete business was invited by …
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James Burrell Builders Merchants has raised more than £8,500 to share between their nominated charities of the year, Butterwick Hospice Care and 4Louis. Staff participated in various fundraising events throughout the year, including running the Great North Run, a charity walk across the County Durham countryside, a coffee morning and …
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UK door distributor JB Kind Doors has raised £8,500 for the charity Dementia UK. The 55-employee company, based in Derbyshire, supports a different cause every two years, and the money was raised via a series of events including a charity gala dinner held in 2019, plus an 822-mile walk undertaken …
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Independent builders merchant Bradfords Building Supplies has appointed an initial team of Sustainability Champions across its network as part of its drive to support the construction industry in meeting the government’s net zero targets and to enhance its own environmental sustainability. Seven team members at Bradfords so far have volunteered …
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Builders merchant Selco has announced that it is to open its 73rd branch, in Exeter in 2022. Howard Luft, chief executive of Selco Builders Warehouse, said: “Exeter has been an area we have identified as a potential target location for us for quite some time and we are thrilled to …
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