Doorset manufacturer JELD-WEN UK has officially opened its new 294,000 sq ft manufacturing facility at Bessemer Park in Sheffield, following a £20 million investment in its UK operations. The purpose-built facility provides JELD-WEN with a larger, more flexible environment for manufacturing and distribution, with modern equipment and a layout designed …
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Builder’s merchant Travis Perkins has launched CONNECT, a new carbon calculator designed to simplify Scope 3 reporting for customers. Scope 3 measures all indirect greenhouse gas emissions in a supply chain and downstream categories; from sourcing the raw materials for a product, through manufacturing to the point of delivery to …
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Timber manufacturer Archwood Group has cut production time by 50% following a machinery upgrade at its Chirk site in North Wales. The business, which operates the Richard Burbidge and Atkinson & Kirby brands, replaced its Maka ME machine with a Masterwood CNC machine as part of wider investment in manufacturing …
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STARK Building Materials UK, distributors of building and construction materials, has launched a new careers website, Working at STARK, designed to show young people, career changers and returners the breadth of careers available across the building materials sector. The site puts STARK UK’s colleagues front and centre through testimonials and …
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Colleagues and suppliers of Travis Perkins Managed Services (TPMS) took to the court to take part in a netball charity fundraiser for Bowel Cancer UK. More than 150 colleagues, suppliers and sponsors took part in the charity tournament hosted at Benham Sports Arena in Northampton, raising almost £5,000 for the …
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Kitchen supplier Benchmarx, part of the Travis Perkins Group, is celebrating two decades of trading this year by announcing a raft of super savings for new and existing customers. As part of the company’s Big Savings Event, fitters will have access to bigger discounts than ever across kitchen units, taps, appliances, doors …
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Travis Perkins managing director Richard Lavin has welcomed government plans to introduce vocational GCSEs, highlighting the need to attract more young people into construction and create clear pathways into careers. The government’s proposed education reforms will give young people the opportunity to study vocational subjects from the age of 14, …
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There’s a new CEO at independent sixth-generation family-run builders merchant The Bence Group in Cheltenham. The company has revealed a new senior leadership structure to drive its next phase of growth. Managing director Paul Bence moves into the newly created Chief Executive Officer role, and will focus more on strategy, …
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NMBS has progressed from an affiliate to a full equity-owning member of Euro Craft, a European consortium of buying groups for the construction and industrial sectors. Euro Craft, founded in 1995 by the SOCODA Group, is a major network of independent distributors for the building and industrial sectors in France. …
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Family run Newport builders merchants, J&A Phillips, has completed the Cardiff Half Marathon on October 4 2026 to raise funds for the Velindre Cancer Centre. The run, undertaken by director Michael Birch and his son Jonathan, formed part of an ongoing fundraising appeal by the merchant, which has raised over …
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