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After a weak start to the year following the demise of Carillion in January and adverse weather across the country in February and March, the Construction Products Association’s Spring forecasts anticipate construction output growth for the whole of 2018 will remain flat, before accelerating to 2.7% in 2019 and 1.9% …

Graham Plumbers’ Merchant recently surprised one loyal customer as the winner of Graham’s ‘Win a Van’ competition. After purchasing the winning Boiler Replacement Pack at Graham’s Goole branch, W Wright Electrical & Mechanical has been presented with the final grand prize, a new VW T6 Transporter. W Wright Electrical & …

Featuring a slide, gym and real wood treehouse, Woodpecker Flooring’s new offices make a day at work feel like no work at all. Tucked away in Caerphilly’s Pant Glas Industrial Estate, the once empty shell of a warehouse has been transformed into a fantastic workplace, thanks to a 2 million …

More than half of small building firms say that rising material prices are squeezing their margins and the same percentage have had to pass these price increases onto consumers, according to the latest research by the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). Small and medium-sized (SME) building firms were asked which …

NMBS has marked the 50th anniversary of its annual exhibition in truly spectacular style. The UK’s largest buying society for independent builders’, plumbing and heating, timber, and hardware merchants held its 2018 event on Wednesday 11th April at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry and enjoyed record-breaking levels of success. The show attracted …

Leading provider of high-quality components for use in HVAC systems, the Flamco Group, has announced a UK wide distributorship agreement with distributor of plumbing and heating products to the independent sector, Mark Vitow. Mark Vitow is a family owned, UK wide distributor of plumbing and heating products to the independent …

Lynx Precast Limited, one of the North’s best known manufacturers and installers of precast, concrete flooring systems, has cemented its future in Northumberland by committing to a further 15 years and additional space at Lynefield Park, a multi-million pound industrial site currently being redeveloped at the former Alcan Aluminium smelter …

John Newcomb CEO of the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) is set to be the next President of Ufemat, the European Association of National Builders Merchants Associations and Manufacturers.  His candidature for the Presidency was unanimously accepted during the Ufemat committee meeting on 13 April, to be confirmed at the Ufemat …

The latest figures produced by the Office for National Statistics reveal that brick production figures continue to rise. The most recent figures are for February, which show a 6% rise on February 2017.  The rolling quarterly figures are even more impressive: December 2017– February 2018 shows a 13% increase on …

Thanks to its donation of a unique piece of artwork, ForgeFix has helped to raise over £500 for CRASH – the construction industry charity which supports homelessness and hospice charities by sourcing pro bono professional expertise, building materials and awarding cash grants donated by the construction and property industry. The …