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The Construction Products Association agrees that the Green Deal has enormous potential to improve the energy performance of UK buildings, but says fundamental issues still needed to be addressed.
Read More »Avocet Hardware in administration
Hardware and ironmongery manufacturer Avocet Hardware has gone into administration today (January 23).
Read More »Travis Perkins signs-off Saints’ sponsorship
Builders merchant group Travis Perkins has renewed its sponsorship of the Northampton Saints RFC for a further four years, it announced today (January 23).
Read More »Man dies at cement plant
A worker has died in an accident at cement manufacturer Cemex's Rugby factory.
Read More »OFT refers aggregates industry to Competition Commission
The Office of Fair Trading is to refer the aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete markets for investigation by the Competition Commission.
Read More »UK loses nearly 10,000 construction & manufacturing businesses in two years
Over 5,000 construction firms gone into administration since 2010, according to a new report by accountants PwC.
Read More »Plumb Center demands access to Green Deal Plan
With the Government's Green Deal consultation having finished yesterday, plumbers merchant Plumb Center has set out its response.
Read More »Online plumbers merchant predicts 30% turnover increase
PlumbNation, the online-only plumbing and heating business, is forecasting record sales of £16m by the end of June 2012.
Read More »Breedon Aggregates buys Nottingham Readymix
Independent aggregates business Breedon Aggregates has bought Nottingham Readymix.
Read More »Yorkshire plumbers given suspended prison sentences
Suspended prison terms have been handed out to two plumbers for falsely claiming to be Gas Safe registered engineers and leaving one local family in "immediate danger".
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