Ibstock’s new £50m Horizon Ceramic Façade manufacturing facility, located on their Nostell site in West Yorkshire, is now moving into the second phase, progressing from a construction site into formal commissioning. This marks the beginning of operations at the ceramic façade manufacturing facility, with Ibstock aiming to continue to ramp …
Read More »A tale of two bosses
At ev’ry word a reputation dies Future historians may well look back on the decades at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st as the Cover-Up Years. The decades when wrong-doing – whether deliberate or simply people doing a bad job – was hidden, obfuscated, …
Read More »Absolute shower
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. There’s an old saying: Power corrupts, and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely. It’s a phrase that gained traction towards the end of the 19th century when Lord Acton …
Read More »A very British Scandal
The Post Office did not quite get away with it. They almost did. You may think it could never happen to you – or to someone you love … you would be wrong. It happened to me Mention the words Postmaster or PostMistress and what spring to mind is someone …
Read More »Snows & Horizon bring Premium Canadian Interior cladding to the UK
Horizon Coatings Inc. and Snows Timber have announced the exclusive distribution agreement for Provincial Plank in the United Kingdom. The deal sees this premium Canadian interior cladding hit the UK market for the first time. Provincial Plank (provincialplank.co.uk) is an easy to install interior wall cladding product that cherishes the …
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