The management, commercial and financial teams in Building Products UK have been re-organised . The changes have been developed with the needs of both our customers and the future of the business in mind, helping to put us in the best position to thrive within the developing glazing market.

Pilkington Activ™ has been specified for the brand new IKEA store in Coventry city centre. Glazing constructor Anglian Architectural installed 1400m2 of Pilkington Activ Suncool™ in the £43 million building which is the first store to be located in a major city centre shopping area. As the most prominent feature of the structure, the glazing in the curtain walling had to fit in with the architecture of the city and was designed to reflect the surrounding environment.

It has been another busy month in the trade press for Pilkington energiKare™ this month. Have a look at July issues of Glass Times, Windows Active, Fenestra Journal and The Fabricator to see our full page advertisements. We have also been building on our profile in the housebuilder and public sector press with advertisements in Professional Housebuilder and Developer, Housebuilder, Local Authority Building and Maintenance and Housing Association Building and Maintenance magazines. We look forward to providing you with more campaign plans at the Sales Conference on 17th July.

This month we are celebrating the first winner of our Pilkington energiKare™ monthly installation  competition! Our congratulations go to Cyril Ralph from Bath who  simply sent us  the response card from his Pilkington energiKare™ installation certificate and was picked out as the lucky winner of a £50 of M&S  vouchers. Cyril bought his windows, incorporating Pilkington energiKare™, from Safestyle, the nation’s largest independent window retailer and the first company in the UK to offer householders C rated energy rated window as a standard product.

As you may already be aware, we have implemented changes in the manufacture and processing of Pilkington Pyroshield™. The changes, which involve the suspension of the manufacture of Pilkington Pyroshield™ at Watson Street in St Helens and processing at Doncaster will not affect supply of the product to our customers.

Another month and another big name signs up to partner with us to supply Pilkington energiKare™. We are thrilled that Sash UK will be benefiting from the added value that partnering with us to supply our energy saving product brings. But that’s not all Sash UK has implemented a programme of seminars to provide information to current and potential customers about the opportunities the partnership offers. These benefits include the opportunity to offer a high quality, energy saving product with the backing of a full range of marketing support materials and technical advice.

We “stopped the press” for a day last month when editors from three top glazing and construction publications visited sunny St Helens for a whistle stop tour of our floatlines at Greengate and Watson Street as well as our research and development facility in Lathom. In a jam-packed day, Nathan Bushell from Glass and Glazing Products, Tim Franklin, from Window Fabricator and Installer and Jam Ambrose from Building Control Journal, all had a glimpse of Pilkington behind the scenes. We saved the best until last, so to round off the day, the editors got a front row seat at a fire test where our innovative Pilkington Pyrostop™ glazing proved, as always, to stand up to more than 1,000ºC.