NFA MAGAZINE - JUN22

NFA MAGAZINE - JUN22

DIGITAL MAGAZINE

VOTE NOW OPEN You can vote for your fenestration favourites for free online at - fenestrationawards.co.uk/vote

Voting closes on Friday 7th of October 2022

(One vote per person, only votes from the fenestration industry will count)

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NFA NEWS

Don’t miss the hottest ticket in town!

The National Fenestration Awards winners event will be held on the 5th of November 2022. The venue is The Hilton Hotel Garden suite which boasts extensive views over the Racecourse. At our event on the 5th of November 2022, you will be met with a champagne reception on arrival, and then will be able to enjoy a full race card at the Virgin Bet November Handicap this is the final chance to enjoy turf flat racing anywhere in the UK this year, so an exciting atmosphere is anticipated. A full 3 course meal will be served at lunchtime followed by more racing. Next, it will be time for the awards ceremony where a special guest will be compère and trophies will be presented to the industry chosen winners. Afterwards it’s party time with a spectacular evening of entertainment featuring music and fireworks! The event will be a fun filled 12-hour day so make sure you don’t miss it and book your seats early as tickets are only exclusive to finalists for a limited time!

Finalists take your opportunity to reserve your tickets now as they will be on general sale to all in our industry later this month. Book your tickets here: www.fenestrationawards.co.uk/2022-winners/

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THIS MONTHS KEY ARTICLES

PAGE 08 GREEN AND PINK - LATEST HOT COLOURS Green and pink are two colours that appear to be increasing in popularity at leading colour coating specialist, Kolorseal Ltd.

PAGE 48 BUILDING OUR SKILLS LAUNCH ACTION PLAN FOR 2022-23 Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has launched its action plan for the next twelve months. PAGE 36 FENEX - A GREAT INVESTMENT FOR BUSINESS The FENEX trade show is a viable way to reach each a broader audience that will be extremely relevant to any sales-driven business PAGE 28 EUROCELL ENHANCES OUTDOOR LIVING SOLUTIONS Eurocell has extended its range of outdoor living solutions with the launch of new contemporary garden room, pergola, and veranda designs.

PAGE 14 LISTERS - BIGGEST INVESTMENT IN WORKFORCE Listers is giving every employee in the company a ‘Cost of Living Allowance’ of £1,000 over the next 12 months to help them cope with inflation and energy costs. PAGES 12 MORLEY GLASS NOMINATED FOR ITS MOST EVER NFAS! Morley Glass has been nominated in seven categories of the 2022 NFAs, with a further five nominations for members of its team.

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BISON - LEADING THE WAY WITH GENESIS VS Bison Frames has once again been nominated as Vertical Sliding Window Company of the Year in the 2022 NFAs...

LEKA WARM ROOF TRANSFORMS PLYMOUTH CARE HOME Leka Systems fabricator Boringdon Plastics has recently completed the fabrication of an impressive 16.5m by 4.2m Leka Warm Roof

June EDITION 03

CLIPPINGS & MUSINGS

June is Internet Safety Month!

June is Internet Safety Month which is probably one of the best times for people to be reminded about all about the most up-to-date best practices that will simplify online business methods securely and help us all to stay safe online. The wonder of the www, whilst brilliant in so many ways, can be quite a high-risk place, where the technology in your hands can literally lose many days of work or worse, huge amounts of money. Despite the warnings, patches, upgrades or investment in new systems, generally resolving a problem online tends to come about after the horse has bolted. There are many consequences that relate to unsafe

practices online, but even the most tech-shy can take preventative steps to keep their business and social platforms in better shape. Phishing emails and the people behind them are getting much more clever, with bogus websites and forms that really can and do replicate the most trusted areas on the World Wide Web. Staying safe from scammers and hackers is getting harder but one of the trusted rules remains the same. Not everything seen online is trustworthy, and always check the source, by looking at the url to see if it is trusted.

Don’t ruin any device because you think it is safe. Regularly run security updates on all the systems belonging to a business, don’t just rely on a scheduled scan and sit back. There are some browser plugins that will show a warning if the website being visited is considered dangerous There are also cybersecurity tools that run real-time protection which will stop viruses and malware before it has had a chance to infect a system. Making it easy for criminals tends to come about when new software or

NATIONAL FENESTRATION AWARDS MAGAZINE 04

FROM HELEN DUVAL 2022

“Staying safe from scammers and hackers is getting harder...”

apps are installed onto computers or other tech. The easiest route to remember a password is not always the safest eg: QWERTY, 123456, ‘Iloveyou’ PaSsWoRd, and DEFAULT, are not great ideas - these are in the top 20 list compiled after >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60

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