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Wrightstyle is a specialist steel and aluminium glazing company and supplies its fire-rated systems internationally. Jane Embury, the company’s marketing director, looks at fire compartmentation. First, some statistics.
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After being honored five years in a row as an award finalist, Wausau Window and Wall Systems has been selected as one of only 13 winners in the state of the prestigious, 20th annual Wisconsin Corporate Safety Award.
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Wrightstyle is a specialist steel and aluminium glazing company and supplies its fire-rated systems internationally.
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Wrightstyle, the Devizes-based steel and aluminium glazing company, has supplied a range of systems for a state-of-the-art vocational teaching centre in Cheshire, Buckinghamshire.
Specified by Stride Treglown, in collaboration with Kier Group and Nolan Commercial, AluK (GB) doors, windows and curtain walling systems have been supplied for the extension of the Cardiff High School in Wales.
Tubelite Inc. adds Mike Peters and Kelly Townsend as client development managers. Both have been hired to replace their recently retired predecessors and will be working closely with Tubelite customers and architects to provide assistance with…
An industrial giant like Japan just put your eyes on the activity of Tvitec and international reference in the field of glass processing .
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AluK (GB) doors and curtain walling systems have been supplied for the refurbishment of an existing retail unit for Debenhams at the Withybush Retail Park in Haverfordwest, Wales.
Wrightstyle, the Devizes-based steel and glass company, has offered its response to the Chancellor’s Budget. The Budget comes in a week when Chancellor George Osborne said that the government needed to carry on backing businesses, large and small,…
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One of North America's largest curtain wall companies, Gamma, named Jim Mitchell to the new position of North American president in Toronto overseeing seven U.
AGC (Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.; Head Office: Tokyo; President & CEO: Kazuhiko Ishimura) announces that its architectural glass products have been used in Abeno Harukas, a 300m-tall Osaka landmark building located in Abeno, Osaka-city.
The President of the Junta de Castilla y León, Juan Vicente Herrera , was in charge of pressing the button for the opening ceremony • The investment in the new thermal Tvitec line , measuring 60 meters long, has been promoted to four million euros…
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Wrightstyle Limited is a leading international supplier of steel and aluminium glazing systems. Lee Coates, the company’s technical director, looks at what the future holds for a material that is fundamental to modern architecture.
The “all you need” section will make it much easier for the community to specify and install our photovoltaic glazing.
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