INDUSTRY NEWS New MD outlines plans
for growth GEZE UK’s new managing director Kaz Spiewakowski has set out his plans to reinvigorate the company, promising a subtle change of approach designed to build on GEZE’s enviable reputation and maximise the experience of its highly knowledgeable staff. “Our people, our products and our reputation are fantastic assets,” he enthused. “Despite challenging trading conditions, our year on year sales growth is proof that we are still leaders within this sector and we must build on these strengths as we move forward. But while I’m upbeat about our potential, it’s important that we make this change of leadership an opportunity to evolve. We must refresh our approach and embrace new challenges, with a renewed focus on enhancing customer service, improving operational delivery and maximising the skills of our staff.” He began at GEZE UK on 1 January 2013. For further information please telephone 01543 443000, email
info.uk@
geze.com or visit
www.geze.co.uk
Di Mayze drives
away winners prize Di Mayze, a manufacturer from Nottingham, was made the happiest woman in Britain on the 1st of March as she received the keys to her brand new SEAT Altea after being crowned UK Worker of the Year 2012. Di wowed the judges with her passion and drive for her business, becoming the competitions’ third winner at the Gala event at the Crowne Plaza in Marlow last
year. Di’s company called Ippee Design Ltd was launched in January 2011 when Di was on maternity leave. A year on and the popular product BuggyTug is sold by some of the leading retailers. She has since launched a new product TugTrio that is a pack of three buggy straps. UK Worker of the Year is a national competition sponsored by Dickies, the well- renowned workwear brand, that recognises and rewards the excellence in the UK workforce. For further information please visit
www.workeroftheyear.com
Sandtoft winner
Sandtoft, a Wienerberger company, has named Kesteven Roofing Centre as the winner of its ‘summer of sport’ Multiversal competition. The Rotherham-based roofing specialist was presented with an iPad after being chosen from hundreds of entries. To be entered into the competition, stockists were required to order a pallet of Multiversal, the new universal ridge and hip system designed to fit all roof tile profiles and almost all ridge profiles, during Euro 2012, Wimbledon, The Open, Olympics or Paralympics. The union of this ventilated, dry fix system is based on the sectional shape of all commonly known UK ridge profiles, so it can fit most concrete and clay ridge tiles and
ANCON WINS ‘BEST PRODUCT’ AWARD
A new anchor system from Ancon, that changes the way concrete slab-to-wall joints are constructed has been voted ‘Best Product in Show’ at the 2013 UK Concrete Show. The Ancon KSN Anchor represents a completely new approach to reinforcement continuity. It creates high performance joints quickly and more safely than re-bend continuity boxes or coupler-
based solutions which involve either rebar straightening or awkward anchorage lengths in the wall. The internally- threaded anchors are simply cast into the wall and, during construction of the adjoining slab, accept continuation bars prepared with a Bartec parallel-thread. For further information please telephone 0114 275 5224 or visit
www.ancon.co.uk
hips regardless of manufacturer. The system was also recently recognised in this year’s edition of the Construction Products Innovation and Achievement publication. For further information please telephone 0844 9395 900 or visit
www.sandtoft.com
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