Yearly Archives: 2017

The GM Fundraising Paddle2Pedal team are part way through their challenge, having completed the “paddle” section which saw them canoe 100 miles down the River Wye from Glasbury to Chepstow. As if they haven’t done enough, the team did an abseil down the rock face of Symonds Yat yesterday afternoon. Alan Sadler, Profix Group’s MD…

Tim Herbert joined Grand Entrance in 2015 as a manufacturing apprentice. He has since worked hard to achieve two NVQ’s and an EAL qualification and become a fully-fledged Window & Door Manufacturing Operative. “Working for Grand Entrance is great,” says Tim. “I joined when I was 20 and since I started they have trained and…

Profix Group MD Alan Sadler is gearing up to support the latest GM Fundraising challenge, but this time to support a group of 12 ladies from the fenestration industry as they prepare to take part in the first ever all-female GM Fundraising challenge, Paddle2Pedal. In less than 2 weeks, the team will be setting out…

Flush sash windows are a familiar part of the UK’s architectural landscape.  Widely used throughout the 1800’s, many of them are still in place today and  with windows over 100 years old, it is not surprising that many are draughty, rotten and don’t work properly.  A staggering 26% of heat loss escapes through windows alone,…