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CAB Pavilion highlights exciting Residential Aluminium Applications
April 2017



A busy CAB Pavilion in London in 2016. A record 14 CAB member companies are part of the CAB area at FIT Show 2017.

The 14 member strong 400m2+ CAB Aluminium Pavilion in Hall 8, NEC at the FIT Show, is testament to the exciting growth in the use of aluminium in the door, window and conservatory markets in housing. It also highlights how the Trade Association has taken on board the FIT Show strap line ‘Think Big’. According to Robert Palmer, Palmer Market Research, ‘since 2008 aluminium has seen exponential growth of 37% in value terms’ in this sector. This is impressive because it’s been delivered while the market as a whole grew by just 2%. CAB’s latest State of the Market Survey (Q1, 2017) highlighted that despite the uncertainty that prevailed last year, there was still considerable confidence in the future with 86% net balance of respondents expecting sales to increase over the next 12 months.

The exhibition has really captured the imagination of the residential aluminium in building sector with Hall 8 dominated by the material. In fact it is aluminium’s largest ever presence at a UK construction show since the early 1980’s. CAB, for its part, will be highlighting aluminium’s significant presence in the domestic/home improvement sectors and the potential for further growth. According to Palmer in his report on The Window, Door and Conservatory Markets in Housing 2016, ‘aluminium as a material type and bi-fold doors remain in the ascendancy, building share in new markets’. Palmer predicts that there will be growth in the bi-fold door market alone of around 50% to 35,000 door sets by 2020 resurgence generally of aluminium will continue beyond this despite noting that ‘some slowing in the housing market is likely’.

The 14 CAB members on the Pavilion represent a wide cross section of the supply chain: Adshead Ratcliffe & Co; AkzoNobel Powder Coatings; Alpro Architectural Hardware; Aluminium Bending Specialists; Dales Fabrications; Dyer Environmental Services; Howells Patent Glazing; HW Architectural; RAICO UK; Sherwin-Williams Diversified Brands; Valspar Powder Coatings, Vent Engineering, Vertik-Al and VINCI Technology Centre UK. There are a further 19 CAB members with their own stands throughout the FIT Show with all members being highlighted in the form of a ‘CAB Trail’. The exhibition’s timing is good in so many ways as there are a great number of new aluminium products being launched at the exhibition by CAB members keen to highlight their focus on this sector. With an anticipated audience of over 10,000 during the 3 days, a seminar programme, extended opening hours and a fantastic Master Fitter Challenge, there is a lot to both excite exhibitors and to entice visitors.

With its renowned technical expertise, the CAB Technical Team will be on hand in the CAB Lounge area (CAB 01) to answer queries on relevant standards, regulations and best practice issues. The Lounge will be a draw for any fabricator/installer interested in adding aluminium to their existing range or wanting to know how they can take part in CAB’s training provision for member companies. We will be taking bookings for our Fabricator/Installer courses which include 3 relevant NVQ Units. For the initial one day courses the units will cover Health & Safety, handling materials and fabrication or installation of windows. Successful candidates will receive a GQA Skills Card with the courses scheduled to run in Sheffield, Birmingham and London during 2017. Fabricators undertaking more complex works may be interested to know how they can sign up for our series of leading contractual awareness courses organised by CAB and presented, throughout the UK, by Knowles.

CAB is also interested in talking to fabricators and installers about the array of membership benefits available in 2017 and beyond. Being part of the Association can help demonstrate essential competency in the market place as well as always being up to date with the latest standards, regulations and contractual issues.

We have been overwhelmed by the aluminium sector’s support for the FIT Show, so much so that we are partnering again with the exhibition in 2019 and are already on the floorplan in Hall 20. Now that’s thinking BIG!

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