Growing glass group appoints northern manager
May 2017

The newly-expanded GLASS SYSTEMS GROUP, said to be the largest producer of IG units in the UK, has appointed Steve Laing to manage the Scotland and North of England area, heading a team of three Area Sales Managers selling Glass Systems’ IG units into Scotland and the North of England, originally including Northumberland, Durham, and Cumbria and now also into Lancashire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester.

The company, part of the Press Glass group of Poland, now has six plants in Britain since it acquired two sites from Pilkington earlier this year.
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Group Managing Director John Wood said: “It is a very exciting time for us, particularly since purchasing Pilkington’s domestic IGU factories plus the Cervoglasstm roof glass brand and assets. We are now producing 80,000 IG units per week, with nearly 5,000 conservatory roof units. We have a clear plan for growth and have invested in a new high speed bystronic robot for our Glass Systems AG plant, Barnsley, and a new line with tandem gas press line for our Glass Systems Direct plant, in Pontyclun, South Wales later this year. On top of this investment we have also ordered a second IG line to produce our successful Climate brand roof glass products.”

“This will help us achieve our production plan of around 100,000 IG units per week in the near future, further cementing our status as Number One in the UK and bringing further security of employment to around 1,000 employees.”