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Industry agrees to postpone Carpex/Windex until October 2012

Quartz Business Media, the organiser of the Carpex/Windex 2012 exhibition, has announced the postponement of the event, which was due to take place on 8th and 9th March. The new dates have been confirmed as 3rd & 4th October 2012. The exhibition will remain at The Ricoh Arena in Coventry. Martin Scott, exhibition sales director, said: “Carpex/Windex is staged specifically to support the needs of the carpet & upholstery and window cleaning industries, and we work…

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Want an update on tempered glass? – check out GANA’s next meeting this February

GANA Annual Conference The GANA Annual Conference is scheduled for February 20-24, 2012 in Sarasota, Florida. Seven Divisions of GANA have meetings planned at this event, along with the non-Division Committees including Fire-Rated Glazing, Glazing Industry Code Committee, Marketing, and Protective Glazing. Registration Conference fees are due when registering. Registration Fees Members $  675 (Full Conference) *Non-Members $1400 (Full Conference) Spouses $  400   Energy Session New this year is a separate Energy Session.  This session runs all…

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The World’s Fastest window cleaner writes for WCM

  Record breaker and unbeaten world champion Terry Burrows. Read his column in WCM!The World’s Fastest Window Cleaner Terry ‘Turbo’ Burrows says…Luck is a funny old thing. Last year, for example, I placed a bet on four horses. To my complete amazement, all of the horses I placed a bet on won! This netted me a staggering £41,439!! Safe to say I was celebrating for a while after.Another day I drove into a petrol station, filled…

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Are you straight or do you swivel? By Simon Sherwood

Article from the pages of WCM Jan 2012 issue: Gardiners carbon gooseneck. The product feels quality, the plastic seems tough, but only time will tell how it will last, although it does look promising. The resi-neck is quick release in more than one way. Not only can it be swapped in seconds with Gardin- ers’ quick release neck system, you can also adjust the angle of the neck in moments with a clamp that looks not…

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Thiefing git!!

  Leighton Cuthbert swung from his ladder and leaned into an open bedroom window to grab a credit card, which he used to buy pizza and phone calls. But the episode was captured on camera by a neighbour, who grew suspicious of the time it was taking 30-year-old Cuthbert to clean three panes of glass. Andrew Mitchell, who lives opposite, took out his mobile phone and started recording the burglary. ‘It took him 20 times longer…

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More on Louisa Kuypers who fell 30 metres from the Lion Nathan building.

An 18-year-old abseiling window cleaner who fell four storeys off an Auckland building has improved overnight, according to her mother. Window cleaner Louisa Kuypers was suspended off the side of a Lion Breweries building in Newmarket when she fell about 30m to the ground around 2.30pm yesterday. An ambulance took her to Auckland City Hospital in a critical condition. She has improved in hospital overnight, and was today in a stable condition, a hospital spokesman said….

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