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Shelforce’s Howard Trotter shines spotlight on inclusive recruitment and apprenticeships

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Howard Trotter, Business Manager at Birmingham-based window and door manufacturer Shelforce, took to the stage at this year’s Glazing Summit 2025 to speak on one of the industry’s most pressing challenges – skills and recruitment.
Held at the Coventry Building Society Arena, the Glazing Summit brought together leaders from across the fenestration sector, with Howard joining the ‘Skills: Apprentices in Action’ panel alongside Ultraframe’s Andrew Thompson and GGF’s John Mannell. The discussion focused on apprenticeships, attracting new talent, and increasing diversity across the industry.

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Navigating the most efficient and valuable route to fire safety

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Howard Trotter, Business Manager at Shelforce, shares how efficiency, value, and social purpose combine in Shelforce’s fire door manufacturing journey, delivering fully compliant fire doors that won’t break budgets.


Whenever we’re behind the wheel of our car ready for a long journey, the first thing we do is put the sat nav on. Not necessarily because we don’t know the way, but because we want the best way. I want the quickest, most efficient, most cost-effective route from A to B. That’s exactly how we approach fire door manufacturing at Shelforce.

Rapierstar’s fastener innovation delivers superior windows and doors

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Continuous innovation in fastening technology by Rapierstar is enabling housing specifiers and contractors to achieve ever higher performance standards throughout their window and door programmes.

The fasteners in its STARPVCU range are instantly recognisable through their ‘tri-thread’ logo which appears on the heads, and they are available in three different metals to suit the target level of corrosion-resistance – zinc coated carbon steel as standard or martensitic stainless steel and austenitic stainless steel for increased durability.

The revolutionary ‘repair don’t replace’ uPVC kits

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Paul Souber, with decades of experience in the safety and security sector, and a trained locksmith himself is founder and MD of Souber® Tools; established in 1990. Having worked for Chubb Locks for 13 years, he brought his extensive engineering skill to this new venture which he devoted entirely to the needs of professional locksmiths – with this comes the crossover to the door and window repair professionals. Within the locksmith trade, Souber Tool’s precision and innovation, have established a strong reputation for high quality, reliability and efficiency of service. This has fuelled our success in the domestic market and export all over the world including Australia, Japan and the United States.