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Quooker: Quooker eco-friendly boiling water tap saves time and electricity

(09/01/2009)

Envirowise, funded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, reveals that more than 30 billion cups of water are unnecessarily boiled each year in the workplace. Making tea in a cup with hot-water from a kettle increases greenhouse gas emissions, it is also costly and wasteful of precious water resources. ‘Office workers getting rounds of hot drinks should only boil the water they are going to use,’ they advise. Their resource-saving initiatives include appointing tea monitors... [more]

Qx Bathroom Products: Qx Bathroom Products uses VR8 software to demonstrate to customers how products would look in-situ

(03/10/2008)

Vision House Software recently launched NEXUS, its latest in design-to-manufacture software. As well as acting as a complete planning and management tool, the system does everything from providing a design through to quotation, placement of purchase order, delivery note and final invoice. Qx Bathroom Products has reported significant benefits from its investment in the very latest 3D CAD planning software by Vision House Software. The company’s salesforce all have access to VR8 – the latest ... [more]

Quinn Group: Worthington Nicholls to install and maintain air conditioning units at Crowne Plaza hotel

(03/10/2006)

Worthington Nicholls Group plc has secured its first major contract from the Quinn Group, owners of prestige UK hotels including The Belfry and the Nottingham Holiday Inn. Following competitive tendering, Worthington Nicholls has won a £615,000 contract to install and maintain new air conditioning units in each of the 198 bedrooms of the Crowne Plaza hotel located in the city centre of Cambridge. The installation, which is being carried out with Worthington Nicholls acting as principle c... [more]

Quality Directory: Quality Directory identifies vetted plumbing companies

(08/06/2006)

The volume of publicity focusing on rogue traders is making it increasingly difficult for quality plumbers to prove that they can be trusted to deliver quality work at a fair price. According to Sebastian Brown, director of the Henley based Quality Directory, it’s time that quality plumbers receive the recognition they deserve from the general public. “Consumers are becoming more vocal about the quality of service they expect from trades people,” he comments. “With the trading standards dep... [more]