UK-based Clayton Glass has opened a new Smartglass distribution facility in the Midlands. Smartglass is the company's roof glazing sealed unit offering featuring Edgetech's Super Spacer warm edge technology. Located near Northampton, this new facility will employ a small team of three people, providing storage and distribution facilities. "As our roof customer base has increased, so has both the number and distance of end user sites we need to get our product to," said Jason McCabe, Commercial Director. "The key to timely and successful roof deliveries lies with a small fleet of lightweight vehicles in the right location, so whilst we will retain the use of our heavy goods fleet, this will be to ship roofs in volume to the hub overnight for onward delivery the next day." "To coincide with this, on the production side we have invested further and can now manufacture Smartglass in either one of our two County Durham facilities. The key for us lies in being able to manufacture quicker, thus getting the roof on the most cost effective vehicle and optimising by delivery "slot." We're hugely confident that with this new facility we will be able to improve our turnaround, reaction times and delivery capacity, and with it our overall customer experience. We are taking orders for roof glass on a national basis, so we have seen sales grow too."
