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After a hard day’s work, the last thing you want to be thinking about is taxes and receipts. But with the introduction of Making Tax Digital as of the 6^th April the way you manage and submit your income tax is going to change massively.

Dan joined the business earlier this year as Commercial Director and has already made a strong impact across sales, customer engagement and commercial performance. He brings extensive experience across the building products sector, with a strong record of delivering profitable growth and commercial transformation.

To unveil a brand new product category and celebrate a century of innovation, Instantor, market-leaders in press solutions, will be exhibiting on stand 5D22 at InstallerSHOW 2026, from 23^rd to 25^th June at the NEC, Birmingham.

The Engineering Council is introducing a refreshed brand identity, reaffirming its role as the UK’s regulatory body for the engineering profession. The new identity supports our ambition to bring greater cohesion across the engineering community and strengthen our leadership role in supporting a unified, high‑standards profession, “the promise of responsible engineering made real”.

One of Britain’s longstanding construction suppliers is appealing to businesses in the industry to join its movement to bridge the growing skills gap between younger and older generations of traders.

Growing from its first simple pipe clip into a name recognised across the trade, Talon is celebrating 40 years of keeping pipework firmly in place. Founded in 1986, the company began with a simple idea. While out on the road selling pipe clips, founder Mike Dudney repeatedly heard the same issue from plumbers: after a cold weekend, pipes would often pop out of their clips, leading to wasted time and frustration on site.

KNIPEX has unveiled a tougher, sharper and more comfortable take on its trusted High Leverage Diagonal Cutter (74 200) - in the 200mm length and built to deliver even more power with less effort.

Rinnai’s Operations Director Chris Goggin revisits the skills shortage problem that is permeating throughout the UK and international HVAC industry. This article will look at the root causes and what action the UK government is implementing as a solution.

R-Press fittings from Instantor are now available through BES Limited. 

A merchant with over 50 years of experience, BES supplies a comprehensive range of products to the plumbing, heating and gas industry. The portfolio includes 15,000 products which are stocked and distributed via BES’s state-of-the-art 77,000 square foot warehouse in Birmingham.