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This year’s prestigious Triennial Awards were held at Vintners’ Hall in the City of London on 5th September 2024. The ceremony was attended by Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of London. Every three years the Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers holds its Triennial Awards competition to identify the buildings […]

Trentham-based Building Adhesives Ltd has won a special award at the CFJ (Contract Flooring Journal) Awards for a 25,000 mile-charity challenge organised in honour of a former team member who passed away from cancer. Colleagues at Building Adhesives completed the “Journey Around the Worrall” challenge in the summer in honour of Avril Worrall, a key […]

The Tile Association is pleased to once again be media partners for InstallerSHOW in 2025 (24th–26th June at NEC Birmingham). Whilst The Tile Association remains committed to independently hosting its own exhibition, The Tiling Show, on 6th June 2025 at Hilton Birmingham Metropole – with a focus on specialist tile fixers, contractors and specialist tile […]

The latest additions to the Schlüter-Systems’ sales team: (left) Jamie Bannon; (right) Owen Pamphilon. Schlüter-Systems has strengthened its sales team with two new area sales consultants. Jamie Bannon will be servicing contractors and distributors in London South and surrounding boroughs.  Jamie, formerly at CTD, brings with him knowledge and industry experience gained in tile sales. Jamie can […]

The operations of the UK’s sixth largest contractor ISG, with a £2.2 billion turnover, have ceased after the company applied to enter administration late afternoon on Thursday 19th September 2024. The impact will be felt by almost 2,500 employees and throughout the supply chain. The administrators, EY, have confirmed in a statement that no further work […]

The Tile Association is hosting a second Golf Day in 2024 on 2nd October at The Stratford Park Hotel & Golf Club. Kindly sponsored by Genesis Global Systems Ltd, this event will launch TTA’s support of new charity partner Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity. Lighthouse’s mission is to ensure that the construction community can easily access […]

Earlier this week Stone Federation Great Britain announced to members, with deep sadness and shock, the sudden passing of Chris Kelsey, Immediate Past President of Stone Federation and friend and colleague to so many in the tile and stone sectors. Chris was a longstanding supporter of the Federation and, as well as serving as Stone […]

What do you like most about your job? I’d have to say the creativity. Every job has different challenges. Why did you become a member of The Tile Association? To know more about the industry and get the accreditation and recognition of a tiling specialist. What region do you work in? Worcestershire/South Birmingham. What types […]

To mark the official launch of the inaugural elementalLONDON show – which takes place 19th–20th November 2025 at ExCeL London – elemental has a new website, pulling together all its editorial content alongside information about the show. Working with manufacturers and suppliers of the latest technologies, elementalLONDON will be delivered in consultation with key industry […]

The Government has confirmed that commencement of the Procurement Act will be delayed from 28th October 2024 until 24th February 2025 in order to produce a new National Procurement Policy Statement reflecting more clearly the new Government’s priorities for public procurement, including delivering value for money, economic growth and social value. This “short delay,” says Georgia Gould, Parliamentary Secretary for the […]