Important Announcement

Glass & Mirror are the new UK distributors of corrugated boards previously distributed by Byron Mouldings Ltd. The new range of boards will be distributed under the Art-Bak® brand name and are identical to boards previously supplied by Byron Mouldings.

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2006 Fine Art & Framing Awards

Glass & Mirror, sponsors of the Free Thinking and Exemplar Framing Awards, would like to congratulate this years winners; Paul Pearson of Exhibit 1, Leeds, winner of the ‘Free Thinking Framed Piece Award’, and Ashley O’Grady, also of Exhibit 1, for his outstanding winning entry for the ‘Exemplar Framing Award’.

Interestingly both winning entries for this years awards used WaterWhite AR (Anti-Reflective) glass from Glass & Mirror, for more details call:

Southern sales: 0845 456 9970
Northern sales: 0845 456 9972

Increase your profit

In addition, we are now pleased to announce the arrival of GM UV Extraclear. At only £12.00 per m2 for stock and £15.50 cut to size, means the cost of offering your customers ‘conservation framing glass’ for a 20” x 16” frame with a full 97%+ UV filtration is less than £2.50!! For £3.20 we can cut it, wrap it and supply it to you ready to put in the frame. No expensive stock, no wastage and minimised risk of breakage / damage. This is a great opportunity to increase your profitability by giving your customer a product with a higher perceived value at little extra cost.

If you haven’t used conservation glass before, there’s never been a better time to start. Call us to discuss how we can support you in marketing and selling the concept of conservation and speciality glasses to your customers.

New Northern Depot for Glass & Mirror

GLASS & MIRROR announce the expansion of their Northern depot. As a direct result of increased demand for our products and services in the north, (from customers old and new) we have expanded our operations, taking over the adjoining property, doubling our warehousing, distribution and office facilities. Our northern operation continues to be managed by Karl Smith, our Group Sales and Marketing Manager, with the support of Jean Roberts, Office Manager and Avi Rosen, Logistics Manager. Based on the outskirts of Oldham and just one minute from the M60 (J22), trade counter customers are always welcome.

For further details, call our Northern Office on (Lo-Call) 0845 456 9972

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ALUMINUM READY MADE FRAMES - An Exciting New Addition To Our Product Range

Aluminum Ready Made Frames continue to be a popular means of contemporary style framing, so we've decided to add them to our product portfolio - what could be simpler than adding them to your Glass & Mirror order? With three popular profiles to choose from (Photo, Picture and Gallery), they are all available singularly or in volume. Each frame comes wrapped in a protective clear film, with larger sizes benefiting from corner bumpers for added protection. Loading and unloading of images into the frames couldn’t be simpler with the spring loaded clips attached to the backs. As always you can be sure that they'll arrive in tip top condition in our own delivery vans. Our Aluminum Ready Made fames are very competitively priced with considerable savings to be made when comparing to alternative suppliers! Give us a call to find out more. There's no minimum order quantity (just buy along side other products to meet our minimum order value of £50).

Click here to view the Aluminum Ready Made frame advert.

ARTFOAM - The Conservation Alternative to MDF

Artfoam is our latest conservation foam board, the safe alternative to MDF. It's a dense foam centre board with high quality acid neutral matt paper liners, safe for applications in direct contact with artwork.

Key facts:

• The liners are buffered to give guaranteed pH neutral values for life, making Artfoam ideal for conservation quality framing, and for anyone conscious of conservation issues.

• Additional plastics in the core make it resilient and dense, so the board's "memory" is such that it maintains shape and thickness when pressure is applied.

• Artfoam is light and rigid and much cheaper than conventional alternatives.

• Cuts cleanly and easily, whether straight or bevelled

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ARTSHIELD - State Of The Art Acrylics Now Available

We have also launched the very latest in scratch resistant acrylics - Artshield - so if you are one of the few who hasn't tried this stunning new product - make sure it's on your supplies list soon. Look at the advantages:

• Artshield product has the very latest specialist coating giving over 30 times the scratch and abrasion resistance of uncoated plastics (one of the problems with plastics can be their susceptibility to scratches)

• Artshield products are based on waterwhite acrylic substrates and the UV version has the highest specification every tested by Glass & Mirror. Tests performed for us by the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington showed UV Artshield blocked 100% of UV light on the 300-380nm wavelength range and over 99.5% of UV light in the 300-400nm wavelength range.

• Less than half the weight of glass (great where safety/handling is an issue)

• Many times the impact resistance of glass and resistant to most chemicals and cleaners

Click here to view the Artshield advertisment in pdf format.