Well, it looks like my post earlier on in the month about the glass cartel about to raise their prices is coming to fruition.
I have learned on the Twittersphere that Pilkington are due to raise their prices from 1st August 2012, and you can bet your bottom dollar that the rest will follow very shortly! To see the full price increase list click here: Pilkington Price Increase Letter, but for now, these are the known main glass types subject to the quite steep price increases:
Float glass: +30%
Optiwhite: +12%
K glass: +8%
It’s not too long since we had the last raft of increases. I would be very interested to know exactly what the reasons are for the rises. I certainly hope it isn’t fuel. Oil until now has been relatively stable with the price of a barrel of oil coming down significantly which has had a positive impact at the pumps. Do they blame running costs? Are their profit margins running thin?
Who knows?! I guess we’ll probably never get a straight answer. Question is, how many of us will be putting the prices up? Margins are already at an all time low. Time to pass this one on in full I think.
easy to work this one out, energy surcharge is dropping to 24p per kilo, so prices go up to cover the drop. the level of purchase should remain exactly the same, untill the surcharge creeps back up again in a few months
didnt you know the arabs are charging more for sand now!!
maybe an Open letter to the MD’s of the top 3 will answer your questions.
Impeccable timing.Couldn’t they have waited until country back on its feet.
Georgian wired cast has gone through the roof.Literally .