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Posted on 16/07/2025
Fenestration industry digital specialists The Consultancy are practising what they preach, launching a brand new website to better showcase who they are, what they do and the added value that brings to customers.
The new website shows the full depth and range of the BM Group company’s suite of digital products and services – from bespoke quoting and ordering platforms to lead-generation tools, product visualisers, and custom web development.
Director Richie Thornton commented: “The new design and UX makes it easier than ever for visitors to understand what The Consultancy offers and focuses on our strengths as a digital partner in the fenestration sector. Fabricators, installers, component suppliers and systems companies can all see how we can help businesses like theirs with innovative applications and proven solutions.”
A newly created portfolio on the website provides a closer look at some of the well-known industry brands The Consultancy has worked with over recent years and gives real insight into the projects delivered and the strategies behind them.
The Consultancy is part of the BM Group that also includes Glazing Vault, Business Micros and BM Aluminium. All offer their own digital products which have some level of cross over in terms of functionality, but with different applications and features. One of the key strengths of the Group is that it can offer flexible, unbiased advice on the best solution for each customer’s needs, whether that is for quoting, ordering, visualisation or integration.
The new website marks another step in The Consultancy’s continued growth – giving existing and potential new customers a clearer view of the tools and technology available to them and reinforcing its role as a specialist in digital transformation for this industry.
More at: https://www.theconsultancy.co.uk/
Posted on 18/06/2025
After seeing a demo of the software on the BM Group stand at this year’s FIT Show, Kingfisher Windows has become the first customer in the UK to sign up for BM Aluminium’s new LogiKal MES production tracking system.
The Leeds based trade, retail and commercial fabricator, is leading the way with the advanced new feature in LogiKal, which promises to deliver meaningful improvements in production efficiency, operational accuracy, and both internal and external communication.
LogiKal MES gives aluminium fabricators full visibility of their production across multiple shifts – from material optimisation to manufacturing deviations, and lets them move to fully paperless operations. It allows for centralised control and reporting, and displays real-time tracking of jobs and order status, errors and solutions on an integrated dashboard which can be accessed in the factory or remotely 24/7.
Ash Ellis, Kingfisher Windows’ General Manager, says that ultimately, the investment is about helping the company deliver an even better service to customers: “We already have tracking software which gives us full visibility of the PVC-U side of our business, and this will give us something comparable for aluminium.
“We’re proud to be the very first UK customer – it’s very much in line with our commitment to innovation and efficiency, and we’re looking forward to working with the BM Aluminium team to complete the installation.”
Daniel Hodges, Head of Sales for BM Aluminium, added: “LogiKal MES generated a huge amount of interest at the FIT Show, with several fabricators keen to sign up there and then. Kingfisher were first in line though, and we’re delighted to be partnering with them. We’ll be sharing more details of the installation once it’s complete and announcing details of more customer sign ups shortly.”
Kingfisher Windows which fabricates windows and doors in Reynaers, Seniors and Stellar, has been a LogiKal software license holder since 2010.
More info at: https://www.bmaluminium.co.uk/logikal-mes/ and https://www.kingfisherwindows.co.uk/
Posted on 04/06/2025
Why the acquisition by Forterro is good news for BM Group customers.
When Forterro acquired the BM Group at the start of the year, it was a new name to many in this industry.
However, Forterro, whose stated mission is ‘powering the businesses powering the future’, is a significant player in the European software market. It is focused entirely on the industrial midmarket, providing support and software for more than 25,000 industrial businesses. In fact, Forterro has just been named Tech Company of the Year at the prestigious National Technology Awards.
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It is Forterro’s focus on specialised, future-proof software solutions for local markets that make it a perfect fit for BM. Like BM, Forterro products are designed to strengthen and accelerate customers' ability to operate efficiently and compete effectively.
Prior to the acquisition of BM, Forterro also acquired Orgadata, the company behind BM Aluminium’s LogiKal software, and together they are now part of a new line of business within Forterro focused on windows, doors and facades.
Nick Bailey, Team Leader for Sales at BM, has been quick to reassure customers in the UK that both the acquisition and the creation of a new line of business within Forterro are wholly positive. He said: “As we reported at the FIT Show, Forterro’s strength in R&D and tighter integration within the teams means product development for the UK market will be quicker and at a scale not seen before.
“That’s good news for customers using LogiKal and particularly for users of our ground breaking TOUCH platform. We certainly expect to be able to speed up the roll out of TOUCH to even more UK fabricators, as well as making it an even more comprehensive offering.
“As you’d expect, a huge amount of work is happening behind the scenes to determine our future product strategy and development, but it will certainly enhance our existing offering and help support our customers’ growth alongside ours.”
As an example, BM Aluminium is already rolling out the LogiKal MES (Manufacturing Execution System), allowing fabricators to digitise their factories and move to fully paperless operations. LogiKal MES displays real-time order status, errors and solutions on an integrated dashboard - giving fabricators full visibility of their production so that they can respond quickly to deviations and optimise their efficiency. Details of the first LogiKal MES installations in the UK will be released soon.
Nick added: “We’ll be making more announcements about new products and features in the coming months, as well as identifying further opportunities for cross selling products which we can see have applications in this market.”
Forterro is accelerating its focus on cloud solutions in response to the growing adoption of cloud technology amongst its industrial midmarket customers. In 2024, sales of Forterro’s cloud-based products increased by 177%. The company recently announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling customers to rapidly deploy Forterro applications through a cloud platform that leverages the reliability, security and scalability of AWS.
Forterro’s ERP solutions, warehouse management systems (WMS) and material requirement planning (MRP) applications, could also have applications in this industry.
Nick added: “Forterro has already stated that its focus is on driving digitalisation and automation within the doors and windows market, and it certainly has the expertise and the product range to be able to deliver that. BM and Orgadata are strong and trusted brands in this sector and the acquisition by Forterro only strengthens our offering.”
More at: https://www.thebmgroup.co.uk/
Posted on 16/05/2025
European software provider Forterro has been named as Tech Company of the Year, in the prestigious National Technology Awards 2025. Forterro was declared the winner at a central London awards ceremony on 14 May. Other finalists included Featurespace, NetSupport and Nextbase.
Now in its ninth year, the National Technology Awards – organised by National Technology News – are the UK’s most comprehensive celebration of innovation, excellence and impact across the technology sector. Previous winners of Tech Company of the Year include Octopus Energy, OnlineFuels, Sharp UK, and Bamboo Systems Group, placing Forterro in a prestigious lineage of tech pioneers.
“We are proud to see our strategy and people recognised with this award. Forterro continues to go from strength to strength and we couldn’t be happier to see our approach validated with such a high-profile award,” said Dean Forbes, CEO, Forterro. “We are 100% focused on the European industrial midmarket, fully committed to ensuring our customers thrive in their local markets with future-proof software solutions. This achievement is a testament to the dedication, talent, and passion of our people — they are the driving force behind everything we do.”
This award underscores a year of robust growth and exceptional performance for Forterro, marked by strong results across every key area:
The company also recently announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer its Forterro Cloud Suite on AWS. The Cloud Suite is a major focus for Forterro with the midmarket’s increasing adoption of cloud technologies.
Forterro was also a finalist in another category at the National Technology Awards, Cloud Product of the Year. Its Orderwise Cloud product was shortlisted after a stellar first year, driving digital transformation for hundreds of UK wholesalers, distributors and B2B ecommerce organisations.
Posted on 01/05/2025
At FIT Show 2025, representatives from Forterro, the industrial software specialist that acquired BM Group at the start of the year, joined the BM team to explain more about what the twin acquisition of BM Group and LogiKal owners Orgadata means for customers in the UK - and what they can expect from the newly formed Forterro Windows and Doors Group.
The overall message was that momentum is now building within the new Group, which has no fewer than 700 employees dedicated to windows and doors. The capability already exists within BM and Orgadata to offer software for end-to-end workflow process management, but Forterro’s strength in R&D and tighter integration within the teams means that product development will be quicker and at a scale not seen before.
Martin Nussbaumer, Head of Sales for Forterro Windows and Doors, explained that Forterro has the size, resources and expertise to accelerate the group’s expansion. He said the focus will be on driving digitalisation and automation within the doors and windows market in line with Forterro’s mission of ‘powering the businesses powering the future’.
He emphasised: “We see huge potential to grow revenue in the windows and doors market in the same way we have done in other industrial markets where we have made similar acquisitions. As well as organic growth, there are opportunities for overseas expansion and cross selling of products from two brands that already have a really strong market presence.”
For the BM Group, it is business as usual for now, but with lots happening in the background around the TOUCH platform in particular to speed up the roll out and make it an even more comprehensive offering.
Nick Bailey, BM Group’s Head of Sales, is delighted: “We’re really excited about what lies ahead. With Forterro’s backing, we can invest in developing our team, as well as bringing new products and new features to the market more quickly.”
For BM Aluminium, which is already the exclusive distributor in the UK of Orgadata’s LogiKal software, the acquisition means even closer collaboration with its partners in Germany, and the potential to add even more value to the service it delivers to customers in the UK.
Bernd Hillbrands, CEO of Orgadata said at FIT: “The licensing agreement we had with BM Aluminium has simply become an internal arrangement within Forterro. We were extremely close partners before the acquisition, and now we are effectively colleagues which can only be good news for customers.”
Dean Hodges, Managing Director of BM Aluminium, added: “As you would expect, there’s a huge amount of work currently taking place to determine future product strategy and development right across the new Windows and Doors Group, but customers in the UK can be assured it will enhance what they already have from us, and ultimately support their growth alongside ours.”
The BM Group expects to start making announcements about new products and features later in the year.
More details at: https://www.thebmgroup.co.uk/ and https://www.forterro.com/en
