News Archive: | Colin\'s New Year Swim
Joint managing Director Colin Taylor, his daughter Rachel and family friend Paula Perks braved the chilly sea in the Saundersfoot New Year’s Day swim, dressed as sheep! They were sponsored by colleagues, family and friends in aid of the Macmillan Renton Appeal for a new cancer centre to be built in Hereford, as Colin’s wife and hundreds of other patients currently have to travel to Cheltenham for treatment.
865 swimmers took to the water, the majority in fancy dress, making this the largest New Years Day swim in the UK.
Colin said “the atmosphere was fantastic, the v...Read more |  | Taylor Lane Orders State-of-the-art Timber Frame Software
Top timber frame kit manufacturer, Taylor Lane, today announces its purchase of Mitek’s state-of-the-art software ‘ WoodEngine’ to replace the company’s existing system. WoodEngine enables complex design information to be manipulated speedily and accurately so ensuring reduced design times. Management reporting, sales and purchase order processing are also part of the package thereby enabling efficient and effective data flow throughout the organisation.
Licences for 20 operators were confirmed by the company earlier this month, representing a £100,000 investment over two years. ...Read more |  | Taylor Lane Helps with Eco-friendly Homes
Taylor Lane has recently been involved in one of Hereford’s most energy efficient housing developments.
The company provided and erected the timber frame kits that now form ‘Barton Place’ in Hereford’s City Centre. The development’s unusual design comprises seven houses and nine flats for rent, and six homes that have been sold on a shared ownership basis.
Barton Place achieves its superior levels of energy efficiency partly through the high insulation values of its Taylor Lane timber-framed walls. Other features include ground source heat pumps that use below-ground ...Read more |  | New Website from Taylor Lane Trusses
Hereford-based Timber Frame manufacturer, Taylor Lane, today announces a new website: www.taylorlanetrusses.co.uk. The site provides background information and help regarding the company’s stand-alone trussed rafter business together with the opportunity for visitors to request a free estimate for their trussed rafter projects. This user-friendly site also enables visitors to source technical information and to request a follow-up telephone call from one of the team at Taylor Lane.
Long established as a timber frame manufacturing company, this separate ‘arm’ of Taylor Lane’s busi...Read more |  | No Walk in the Park for Keith!
In early September 2007, Keith Jones from the Design Office at Taylor Lane, along with 450 other enthusiasts from around the county, decided to shun a walk in the park in favour of a 10 km run!
Eastnor Park, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, was the venue and Keith and his fellow runners were taking part in a fundraiser on behalf of the Cancer Research Campaign. Keith’s girlfriend’s father had died two years earlier from cancer, and Keith felt duty-bound to take part. He says:
“So many people have been through different experiences – and for me, it was a cause very close to ...Read more |  | Wayne Joins the Taylor Lane Team
Taylor Lane Timber Frame today announces the appointment of Wayne Ricketts as its new Sales Manager.
Wayne will have UK-wide responsibility for sales generation, customer liaison and support. He has already introduced new procedures for streamlining the sales function, thereby ensuring an improved service for new and existing customers.
Wayne joined Taylor Lane in 1999 as a delivery man. Since then he has risen ‘up the ranks’, spending time making timber frame panels in the company’s factories and working in its estimating department before being appointed to his ...Read more | |
