On Thursday 3rd July, Wickes held an event where they gathered 50 of their top suppliers at the Space Centre in Leicester to announce the Wickes Supplier of the Year Awards 2014. There were six award categories plus the overall Supplier of the Year Award.

Hunter Plastics is once again leading the field by making its Surefit Plus Half Round rainwater profile even easier to fit, with improved seals that mean it will stay leak free for years to come, and rounded edges for safer, easier installability.

Retired contractor and canoe enthusiast John MacLeod has devised a new way of constructing hanging slalom poles for white-water canoe courses using Hunter Plastics soil pipes. These are the striped poles which hang over the water creating the ‘gates’ that canoeists have to pass between in competition events.

To complement its successful Foundry Finish rainwater system, Hunter has launched a complete range of Foundry Finish soil products.