Glazing specialist Vitrine Systems Limited has filed for administration.
A notice placed on The Gazette, the official public record, states that the company appointed administrators from Quantuma Advisory to handle its affairs in late October.
Vitrine Systems’ parent company, Vitrine Holdings, is listed as active on the Companies House.
It is unclear if Vitrine Systems is still trading and the fate of its employees is unknown. Multiple calls to the firm’s switchboard went unanswered and Construction News has not received responses to emails to the company.
Quantuma told CN a statement would be issued but this had not happened at the time of writing.
Founded in 2001 as Portal Roofing Ltd, the firm was renamed Vitrine Systems in 2008. Its main office was based in Fleet, Hampshire, although its registered office was in Camberley, Surrey.
According to its website its previous work has included glazing at the Bristol Life Sciences centre, The Cutty Sark in Greenwich, Stonehenge visitors’ centre and the Heal’s Building in London’s West End.
It offered glazing refurbishment, new build, refurbishment, commercial glass replacement and glazing maintenance.
Vitrine Systems was not required to file full turnover and profit figures in its accounts. In an unaudited filing for the year to 31 December 2023, it owed creditors £2.8m, including £1.7m to trade creditors within 12 months.
It employed a monthly average of 26 people in that year.
The facade sector has been under pressure this year, with glazing firms Architectural Glass and Aluminium Limited (ARGLA) and Alucraft Systems both going under in March.
Other failures in the envelope sector have included 120-year-old Charles Henshaw & Sons and Skonto Plan UK.
A company called Vitrine Projects Ltd was registered at Companies House in June this year and has since been renamed Vitrine Glazing Ltd. It shares a director with Vitrine Systems, Maritz Naude.
The person with significant control of Vitrine Glazing is James Gerald Lamb, a former director of Vitrine Holdings Ltd.
