Our team

Family-led. Commercially experienced. Built around long-term relationships.

IGS brings together entrepreneurial experience, manufacturing knowledge, architectural glass expertise and established international relationships. The business is led from the UK by the Berard family, with a practical focus on connecting serious European requirements with credible cryogenic capability.

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THE PEOPLE BEHIND IGS

Built across businesses. Brought together for IGS.

The Berard family has spent years building and operating businesses across home improvement, manufacturing and specialist architectural glass. IGS brings that experience into industrial gas and cryogenic projects: commercial judgement, supply-chain understanding and long-standing international relationships applied to technically demanding opportunities.

ENTREPRENEUR · COMMERCIAL & INVESTMENT

Nick Berard

Nick Berard is a UK entrepreneur with a track record of establishing and growing businesses across home improvement, manufacturing and related sectors. His experience is rooted in building companies around practical products, dependable supply chains and long-term commercial partnerships.

Through investments including UK krypton gas opportunities, Nick has developed direct exposure to specialist and industrial gas markets. At IGS, he brings commercial judgement, investment perspective and a broad network of manufacturing and international relationships.

Commercial strategyManufacturingInvestmentPartnerships

SLIMLITE OWNER · PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS

Louis Berard

Louis Berard is the owner of SlimLite, a UK architectural glass business working with specialist glazing products and the built environment. His background combines product development, specification-led sales and the coordination of technical requirements between clients, suppliers and manufacturers.

Within IGS, Louis focuses on developing European opportunities, understanding project requirements and building the relationships needed to move an enquiry from an initial conversation into a defined technical brief.

Architectural glassTechnical specificationProject developmentInternational relationships

A FAMILY OF BUSINESSES

Direct accountability, established connections and a long-term view.

IGS sits within a wider family-business mindset shaped by years of building companies, products and supplier relationships. Nick and Louis combine established connections across UK manufacturing, home improvement, specialist glass, industrial gas and international supply networks with the ability to make decisions quickly and stay close to the detail of each opportunity.

Direct access. Practical conversations.

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Whether the requirement is early-stage, fully specified or somewhere in between, the team can help establish the right next step and coordinate the technical conversation.

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