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Posted On - 01/08/2023
Glass Times meets Jamie Kerrigan, the man responsible for maintaining the company’s reputation as a supplier of premium, high-quality doors. Maintaining Distinction Doors’ reputation for quality requires dedication and investment at every stage of the manufacturing process combined with the hard work and commitment of the company’s quality department. Distinction’s associate director of quality, Jamie Kerrigan, leads all aspects of...
Posted On - 01/08/2023
Two of the window and door industry’s most respected brands have come together to launch a specification-leading, residential door range, one that will meet the Future Homes Standard. The Residence Door Collection by Apeer, which will be revealed at the 2023 FIT Show, brings together an unlikely, but brilliantly complementary set of brands. The Residence Collection is credited with popularising...
Posted On - 01/08/2023
Two of the window and door industry’s most respected brands have come together to launch a specification-leading, residential door range. The Residence Door Collection by Apeer, which will be revealed at the 2023 FIT Show, brings together an unlikely, but brilliantly complementary set of brands, products and business values. The Residence Collection is credited with popularising the now ubiquitous flush...
Posted On - 13/04/2023
Patrick Dean, sales director at Solidor, outlines how Solidor can help installers to reassure homeowners about the security performance of their exterior doors. According to Crime Stoppers UK, it’s estimated that there is a burglary every 40 seconds in the UK. And with each residential burglary costing an average of £3,030, it’s clear to see why home security is among...
Posted On - 13/04/2023
…it is to choose residential doors. So says Danny Williams, who wants visitors to come and slam his Gerda doors on stand P31. The organisers of the FIT Show have coined a few natty catch phrases over the past decade, but one of the most compelling is ‘see it, touch it, try it’, a perfect example of ‘does exactly what...
Posted On - 13/04/2023
By Emma Fowlds, marketing executive for Distinction Doors. The best way to find out what consumers want is to study consumer behaviour, which is why, each year, market research companies like Mintel try to predict the future of consumer behaviour. Over the next one to five years, they expect consumer behaviour to change in line with five global trends, including...
Posted On - 12/04/2023
Looking for a high-performance, high-quality composite that can save homeowners money on their energy bills? We talk to Apeer’s MD, Asa McGillian, who explains the advantages of the Apeer70 and Apeer44 ranges. With snow blanketing much of the UK in March, prompting millions of homeowners to reluctantly turn up the thermostat, the cost of energy remains right at the top...
Posted On - 12/04/2023
Flush casement windows have taken the industry by storm, but you could be losing out on sales if you don’t have a flush door to match, according to Aluplast’s director of sales and marketing, Ian Cocken. The flush casement window market has been a decade and a half in the making. With its dual appeal to both heritage and contemporary...
Posted On - 12/04/2023
By Gareth Jones, managing director of Solar Fabrications Holdings Standing out in the marketplace is critical at any time, but particularly given the challenging environment in which we all find ourselves, so it pays to be versatile with product range, type of customer and adapting to industry standards. GRP doors can be all things to all people and can offer...
Posted On - 12/04/2023
Towards the end of Q1, the window and door market is still trying to find its feet. But, says Gerda Doors’ Danny Williams, it’s important to stand out in a crowded market, whatever the market conditions. My experience is: different sells! There – now you have the secret of (business) life. But in the UK home improvement market, not too...
Posted On - 12/04/2023
Installers of composite doors look set to enjoy a major boost in sales and margins thanks to Endurance Doors. Scott Foster, sales and marketing director, explains more. As a business, Endurance Doors has never been the kind of company to do things by halves. In order to create differentiation between ourselves and other composite door manufacturers, we’ve always focused on...
Posted On - 12/04/2023
As one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of PVC-U panels, composite doors and fire doors and with over 25 years experience – Hurst is founded on a firm set of principles placing the customer at the heart of everything they do. As well as producing over 3,000 PVC-U door panels, the manufacturer also produces over 500 composite doors each...
Posted On - 12/04/2023
According to Rob Dale, director of Strata Windows in Stoke-on-Trent, the company is in it ‘for the long haul’. That means long term supply partnerships, long-standing members of staff and most impressively, a customer base that spans four generations of Staffordshire families, thanks to Strata’s ability to move with the times and adapt to changes in the market. Most recently,...
Posted On - 12/04/2023
Glass Times talks to Apeer’s managing director, Asa McGillian, who explains how the company has developed a complete composite door offering thanks to its Apeer44 and Apeer70 ranges. The vast majority of composite sales across the UK are for 44mm doors,” says Asa McGillian, managing director of Apeer. “That doesn’t just apply to us, it’s the same for all manufacturers...
Posted On - 08/02/2023
We catch up with Pioneer Trading’s MD, Danny Williams, who explains more about how the new Gerda range has raised the bar for entrance doors. During the early ‘noughties a fear of market saturation was settling over the ‘double-glazing’ industry. The majority of UK homes that could be fitted with replacement windows, had been and the outlook looked gloomy; the...
Posted On - 08/02/2023
Hot on the heels of DoorCo being named Component Supplier of the Year at the 2022 G-Awards, head of operations Mark Towers shares his insight into what makes DoorCo different when it comes to composite door distribution supply. For DoorCo, staying true to our roots as the only independent composite door manufacturer is our mantra and it’s what drives us....
Posted On - 08/02/2023
Apeer has recently launched its Apeer44 range of single rebate, 44mm composite doors, combining premium quality without the associated cost. We catch up with the Ballymena based manufacturer’s Managing Director, Asa McGillian, to find out more. GT: What was the inspiration for the new Apeer44 range? Asa McGillian (AM): It was really a result of talking to our retail network....
Posted On - 31/01/2023
Mark Atkinson, sales director at Hurst Doors, discusses the current surge in demand for energy efficient home improvement products, and how it isn’t a temporary phenomenon. Think of energy efficiency, and your first thought is unlikely to be of doors. Wall insulation, loft insulation, replacing boilers, installing energy efficient appliances and so on – these are the measures that strike...
Posted On - 31/01/2023
Stephen Nadin, MD of Endurance Doors, highlights the importance of the wider sustainability agenda and climate change when it comes to energy efficient entrance doors. We’re a business that takes the whole sustainability agenda seriously given that we have a zero-landfill standard and effective from the beginning of 2021, an independently verified carbon balanced business thanks to our partnership with...
Posted On - 31/01/2023
Glass Times editor, Luke Wood, visits Endurance Doors to learn more about the company’s new showroom and customer support as well as its commitment to ‘Project Zero’. Endurance Doors has been manufacturing door products for over 28 years and now occupies a six-acre manufacturing facility in Brigg, North Lincolnshire. Employing over 250 people, a key factor to its ongoing success...
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