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Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell visited Decorative Door Products’ new warehouse in Hawick, and talked to RegaLead’s joint MD Guy Hubble to discover why a small change in order from a regular customer redefined how the company operates. Decorative Door Products was acquired by RegaLead 10 years ago as part of a strategy to meet the evolving demands of the...
In the first of a two-part feature from Endurance Doors, managing director Stephen Nadin looks at the current consumer and trade influences when it comes to the composite door market such as innovation and customer care. Prior to the accelerated consumer demand over the last 12 months, composite doors were still in high demand, and it’s a significant market sector...
Emplas’s new aluminium offer extends beyond bifold and inline sliding doors, explains Jody Vincent, sales director at Emplas. Emplas isn’t new to aluminium, even though our offer is. We have decades of experience in commercial aluminium supply, which we have been applying to a new trade offer since May. We have a 20,000ft2 standalone aluminium manufacturing facility, and extensive expertise...
By Ben Brocklesby, director at Origin. Our partners are crucial to our business success, which is why we do everything we can to make their lives as simple as possible. We innovate, we challenge industry norms, we conduct consumer research, we offer them training, and we provide our expertise and support when they pitch for commercial work. This gold standard...
Glazerite UK Group’s sales and marketing director Jeff Dunn unveils the trade fabricator’s latest composite door. We want our installer partners to stand out from the crowd in their own markets, and to do that, it’s essential we partner with suppliers who allow us to do the same. Step forward Doorco, which has launched a ground-breaking new solid core composite...
Bethaney Larkman, marketing manager for Distinction Doors, reviews a digital year. As the first lockdown hit, TVs, laptops and mobile devices became a lifeline – our only connection with the outside world. Since then, tele- and digital communications have been at the heart of the pandemic, whether it’s the PM announcing the first lockdown to 27 million television viewers or...
As ODL Europe launches its new Guardsman Fire Door, technical manager Ian Glenister looks at the story behind its development and what makes it an exciting leap forward. Two years ago, we took the decision to develop a 30-minute composite fire door that offered reliable performance and consistent test results. We wanted to develop a product that would perform over...
Dan Sullivan, Doorco MD, introduces Flip, Doorco’s cassette system for the composite door market. The contemporary composite door market has been growing steadily for a number of years: Doorco was one of the trailblazers with the launch of the Monza door back in 2014. With its linear eight-panel design and book-matched woodgrain detail, Monza is one of our best-selling products....
The games are political and, while there are no visible markers, the Irish sea border has become an increasingly hot potato. However, Apeer’s Asa McGillian explains this is not a problem for the Ballymena-based composite door maker. Much has been written about the Irish sea border and the resultant delays to goods travelling between the island of Ireland and the...
Has a rise in home insurance claims created additional opportunity for a patio door that can deliver enhanced security? Ian Cocken, director of sales and marketing, discusses. With Covid restrictions forcing more people to stay at home for longer, it would be logical to assume that there has been a decline in opportunistic burglaries over the last 12 months. However,...
Raju Radia, managing director of large-scale aluminium fabricator Arkay Windows, talks to Glass Times editor Nathan Bushell about industry trends and opportunities. Arkay Windows has supplied the trade since 1975, providing domestic and commercial markets with a wide range of high-end fenestration products: windows, entrance doors, sliding patio doors, bifolding doors, roof lights and roof lanterns. It operates out of...
Stephen Nadin, managing director of Rocal Group, talks about the recent management buy-out and what it means to their employees, customers and business partners. It’s been sometime in coming, but as a management team we have finally purchased all the businesses that form Rocal Group, including our revered solid timber composite door brand, Endurance Doors. I’ve been with the business...
By Doorco’s chief doork, Jeyda. As someone who loves a splash of colour, nothing brings me greater joy than seeing bold shades on a door; a door can be a blank canvas, an opportunity to paint a story about what’s within, and a chance to show off its owner’s individuality. In a world dominated by advertising, we’re already quite accustomed...
Dan Sullivan, MD of Doorco, reveals all about a new solid core composite door that has been engineered using Gripcore Technology. Doorco is driven by innovating products that help our customers stand out from the crowd in the increasingly competitive composite door market. We already have unique doors in our portfolio, such as the 6/4 Combi for easy manufacturing of...
The Decalu88 Entrance Door Deceuninck Aluminium has been designed to put an end to call-backs. Nigel Headford, business development director Deceuninck Aluminium, talks to Glass Times. “If a door won’t open or close properly, if the weather sealing fails, or the locking mechanism sticks because it’s bowed, installers are going to get call backs, and that costs, with the installer,...
Stephen Nadin, managing director of Endurance Doors, discusses what it takes to develop a next generation product, and says door technology is still evolving. The composite door market is growing strongly, fuelled by pre-Covid-19 demand from consumers for a better performing and looking front door. Yet, the recent surge in orders post-lockdown will also likely see the composite door market...
With the average Brit spending more than £1,000 on home improvement since the first lockdown began in the spring, it’s important that as we begin the new year window and door products evolve in line with changing moods, style and trends. Bethaney Larkman, marketing manager for Distinction Doors, looks ahead to colour trends in 2021. Grey and cool neutral tones...
By Doorco’s chief doork, Jeyda. When it comes to colours, pink is one of the more debated shades. Many hues have their own nuanced meanings but overall, there are some fairly deeply embedded associations between pink and femininity. This hasn’t always been the case, though. Research seems to suggest that pink started being aligned with the female gender only when...
Bethaney Larkman, marketing manager at Distinction Doors, looks at how changes in consumer behaviour have been heightened by the pandemic and the opportunities this presents for composite door fabricators and installers. It’s believed that, much like the surge in digital usage, the coronavirus pandemic will change attitudes toward lifestyle and mass consumerism; less will be more, as life becomes more...
Graham Lindsay of Weru UK talks about the latest home security features available on the company’s bespoke entrance doors. Your perfect entrance door is a bespoke work of craftsmanship and can be manufactured exactly to suit your personal design and safety preferences. Not only can you refine the visual appearance of your door with unique, decorative accents, you can also...