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DoorCo has revealed its new brand, which includes a set of ‘CO’ principles, exclusively on the cover of Glass Times this month. MD Dan Sullivan explains the background behind the launch. Over the last decade DoorCo has grown to become a serious player in the UK composite door market. When a company goes through such exponential growth, you would expect...
By Distinction Doors. In 2005, directors Craig Broadley and Jeffery Bates were seeking a business opportunity. Capitalising on Craig’s industry experience and Jeff’s engineering background, they saw the potential of composite doors as a more stylish and secure alternative to PVCU doors. And so, as the replacement door market opened, the newly established Doorsmart was offering a modern solution: a...
The opportunity to capitalise on homeowner demand for high margin aluminium entrance doors has never been greater, Deceuninck Aluminium’s Nigel Headford tells Glass Times. “The conditions created by lockdown, the home improvement boom, and the record-breaking property market have all combined to turbo boost the demand for high value residential entrance doors,” Nigel Headford, Deceuninck Aluminium, said. “Up until now,...
Asa McGillian, Apeer MD, says there is no problem with sending composite doors, but he’d love an English sausage. With Boris Johnson creating headlines with his declaration that nothing could stop “the Great British sausage from making it to Belfast” following the banning of that delicacy because of the Brexit rules, many have assumed that the same applies to everything...
Glass Times gets an exclusive look at the new brand developments at Doorco. MD Dan Sullivan reveals all. DoorCo has achieved exponential growth over the last five years, and we’ve significantly grown our market share to become one of the leading manufacturers of composite doors in the industry. We’ve built a reputation for being the innovators and disruptors, and it’s...
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,...
