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Posted On - 31/01/2023
By Catherine Barker, paint and glazing department manager, Distinction Doors. Over the years, colour has become one, if not the most important element of choosing a new entrance door. It enables homeowners, and in some cases social housing residents, to inject their property’s exterior with personality. As the UK’s largest supplier of composite doors, it’s our responsibility to empower our...
Posted On - 30/01/2023
Apeer has responded to market demand for a high quality, stylish single rebate composite with the launch of its new Apeer44 range. We catch up with managing director, Asa McGillian, to find out more. Apeer is a company that owes its ongoing success to a number of key factors. These include an enviable product range, a highly experienced R&D team,...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Ben Paul, director of DoorCo customer, Omega Trade Frames, shares with Glass Times why the company decided to switch to supplying 100% Gripcore technology composite doors, and the benefits the new product is delivering. For the last 10 years we’ve been supplying DoorCo composite doors to our trade customers in the Southwest and last year, we made the decision to...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Glass Times chats with John Waugh, sales and marketing director at EYG Domestic, part of EYG Group, about the fabricator’s decision to switch composite door supplier and the impact this has had on door sales. “We’ve been in business for more than 50 years and we’ve outlived our warranty four times over, there’s not many that can say that,” says...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
By Gareth Jones, managing director, Solar Fabrications Holdings. I’m writing this a few hours after the chancellor announced he is scrapping the abolition of the 45p tax rate. At the same time the news channels are reporting the continuation of a UK manufacturing downturn as the weak pound drives up import costs, and now significant gas shortages are threatened. The...
Posted On - 29/11/2022
Apeer is undergoing something of a revolution in branding and products and pretty much everything else in its core residential door business. MD, Asa McGillian, can never stand still for long, so we asked what the rationale was behind these latest moves. Asa McGillian has been likened to a shark. Not for being ferocious and prone to attacking competing species,...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Hurst Doors says it has been winning over customers with its online customer portal, Hurst Live, which enables them to manage all aspects of their account in one place. Mark Atkinson, Hurst’s sales director, said: “Customers quite rightly want the best service, particularly in the last two years when the supply chain has become so challenging, and as a manufacturer...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
We talk to Pioneer’s Danny Williams, who explains more about the success of launching the Gerda entrance door range at FIT Show 2022. This year’s FIT show is history now, with the campaign for the 2023 event well underway. However, while the hype has died down, the effects are still being felt as exhibitors and visitors work on deals first...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
Fabricators are looking at new opportunities as the market starts to slow, but what may look good on paper may end up costing more in the long term. We ask First Degree Systems’ Greg Beachim where efficiencies can be found. The ability to adapt as markets contract and demands change is a defining feature of successful fabricators. Factories that are...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
With tougher economic challenges ahead, capitalising on market opportunities has never been more important. Phil Parry, business development director at Epwin Window Systems discusses the products to help make the most of those opportunities. Research has shown that home improvement trends have remained fairly constant over the past few years. For homeowners planning to make home improvements in 2022, the...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
By Owen Jones, technical director at Distinction Doors. The energy bills price cap will go some way to alleviate the pressure on many UK households, but it is only a sticking plaster. Fundamentally, the way we build, maintain and run our homes must change. Not just in the face of rising energy costs and limited energy supplies, but as a...
Posted On - 09/11/2022
What if you could retro-fit the internal and external faces of aluminium entrance doors after other trades have finished on site? We find out that you can. Doors get bashed on site. It’s a problem as old as time. Window companies go into new build sites to make the property weather tight and then plasters, electricians, carpenters and other trades...
Posted On - 28/09/2022
By Gareth Jones, managing director, Solar Fabrications Like me, there will be plenty of managing directors and business owners out there, wondering what more can be thrown at them at this time. What else is going to land that will keep them awake at night? We are all striving to do the right thing, whether that is ensuring that our...
Posted On - 07/09/2022
DoorCo has recently been awarded the prestigious We invest in apprentices Silver accreditation. DoorCo’s Systems Lead, Matthew Elliott explains how important this move is for the future of the business and the industry as a whole. A sustainable commitment to attracting, retaining and developing the best talent lies at the heart of every healthy business and economy. The squeeze on...
Posted On - 19/07/2022
Gerda doors made their UK debut at this year’s FIT Show. We catch up with Pionner Trading’s Danny Williams, to find out more about the launch. Most outings of the old Glassex and now the FIT Show, have been characterised and even dominated by one major product group. Back in the day it was often the systems houses that ruled...
Posted On - 19/07/2022
Force 8 is well-known for its arch profile bending, but over the last 10 years it has also developed its own unique composite doors. Force 8 has focused more on contemporary composite designs, as it feels the market is ‘flooded with look-alike’ traditional doors, and it adds that a good amount of those designs are unique and developed in-house. Although...
Posted On - 19/07/2022
Suzanne Nicholl, business development manager at ODL, looks at the story behind the company’s G21 Award winning Guardsman fire door slab and why it has become the first in the next generation of reliable composite fire doors. When the business took the decision to develop a new 30-minute composite fire door it was with a laser-focus determination to deliver the...
Posted On - 19/07/2022
Andy Grogan, associate sales director for Distinction Doors discusses the company’s latest product launches – the Venture Collection – a suite of four new cassette styles, and a new door design for the Infinity Collection. We launched the Venture Collection just a few weeks’ ago and customers are already responding with enquiries and orders. We know these products have great...
Posted On - 19/07/2022
Apeer MD, Asa McGillian, believes that with the price of a decent composite door comparable with a sofa, selling residential doors has moved way past home improvements into the realm of home decoration. The first composite doors entered the UK around 25 years ago and as such they are a relatively recent addition to the window and door replacement market....
Posted On - 14/07/2022
RegaLead’s Guy Hubble discusses how decorative door products can transform composite door designs into unique styles that can persuade homeowners to part with their hard-earned cash in the inevitable market downturn. Being at FIT Show for three days gave our team a great opportunity to get a good feeling of the mood of our industry after several impressive sales results...
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