Ben Aspinall, DoorCo’s commercial director, explains why the new FireCore door is the final piece of the jigsaw in making DoorCo the only true ‘one-stop-shop’ supplier of composite doors.

Once upon a time the composite door market was fairly simple – energy efficient, foam-filled doors with outer skins that require minimal maintenance, available in a choice of standard colours and designs.

Cost-effective and available at volume with the main customers involved in social housing. Simple. Over the years, as awareness of the benefits spread and the market matured, demand evoked more designs, more colours and an array of components.

Advancements in technology massively opened up the capabilities for suppliers too, enabling innovation-led suppliers like DoorCo to surpass demand and give homeowners inspiration for their perfect door. Then came the introduction of alternative cores that alter strength, rigidity and performance – first timber, then hybrids of different materials and technologies.

All in all, the composite door landscape is a very different place to when DoorCo started 17 years ago, but then so is DoorCo.

One intention; one drive

From humble roots, DoorCo continues to evolve with one key factor at the core: we are still owned by one family and this status is what continues, as it always has done, to drive the business forward.

Today however, that family is supported by a team of over 200 people with 450 years collective experience, maintaining the supply of market leading composite doors and components from four UK sites.

And with the addition of our FireCore fire door to the market, we’re now also the only composite door supplier to be able to offer a complete range from one product portfolio.

Our door core range now includes Original, the prime foam core edition, Britdor, our new ‘brilliantly British’ manufactured solid timber core door, GripCore, the superior timber-foam-aluminium hybrid core and FireCore, our purpose-made fire-resistant foam-filled composite door.

Alongside all the door types, DoorCo can also supply you with our own revolutionary glazing cassette system, Flip, and bespoke glass designs and colour collections, all backed up by a comprehensive and flexible prepped door service model.

One streamlined service

With DoorCo, you can get everything you need from one supplier:

  • One product portfolio
  • One sales manager
  • One ordering system
  • One complete delivery of goods
  • One invoice
  • One constant source of innovation

But that’s not all. DoorCo customers also get:

  • Cross-functional business support from expert technology, marketing, manufacturing teams to help utilise the potential of every business
  • A partnership that allows customers to have input into product and service development
  • Unique brands and marketing collateral available branded, or de-branded, to suit customer tastes and includes discounted showroom samples & marketing POS materials.
  • Sales support with door designer and leads generated from retail website

One-stop-shop

Original: the foam-filled core composite door is one the best on the market and the foundation of DoorCo’s business. Highly engineered, it sets the benchmark when it comes to quality and thermal performance and is available in thousands of style combinations with Flip, Glazing and Paint.

Britdor: ‘Brilliantly British’ manufacturing, DoorCo’s new solid timber core door offers more than all other timber core doors on the market. Finished with CoolSkin technology with a GRP-inspired woodgrain texture available in a wide range of colours, Britdor is taking the market by storm.

GripCore: The UK’s first hybrid timber-foam core door is stronger, more secure and more thermally efficient than solid timber core counterparts. The futureproof engineering of the product is designed to comply with 2025 regulations and beyond.

FireCore: Is a step above the rest, achieving market leading results for fire safety. Available in the widest range of design permutations including top and sidelights.

Flip: Is our exclusive door glazing cassette system, designed by DoorCo and made in the UK. With superior ‘Foam in Place technology’ and unrivalled aesthetics, Flip offers endless possibilities when it comes to designing a door and now features even more robust components that also offer an easier method of glazing.

As a multiple award-winning company, we are so proud to be the only UK supplier to offer four types of composite door slab (foam core, solid timber core, hybrid timber foam aluminium core and fire core) and our own glazing cassette system Flip, through either distribution supply or a flexible prepped door service.

That’s why some of the biggest names in the industry have moved to us for sole supply of composite doors, testament to the ease and quality of our offering and service.

But we never stand still. We are committed to growth through a consistent programme of investment and innovation that ensures we will remain the number one door supplier in the UK.

If you haven’t already, why not take your first step and let DoorCo be your one supplier when it comes to doors by visiting www.door-co.com?