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GLAZERITE MAKES SEVENFIGURE INVESTMENT
Trade fabricator Glazerite Windows Ltd is investing in new machinery, a special products factory, more
vehicles, more employees and new products on top of its major acquisition of Trade Frame Holdings.
The developments are part of plans
revealed by the business to celebrate its 15th successive year of
double digit growth.
“This will be one of the most dynamic
years in our history,” said Director Jason
Thompson. “The success of our customers in 2015 was phenomenal and we saw
record sales for Glazerite but now we are
going all out to top that in 2016.
“We started the year as we meant to go on
with the acquisition of Trade Frame Holdings but that was only the beginning of the
plans we have for the rest of the year.”
At the heart of those plans is a seven-figure investment programme that has already
seen one new, highly advanced Supercut 6
cutting and machining centre installed, with
a second to follow soon. Then, Glazerite
will almost double its ‘specials’ capacity
with a new 30,000sq ft unit to keep ahead
‘These are very exciting
times for Glazerite and
all of our customers’
of demand for its Vertical Sliders, Residence9, and bi-fold and patio doors that has
already outgrown the existing 16,000sq ft
specials factory in less than two years since
its launch. Over £500,000 has already been
invested in specialist machinery for the fac-
tory and this will now be brought forward
into the new unit.
Further investments in people, machinery
and the delivery fleet are expected during
the year and at least four new products will
be unveiled at the FIT Show in April.
Jason acknowledged the patience of
customers during the changes and added:
“These are very exciting times for Glazerite
and all of our customers and we are looking
forward in 2016 to consolidating our position as VEKA’s largest fabricator.”
Glazerite recently announced the acquisition of Trade Frame Holdings, owner of
Peterborough-based VEKA Halo fabricator
City Beads, declaring to grow the company’s
£4million sales to £6million in a proposed
18 months of investment.
www.glazeritewindows.co.uk
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