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Window Systems
News Release from: Profine
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 July 2004
Speed Frame's Ten Year Partnership
Window industry giants Speed Frame and Kommerling have commemorated a ten year business partnership.
Speed Frame has manufactured Kommerling window systems for its replacement window operation ever since the company was set up ten years ago Three senior executives of the international profile group, profine -- which now owns the Kommerling brand -- presented Speed Frame Group Managing Director Ian Harrison with a special plaque marking the ten year relationship
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 9 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Speed Frame has grown into a true giant of the industry, regularly producing 10,000 windows and cavity closers a week across the different markets of trade and new build, from a single-shift working pattern.
The company currently employs well over 500 people, and is the second largest employer in the Barnsley, South Yorkshire, area.
Its latest venture was the launch of the composite door division in May, offering a range of composite door styles to trade customers, which it will eventually extend to Iberia and new build.
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Conroy Brook's latest £500,000 homes in Halifax have all been fitted with the classically-curved Kommerling Connoisseur.
It has also recently opened an office block, incorporating an exhibition centre with theatre-style seating for 50 guests, large display area, and state-of-the-art presentation equipment.
"We don't believe any other trade fabricator has such a facility, capable of displaying its entire process and product range in this way under one roof," says Marketing Manager Barbara Speak.
While the trade sector is the biggest of Speed Frame's seven divisions, the conservatory division is growing fast, now producing around 50 conservatories a week.
The other components of Speed Frame are:.
* new build, supplying glazed windows to large regional and national housebuilders.
* the glass plant.
* the recently formed commercial division concentrating on large-scale refurbishment and social housing.
* Iberia, which has grown from the original branch in the Algarve, to now include a head office in Lisbon, with branches in Madrid, Braga and Beloura.
* the newly-formed composite door division.
Barbara Speak attributes Speed Frame's phenomenal growth to its ability for "thinking outside the box" and innovation, along with its reputation for reliability and consistent quality of both product and service.
"We've always looked at the specific, individual needs of each market sector," says Barbara.
We've never simply put an amended existing product or service into a different division.
There's always been extensive research and development to ensure that nothing is ever 'off-the-shelf,' so that the products and service going into each new division are entirely new and geared specifically to those customers' needs." An example of that philosophy includes the development of the company's 70mm profile system, designed by Speed Frame's in-house team, and extruded exclusively by Kommerling.
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