Aluplast has reported the continuing rapid growth of its UK business, announcing a jump of more than 25% in turnover year-on-year from 2014 to 2015 – a period in which the industry as a whole declined in volume.
The German systems house also announced that it was on target to achieve significant project growth in 2016, with Q1 up around 30% on the same time last year.
Ian Cocken, director of sales and marketing at Aluplast, said that the company’s resurgence and rapid growth was being driven by a growing recognition of the efficiencies delivered by its technically advanced Ideal 70 offer.
He said: “The Ideal 70 and ecotech Ideal 70 systems are designed specifically for the UK market. The cutting-edge technology in those systems is, however, the product of global-leading research and innovation programme, which has been distilled down into one of the UK’s most thermally efficient and innovative window and door systems.
“As a fully suited system the core offer is good to manufacture, while we also offer one of the UK’s and Europe’s widest foil ranges, which are available in incredibly competitive lead times. That means they can offer a better service to their customers and build greater margin into their model.”
Aluplast processes more than 150,000 tonnes of PVC-U in Europe annually, equivalent to 75% of the whole UK and Irish markets combined, with its worldwide customer base manufacturing more than 10million windows per year.
Cocken continued: “We’re picking up business first and foremost because of the product – its performance and the efficiencies that it delivers in fabrication and installation.
“There is also a slight undercurrent of uncertainty in the systems market in the UK. There have been a number of changes in ownership, there are other companies launching new systems – if you’re a fabricator that can be unsettling.
“We offer a proven and technically advanced product from a global leading systems company and we underpin that with dedicated support from right here in the UK.”
