MACHINERY
Saw and order
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JUST MONTHS AFTER the move into much larger premises, fast growing composite door manufacturer, DOORCO has made further investments to improve efficiency, with the purchase of a new beam saw.
The £ 150,000 investment allows the company to increase volumes and reduce lead times for prepped door customers, as Managing Director, Dan Sullivan explains:“ In a competitive sector such as the composite door market it is vital that we continue to stay ahead of the game to allow our customers to do the same. We are very pleased, therefore to add the new beam saw to our facility in order to further streamline our processes on their behalf.
“ The saw allows us to significantly reduce the time it takes to size the doors, bringing each individual process down from two minutes to 20 seconds. This, in turn, will increase our capacity from 1,700 to 3,500 prepped doors per month. The investment not only demonstrates our commitment to the prepping side of our business, but also provides customers with the benefit of increased volumes and potentially lower lead times
on their orders. The saw was installed and fully operational from the beginning of August.”
www. door-co. com
Partnership Improves Relationship Management
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PROMAC, WHO HAS recently partnered with Insight Data, has revealed why they chose Insight’ s cloud-based CRM system, Salestracker, to help improve lead nurturing, relationship management and customer service.
Promac is a UK market leader in the supply of machinery to the PVCu, aluminium and glass industry. Salestracker is now being implemented throughout the entire business with its advanced features being
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used to improve relationship management.
Jennie Owen, Marketing Coordinator for Promac,
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commented:“ Salestracker’ s CRM features were a major influence in our decision to work with Insight Data. The ability to manage all our data, prospects and customers within one system was really impressive.”
Joe Hague, Managing Director of Promac, commented:“ Salestracker is a dynamic and intuitive piece of online software with the ability to organise our field sales managers with notifications, reports and scheduling. The CRM
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side archives everything we do with customers or prospects, information that is transparent to the entire team that are connected to the system. Being able to see records with a degree of analysis is helping us to develop and improve service and commercial performance, the win win we look for when making this type of investment.”
www. insightdata. co. uk
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ANOTHER MAJOR INVESTMENT
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HOT ON THE HEELS OF THE STATEof-the-art CNC machine it acquired earlier this year, fast-growing composite door experts Vista have made another substantial investment, this time in a brand new edgebander.
Edgebanders are used to apply a PVCu strip around the edge of a composite door, significantly boosting their thermal efficiency, and Vista now have two in their 55,000 square foot factory.
“ We recently invested £ 100k in a new CNC machine, which took our capacity to 1,000 doors per week on a single shift, and the new edgebander increases our productivity even further,” said Managing Director, Keith Sadler.
“ With industry standards such as Document Q, CE Marking and Secured by Design evolving all the time, constant investment is crucial if you want to remain competitive.
“ It’ s very expensive for window fabricators to keep up with changes in the composite door sector, which is why we’ re starting to see more fabricators outsource their door manufacturing to specialists like Vista. We operate such a lean factory now; many companies find it is actually more cost effective to buy their composite doors in.”
Vista are the exclusive manufacturers of XtremeDoor, the high-performance composite door.
www. vistapanels. co. uk
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