Door Industry Journal - Spring 2016

36 THE door industry journal spring 2016 garage doors Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk Gliderol Garage Doors celebrates 30th anniversary and announces exciting new partnership Gliderol, has announced an exciting new partnership with the highly regarded and well renowned manufacturer ALUTECH, through their UK distributor. The agreement involves the distribution of ALUTECH’s new and highly innovative, sectional door range, and will strengthen Gliderol’s product offering for 2016, complementing the Gliderol market leading single skin roller and the intelligently designed insulated roller doors. The deal will see Gliderol offer the market leading 40mm insulated sectional door panel with a ‘U’ value of 1.35 (comparable with a brick wall 55cm thick), which comes standard with ball-race bearing roller brackets for long lasting, strong and quiet operation and will be available made to measure at standard size prices. Roy Sinclair, Managing Director of Gliderol said: “I am delighted to have agreed the partnership with ALUTECH and we are motivated by the opportunity this will give us to rapidly expand our business. Gliderol has an excellent reputation for its product quality and this agreement is the final piece of our product portfolio jigsaw, ensuring that we now have a strong mix of quality products representing excellent value for money, I know that combining this with our outstanding service will allow us to flourish. I am looking forward to leading the team and expanding relationships with our valued customers as we continue to grow the business”. Dan Summerfield, Executive Chairman of Gliderol commented: “We are delighted with the progress we have made over such a short space of time since we acquired the business last year. The feedback from our customers has been excellent and our complete focus on delivering the highest possible service to them is delivering increased orders. This strategic partnership with Alutech is an important milestone and allows our customers to access a full range of garage doors under the trusted Gliderol brand.” 2016 is an exciting year for Gliderol, as the company looks to celebrate its 30th anniversary by moving to a new modern manufacturing facility to accelerate its growth plans and install a training and development showroom to enhance relationships with distributors and suppliers. NEW WEBSITE FOR GLIDEROL GARAGE AND INDUSTRIAL DOORS Gliderol, a leading manufacturer in the UK and Ireland garage door market has launched a newly designed website at www.gliderol.co.uk . The new website, aside from being aesthetically pleasing, is more agile, interactive, and is easier to scan, read and navigate, enabling customers to find what they need quickly. Just as importantly, the key sales channels and product choices are evident, and clear ‘call to actions’ (enquiry form, contact us etc.) are easily accessible throughout the site encouraging communication. Roy Sinclair, Managing Director of Gliderol commented “this along with our social media channels will enable us to have stronger connections with customers old and new and generate more and better enquiries as we look to continue to grow over the coming weeks, months and years.” Roy continued “we are now using a responsive design, which means that you’ll see essentially the same website design optimized for a smart phone, tablet or desktop, additionally this design is reflected through social media, and all communication features our new ’30 years’ logo and additional information on our new sectional door range, market leading single skin roller and the intelligently designed insulated roller doors”. 2016 is an exciting year for Gliderol, as along with a new website and accompanying social media the company is looking to celebrate its 30th anniversary by moving to a new modern manufacturing facility to accelerate its growth plans and install a training and development showroom to enhance relationships with distributors and suppliers.