Door Industry Journal - Winter 2022

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk 6 THE door industry journal winter 2022 Industry News Ellard & Marantec: A New Partnership on the Horizon As a new year, fast approaches so does one of the biggest changes in the history of Ellard. The Home of Automation is proud to announce a new partnership that will completely overhaul its existing industrial product offering. The new partnership in question is with that of the highly established and renowned manufacturer, Marantec. In this exciting time, we are happy to have an announcement from Andreas Schiemann, Marantec CEO, who has expressed the following: “The times of compartmentalisation providing competitive advantages are now over. Today, thanks to various cooperations, we develop services, products and markets faster and find better solutions for new challenges. At Marantec we champion openness and cooperation and this is deeply embedded in our way of working and strategy. Marantec makes decisions for partnerships and cooperations based on European values such as responsibility for partners, colleagues, and the environment. Therefore, it was only natural to want to cooperate with Ellard and the Indutrade Group. We recognised early on and in the initial discussions that both groups of companies operate based on the same set of values. We want to work with nature and with people to create solutions that offer real benefits. Good cooperation must be cross-departmental and cross-divisional. It goes without saying that everyone must strive to think cooperatively. If a relevant idea or an interesting contact comes up, then it is a matter of sharing. This must become a completely normal process. Ideally, all colleagues working in a company are in

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