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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