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Make a Grand Entrance

The Profix Group’s composite door, Pro-Door, offers a number of unique product options for fabricators and installers. There’s even a bespoke marketing package that extends to brochures and a personalised web-based design and quotation system. It’s arguably the first composite door offering with such flexibility. 

Pro Door is aimed at trade so they can buy fully manufactured doors, door kits, glazed machined blanks or just machined blanks. For fabricators it means the opportunity to utilise existing labour, retain some element of manufacturing margin, but without the major stocking issue of space and money. 

For those companies looking for a fully finished door, it comes with Secured by Design (BD), the new PAS 23/24 and Kitemark accreditations and a 20 year guarantee. Security is enhanced thanks to the inclusion of high security cylinders as standard that are designed to withstand drilling, picking, bumping and snapping. Finally, the door is finished off with a range of suited hardware in white, black, chrome and gold plus many more. 

Over 12 million Combinations

The marketing package includes a brochure that can be personalised and a very impressive web-based design and quotation system, that’s very simple and yet effective to use. This system can be personalised for the trade customer with logo, contact details, additional information pages and even pricing mark-ups. This means the opportunity to price a door in front of the consumer, close the sale and send the order thanks to a very impressive package.

The composite door market is one of the fastest growing sectors in the glazing industry and Pro-Door from Fabstore is now providing installers and fabricators with a perfectly tailored product and marketing support offering.

Alan Sadler

Protherm Energy Saving Window

With so much of focus on environmental decline and economical pressure its good to have some good news that will go some way to help both issues. Over the last 2 years The Profix Group have been developing a new product range ready for the new challenges our market has to face. With the help from Duraflex, Pilkington, Saintg-Gobain,Edgetech and the BFRC working with BSI we have developed a range of windows that will directly consumers.

Energy Saving Trust Approved

The new “Pro-Therm” window embraces all what is needed for a good Social Housing and Domestic window with added environmental benefits, the specification we have created exceeds current and proposed building regulations but gives added qualities that not only adds value to your product selection but will save you money and reduce Carbon emissions.

Profix have developed the Pro-Therm window range for the social housing specifier and Homeowner which includes ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ rated windows under the UK’s Window Energy Ratings (WERs) scheme and can also boast considerable green credentials too, in addition to this the Pro-Therm range is approved by the Energy Saving Trust.

Run by the British Fenestration Rating Council (BFRC), the WERs form part of the UK’s national system for rating the energy efficiency of windows and is recognised within the Building Regulations. PVCu windows also carry an A+ rating in the new online Green Guide to specification and the Pro-Therm window profiles are also extruded using an environmentally-friendly lead-free compound.

A Rated Window

The installation of Pro-Therm ‘A’ rated windows can help save up to £250 per year on energy billsand around 1.7 tonnes of CO₂ emissions within an average domestic building. For those involved in social housing there could be considerable savings to be made by cutting expensive utility costs and a strong commitment to reducing carbon emissions. 

Pro-Therm windows carry some of the sector’s greenest credentials for a PVCu window along with Profix’s BS EN ISO 14001 Environmental standard, product Kitemarks, Secured by Design accreditations and offer the best value in the long term with an overall life cycle expectancy of 35 years. The windows also offer up to a 2dB reduction in noise and up to 70% less condensation through the use of Super Spacer^®.

The life cycle expectancy is supported by a 15 year profile warranty, 20 year sealed unit warranty and the hardware and fixings have successfully undergone salt spray testing and performs in excess of BS EN 1670 Grade 5 and come with a 15 year warranty. 

Alan Sadler

Alan Sadler on Mont Ventoux

It is an honour to be part of the GM Fundraising team who completed the epic Rome 2 Home cycling adventure on Saturday 19th June 2010 at Hope House Children’s Hospices, after 9 gruelling days on the road across Europe. For those involved it was arguably the toughest challenge yet for the team as a whole.

Difficult roads, complex navigation issues and 12 hour days were some of the immediate challenges for both riders and crew, but the test of riding up Mont Ventoux, one of the Tour de France’s most feared climbs, was perhaps the highlight for many.

The biggest challenge was to get everyone safely up to the 6,273 foot summit after 26km in the saddle and they all achieved it, followed by a descent to the hotel at speeds in excess of 50mph. Total mileage was 1,507 with a 102 hour riding time and a total of 46,418 feet of climbing during the ride.

Individual stats included an average of 30,851 calories burned per person and an average of 161,682 pedal turns. Given these statistics it would be clear to any sports scientist that each and every rider gave it their all.

Job Done ! With Staff and Children at Hope House

What a fantastic achievement for us all and that includes both riders and support crew, it was far tougher than we anticipated. Now the task is to get the money pledged to us, collected and passed onto the Hospice where it’s most needed.

In conclusion, a massive thank you to everyone who was supported and followed us, your contributions will make a real difference to the children and families at Hope House and that is exactly why we do them. It’s not too late to make a donation to help us reach our £55,000 target, log on to www.justgiving.com/rome-2-home.

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Alan Sadler

Hello World

Alan Sadler

My name is Alan Sadler, born June 24th 1964 in Birmingham, England married with 3 children and now living in Staffordshire.

I am Managing Director of  The Profix Group incorporating Profix Ltd, Fabstore Ltd and Trinity Construction Partnership Ltd, I originally trained as a Carpenter after leaving school and following my apprenticeship created a labour agency at the age of 22 called Sadler Design Installation.

This was in the early years of the PVCu window industry boom and it was not long until we was providing skilled craftsmen to window manufacturing companies and Local Authorities for their commercial contracts.

Due to type of commercial contracts awarded and the large quantities of product the company was buying it was a natural progression to start our own manufacturing business to supply the Private Sector.

Profix have a long history of success in the commercial market for the installation of windows, doors, conservatories and other associated products including Composite doors as our customer base will bear testament.

The Profix Group also supply other window and door manufactures including installers with products and components through our online business portal Fabstore which has been marketing and trading online since 2003.

My outlook on life is simple, love your family, work hard, have fun and try to help others less fortunate than yourself, I do a bit of charity work which usually means punishing myself in some sport related scheme and trust me I am no sportsman !

I have had much success (and a few failures) in my working life and hopefully by sharing some of my life experiences will help generations of budding entrepreneurs to follow.

Thanks for your interest and I hope my future posts will be of some interest.

Alan Sadler