ASSA ABLOY has acquired Crawford Industrial Doors. ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems has three specialist business areas – pedestrian doors, industrial doors and docking solutions and high performance doors. Neil Davis, is vice president of ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems – Western Europe. He says: “We provide the total package required to enable the most efficient flow of people, goods and services in any commercial building, around the clock.
We bring together world-leading products, maintenance programmes and modernisation services in order to provide comprehensive entrance solutions for the front, back and interior of the building.
“ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems is the first company to wholly own brands across all the major door disciplines, so our customers deal with one provider with a single point of contact to meet their every entrance need.”
He pointed out that this “one stop shop” approach works for all client sectors including architects requiring specific aesthetics, businesses looking for particular performance, and building contractors on site. “We bring in-house experts and brands like Crawford, Besam and Albany together so we cover every client need.”
With a UK annual turnover of £45m, and a workforce numbering 220, ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems points to recent prestige projects such as a £1.5m contract to provide dock levellers, doors and loading equipment for a new build development by parcel carriers DPD (UK) at Hinckley; supplying three 30 m2 doors worth £1.1m for a dry dock at Devonport Docks; and a contract with Sainsbury’s to maintain entrance doors at all their 1000-plus stores.
ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems, as a Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) member, is to be the Diamond Sponsor of the DHF Gala Dinner Dance in October at the Carden Park Hotel in Cheshire.
Neil says: “The association between ASSA ABLOY and the DHF goes back many years. Both ASSA ABLOY with their iconic lock brands and Crawford Doors were active in the DHF’s predecessor organisations and we continue to pay a leading role, to our mutual benefit. For that reason we are delighted to take the opportunity of being the Diamond sponsor of this prestigious event.”
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