Recently ERAP, a subsidiary of Reynaers Aluminum, installed its 11th Aluroller in its production hall. We brought them a visit to talk about their experiences of collaborating with Aluro and what they had to say about our thermal break assembly machine, the Aluroller EVO.
For over 30 years, Metal Technology Ltd is one of the UK and Ireland's leading architectural aluminium systems companies. Since its inception in December 1985, Metal Technology is now one of the UK and Ireland's leading designers and suppliers of bespoke architectural aluminium window, door and curtain wall systems. Annual installations exceed 90 million pounds and the company operates daily dispatches to the UK and Ireland from its three acre manufacturing and distribution headquarters in Northern Ireland.
While Metal Technology has always focused on innovative designs, it has never lost sight of its capabilities in the production department. The company's success has been built upon a core focus and investment in support, product development and reducing the environmental impact. It is probably due to that company philosophy that Metal Technology crossed the path of Aluro.
Reynaers Aluminium is one of Aluro's 'oldest' customers. They were also the first customer to acquire the brand new Aluroller EVO, Aluro's new generation machine for Thermal Break Assembly.
Belgian businesses Reynaers Aluminium and Aluro have had a long history of successful cooperation. Their story goes back several decades, and originates in the 1960’s with the foundation of both companies. The founding fathers of Reynaers Aluminium – Jan Reynaers – and of Aluro – Frans De Roovere – were business partners, and built their respective businesses only a few towns apart in the northern province of Antwerp, Belgium.
From day 1, Reynaers Aluminium has been a pioneer who helped to develop the concept of the Aluroller. Many product releases later, the company has implemented 7 Alurollers and several BTM’s in a variety of countries and facilities, from Belgium to Poland, Turkey, Russia, France and Ukraine. The 8th Aluroller was installed in the main facility in Duffel, Belgium just last year.
For three generations already, Bouvet SA is a family-owned and –run corporation which has grown from a one man business into a large corporation with close to 1.000 employees and to € 150 mio turnover. Bouvet purchased its first Aluroller in 2007, and its first Aluroller EVO was installed just a few months ago.
One of the company’s corporate values is to never cease to innovate. Since the 1970’s already, the company started experimenting with the combination of different raw materials to produce end products. Today, this has resulted in a separate business unit: subdivision MINCO focuses exclusively on the production of window profiles, which are a combination of aluminium and wood. Bouvet itself has also extended its activities and is now a full extruder, thereby allowing even more innovation.
In the first years of this millennium, Bouvet started to explore the possibilities of Thermal Break for aluminium profiles, and that’s how they came across Aluro.
The Aluroller is very dependable equipment with very minimal downtime and produces precision quality parts. And if there ever is a question, Aluro is always on top with a quick response!
The company Prima, which is part of the group (LIEBOT) K-Line, was the first Aluro customer in France to buy an Aluroller. Aluro has been the company’s supplier for almost 20 years now.
Veralu is a Belgian enterprise, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The company was founded by Norbert Verreth, Kristel’s father and currently still CEO. Veralu have been working with the Aluroller for over 9 years now.
