ODL Europe Ltd
Address: 1 Brook Road, Bootle, Liverpool, L20 4XP
Tel: 0151 933 0299 – Email: sales@odleurope.com – Website: https://europe.odl.com – Twitter: @ODL_Europe
Key Contacts:
Nathan Barr – Managing Director
‘A diamond choice’
As the composite door market continues to boom, Nathan Barr, Managing Director of ODL Europe, says the company has everything ambitious businesses need to compete in the sector – including a track record stretching back 75 years.
Composite doors are one of the ‘must-haves’ in every installer’s portfolio because as the UK’s most popular type of entrance door they offer a valuable sales opportunity. The popularity of composite doors means the market has plenty of choice. But if you want to maximise the opportunities and grow your business, you need to choose a door that combines a strong pedigree with the level of choice today’s homeowners want. ODL Europe supplies the Capstone composite door – over ¾ of a million of these are installed worldwide and are engineered to survive in the harshest of environments. It means our door has a reassuring pedigree it’s hard to beat.
There are 30 door styles that cover traditional and contemporary designs and glazed and unglazed options to suit all tastes, house styles and budgets. Many of these are unique to ODL Europe, so you have a clear point of difference for your customers. Available in either a woodgrain or smooth finish the 2mm GRP door skin is maintenance free and hardwearing too.
There are 29 colour finishes, including our TrueGrain wood effect. We use a hard-wearing polyurethane paint system similar to ones used in the yacht industry to add further low maintenance, hard wearing benefits. All doors finished using this proprietary paint system come with a 10-year warranty against fade, loss of gloss and adhesion.
We have three PAS 24-compliant glazing frames. Many of our doors use the new, contemporary, low profile Spotlight or ZEEL™ options that deliver the sleek look that homeowners love. Our more traditional door designs use the industry-leading sculptured TriSYS system. Finally, there are 25 decorative glass ranges, all of which have been carefully designed to work with the door designs. Everywhere you look, the ODL Europe door offers quality. Stiles and rails are manufactured from a water-resistant pure PVC polymer and reinforced using LVL (Laminated Veneered Lumber) timbers with a minimum density of 570 kg/m3. The SMC skins and sub-frame door assembly are fully bonded using a urethane adhesive resin.
The Capstone slab, in combination with the SecureDesign™ board reinforcing and ODL glazing cassette systems, achieves PAS24:2016, which is a requirement to achieve Secured by Design certification and meet Document Q of Building Regulations. Thanks to the thermally efficient CFC-free polyurethane foam filling, when the door is part of a doorset assembly, it can achieve a U value as low as 0.8W/m2k.
And the slabs are manufactured as part of the BM Trada Q-Mark scheme for quality, which gives us full traceability for all factory processes. But it isn’t just the door where quality shines through. We’re celebrating 75 years in business this year and we’re ambitious to achieve more by offering a level of service and support it’s hard to beat. Our new in-house door prepping facility means that no matter what the level of your set up, we can give you what you need. It covers everything from sizing the door to a full prepped door service with or without edge banding, including door lock, letterplate and door hinge prep as well as open in and open out options. Our new online portal makes quoting and ordering quicker and easier. What all this means is simple. If you want to make the most of composite door opportunities by offering the best the market has to offer, there’s only one answer. ODL Europe.
