The Commercial Window Group’s strong partnership with long-established regional installer, Camel Glass, demonstrates how national manufacturing capability, combined with local expertise, is supporting housing delivery at scale in the South West
With the UK facing a deficit of housing stock, the story is no different in the South West of England, where extreme weather and unforgiving landscapes are key considerations for commercial developers.
One business that knows the challenges local housebuilders face, only too well, is Cornish glazing firm Camel Glass, one of the largest and longest-serving glazing companies in the region.
With unrivalled knowledge of the commercial new-build remit in its local area, the family-run firm supplies and installs high-quality windows, doors, and glass products, with a proven track record for honest dealing, fair pricing, and quality goods and workmanship.
A regional partner of the national window and door supply cooperative, the Commercial Window Group, Camel works throughout Cornwall, Devon and across the South West, with branches located in Wadebridge, Redruth, Barnstaple, and Holsworthy.
“The Commercial space is definitely a growing market for Camel because the areas we operate in are in need of housing, for local people especially,” says Chris Best, Contracts Manager at Camel Glass.
“Hopefully, we can do our bit in terms of supplying high-quality windows and doors to help the developers get those homes built.
“We’ve been going for 43 years, and developers trust us, our area-specific expertise, and our guidance. That goes a long way, because at a basic level, developers want good quality houses with good quality products inside of them,” adds Chris.
As demand for new homes ramps up across the region, Camel’s local knowledge and reliability, combined with the national manufacturing capability of the Commercial Window Group, creates a partnership that is well positioned to support new-build developments across the South West.
Providing a robust, vertically integrated supply chain, standardised product range and extra assistance with everything from specification to aftercare, the Commercial Window Group supplies energy efficient products manufactured exclusively in the UK by its parent company, the Emplas Group.
One of Britain’s largest window and door fabricators, the Emplas Group is grounded on more than four decades of commercial expertise, supplying compliant, high-performance windows from Profile 22, one of the UK’s most widely specified window and door systems.
It also supplies PatioMaster Inline Sliding Patio Doors and Doorco composite entrance doors, with Kubu smart-locking technologies as standard across its window and door ranges.
“Our commercial offering particularly appeals to house builders because our local expertise is backed by the national reach of the Commercial Window Group, with everything underwritten by Emplas for added peace of mind,” says Chris.
This, combined with Camel’s unrivalled local knowledge of a region where wind load and coastal weather all take their toll, is essential to help deliver homes in the area that are fit for purpose, as Chris explains.
“Because we’re based in this region, we know what conditions these windows are going to be up against and the specifications that projects are going to require,” he says.
“We understand the impact of the weather in Cornwall and Devon, particularly on exposed sites. We know that really high-quality windows and doors – and also tight manufacturing tolerances – are required, and the Commercial Window Group always delivers.”
With factors such as energy efficiency and regulatory compliance key priorities for developers, access to the Commercial Window Group’s outstanding product and service offering reinforces Camel’s solid reputation among its developer clients, including St Austell-based sustainability specialist, Eco Bos.
Dorian Beresford, Chief Development Officer for Eco Bos at its current project at West Carclaze Garden Village, St Austell, said:
“We want to work with good people who believe in what we’re doing, because it is quite different.
“We are up against some challenges, so we like to work with people and businesses that are very much solution focused, rather than problem focused.
“We chose to partner with Camel Glass and the Commercial Window Group for a number of reasons. We go through a tender process, so cost is vital, but there are many other things that are important as well.
“The quality of the installation is really, really vital, and we need companies [like Camel] who are used to working in exposed environments and understand the importance of fitting to very, very, very high tolerances.
“With Camel, we haven’t had any issues with leaks, we haven’t had any issues with installation… They turn up when we want them to turn up.
“Their partnership with the Commercial Window Group also gives us that confidence that they’re supported by a larger national company. The benefits are consistent product quality, capacity, innovation, precision manufacturing… there’s a multitude, really. We’d be hard pushed to find a better window and door supply partner.”
For more information on the Commercial Window Group’s next generation high performance window and door ranges and our regional delivery partners call 01234 567890 or email [email protected]
