Set up in 1979, Emplas has grown over the past 4 decades to become one of the UK’s largest manufacturers of energy efficient and low maintenance windows & doors.
We work with some of the window & door industry’s most established profiles, including Profile 22, the UK’s leading window systems company, Saint Gobain, a world leader in glass and IGU manufacture, DOORCO and ALUK to bring cutting edge innovation to energy efficient door & window fabrication.
Still operating as a family-owned business today, we remain true to our founding principles, including a no-compromise approach to product quality and a commitment to deliver unparalleled service and support to our customers.
With an award-winning retail support offer and more than four decades’ experience in the industry, we work in partnership with our customers across the various sectors to provide the best product & the best service.
“We’re very proud of where we have come from.
Emplas has grown from a start-up business trading from a garage lock-up to become one of the UK’s largest fabricators.
And we are proud of where we are going.”
Improving Britain’s Homes
To manufacture the most complete range of high quality windows and doors, backed by the best customer service and support, for the trade installer, new build and social housing markets.
To become the UK’s supplier of choice to the trade. installer, new build and social housing markets.
Transforming your business
Measuring customer experience from the receipt of their first order up to delivery.
Collate data regarding production cycle to enable customised individual requirements.
Understand & measure how we deliver what the customer needs.
Before they impact on customers
Through barcode technology, we can model delivery critical ‘manufacturing stage gates’ for the product to pass through by a certain time.
Our custom-built systems automatically trigger alerts of rare potential problems, thereby saving you time and money.
The same technology underpins customer order tracking, dispatch & delivery, with everything scanned on & off lorries, allowing orders to be delivered on-time-in-full.
This allows us to improve our operation. Elements of each order are checked before loading the lorry & then rescanned on & off the lorry.
This eliminates the chance of shipping incomplete orders. The truck won’t leave until everything is accounted for.
Creating a faster, simpler system
All products are scanned off.
System issues a customer delivery note & audit, providing clear audit trails.
Piloting functionality for products damaged in transit to be re-scanned for priority factory remakes to cut delays and improve service.
Emplas is a proud fabricator of Profile 22. We manufacture our windows & uPVC Doors using the Optima system, which comes in several different styles.
Your customers can get the perfect fit for their home.
These windows combine exceptional flexibility with advanced security & thermal performance.
Your customers can match these windows in with the décor of their homes thanks to the range of foiled and coloured finishes.
Fantastic Customer Service – always going the extra mile to help without any grumbles! great quality product and attention to detail!
Great Set of Lads
Very good selection of windows and conservatories.
Kevin Johnson and his early business partner, Tony Foster commenced trading with the sales an installation of aluminium double glazed windows and doors to local homeowners. They made their own glassed sealed units in Tony's garage and first floor bedroom.
The moved from Tony's garage and first floor bedroom to rent a small industrial unit in Wellingborough and then relocated to a larger unit in Burton Lamiter, Northants, later that year.
Kevin and Tony purchased a factory in nearby Finedon and began to manufacture uPVC double glazed windows and doors. They were one of the only few fabricators in the UK to internally glaze windows for better security.
Back to Wellingborough to a much larger factory to cope with the growth of the company
Kevin was presented with the Promotional Campaign of the Year at the GLASSEX Awards
The company purchased and moved into its current site in Wellingborough, which offered a space three times larger than it's previous location
Acorn Aluminium Ltd was aquired so that the company could offer uPVC double glazed windows and doors as well as commercial aluminium double glazing
After winning the G14 Customer Care Initiative of the Year and the G15 Fabricator of the Year awards. Emplas begin on a site development plan, investing over 3.6 million in new machinery and a factory expansion
Development commences on the £2.2 million investment of the UK factory. £1.4 million is invested in machinery.
July: Rapid growth saw Ecostar relocate to a new head office, installation depot & customer service centre. October: Finalist in the G18 Fabricator of the Year.
We launched our new website, complete with installer locater functionality, targeted content for relevant sectors and useful media libraries packed with videos, images and downloadable documents.
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