Composite window and door profiles
Composite doors and composite window frames, utilizing materials like fiberglass (fibreglass), offer numerous advantages. Our collaborative approach focuses on optimizing the design of composite door and window profiles for residential, commercial, or industrial use, effectively incorporating the benefits of composite materials. By leveraging the unique characteristics of fiberglass, carbon fiber (fibre), or a combination of both, window and door manufacturers can enhance energy efficiency while minimizing the number of required manufacturing parts. Our expertise in pull-winding and pultrusion continuous manufacturing technologies ensures the highest quality standards.
Glass fibre (fiber) window and door profiles
If your buildings are currently using aluminium (aluminum) window profiles or PVC window profiles, take a moment to consider composites. Composite window profiles can serve as a great alternative to replace your slim aluminium windows. For building constructors and door and window manufacturers, we have outlined five key benefits of choosing Exel Composites solutions.
Benefit 1: Boost energy efficiency with composites
Composite windows and composite doors improve energy efficiency by preventing heat loss. Unlike metal frames, fiberglass (fibreglass) composites provide highly effective thermal insulation. They do not require a thermal break and offer exceptional durability against moisture, expansion, and rot. Fiberglass frames eliminate the need for structural inserts, reducing complexity and costs. With their inherent stiffness, strength, and resistance to thermal expansion, corrosion, and rot, fiberglass frames greatly enhance energy savings and require minimal maintenance. The use of composite materials significantly boosts the energy efficiency of houses and buildings, offering not just aesthetic appeal but also significant cost savings.
Benefit 2: Design flexibility with fiberglass
Composites like fiberglass (fibreglass) offer excellent design flexibility, making them increasingly popular in various industries, including window manufacturing. Fiberglass can be tailored to meet a wide range of requirements due to its blend of reinforcing fibers, resins, and additives. This versatility is crucial for creating window and door designs for diverse applications. Furthermore, fiberglass exhibits a high tensile strength, exceeding that of steel, and natural stiffness. Its low coefficient of thermal expansion, equivalent to glass, ensures dimensionally stable installations. Additionally, the corrosion resistance, rot resistance, and resistance to swelling of composites make fiberglass framing elements highly durable and long-lasting. The insulation properties of fiberglass also contribute to the overall energy efficiency of windows, enhancing their thermal performance.
Benefit 3: Thermal insulation and stability
Composites, such as fiberglass, are known for their advantageous thermal properties. They exhibit low thermal expansion characteristics, reducing the risk of excessive expansion and contraction with temperature changes. Fiberglass acts as a natural insulator, contributing to improved thermal performance. By incorporating composites like fiberglass in your doors and windows, you can effectively lower the U-factor/U-value, enhancing energy efficiency and reducing heat transfer without the need for additional thermal breaks. This comprehensive approach ensures optimal thermal performance, benefiting both insulation and energy savings.
Benefit 4: High strength and stiffness
Our high-tensile strength composites offer exciting possibilities for window and door design. By utilizing composite materials, you can create windows and doors with narrower frames and sills, resulting in a more expansive view and increased natural light. Furthermore, you can enhance the aesthetic appeal of your windows by increasing windowpane sizes, maximizing the intake of natural light. Our composites are engineered with the strength necessary to develop window frames that can withstand higher wind loads, ensuring both structural integrity and safety. Embracing our composite solutions allows you to achieve innovative and durable window and door designs, complete with lightweight frames, door cills (sills), threshold cills (sills), as well as the added benefits of thermal insulation and enhanced aesthetics.
Benefit 5: Long life and low maintenance
Our specially engineered composites are designed to withstand the harshest conditions. They are highly resistant to moisture, corrosion, and rust, ensuring long-lasting durability. Even after years of exposure to UV rays, our composites maintain their integrity without deteriorating. With no risk of rot, rust, or corrosion, the maintenance needs and costs over the installed lifetime are significantly reduced. Choose our composites for windows and doors that offer exceptional longevity and require minimal upkeep, providing you with peace of mind and long-term value.
Where are composites used in windows and doors?
We offer a wider range of solutions for window and door applications:
Our range of composite solutions includes various applications in the door and window industry. We offer glass fiber door profiles and glass fiber window profiles, providing strength and durability. Our composite offerings extend to window components such as window sashes, frames, and mullions. We also provide composite materials for door and sliding door sills, threshed sills, ensuring long-lasting performance. Enhancing structural integrity, our composite door internal stiffener profiles offer added strength. Additionally, our threshold profiles provide reliable and durable solutions.
Moreover, we specialize in manufacturing external parts for wood windows and insulating cores for metal windows and doors. Our composite profiles are utilized in internal profiles for fire safety doors, industrial door frames, as well as refrigerated door frames and panel caps. Furthermore, our range includes thermal breaks and thermally insulating stiffeners for PVC profiles, contributing to enhanced energy efficiency.
Count on our versatile composite solutions to effectively support a wide range of door and window applications, delivering exceptional performance and functionality.
Composites for unique windows and doors
The windows and doors in our buildings and homes are one of the most important architectural components. They admit light and air and expose us to natural environments, improve attention, and even lower stress. According to our customer frameless sliding door and window specialist Sky-Frame, based in Switzerland, demand for larger, frameless doors and windows is increasing, driven by architects seeking to make the most out of their views. Here, we explore how using fiberglass composites helps achieve these larger views. Read the full article in the Sky-Frame reference case.
Real innovation takes a village
Who says that you need to be in a big city to have big ideas? Certainly not Venster Techniek, a manufacturer of window and door frame components, based in the small Dutch village of Zelhelm. In fact, Zelhelm, with its name that loosely translates as “a house that is also a home,” feels an especially appropriate birthplace for Venster Techniek’s threshold and sill solutions. Read the full article in the Venser Techniek case study.
Some examples of our solutions
Here are a few examples of our solutions in action.
“You think it, we’ll make it” – Solutions for forward-thinking window and door manufacturers”
Composites, also known as fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP), are synthetic materials composed of reinforcing fibres (fibres) and a resin matrix. These two components, when combined, create a composite material that offers numerous advantages for window and door manufacturers. The reinforcing fibres provide resistance to tensile and compressive loads, while the matrix transfers shear forces. Glass fibre (fiberglass) and carbon fibre (carbon fiber) are the most widely used reinforcements in modern composite materials. However, alternative fibres can also be used based on specific application requirements and manufacturing techniques. The selection of fibres depends on the desired performance of the composite for window and door applications.