Trend Windows & Doors celebrates 40 years servicing the Australian building industry

Trend Windows & Doors Pty Ltd celebrates 40 years this July providing windows and doors to the building industry. Originally formed in July 1968 by the current Chairman, Don Summergreene, Trend is still at the original head office site at Girraween NSW and still manufactures Western Red Cedar windows and doors that the business started with in 1968, along with Aluminium and uPVC windows and doors.

Since inception forty years ago, Trend Windows & Doors has grown and moved with the changing times. In 1973 Trend was one of the first companies to start manufacturing basic aluminium sliding windows. Continued research and development distinguished Trend as also one of the first window manufacturers to assemble aluminium double hung and awning windows.

Again with innovative R&D, Trend with its patented Ovolo Glazing System was the first window and door Company to manufacture an individually glazed aluminium window.

Trend expanded its manufacturing operations during the past 40 years to Tamworth, Canberra, Newcastle, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia and now has 10 factories and 18 showrooms throughout these regions. During this time various acquisitions including Vincent Windows, Crestlite and Framex were acquired. Trend itself was acquired by several entities including James Hardie.

In late 2001, a management buyout led by Chief Executive Officer, Colin Forster and others acquired Trend and the company was re-branded with the current familiar Brand and Trademark.

Trend has invested heavily in research and development over the past decade to produce some very innovative products including Quantum Windows. Quantum's range of revolutionary aluminium windows and doors has set new industry benchmarks, with its modern clean lines and contemporary design appeal. In 2006 Trend launched the Xtreme Windows & Doors Bushfire Protection range, the first window system in Australia designed to withstand bushfire temperatures up to 40kW/m2 without failure. This is still the only tested bushfire windows and doors in Australia if not the world. Testing was done in conjunction with CSIRO Bushfire CRC.

During 2006 Trend launched the Synergy range of uPVC windows and doors becoming the first major manufacturer to have all the main compositions of windows and doors in its range.

With Synergy's range of windows and doors added to Thermashield Energy Efficient products, Trend has with the other Brands a vast offer of products that have been tested and approved under Windows Energy Rating Scheme (WERS). These products offer windows and doors with very low u-Values and SHGC to produce very energy efficient solutions for today's demanding times. All these products are NFRC rated and all are approved under AFRC.

Trend also offers very efficient acoustic solutions with SoundMizer. This proposition gives rW solutions of up to 43 in single and secondary glazing application.

Recently Trend has re-introduced its Crestlite range of commercial products for the building industry to further the extensive offer of window and door products in the ever changing building environment.

Trend Windows & Doors today is a privately owned Australian manufacturing company, employing around 700 people across the country to produce Australia's largest range of window and door products to give the widest choice available.

So, don't compromise your vision, choose Trend!