Birmingham fabricator Shelforce is having to increase capacity for its fully compliant Fireshel 30-minute fire, smoke and security resistant door and is now gearing up for producing 200 doors a week to cope with rising demand.
The specialist disability employer was manufacturing 70 fire doors a week from a standing start in 2020 with an increase in capacity to produce 130 doors a week at the start of this year.
Business manager Howard Trotter said: “It doesn’t seem that long ago when we had to hit 130 doors a week, and the demand for our Fireshel has just continued to rise. We are getting busier and busier and have had to create more full-time jobs as a result.
“We recently welcomed a couple of competitors to come and have a look around our factory to see our employment model and the way we do things, and in the end one asked us if we could make the doors for them. We also have five tower blocks in the city to get stuck into from this month onwards, for both fire doors and windows.”
Those include 6,000 fire doors for Equans and 2,500 for Fortem.
Shelforce, which operates with 75% of its workforce disabled, recently created ten more full-time jobs in response to demand for the fire doors https://www.the-glazine.com/?p=6526
