Morley Glass is celebrating starting 2022 with a return to its 10-12 lead time boast after a year that saw a tornado destroy one of its principal supplier’s factories on top of industry-wide global glass supply issues.
Working with supply chain partners Saint-Gobain Glass andScreenLine integral blind manufacturer Pellini the company has secured increased volumes of blind systems and glass in recent weeks to enable the production of its Uni-Blinds to recover well ahead of schedule.
It means that all orders for Uni-Blinds will now be delivered in 10-12 working days when ordered by 12.00pm on any Thursday, a lead-time that its customers had come to rely on and one that few other suppliers of between-glass blinds can match.
At the peak of supply chain issues hitting glass supplies as well as other industry staples, Morley heard that a freak tornado had completely destroyed the ScreenLine blind systems factory in the Czech Republic (pictured) https://www.the-glazine.com/?p=3582
Managing director Ian Short said this week: “We’re over the moon to be back to where we want to be in terms of our service. It means that installers no longer need to settle for second choice integrated blind suppliers on time-sensitive jobs as our Uni-Blinds can now be supplied in the shortest lead times in the industry.
“There is no denying that we’ve found the last six months very challenging as we’ve had to work around some very difficult circumstances outside our control. With the high standards we set ourselves we always aim to resolve any supply issues that do arise as quickly as possible, and during these difficult recent months the whole Morley Glass team has pulled together fantastically to get us back on track!”
Morley Glass has also now taken delivery of three new vans and ordered a further eight vehicles due for arrival during 2022. This larger fleet will help keep customer deliveries on track as production capacity increases following its investment of £750,000 in another sealed unit manufacturing line, a move which will enable its output to grow to 6,000 integral blind units every week.
