Partners

APL maintains a fleet of purpose-designed trucks to distribute our products to our manufacturers throughout the country.

In alignment with our commitment to sustainability, over 80% of our fleet is Euro-5 rated for exhaust emissions.

APL Manufacturing houses the country’s largest door manufacturing unit, producing thousands of aluminium entrance doors every year in a variety of designs and finishes.

Through APL’s pioneering research and development, aluminium doors are now prominent on the New Zealand market.

Nine machine centres are devoted to specialised manufacturing and ongoing development work. New products are always in the design process.

APL Manufacturing also employ's state-of-the-art technology, producing a variety of componentry using a robot arm and world-leading Frech diecast machines.

Colour Works has three powdercoat lines, used for all APL powdercoated windows and doors.

In 2016, New Zealand's first vertical powdercoat cube was installed as a third line. This world-leading technology allowed for greater capacity, speed and quality for our powdercoated products.

Off the back of the new cube technology, we have updated our manufacturing process across the board and now we can proudly say that we are a 'chromate-free' organisation.

FINEX is APL’s on-site anodising plant, and is the most modern facility of its kind in New Zealand.

Our seven-step anodising process delivers a highly durable finish on the aluminium, available in six colour finishes.

Anodising is a well proven, surface finishing process that has been established in New Zealand for over 40 years.

INEX Metals are specialists in general aluminium extrusions, supplied to manufacturers and fabricators nationwide.

INEX Metals supplies standard sections and shapes not used in the process of manufacturing windows and doors, including sheet, coil and plate.

INEX (Independent Extrusions) is the largest extruder of aluminium in New Zealand, supplying aluminium for approximately 70% of New Zealand's windows and doors.

INEX has two extrusion presses (2400 tonne 8 inch press and 1800 tonne 7 inch press), and uses the latest manufacturing processes.

INEX sources an overwhelming majority of their aluminium billets straight from Tiwai Point smelter in Bluff. INEX has a commitment to sustainability, and is the only extrusion company in the Southern Hemisphere to recycle billet with Tiwai with 99.9% of all aluminium waste sent back to the smelter and recycled.

Most of the billet from INEX is part of Rio Tinto’s START programme which allows full traceability and provides a digital sustainability label with information such as where the aluminium was produced and information from its production such as carbon footprint, water use, recycled content and energy sources.

Because Tiwai is fuelled by renewable energy, the billet they produce is some of the greenest in the world.

PPL (Profile Polymers Ltd) is a leading state-of-the-art plastic profile extrusion facility, with five of the latest technology extrusion lines available from Europe.

PPL's core expertise is in the manufacture of flexible and rigid thermoplastic extruded profiles. Their products are used in a wide range of industries and applications such as Glazing, Building, Construction, Marine, Agriculture and Transport.

PPL offers plastic profile solutions from initial concept development, die design and manufacture, through to production and final delivery. They can also offer custom designed solutions to meet most requirements.