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Monticelli is an Italian company specialised in the production of connectors and corner joints for aluminum frames. Founded by Domenico Monticelli about 50 years ago, the company has achieved enormous success worldwide thanks to the uniqueness and quality of its wide range of products that not only include aluminum angle corners, but also PVC angle joints, woodaluminum, continuous facades, and variable angles for windows, doors, frames, and shutters.
Design, development, and manufacturing take place entirely in the company's Italian plants. This guarantees a high standard of production and constant quality control throughout the production process. In addition, the company uses cutting-edge technologies to produce connectors, ensuring maximum precision and flexibility in the final product.
Here are some questions that we submitted to the technical office of the world leaders in the production of connectors.
What kind of company is Monticelli?
Monticelli's activity is based only on production of connectors producing a frame with perfectly coplanar closed cuts and sides, ensuring maximum quality and speed of assembly. By focusing all our resources on the creation of this single type of product, the internal technical office can offer customised solutions for every market on a global scale: We are able to adapt our brackets to every profile, with about 50 types and a wide range of over 4,000 articles.
How did you become world leaders in connectors?
Being a leading exponent in the window and door industry requires constant attention to quality and customer needs. Monticelli has distinguished itself in this field thanks to its highly specialised technical office, dedicated to the research and development of innovative products and cutting-edge solutions, offering customers a professional consultancy service.
What has allowed you to grow over time?
We are very proud of our growth achieved mainly thanks to our investments in research and development to improve the quality of our products. For example, we have adopted the aluminum die-casting process to obtain connectors with a perfect finish and high corrosion resistance. In addition, we have always tried to adapt to market needs, maintaining a focus on customer satisfaction and quality control. Finally, we have implemented an Environmental Management System to reduce waste and comply with environmental regulations, demonstrating our commitment to sustainability and social responsibility.
What is your top-of-the-line product?
Our flagship product is represented by the ‘Tonale’ bracket, unique in its kind and multifunctional, which guarantees precision, simplicity, and assembly flexibility. Tonale is a corner joint in die-cast aluminum, designed to meet the multiple needs of the frame. Thanks to its high resistance, we recommended it for doors, shutters, or armored frames, but it has also found use in classic frames.
How to distinguish a high-quality corner?
Monticelli's corners are different from those made by extrusion, which are usually thin and can easily deform. Our products not only do not aesthetically deform but can also correct any defects caused during the cutting phase, without altering the original appearance of the profile. The ‘Tonale’ corner joint, for example, boasts incredible mechanical strength, precision, and assembly speed. We also offer ‘alignment’ corner joints to perfectly align the frame.
Why choose Monticelli corner joints over others?
Our range of die-cast aluminum corner joints offers thickness and rigidity to the frame, ensuring higher quality. Unlike extruded or screwed brackets, our die-cast aluminum corner joints maintain their shape over time, providing customers with a durable and reliable solution. With our die-cast aluminum corner joints, there is no material waste, and they are easy to assemble for every operator, even the less experienced.
What are the advantages of a die-cast corner joint?
Monticelli uses aluminum die-casting to produce corner joints quickly and with an excellent crystalline finish. This process has numerous advantages, including low costs, high-quality surface finish, longevity, and corrosion resistance.
Why is there a greater economic advantage?
Our company offers economic advantages for using die-cast aluminum corners compared to extruded aluminum. Unlike extruded aluminum, die-cast aluminum corners do not require additional processing such as cutting, labor, and material use. Assembling more complex extruded corners is more expensive because the extruders dealing with profiles are not equipped to do post-processing on the corners and, therefore, assembly of the components. Thanks to our specialisation in all assemblies and processing, we can contain costs for our customers.
Who do you target?
We cater to all window and door manufacturers, from small to medium businesses, and even to more advanced ones with assembly lines. Our wide range of corner joints are designed to meet the specific mounting requirements of different types of window and door manufacturers, ensuring quality, flexibility, and precision. In addition, our specialisation allows us to contain the costs of assembling more complex corner joints compared to other companies, without compromising the quality of the final product. We are pleased to offer our customers the best solution for their work.
Why Australia and FSA?
We have partnered exclusively with Fenestration Solutions Australia (FSA) as we recognise them as a leading systems supplier with a strong history of helping companies design and develop. Its portfolio of products includes many world-leading brands that perfectly complement Monticelli and its strategies. In Australia, we see an emerging market that suffers from high labour costs, which we believe can benefit from the efficiency improvements in producing perfectly aligned and flush corners and improved sealing and strength when compared with current corner joining practices.
