Anthony Innovations... Opening Doors To The World

While doors have been around for over 4000 years, the number of innovations in door design have been relatively few. However, Ben and Drew Anthony are determined to change the status quo of door roller design, with a unique and evolving range of sliding door and window hardware that’s taking the world by storm.

The original business, Anthony Bearings, was founded in 1951 by aspiring engineer Sil Anthony, who opened his first engineering workshop in Preston, Melbourne. Since the company's inception, the focus has always been to design and manufacture innovative hardware that fits the customer’s exact needs.

Now under the management of Sil’s grandsons Ben and Drew, Anthony Innovations constantly strives to develop new rollers and hardware requiring minimal movement effort, that look great, and that are embedded with advanced tech to solve real-world problems.

Anthony Innovations has grown into a prestigious multinational company with a global presence spanning Australia, Asia, and North America. It is a pioneer in introducing high-spec sliding door and window panel designs to residential and commercial applications.

‘Our early products were custom-designed bearings that solved several challenges faced by the regular standardsize bearings of those times’, begins Drew Anthony, the current Marketing Manager. The company was keen on not just creating a manufacturing line, but also on increasing its expertise and specialising in the door and window industry. ‘Our team understood customers' specific needs for wheel assemblies adaptable to different size extrusions, and developed adjustable assemblies to meet these specific needs.’

Anthony Innovations experienced steady organic growth, and by the 1970s had also started the production of anticorrosive rollers for windows and doors. After rigorous research and development over many years, Anthony Innovations was able to establish a unique material and process combination to ensure products were more durable, provided longevity and ensured improved performance for the end user.

While the 1980s and 2000s were filled with exciting innovations and designs that were sold internationally, the leap to a global multinational company happened in the late 1990s, after identifying a need for highperformance products in the door and window industry.

They made good use of every opportunity they could, travelling worldwide and securing product opportunities in the Americas and Asia. ‘Our continued focus on developing expertise as well as our attention to customers' needs, has helped us grow consistently for the past 15 plus years’, says Managing Director Ben Anthony.

Anthony Innovations kept producing hardware that was safer, fast to install and had a longer life. In 2007, it set up its first production plant in Changzhou, China, moving closer to Anthony Innovations’ aim of capturing the global market. The factory, which is purpose built and maintained to meet ISO Quality Standards, is 50,000 sq ft and is wholly owned by Anthony Innovations. Anthony Innovations’ global network of warehouses allows it to continually innovate and test to stay ahead of the competition and deliver on consumer demands. As a global player in motion device hardware production, it has been continuously steering the market towards quality hardware and efficient designs.

Anthony Innovations won Gold at the 2021 DrivenXDesign Awards with its GIANTQuad product. ‘GIANTQuad is a revolutionary sliding door roller, set to take the market by storm. It is a design that allows sliding doors to be more powerful and efficient’, explains Ben Anthony.

The innovative product has an unmatched load capacity of up to 1000 kg, while maintaining an adjustment mechanism allowing manufacturers to build larger, architectural doors that deliver an effortless user experience.

‘We continue to invest in our capabilities to help support our partners across the world. Our multinational experience gives us the ability to further support and strengthen our home industry in Australia’, ends Drew Anthony.