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it comes to doors and frames , there are probably few better on the market than Theuma With 60 years’ heritage in the trade, today, Theuma focuses on the production, sales and instal lation of ready-to-install and tailor-made door sets.
Whether it’s a one-off or mass production order, the company continues to assert itself as one of the most crucial door and frame manufacturing companies in the Benelux region. It is the market leader in Belgium and number two in the Netherlands for interior door systems and frames for utility and residential construction.
Every day, 300 dedicated employees at sites in Bekkevoort, Belgium, and Nijkerk, in the Netherlands, produce these interior doors and frames based on three core raw materials: wood, steel and aluminium.
Theuma, which realised around €70 mil lion turnover at an annual average growth
rate of 8-12%, sells to clients in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, the UK, and other smaller export markets.
In the UK, where director Ian Gooding heads up Theuma’s presence, the com pany concentrates as a volume player on the supply of doors for hotel chains and student accommodation markets.
Mr Gooding predicted the UK market within the first six months of 2023 would return to “where it was three or four years ago. Now the pandemic is over, Theuma is doing extremely well and, hopefully, the UK will be a part of that success over the next several years.”
Theuma Group CEO Peter Le Roy added: “Theuma wants to be renowned as a reli able partner for its customers wherever they are. We do this with excellent ser vice before, during and after delivery.”
This is all underpinned by an innova tive and high-quality product range,
a robust production system and exten sive investments in digitalisation. The company has also realised greater busi ness through B2B, B2C and e-commerce with the acquisition of Anyway Doors and PortaPivot in 2020.
Sustainable solutions
Mr Le Roy said that corporate social respon sibility (CSR) is at the forefront of the com pany’s agenda. The company is intensifying the use of green energy, and installing solar panels at its facilities in Belgium and the Netherlands, further reducing its annual carbon footprint by 400 tons per year.
All sourced wood and all sourced wood components for their door production are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certi fied. Theuma has previously invested in a wood-dust and a scrap incinerator, which is used for heating and supplying energy to the presses.
As one of Europe’s leading door manufacturers, Theuma NV places sustain ability front and centre in all its production activities. CEO Peter Le Roy talked to Andy Probert about his company’s ambitions to reduce its carbon footprint to zero by 2035 while continuing to build on its reputation for quality products.
Unique to the company is the use of the greenest coating technology available on the market, both for doors and metal frames. In the production of lacquered doors, Theuma uses electro-beam curing technology, which is free from any ozone depletion emissions and excludes the use of photo-initiators and solvents.
Mr Le Roy said: “This results in the greenest lacquered doors on the market and makes the colour of the doors insensitive to UV light and much more scratch resistant.” Additionally, all metal frames are coated with electro-powder coating technology.
Theuma has also committed to obtaining silver Cradle to Cradle certification by the end of 2024. Cradle to Cradle Certified is the global standard for products that are safe, circular and responsibly made.
Leading brands, retailers, designers and manufacturers across the value chain rely on the Cradle to Cradle Certified Product Standard to ensure their products positively impact people and the planet. The platform assesses the safety, circularity and respon sibility of materials and products across five categories of sustainability performance.
Mr Le Roy said: “Theuma’s products and processes are now being thoroughly anal ysed, and these activities are all part of our ambition to reduce the company’s carbon footprint to zero by 2035.”
