Creating a New Mould

SAM is the UK’s leading manufacturer of interior and exterior MDF mouldings and is ready for a busy 2023. Gerard Wilson, sales director at SAM told us more.

Founded by Sam and Julienne McCrea in 1990, the Antrim-based company remains a family-owned business, producing skirting and architrave, door linings, window board, stair accessories, kitchen mouldings, picture frame mouldings, cladding, fascia and soffit, and window components. These products come in a variety of finishes including primed and unprimed, fully finished or wrapped in paper, PVC or real wood veneer. SAM is the UK’s leading manufacturer of MDF mouldings servicing the construction and home improvement industries by selling its products through leading builders’ merchants and distribution outlets.

“Aside from ensuring our customers are receiving the best quality products,” says Gerard. “SAM is trusted by the industry to consistently deliver on its promises. Our customers say they work with SAM because we are reliable and personal – attributes we are especially proud of. Our recent £1 million investment into our primed paint finish enhances our stock range so customers can have fast delivery on a wider selection of profiles.” board, door framing and stair accessories.

“The SAM Mouldings range is our ‘bread and butter,” says Gerard. “We also manufacture products that add value for our customers: SAM Zero is a high-quality range of fully finished MDF mouldings offering a time saving alternative to primed products and is hugely popular in the offsite construction and DIY markets.

“SAM Wrap is a range of MDF mouldings wrapped in real wood veneer providing a high quality, cost-effective alternative to solid timber. SAM PVC wrapped mouldings offer a robust and time saving solution over primed or softwood options. Finally, SAM Extreme is

SAM recycles all MDF waste through a wood waste steam boiler and turbine, which provides electricity, heat and paint drying power to our factory. We generate additional electricity through photovoltaic solar panels installed on our factory roofs. With our FSC certification, customers can be sure that we are working to preserve the world’s forests.

With over 6,000 different profiles in its product library, SAM has an unrivalled range of primed MDF mouldings in the marketplace to suit all styles and budgets including: skirting, architrave, plinth and architrave blocks, dado rail, picture rail, ceiling cornice, interior cladding, window our exterior fibreboard range manufactured using MEDITE TRICOYA EXTREME (MTX) and is mainly used for fascia, soffit and decorative cladding and panelling.”

The timber material supply chain has been volatile since the Covid pandemic and after settling back into some kind of normality has been