Cortizo doors and especially the bifold and sliding systems are now well-established in the UK. They’re a fantastic mid-range bifold with good styling, quality hardware, secure and reliable. However, the quality of the Cortizo doors you get depends on who makes them and the expertise of the installer. This system provide fabricators in the UK an opportunity to sell a modern and slimline bifold or sliding door either under the Cortizo brand name or under their own brand. This article explains more about Cortizo bifold doors and reveals some of the brands you’ll find this product sold as.
Why do companies rebrand Cortizo doors?
The simple answer is to stop you going to find alternative providers. If you know the brand you’re buying, manufacturers and installers don’t want you to go armed with information and find it cheaper elsehwere. So some will rebrand it to make it sound exclusive to them.
The different brand names you see all using exactly the same Cortizo profiles can confuse buyers. It also makes it difficult to find a review for Cortizo doors under a different name.
All of the major aluminium systems companies such as Cortizo provide aluminium extrusions, accessories, technical manuals and training, installation support and ongoing support to their existing manufacturers in the UK as well as those new ones wishing to make the product.
What some system companies will do is allow some manufacturers to slightly modify the product to make it a little different from what other manufacturers make. It would be a new profile, a simpler glazing method, new bifold or sliding door hardware. This helps create a more personalised bifolding door and one providing that business with a competitive edge.
For systems companies, it’s an opportunity to sell more aluminium profiles. For fabricators an opportunity to create a distinctive product without the significant investment required in designed profile dies, testing and bringing a new system to market.
For example, Duration of Canvey Island has done it with one of their door ranges using AluK and Smart systems. This is largely the same door but provided with a different hinge arrangement and other improvements and tweaks. Customake UK do it with REAL, again using Smarts, as is the Ezifold, Ezislide range of products.
Retail installers will rename products as well, one of the best known being Express Bifolds that uses Smart Systems, and Alumil and previously Schüco and Reynaers.
Cortizo bifold doors also provide this opportunity – a well designed and executed bifolding door available to make and brand as you wish. And this model works brilliantly already with the highly popular Cortizo slider also available under many different brands, but essentially the same door.
Are Cortizo doors any good?
They’re great. But the quality you get differs with each manufacturer. Some are larger than others with sophisticated machinery, quality processes and scale. Others work from small local industrial units making a handful a week. Read our Review of Cortizo Bifold Doors.
For homeowners considering this door, how good your Cortizo bifold doors are, very much depends on who makes them and above all, the quality of the installation. Correctly made and fitted, they’re excellent bifolding doors and are reliable. So there’s nothing wrong with asking who makes your Cortizo bifolds.
Is my Cortizo Door a fake?
Absolutely not. It’s not that easy to ‘fake’ a system and pretend it’s something else. But what some salespeople will tell you is that their door is ‘based on Cortizo’ or ‘is the same as Cortizo’. Whatever they tell you it’s probably the same Cortizo product they’re trying to make appear exclusive. Still not sure? Get in touch with us for more information about your intended supplier.
Who produces Cortizo profiles?
The answer to that is Cortizo themselves based in Spain. Cortizo windows or doors come designed by a reputable systems company with a significant presence in Europe and the UK.
Who is the best manufacturer of Cortizo in the UK?
There are many different manufacturers of Cortizo bifold doors and each of these are separate and unrelated businesses. All they have in common is making and providing the same product. Get in touch and we’ll put you in touch with the most suitable Cortizo manufacturer for the trade and Cortizo installers near you.
Brand names supplying Cortizo bifold doors
Whilst certain aspects of the Cortizo bifolding doors may not be the same from supplier to supplier, these are just some of the brands or businesses selling this product. Established aluminium manufacturers of both PVCu and aluminium, trade suppliers and others offer the DeWall bifold door under different names. These include:
FD120 bifold doors made by Dutemann
The DeWall aluminium bifolding door
The Unifold Bifold Door from Arkay Windows.
The StudioGlide bifolding door from Eurocell.
The Alutech bifolding door system
Go higher up the bifolding door supply chain and all these brands are the Cortizo Bifolding Door system.
More information and where to buy Cortizo doors.
Homeowners having seen or offered Cortizo doors benefit from a reasonably priced and slimline bifolding or sliding door from a mid-range brand. You’ll be happy with your purchase.
For the trade, this bifold comes at a price point and other manufacturing and installation benefits of little interest to the end-user. It’s for the trade that this door was created and it does the job well.
Cortizo bifold doors are recommended and above all, a well-made product accompanied by a professional installation creates attractive, reliable and functional bifolding doors. Get in touch today for more information on Cortizo doors, and where to view and buy them near you.
