Manufacturing Today Issue - 239 August 2025 | Page 99

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IG Doors
big part of our strategy is centered around staying competitive and consistently delivering high-quality products, and the new automated factory is helping us to drive this further.”
The launch of this new factory marks a major milestone in IG Doors’ journey as it fully transitions to solely UK-based manufacturing. Today, the company proudly manages all its processes under one roof, from the initial design of its products through to its research and development, testing, manufacturing, and engineering operations. In addition, IG Doors now sources all its raw materials from UK suppliers, as opposed to importing them from Asia as it did previously. This provides various strategic advantages for IG Doors; whilst being beneficial to the UK economy and its workforce, it also eliminates a great deal of supply chain risk for the company, giving it a higher level of control over its network.
Furthermore, this quality elevates another one of IG Doors’ most core values: its commitment to sustainability. For IG Doors, sustainability goes beyond a mere thought: it’ s a standard. By localizing its production processes and eliminating the need for Asian imports, the company has been able to significantly decrease its environmental impact. Moreover, with all its doors being Carbon Neutral Certified, its customers can be certain that they’ re not only receiving a quality product, but also actively driving a better future.
“ We now manufacture everything in the UK rather than from the Far East, which means that all our products are now CO 2 neutral as
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