As the year is coming to an end and the holiday period approaches, we wanted to take the opportunity and say A BIG THANK YOU to all of you, our valued clients, partners and supporters. We are immensely grateful for your ongoing support and trust throughout this year.
And, what a year it has been
2020 was particularly challenging for all of us. The ongoing Coronavirus pandemic continues to create significant uncertainty all around the world, for individuals and businesses alike. Our thoughts are especially with our friends and partners in Germany whilst they are going into another complete lockdown over the festive season.
Speaking for ourselves, the great New Zealand lockdown in March 2020 put many of our projects unexpectedly on hold. And, in the following months, we had to deal with further disruptions caused by the pandemic. Most prominently we faced widespread delays in international deliveries, due to worldwide border restrictions and logistics being literally out of control.
However, our team stayed positive, and we went through all of this together, with confidence. Despite all the challenges, we finalised many exciting projects in Coromandel, Taupo, Auckland, Central Otago and the Waikato, to name a few. We are also tremendously grateful for the generous support from the New Zealand government in these hard times.
We have opened “The Barn”
The Barn is our newly-built, comprehensive showroom in Hamilton and one of our most notable achievements this year. It features a wide selection of high-quality double- and triple-glazed tilt and turn windows, modern entry doors, smart shading solutions and more. A visit of our showroom is an excellent opportunity for you to get a first-hand experience of our exclusive product range. Please get in touch with us if you would like to visit us. We would be happy to show you around.
ECOWINDOWS is growing
This year we welcomed two new employees in our team. They are operating in the areas of Operational Management and Marketing. This steady growth allows us to provide an even better service for our clients and partners. And ECOWINDOWS continues to grow. If you are interested in joining our hard-working and dedicated team, we would love to hear from you.
What’s waiting for us in 2021?
To keep it short: A lot!
ECOWINDOWS is exceptionally busy, with a high number of exciting projects already in the pipeline for the coming year. We are also looking forward to strengthening existing, and building new partnerships in 2021 in order to provide New Zealanders with more sustainable, healthy and comfortable homes.
Christmas Holidays
Our office will be closed from Monday, 21st December 2020 and we will re-open on Monday 4th of January 2021.
Should you have any questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are happy to assist you.
Give us a call: (07) 825 8172
Or send us an Email: [email protected]
We wish you a Merry Christmas and happy holidays and look forward to seeing you again in 2021.
Thomas, Bjorn & the ECOWINDOWS Team
Due to the wide spread of COVID-19 globally, New Zealand is still experiencing major international delivery delays. This situation is aggravated by insufficient freight capacity and various international government restrictions. Judging by the current situation, with many countries around the world suffering a second wave of the outbreak, with high numbers of cases and several weeklong lockdowns worldwide, we regrettably expect this to continue for some time.
In addition to that, RNZ reported this week that Ports of Auckland is currently experiencing a major backlog of imports and is struggling to get slots available on its wharf for arriving vessels. Ports of Auckland General Manager of Communications, Matt Ball said container ships could be waiting between 10-12 days to get into the port. Although they are working hard to ease the situation, this problem will unlikely be solved before the end of this year.
Please consider this situation carefully when organising your building project and plan ahead. As international freights and containers are experiencing high volumes and the delivery timeframes are much longer than normal, we encourage you to not leave your order to the last minute. Be prepared and know exactly when you want your order to be delivered with plenty of time ahead. This will allow you to avoid delivery delays and disappointment.
If you have any more questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us today!
Have you ever wondered how our windows are made?
This impressive behind the scenes video shows how our wooden double- and triple-glazed windows are manufactured with precision, years of experience and the highest skills in craftsmanship. Döpfner Fenster, with its headquarter in Germany, Gerolzhofen is our long-term partner and main supplier for our exclusive ECO WOOD and ECO WOODALU windows.
The wood from our timber windows is harvested exclusively from certified, sustainable forestry in Bavaria, Germany. Our wooden windows are made of pristine and robust spruce, larch and oak timbers, with multilayer laminated profiles that provide the best quality and outstanding durability.
One of our feature projects in Queenstown. What an amazing house and what a stunning architecture. Thanks to Team Green Architects for giving us the chance to contribute to this amazing piece of architecture!
The Passive House Institute of New Zealand has put together some great stories from satisfied owners of passive houses. Some of them are of course satisfied owners of our windows too. We would like to present some of these projects here...
#newstandardnz #phinz #betterthancode
The Passive House Institute of New Zealand has put together some great stories from satisfied owners of passive houses. Some of them are of course satisfied owners of our windows too. We would like to present some of these projects here...
#newstandardnz #phinz #betterthancode
The Passive House Institute of New Zealand has put together some great stories from satisfied owners of passive houses. Some of them are of course satisfied owners of our windows too. We would like to present some of these projects here...
#newstandardnz #phinz #betterthancode
Since we are currently not allowed to welcome you personally we'd like to invite you to take a short stroll through our new window barn. This barn style showroom is unique in New Zealand and has all of our different window series as well as other state-of-the-art building products on display. Once we're all back to (almost) normal we invite all our customers, friends and partners to enjoy this great place of sustainable building solutions. Until then we wish you all the best & stay safe!
Ecowindows also goes into lockdown. We wish all our customers, partners and friends all the best in this time and are looking forward to seeing you soon through a reopened window. Stay safe!
Due to the current situation we have to keep our showroom closed until further notice. We will keep you informed about current developments. Stay healthy!
#covid_19 #corona #closenz #staysafe
