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A Set Course, Key Dates, a Growth Curve

Sotralu Group has it’s origins in Sotralu, european leader in the design and manufacture of accessories for slinding aluminium doors and windows.
Founded in 1978 in Toulouse, a mere stone’s throw from the plants where Concorde and the Airbus were designed and assembled, Sotralu quickly forged a reputation for reliability and strict standards thanks to the quality of it’s products. In 2007, Thierry Sainte-Claire Deville took over the lead of the business, he is a former officer in the French Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet who went on to become CEO of one of France’s frist digital marketing agencies, the company soon adopted a new outlook on growth, focusing broadly on international markets. Expanding it’s markets to include the main european countries and then into the Middle East, India and China.
Sotralu built up a widely recognised leadership in its field. That leadership is constantly being reinforced thanks to an external growth strategy that is providing the construction sector with an ever more comprehensive integrated product offering.
The first outlines of the Sotralu Group emerged in 2012, with the acquisition of italian manufacturer Erreti, a counterpart to Sotralu manufacturing fittings for casement windows, inward opening windows, tilt and turn windows, etc. The creation of the Sotralu Group was formalised in 2018 with the acquisition of portuguese group GNS, renowned more specifically for it’s expertise in door locks. This strategy of considered, controlled external growth is now leading the group to examine and follow up on a number of other opportunities.

Sotralu Group is one of the leaders in accessories for aluminium systems.

The handles, hinges, rollers, locks and motorisations of Sotralu Group put the aluminium on the move to give to manufacturers and their final users the utmost freedom. Being a major partner of leading industrial system houses and window and door manufacturers, Sotralu Group conceptualises, designs and manufacturers the largest range of accessories produced exclusively in europe.

Thanks to this and to “one design for all openings” concept, Sotralu Group offers an actual logic of a one-stop for accessories for doors, windows and aluminium sliding elements. No matter fittings are for side-hung, tilt and turn or sliding, Sotralu Group’s accessories sublimate the perceived quality and enhance the appreciation, the reliability and the performance.

Quality and Innovation “made in Europe”

Sotralu Group, a 100% European Company, brings together four renowed brands each having more than 30 years of experience: DR Accessories, Erreti, GNS and Sotralu.

Sotralu Group generates 50% of it’s turnover from exports. In the firm belief that european industy has an economic future and a role to play in global competition, we have put in place an industrial, logistics and commercial strategy stretching across Southem Europe. In a world where relocation of production to low-cost or best-cost countries is still very much a reality, Sotralu Group has elected to produce in europe and sell to the whole world. For such an ambitious strategy to succeed, constant innovation will be required to bring real competitive added value to every single product. Sotralu Group makes it possible for professionals and individuals around the world to pursue their quest for quality that has already led them to choose aluminium for their doors and windows.

Sotralu Group optimises and simplifies the tasks of installation, customisation, use (safety, convenience, ease of movement, durability, etc.) and maintenance. Thanks to the most comprehensive range on the market and it’s culture of bespoke service, the Sotralu Group has the answers to the needs of it’s market.

Putting Our Convictions to Work for Our Customers

Our entire concept is based on a culture of sharing – sharing the skills of our four brands and our conviction that europe and our three countries have a part to play in global industrial competition. Better still, that we can be winners, thanks to a judicious allocation of tasks. As well as technical excellence, this requires constant adherence to our values and commitments: to our customers and the markets, that goes without saying, but also to our employees, our partners and, on a wider scale, to our society and our environment.

For Sotralu Group, technical excellence must serve humanity. Such excellence has meaning and value only if in respects ethical principles regarding human dignity and working condictions, and helps to preserve our planet.

Including the disabled in the workplace, helping the long-term unemployed back into work, ensuring that our suppliers abide by the same values – fair, sustainable quality is something that can only be built day by day, in every aspect of what we do.

Pioneering Products

By dedicating 7% of it’s annual turnover to R&D, Sotralu Group is at the cutting-edge of innovation with solutions that often transform the market. More than 30 patents have been filed to date mainly on the following products. Being a trailblazer, the group invented the “one design for all opening” concept, whitch for the first time provides perfect aesthetic coherence among the handles fitted on the different types of openings (doors, windows and sliding elements) inside a room.

The Widest Range of Accessories for Aluminium Systems Produced in Europe

Sotralu Group is one of the european leaders in accessories for aluminium systems.
Doors, windows or sliding elements, we have developed a unique range of accessories with unified design meeting the requirements of the world’s leading industrial and system houses, helping them to enhance the performance of their products.