Fitzroy Joinery celebrated the opening of its new factory by launching a window range with a 30-year guarantee against rot and fungal attack.

The Plymouth-based company, run by former Conservative MP Nick St Aubyn, predicts the factory-finished double glazed range featuring “easy clean” hinges will lead to a whole new era of expansion. A standard preservative treatment is used on the products followed by coating with an acrylic water-based paint.

&#8220Our real problem is shortage of skilled labour, so anything that increases our productivity is very much to be welcomed.”

Nick St Aubyn, Fitzroy joinery.

Local MP Gary Streeter opened Fitzroy’s £500,000 factory on the Langage Business Park in the presence of many south-west construction industry representatives. A fresh addition to the plant is an SCM Windor machining centre, which cost about £70,000.

Mr St Aubyn said: “If you look at the joinery industry today it is profitable. Our real problem is shortage of skilled labour, so anything that increases our productivity is very much to be welcomed.”