CHESTER, CT— June 16, 2009 — Over the past quarter of a century, Roto Frank and HOPPE have served European and other markets outside North America through a customer/supplier partnership that has made their uniquely compatible high quality products available as a competitive and convenient solution. HOPPE is well-known for the production of high quality handles for windows as well as high quality handles and gears for doors and Roto is a global market leader for producing Tilt&Turn hardware.
Now for the first time the two companies are collaborating to make their combined product solutions available in the U.S. and Canada through a Strategic Distribution Alliance. In order to launch this exciting collaboration, the Roto Frank of America sales team will initiate the selling process of HOPPE’s HLS9000 program, and HOPPE will begin to actively promote Roto’s NT and ALU Tilt&Turn programs. Jeff Shilakis, HOPPE North America’s President notes, “We enthusiastically embrace the opportunity to include Roto’s Tilt&Turn program in our product offering. Our customers rely on HOPPE to provide a reliable and quality solution, and the Roto products will fill this need extremely well.”
It is important to note that existing customers of both HOPPE and Roto will continue to conduct business in the same manner; there will be no changes day-to-day. This collaboration creates many opportunities for Roto Frank of America and its customers. According to Chris Dimou, President/CEO, “We are not only pleased that HOPPE's adoption of our Tilt&Turn program will enable us to reach more of the North American market, we are also very excited to be able to offer our North American customers HOPPE's proven high quality stainless steel multi-point hardware program for patio swing doors."
The two companies will display Roto’s Tilt&Turn hardware on windows at the HOPPE booth during the PCBC show in San Francisco. Additional information about this collaboration will be announced at the GlassBuild America Show in Atlanta in Sept/Oct.