XL Joinery Limited (03833043): administration
- Status
- In administration
- Administration began
- 2025-07-02
- Administrators
- Christopher James Farrington, Mark Supperstone
- Administrators' firm
- Evelyn Partners
- Incorporated
- 1999-08-27
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 16230 Manufacture of other builders' carpentry and joinery
Why it went into administration
- Sustained trading losses
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Cash flow / liquidity pressure
- Loss of a key customer, supplier or contract
- Property / lease costs
- Regulatory change or action
From the administrators' statement
XL Joinery Limited (the ‘Company’) was incorporated on 27 August 1999 and operated out of its headquarters in Birstall, West Yorkshire, as a supplier of timber doors and related joinery products in the UK.
Its operations primarily focus on the design, importation, and distribution of internal and external wooden doors for the residential and commercial markets. The Company’s product line includes panel doors, glazed doors, fire-rated doors as well as door accessories, with it sourcing the relevant materials globally, working with a network of manufacturing partners. Its products are distributed through builders’ merchants, DIY retailers, and specialist door stockists across the UK.
The Company traded profitably until 2022, when a combination of industry-wide challenges (including timber price volatility, logistics disruption, and increasing regulatory pressures around sustainability and fire safety) converged with a slowdown in UK housing and construction activity throughout 2022 and 2023. These external pressures resulted in declining revenues, margin compression and mounting pressure on working capital.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2025-07-15) · Companies House register