Drutex Brand Guidelines: The 1985 Fencing-Mesh Business That Became a Bytów Window Maker

Fencing mesh, nails and then PVC.

Drutex began in 1985 as a business making fencing mesh. Polish Wikipedia and the company’s own history agree that it was founded that year by Leszek Gierszewski, and that in 1987 it added wire and wire goods, nails and sheet-metal roofing. In 1991, Polish Wikipedia says, the business moved to Bytów, in Pomerania in northern Poland, and took the name Drutex.

Windows came next. Drutex began making PVC windows and doors in 1994, roller shutters in 1997, aluminium windows and doors in 1999 and wooden joinery in 2002, according to its timeline. It became a joint-stock company in 2003. In 2007 it opened its own plant for mixing PVC dry blend, with a line for extruding PVC profiles, and developed its own PVC window and door system, Iglo 5. Polish Wikipedia describes making its own PVC profiles as part of the company’s vertical integration.

The company then built what it calls the European Joinery Centre (Europejskie Centrum Stolarki) in Bytów. Its timeline dates the start of the first stage, with 30,000 square metres of production space, to 2013, window production in the first hall to 2014, and the start of a second stage of 25,000 square metres to 2015. More followed: a 14,000-square-metre production hall in 2018, an injection-moulding department in 2019 and a powder-coating paint shop in 2020, the company says.

Iglo, Duoline and Softline.

Drutex sells windows and doors in PVC, aluminium, wood and wood-aluminium, along with terrace and sliding systems, roller shutters, façade blinds, insect screens, garage doors, aluminium façades, winter gardens and pergolas, according to Polish Wikipedia and the company’s website. Production is mainly made to order, Polish Wikipedia says.

Its own system names give the range its vocabulary. The PVC windows sit under the Iglo name: Iglo 5 from 2007, Iglo Energy from 2013 and Iglo Edge from 2024, with an Iglo Expert window marked as new on the website in 2026. Production of new Iglo Premier window profiles began in 2022, according to the company’s timeline. Wood-aluminium windows carry the Duoline name, launched in 2015, and wooden windows the Softline name; the lift-and-slide doors developed in 2015 became Iglo-HS. Aluminium windows and doors appear under MB system numbers. The company began producing its own roller-shutter system in 2016 and its own façade blinds in 2021, and in 2025 it added D-ART Line aluminium doors and D-GATE garage doors. Its timeline also lists the development in 2017 of SmartWindow, which it calls an interactive window.

Scale is described mainly by the company. In information it published in 2025, cited by Polish Wikipedia, Drutex said it employed close to 4,000 people, had 118,000 square metres of production space and sold through more than 4,000 dealer points around the world. In August 2025 the trade site SportMarketing.pl reported that more than 80 per cent of the company’s windows and doors go for export, to around 40 countries including Germany, Italy, France and the United States.

How the category presents itself.

Window, door and façade system makers rarely sell a finished window to a homeowner. Most of them design and produce the profiles, in PVC or aluminium, that independent fabricators cut, assemble and glaze, and that installers then fit. Their identities are shaped by that chain: the companies speak first to fabricators and architects, and only then to the people who will live behind the glass.

Two kinds of picture recur in how these companies present themselves. One is the profile cross-section, a technical drawing of the frame’s chambers, gaskets and reinforcement, published in system brochures and on product pages. The other is building photography: houses, flats and offices shown with the finished windows and doors in place, often in a range of colours and woodgrain finishes. Between the two sit the swatches, since surface choices such as foils, lacquered finishes and aluminium cover shells have become a large part of what is offered.

Naming tends to be systematic. Ranges are grouped into systems and series, and the name often carries a number tied to a dimension: VEKA, for example, explains that its SOFTLINE 82 profile measures 82 mm in depth. Behind the public pages, many makers run separate areas for professional partners, such as fabricator sections, training seminars and technical downloads, alongside the consumer-facing site.

Corporate pages tell a further story about plants and owners. Makers in this group publish histories that trace small workshops into international groups, list their extrusion and recycling sites, and, where shares are listed, maintain investor pages with shareholder notices. This guide sets out what those pages and independent dated sources say about each brand, and marks what rests on the company’s own word.

A window brand built on football.

Sport sponsorship is the most visible part of the Drutex brand. In August 2025 SportMarketing.pl reported that Drutex had become an Official Platinum Partner of FC Bayern München and the club’s exclusive “Official Door and Window System Partner” under a three-year agreement, with its name on pitch-side LED boards, on the referee’s board and in the club’s social channels. Under the deal Drutex could also use club material, including the logo, match photographs and footage and the players’ images, in its own advertising, and a television spot had already been made. The site called it the largest sports-marketing undertaking in the company’s 40-year history, and said Germany had long been one of the company’s most important export markets.

The same report said Drutex had become an Official Partner of Inter Milan in 2024 and had begun working with Juventus, AS Roma, Cagliari and Palermo. Before that came an international campaign, “Okna Drutex – Wybór Mistrzów” (“Drutex windows – the choice of champions”), fronted by the footballers Jakub Błaszczykowski, Philipp Lahm and Andrea Pirlo. The report also listed the speedway club Motor Lublin and, for many years, the Tour de Pologne cycling race among the company’s sponsorships, along with matches of the Polish national football team and the Ski Jumping World Cup.

Speedway followed in 2026. A company press release published by NowyMarketing in February 2026 said Drutex had signed a sponsorship agreement with the speedway rider Bartosz Zmarzlik, who races for Motor Lublin, running to the end of the 2026 season, with the Drutex logo on his race suit at Speedway Grand Prix and Polish championship meetings and the brand featured in his social media.

The company’s timeline records a rebranding in 2016, and its own website often writes the name in capitals, as DRUTEX. Drutex remains privately held: it is a joint-stock company based in Bytów, and Polish Wikipedia, citing registry data, names Kamila Gierszewska, vice-president of the management board, as its sole shareholder.

For a design guide, Drutex shows how a regional manufacturer builds a brand from its own system names and from football sponsorship. Compare Liniar, the British PVC-U window-systems maker from Derbyshire, and Oknoplast, another Polish window maker. For this guide we use a brick red, a graphite and a frame white with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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