About Us

Why you should choose to deal with a WANZ Member
The Window Association of New Zealand (WANZ) is the commercially neutral meeting place for everybody involved in any aspect of the NZ window industry. Like most other industries worldwide, our New Zealand window industry is fiercely competitive and that competition aims to deliver the very best deals to customers.

Customers depend on WANZ to establish standards, which are appropriate to NZ conditions, by which they can judge the quality of the goods and services they are being offered.

Windows and doors, including all their component parts, manufactured by members of the Association must comply with all the relevant mandatory standards.

Members will have their Annual Practicing Certificate and Code of Ethics on public display in their showroom and are entitled to include the WANZ membership logo on their signage and literature.

WANZ is a not-for-profit organization that reputable suppliers support through voluntary membership and serving on industry committees and Task Groups. If your supplier is not a member of WANZ we encourage you to carefully consider whether or not you really want to purchase from any supplier who does not actively support the industry's core values. WANZ in turn does not support customers who choose to purchase from non-members.

What WANZ Does
The prime objective of WANZ is to establish and maintain the highest possible degree of industry-wide quality and performance. Our continuing goal is to help our members to satisfy and, when possible, to exceed the expectations of their customers so that their existing customers, as well as their new customers, have no reason to seek supply from any other source.

WANZ is a national trade association with the membership comprising all sectors of the window industry.

The Association has operated since 1965 and, until 1997, was known as the Architectural Aluminium Association (AAA). The Association continues to keep pace with the trends in the industry, providing the forum for the industry to work collectively as a whole, and/or specifically within its many Sector groups, thus bringing about change for the ultimate benefit of our members' customers.

Since the 1960's the change from timber and steel to aluminium has been most marked, in that approximately nine out of ten windows used in New Zealand are now manufactured of aluminium. New technologies continue to emerge and WANZ is responsive to the needs of members who pioneer innovation.

Major achievements of the Association have been the incremental development of a world-class industry, developing window performance specifications, adopting, promoting and contributing to appropriate international standards, working co-operatively with our international trading partners, provision of a disputes resolution service for the public and the trade, and national and international recognition as a highly respected, self-regulating industry.

Disciplinary measures within the WANZ rules provide for an ongoing monitoring of quality. WANZ is also an active member of many other building industry trade and subcontract groups.

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