Roger Englefield, began his working life as a plumber in Waimate, New Zealand, but his trademark entrepreneurial flair enabled him to start a number of very successful related companies, in Christchurch, specialising in plumbing and large injection moulded products.
In the late seventies, he moved to Auckland and recognising a niche in the market, set up a small operation in Glenfield, producing baths for a company supplying to the Australasian market.
His son Derek joined him, and in the eighties, they took the opportunity to manufacture as their own entity. Shower manufacture soon followed baths, and innovative products such as the complete shower enclosure, and the Cabana complete shower with ceiling were developed. Roger, and his son Derek, continued to expand the business, exporting predominantly to Australia and Asia, and winning a plethora of Plastic Institute and Design Awards along the way.
