French traditional fabrication techniques

Authentic French windows and doors

French know-how

Founded in 1957, Asselin exports on the US market through its subsidiary since 1999. The company draws on its strong experience in French traditional joinery on both the European and the American market to offer a selection of windows and doors to the USA. 
Our corporate policy guarantees a production which joins French style and high quality to bring a mark of distinction to your project.

Asselin is pleased to offer you a wide variety of products that you can personalize in order to suit your individual taste. Indeed, you are free to choose between a variety of finishes, glazing and hardware options.

Our products respond to the following criteria:

• True custom hand crafted French windows, doors, shutters in solid wood (interior and exterior, with classic hardware options in various finishes) and interior wood paneling.

• Top quality in-swing window and door assembled with traditional techniques used for centuries: Mortise and tenon to increase strength and resistance to water infiltration; ball-and-socket joint at astragal for a greater structural integrity; true divided lites for superior strength and durability and Solid wood glazing stops with the choice in moulding profiles.

• Choice of wood species including French oak and exotic red wood, glazing and hardware.

• Environmentally friendly, eco-certified wood origin.

• Certified product compliant with US or local building codes.

• Various ranges of products available to satisfy budget constraints.

• Available in different thicknesses: 13/16”; 3/16” or 11/16”.

• The products are compliant with the export market toward North America; all the orders are carefully packed against damage and fully insured.

Different styles of French windows

Traditional fabrication techniques

Our traditional fabrication techniques considerably improve our products quality and aestheticism:
• Interlocking sash and frames, traditional ball and socket at astragal: providing greater structural integrity than a simple casement.

• Haunched mortise and tenon joinery: increasing strength and resistance to water infiltration than an open mortise and tenon.

• Muntin bars for true divided lites incorporating mortise and tenon joinery: for superior strength and durability.

• Solid wood glazing stops with choice of molding profiles: avoiding puttying of glazing and aesthetically pleasing.

Hardware and finishes options

We offer a large choice of traditional hardware options in a variety of styles and finishes from the BRIONNE and Remy GARNIER lines. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more detailed information about our hardware including custom lines.

Modern design and production processes

• Shop drawings and technical data correspond to US or local standards (feet and inches).

• Asselin offers flexibility with modern equipment and a highly organized manufacturing process allowing to quickly fabricating a custom made product in large or small quantities, including orders where each unit is a custom size and shape.

• Our fabrication process insures a consistent and extremely high level of quality.