Cheshire Flooring Company Takes Queens Award For Enterprise
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Cheshire Flooring Company Takes Queens Award For Enterprise
A flooring manufacturer that has grown from its roots in South Cheshire to include offices across 29 countries has been honoured with the coveted accolade for UK business performance The Queens Award for Enterprise.
Flowcrete UK Ltd a world leader in specialist industrial and commercial flooring has secured the award in the International Trade category for its innovative approach operational excellence relationship building brand development and increasing exports by 150 per cent in the last three years.
Since Flowcretes launch in 1982 the Group of which Flowcrete UK is the founding company has grown to include 23 offices and eight manufacturing centres of excellence across the globe employing more than 40 different nationalities.
The companys international client list includes Bentley Motors Jaguar GlaxoSmithKline NASA Kraft Foods O2 Arena Wembley Stadium as well as Paris Charles de Gaulle Hong Kong Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok Airports to name a few.
Despite the economic downturn Flowcretes international expansion over the last 12 months has included the opening of new offices in Vietnam and India as well as major growth in the Middle East where turnover has increased by 200 per cent over the last twelve months alone.
Flowcrete has also forged new relationships with applicator partners in the Caribbean Russia Peru Chile and Argentina.
Recent innovative products from Flowcrete include bugcontrolling floors for the health food and pharmaceutical industries which kill MRSA Ecoli and salmonella as well as selflevelling systems that allow applications to take place 10 times faster than conventional methods whilst taking the strain off the backs and knees of flooring installers.
Mark Greaves managing director of Flowcrete based in Sandbach said: Winning this award is absolutely brilliant news for us.
As a company we have always put a great emphasis on developing innovative new products and investing in our people and that has been the reason for our success across the world.
We think about how our systems can be improved or how a new product can have a revolutionary effect and then work to make those ideas a reality.
This policy has positioned us at the forefront of the industry enabling us to develop fasterinstallation floors lighter floors energysaving floors cleaner floors and allowed us to export our knowledge onto the world stage providing the opportunity for a British manufacturer to become a global leader today.
An example of this is how we were able to compete with the low cost flooring systems on the Continent. To enter this market we introduced colourful seamless floors suitable for use in the commercial sector and hygienic polyurethane floors with bacteriafighting properties which had not been readily available in mainland Europe.
Tony Gear Flowcretes export director added: Flowcrete UKs export sales currently involve construction projects taking place in more than 50 countries worldwide and in conjunction with more than 70 different applicator partners.
No matter what the geography is our language stays the same. We are committed to quality high training standards and exceeding customers expectations in everything we do.
Its this commitment to excellence that means we can guarantee the same levels of service no matter where in the world a Flowcrete floor is installed. We are delighted that our growth in Flowcrete UKs export market has been recognised by this award.
This is excellent news for the company overall and we feel a great sense of achievement. The accolade will have a positive effect on the business opening doors with new clients and helping us to build relationships with new flooring partners worldwide.
ENDS
Notes to Editors
Flowcrete UK Ltd
The Flooring Technology Centre
Booth Lane
Moston
Sandbach
Cheshire
CW11 3QF
Visit us on the web at www.flowcrete.co.uk for the UK and flowcrete.com for global details.
About Flowcrete Group
Flowcrete is a world leader in the supply of specialist flooring for commercial and industrial buildings. With 23 offices worldwide and eight manufacturing plants globally Flowcrete’s aim is to transform environments with its innovative specialist flooring products. These include decorative seamless resins waterproof car park decking resin terrazzo seamless antimicrobial flooring corrosion protection selflevelling cements underfloor heating and acoustic systems. Flowcrete is using its global expertise to introduce environmentally friendly hygienic and aesthetically attractive floors to create a better and more sustainable world at our feet.
About Flowcrete UK
Flowcrete Group Ltd holds companies that operate in various locations across the globe. The Group relies on its founding company Flowcrete UK and in particular its exports department to tap into the growing international market. Flowcrete UKs exports market covers over 50 countries worldwide serving those not already supported by an established regional Flowcrete company.
About The Queens Awards for Enterprise
The Awards are made each year by The Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister who is assisted by an Advisory Committee that includes representatives of Government industry and commerce and the trade unions.
Flowcrete UK achieved The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2009.
The awards are a public acknowledgement of outstanding achievement in the following categories;
International Trade exporting achieved by Flowcrete UK
Innovation technology
Sustainable development environment
The QA emblem is an acknowledged worldwide mark of achievement
Award winners are entitled to display the emblem on their products packaging letterheads and use it in their advertising
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