The C/S UK Blog

Reducing the long term maintenance costs for busy airport terminals whilst providing a safe and attractive environment for passengers is a challenge for many airport owners.

Based on our experience of airport projects around the world, here are four ways you can reduce the maintenance costs of your airport terminal.

Good news! The best wall protection just got better.

Acrovyn 4000 is our award winning new wall and door protection, and it’s the best looking most environmentally friendly Acrovyn we’ve ever produced.

Here are the top five reasons we believe Acrovyn 4000 is a truly awesome and unbeatable wall protection solution.

The Kepler Building is Surrey Satellite Technology’s new bespoke technical building housing satellite assembly, testing and integration facilities.

With such delicate and expensive technology it is important that the internal walls of the Kepler Building are kept spotlessly clean, as well as easy to maintain and decontaminate.

If you are designing or improving your laboratory or clean room, a lot of your time s typically spent selecting casework and equipment such as fume hoods.

However, to ensure your laboratory is easy to clean and maintain you should also consider paying close attention to the finishes of both walls and ceilings.

Perse School is an independent secondary school in Cambridge, England. The popular school expanded in September 2010, when a new teaching and learning block were constructed.

With busy corridors and classrooms in use throughout the day, the school needed to protect vulnerable walls from the constant scuffs and scrapes from both pupils and equipment.

The neo-natal intensive care unit at the Royal United Hospital in Bath opened in 2011 and was the first environmentally sustainable unit of it’s kind in Europe.

With 21 cots and a large number of heavy mobile medical devices Acrovyn wall protection was installed throughout to protect the unit from impact damage.

The Co-operative is the fifth largest supermarket chain in the UK, and operates 4,800 retail trading outlets across the country.

At the new Co-operative Food store in Colchester, protecting walls from impact damage and maintaining a modern and hygienic supermarket interior was high on the priority list.

The entrance to your store should be welcoming and provide a positive first impression for your customers.  Your entrance (and in particular the entrance matting) also plays an important role in keeping the rest of your store clean and reducing long term refurbishing costs.  

If you'd like to know if your retail entrance mats are peforming up to scratch here are six questions you should be asking your entrance matting supplier.

Retail can be a tough environment to protect. In particular store interiors are subject to a constant barrage of scuffs and scrapes from bags, trolleys, products and people, quickly turning smart looking stores into scruffy eyesores.

Keeping your store in tip top shape can be an costly struggle without some form of retail wall protection to absorb the daily bumps and scrapes.

We know that making hospitals safer and cleaner is a top priority for health care provider and conforming to infection control requirements is essential.  

You'll almost certainly be familar with Acrovyn Hygienic Wall Protection, but did you know we also manufacture Hygienic Coatings? C/S Wallglaze Systems are the only Hygienic Coating Systems on the market that kill fungus as well as bacteria.