Maidstone-based Green Gate Access Systems reports demand for its SOSEC solar powered barriers and gates, launched last autumn.
The Kent firm’s new and existing clients include Keir Living and Taylor Wimpey. The installers have rolled the product out to 40 UK sites to date; concrete product supplier, TARMAC are planning a UK-wide roll out this year. Green Gate says that it sees the highways market as having growth potential. Green Gate and Kent-based Highways Care have adapted the product for road and highways projects.
The installer’s offices in Bircholt Road suffered hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage from a fire at a neighbouring part of the site. The company is set to move to bigger premises nearby next month. This new start for the company is in a unit six times the size of their old base, and offers more space for production and storage, plus new training facilities and a product showroom.
Neil Sampson, Managing Director, Green Gate Access Systems, said: “We have been delighted with the reception so far to the SOSEC concept – but believe there is so much more potential. Our belief from the start has been that the SOSEC mobile temporary security technology has the potential to be a game changer, and from the interest received it’s clear that the demands is there.
“2016 was our 10th year in business, a cause for celebration tempered by the fire which risked destroying everything we had built up. When things like this happen, you have to dig deep and get on with it and I was lucky to have a fantastic team in place to do just that.As it turned out, we enjoyed our most successful year to date and with our new offices and the successful launch of the SOSEC range of products the future is looking good, allowing us to plan for future expansion.”
Green Gate say that they developed SOSEC to answer a growing need to provide public safety and work site security where power provision is not practical, but security is still demanded. The product can be used up to 900 times a day, all year round, even through a British winter, says the firm. It can also be delivered as a battery-only verison for up to one month’s use in very temporary sites.
Visit www.sosec.co.uk and www.greengateaccess.co.uk/.
