7THINGS...
7 things you didn’ t know about … Liniar
1. IT’ S STEEPED IN LOCAL HISTORY
The site in Derbyshire where the Liniar factory is located used to be the Denby Hall Colliery. At its peak, the mine had 545 employees underground and 204 above. The mine later became a huge opencast site before closing in 1999. Construction began on Liniar HQ in 2006 and all operations relocated to the current premises a year later.
The colliery indirectly led to a major invention. In 1901, at the former nearby Denby Railway, a spillage of tar had been covered with iron foundry slag- accidentally forming a hardwearing surface. Nottingham county surveyor Edgar Purnell Hooley recognised its potential and obtained a British patent to produce what he went on to call Tarmac. The rest, as they say, is history …
2. GOING UNDERGROUND … The building that houses the Liniar extrusion plant was specially designed with three deep underground chambers.
As heated PVCu is pushed through extrusion machines, it needs to be cooled quickly to keep its shape. A continuous stream of cold water circulates around each line – which is fed from water chambers underneath the concrete floor.
These chambers were specifically designed to keep the water for the extrusion process under constant control. The underground location prevents any contamination and means no freezing during the winter months – and the chambers help Liniar to recycle approximately 5 billion gallons of water every year!
3. IT’ S THE FASTEST GROWING SYSTEM
Liniar can proudly claim to be the fastest growing PVCu systems house since its launch just 9 years ago. It’ s now the fifth largest PVCu extruder in the UK, with 32,000 tonnes output in 2016, and has the biggest PVCu mixing plant in Europe.
According to the latest D & G Consulting report, Liniar has 11.5 % share of the UK market, and is the only systems house to have consistently grown both output and market share over the last 3 years without any mergers or acquisitions.
A new warehouse and showroom is due to open in 2017, adding another 178,000 ft ² to the Liniar plant’ s enormous footprint and allowing for even more growth.
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