Thermapool, the swimming pool insulation company, earned itself a place in the finals of the recent
Hertfordshire Green Awards, alongside major international companies.
Author: Ashleigh MacKenzie
DC Leisure has once again won the highly distinguished title âFacility Operator of the
Yearâ at the 2011 Kelloggâs ASA Swimtastic Awards, making it their seventh time scooping the top prize.
The companyâs continued commitment to the development of community wide swimming programmes and initiatives led to them winning gold, up against GLL and Everyone Active.
Makers of Hot Spring, Caldera, Hot Spot Spas and Limelight Hot Tubs, Watkins Manufacturing recently celebrated the significant milestone of producing its one millionth spa.
To mark the occasion, Watkins recognised its employeesâ significant and ongoing commitment to excellence with celebrations at its manufacturing plants in California and Mexico.
Working from its prime office and showroom location in Essex,
formerly home to Penguin Pools, renowned pool builders of the Seventies and Eighties, Aquascapes has not flinched from filling such large water leisure boots.
Whether as project consultants, designers or providing a turnkey wet leisure installation, Aquascapes has carved itself a
formidable name in the commercial water leisure sector.
Representatives of the 26 member companies that make up the UK-based buying consortium of National Leisure gathered in Amsterdam recently accompanied by Pool and Spa Scene editor, Christina Connor. The group visited the premises of Interhiva and Starline in Holland and Belgium to find out more about the products National Leisure already stocks and to learn about many new products they could potentially add to their 2012 offering.
The Manor House Hotel anticipates payback within a couple of seasons on a new multi-flume water leisure attraction added by the Loyal Grove team to the Devon hotelâs swimming pool complex.
The international tourism industry continues to be boosted by
global spa travel, a trend predicted by leading spa industry guru,
Heinz Schletterer.
Cut throat price-slashing is costing the pool building industry
dear according to one of its leading figures, Stephen Booth,
managing director of Alba/SB Pools Ltd.
âThe industry should be very concerned about the pricing that is going on,â warns Stephen. âCompanies are slashing prices in order to win contracts at a no-profit price,â he says.
Stephen emphasises: âPrice slashing is a short term strategy which ends up with too many companies closing and not being able to see contracts through â making life doubly difficult for the professional companies that are left.”
Signature Products has completed the installation of a 12 x 5m
deck level, one-piece, pre-tiled pool along with four, deck overflow pre-tiled spas at the Nirvana Spa, the UKâs largest independent spa.
Set in 11 acres of Berkshire countryside, the new additions take the number of pools to eight with a further eight spas and plunge pools.
The European division of Waterco, a leading manufacturer and distributor of products for the international swimming pool and water treatment markets, has opened a new branch in Lyon, France. Â Situated in the heart of the French swimming pool market with access to valuable transport links, Watercoâs new office will allow the company to offer an […]
