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 employees‘ significant and ongoing commitment to excellence with celebrations at its manufacturing plants in California and Mexico.
wet leisure
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.
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 UK’s 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.
When it comes to making bold statements – Nigel Rose, builder, turned self-proclaimed pool pioneer is not backward in coming forward.
“The swimming pool industry and the owners of Britain’s 300,000 pools are drowning in ignorance.” says Nigel Rose in his latest PR propaganda.
Traditionally slow to be persuaded to try new concepts, the pool sector has been reluctant to respond to the bold statements and claims by the inventor of the Thermapool insulation system.
Origin Leisure has been at the top of the swimming pool industry
for thirty years. To celebrate this milestone the company has
rebranded its entire look, with a bright new logo, an all-new
website, and redesigned vans.
But the ethic of the company remains unchanged. They are still
adopting their programme of constant improvement, and their
products are more adventurous, more imaginatively designed and
more perfectly built than ever.
The UK is still seen as a place of innovation and quality manufacturing particularly for the medium to high-end value product, especially ones with a technical twist.
A shining light is Calorex Heat Pumps that employs some 150 people at its manufacturing base in Essex.
According to the Guinness Book Of World Records, San Alfonso del Mar, is the largest and deepest swimming pool in the world.
The focal point of a private resort located in Algarrobo, Chile, about 100km (60 miles) west of the capital Santiago, San Alfonso’s
pool is 1,000m long.
