Just weeks after launching its first manufacturing site at Snaith in East Yorkshire, Flood Technology Group has announced that it’s working with a number of Yorkshire-based businesses, which are all supplying components for its unique Flood Adaptive Platform.
Twelve years in the making, the multi-purpose Flood Adaptive Platform is a ground-breaking mechanical jack system that’s designed to detect and react to flood conditions by automatically elevating above the rising water. It has already been successfully applied to both mobile homes and modular buildings but can be used to protect a vast range of infrastructure across many different sectors, from utilities and energy to commercial and transportation. Rigorous testing in flood environments, in conjunction with the University of Liverpool and HR Wallingford, has confirmed that it’s safe and highly effective.
Flood Technology Group has its headquarters at Great Heck, near Selby in North Yorkshire. Its Founder and Managing Director, Andrew Parker, lives locally and was inspired to design and create the company’s innovative Flood Adaptive Platform after witnessing first-hand the devastation that flooding caused to his friends and family members.
Among the Yorkshire-based businesses involved in the production process are Hodgson & Clayton Ltd of Beale, near Knottingley, which supplies electrical control panels for the Flood Adaptive Platform. Meanwhile, BeTech of Heckmondwike in West Yorkshire supplies electrical motors; SEW-EURODRIVE of Normanton provides motors and gearboxes; C&C Fabrication of Knottingley fabricates the steel used to build the platforms; and RS Components Ltd of Leeds supplies bearings and other small components.
Roger Clayton, Director of Hodgson and Clayton Ltd., said: “Having watched Andrew test and fine-tune the Flood Adaptive Platform over many years, we’re delighted to be working with the Flood Technology Group as it brings these unique products to market. It’s wonderful that so many Yorkshire-based businesses are represented in the supply chain, and that we’re all playing a crucial role in developing the very latest flood adaptive technology to help protect people, property and infrastructure.”
Simon Gilliland, Chief Executive of Flood Technology Group, said: “With our headquarters at Great Heck and our manufacturing site just down the road at Snaith, Flood Technology Group is proud to be a Yorkshire company so it was important to us that we used as many local suppliers as possible. We’re delighted to be working with a number of Yorkshire-based businesses to bring our Flood Adaptive Platform to market, and proud to be investing in the region’s economy.”
For more information about Flood Technology Group and its products, visit: https://floodtechnologygroup.com/.
