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GK Industrial's latest news
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GK acquires Scotia Energy Systems
January 2008
GK Industrial Ltd has continued its expansion with the acquisition of Scotia Energy Saving Systems Limited for an undisclosed sum.
Scotia Energy supplies and maintains air conditioning, heat recovery, refrigeration, heating and ventilation systems throughout Scotland and the North of England.
Established in 1980, Scotia Energy employs over 60 staff with headquarters in Glenrothes, Scotland. Over the last 20 years, the company has increased in size, reputation and turnover to become one of the most respected cooling and heating service providers in Scotland.
GK Industrial offers energy efficient climate control heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems to the retail, public and commercial sectors with customers including Next, Wilkinson’s, Philips and Brighthouse.
Scotia Energy will trade as a subsidiary of GK Industrial and will broaden its customer base and strengthen its geographical coverage.
GK Industrial Managing Director David Goldberg commented:
“Scotia Energy is a long standing business with turnover in excess of £5 million and a very impressive client base spanning local authorities, hospitals, universities, retail, leisure and commercial sectors.
GK Industrial is expanding in every area of the business, and Scotia Energy compliments our business model and company culture perfectly. We very much look forward to working with Scotia Energy, offering our existing and new customers an increased level of resources”.
Scotia Energy Managing Director Phil Vaughn spoke of the acquisition:
“We welcomed the approach from IDSS and were most impressed with the ideas, the vision and the quality of the personnel concerned.
When we realised that GK Industrial, a leader in the air conditioning industry were very similar to ourselves in focusing on providing a quality service, it was easy for us to make our decision to join IDSS.
We are confident that the future of Scotia Energy Saving Systems Limited looks positive. Being part of a larger organisation secures the future of the company and the employees, and gives us greater opportunities to expand our already successful business.”
GK Indsutrial is a wholly owned subsidiary of ID Support Service Holdings limited (IDSS). IDSS employs over 150 people and operates through two trading groups offering support services to blue chip, multi-site customers in the retail, leisure and commercial sectors.
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Ashfield Skills School benefits from GK's technical tuition
November 2007
GK Industrial has installed a full remote air conditioning, ventilation and heating control system to Ashfield Schools state of the art £6million Post 16 New Build Skills Centre.
Completed for the 2007 – 2008 academic year, the centre create one of the most extensive range of vocational and educational provisions of any school in Nottinghamshire and the UK.
Comprising of 5 discrete, but philosophically linked, learning environments. The centre includes an open access, study and resource centre to facilitate independent learning, over 100 tutorial rooms, seminar suites and offices.
The new Skills Centre will provide a range of opportunities linking education to industry through the use of the three large industrial units with firms such as the RAC and the eight vocational units.
A full BMS solution which controls each area of the school can be remotely accessed and controlled by staff through logging onto the school intranet. A heat recovery system was installed, reusing any excess energy back into the heating and cooling system to potentially save the school thousands of pounds each year.
In the main atrium and canteen area, remote vents were installed to let fresh air enter the building if the ambient temperature gets to hot, or in the event of a fire to release smoke.
The skills centre was completed and open on time for the new 2007 - 2008 academic year in September. Students are now benefiting from the excellent facilities that the centre offers them, in a safe and productive working environment.
Martin Hough, Assistant Head Teacher at Ashfield School comments:
“I would like to thank GK for their professionalism, expertise, service and support extended to both the school and me throughout the course of the heating and ventilation installation works
It is refreshing to work in partnership with those whose knowledge and skills are accurate and reliable, proven by the finished result fully meeting the initial project brief.
We have every confidence in the quality of service that they offer to their clients and will have no hesitation of continuing to work with GK in the future”.
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GK Takes the Next Step Forward
October 2007
GK Industrial has become an approved service provider to Next Plc, providing service, maintenance and reactive call outs to 152 of its Northern England and Scotland stores.
As one of the UK’s largest and well known fashion retailers, Next is renowned for its high quality and leading edge fashion that has made it become one of the most successful names on the high street. Because of this, Next has to ensure that its store environment, including its heating and air conditioning is working perfectly for its customers, so that it does not affect their shopping experience.
GK Industrial has therefore been chosen to ensure that Next’s in store environment is working at its optimum performance level, providing effective maintenance though its nationwide network of specialised engineers to their Scottish and Northern England stores.
David Pflasterer, Buildings, Service & Maintenance Manager commented on GK and Next’s new partnership: ‘Having studied GK’s proposition, and listened to their experience within servicing and maintaining other retailers store environment and climate systems, we are confident that GK can deliver a first-class service to Next and fulfil our high standards of store ambience that our customers have come to expect from us.’
David Goldberg, MD of GK added: ‘We are very proud to be associated with a high profile retailer such as Next, and believe this is testament to our personal approach that we endeavour to give to our customers. Our experience of delivering excellent service to other major national retailers, added with specialist industry skills was proven to Next, and was one of the main reasons I believe why they have chosen to work with GK.’
‘We very much look forward to working with Next, and what we hope will be a long term partnership that will benefit both organisations.’ |
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Top Safety Accreditation for GK Industrial
August 2007
GK Industrial has successfully received accreditation from SAFEcontractor, a programme which recognises very high standards of health and safety practice amongst UK contractors.
The company's application for SAFEcontractor accreditation was driven by the need for a uniform standard across the business. SAFEcontractor accreditation is expected to enhance GK's ability to attract new contracts and its commitment to safety will be viewed positively by its insurers when the company liability policy is up for renewal.
SAFEcontractor is applicable to most sectors although it is particularly relevant to food manufacture, property, facilities management, retail and leisure sectors, all of which GK Industrial currently operate within.
Under the SAFEcontractor scheme, GK underwent a vetting process, which examines health and safety procedures and their track record for safe practice. Employer-organisations who sign up to the scheme can access the database, which enables them to vet potential contractors before they even set foot on site. Over 80 major nationwide businesses have signed up to the scheme, these employers agree that as users of the scheme, they will engage only with those that have received accreditation. |
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