Surface water management collaborators reaffirm distribution agreement

By EBP Building Products Ltd

26 Sep 2022

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Just over four years ago, Blackburn-based technical distributor and manufacturer EBP Building Products Ltd, formalised a distribution deal with ULMA Architectural that gave rise to a collaborative supply partnership whose main aim was to provide genuinely competitive solutions to age-old surface water drainage problems within the UK construction sector.

Already part of a well-established market in the UK & Ireland for supplying channel drainage systems, EBP Building Products were approached by ULMA who were looking to increase their presence within the UK and provide a competitive alternative to the already well-established market leaders.

It became clear that both EBP and ULMA were well equipped to combine their experience and knowledge of channel drainage and so during the past four years, through working collaboratively, both companies have successfully combined to supply genuinely competitive drainage solutions to general builders’ merchants and specialist civils merchants who in turn supply civil engineering contractors, ground workers, landscapers and builders with their construction project requirements throughout the UK.

In August both companies formally renewed their distribution deal to further enable continuity of supply to merchants and the construction industry as a whole, who will continue to benefit from having a competitively priced supplier of channel drainage systems sited in Guide village, Blackburn with a UK-wide distribution network and 'call & collect' pick-up-point just off J5 of M65.

Commenting on the EBP and ULMA supply partnership, EBP’s commercial director, Sam Brooke, had this to say; “It’s been four extremely busy years since we initially penned a deal with ULMA, half of that time included a pandemic and a move to new customs procedures arising from Brexit, both huge impact events which have epitomised a challenging period for supply-chains globally. It’s during times like these that supply-chain robustness is tested to its limits.

"So, aligning priorities with reputable like-minded partners and maintaining strong communications with the key contacts of those partners is critical to success! I’m pleased to say that with both our companies working in this way we are best positioned to continue to offer our customers a high level of technical sales support as well as a wide range of some of the most competitively priced channel drainage systems available in the UK!”

Recycling Plastic and Enhancing The Strength of EBP’s Range Channel Drainage

Taking onboard the challenge of reducing plastic waste through recycling, our friends at ULMA Architectural have found an intuitive way that reduces plastic waste from the supply chain while also enhancing the strength and durability of their polymer concrete channel drains.

Polymer concrete is used in the manufacture of linear channel drainage, to provide high strength profiles suitable for a range of traffic and loading conditions. Traditionally polymer concrete is made up of 90% aggregate and 10% resin, although this does vary depending on the design requirements. This mixture of raw materials provides the enhanced characteristics required in order for the drainage channel to maintain it’s shape while withstanding loads, trafficking and external conditions (such as frost).

ULMA have come up with an ingenious way to incorporate 25% recycled PET within their resin, by reducing recycled plastic bottles to a fine powder. This new formula provides the characteristics required whilst also helping to recycle up to 104,000 plastic bottle and containers for every 1000m (1 km) of the largest ULMA polymer concrete drainage channels produced…how good is that!

Next time you purchase one of our ULMA polymer concrete drainage channels you can have piece of mind that it has helped to reduce plastic waste!

For further details please visit https://ebpbuilding.com/channel-drainage/

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