{"id":1943,"date":"2019-05-07T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T10:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2021-01-05T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:03:50","slug":"ravago-building-solutions-uk-relaunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/1943\/ravago-building-solutions-uk-relaunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravago to make and distribute XENERGY\u2122, FLOORMATE\u2122 and PERIMATE\u2122 insulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 105%;margin: 0cm 0cm 8.0pt 0cm\"><strong>Global plastics group Ravago has bought seven insulation production lines from Dow Building Solutions and signed a licence agreement to continue to use the XENERGY\u2122, FLOORMATE\u2122 and PERIMATE\u2122 trademark names. The UK arm will be known as Ravago Building Solutions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 105%;margin: 0cm 0cm 8.0pt 0cm\">Ravago\u2019s move to buy the extruded polystyrene (XPS) insulation production plants across EMEA and acquire the technology from DowDuPont Inc makes it the largest producer of XPS insulation in Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 105%;margin: 0cm 0cm 8.0pt 0cm\">The UK company will continue to make products at its base in King\u2019s Lynn, Norfolk and all the company\u2019s employees, including those in manufacturing, commercial and services, have transferred to the new entity. Ravago Building Solutions has a licence agreement to use the trademarks for the market-leading brand names for XENERGY\u2122 roofing products, FLOORMATE\u2122 flooring and PERIMATE\u2122 wall insulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 105%;margin: 0cm 0cm 8.0pt 0cm\">\u201cRavago has had a strategic push to seek out and add the best quality products to its portfolio and we\u2019re delighted to be part of the family,\u201d said Chris Gimson, Commercial Director, UK, Ireland, Nordics and Baltics. \u201cWe will carry on with our drive for innovation and our commitment to being a responsive company with excellent technical and customer service that continues to exceed expectations as we create solutions for our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 105%;margin: 0cm 0cm 8.0pt 0cm\">The company was a UK pioneer in developing XPS products and will continue to make them at the Norfolk plant as it has done for over 60 years. Its BREEAM and BBA certified insulation products are used to create energy efficient, high performance residential and commercial buildings. In recent years they have been used on high-profile developments such as the 2018 Stirling Prize-winning Bloomberg headquarters, the Westfield shopping centre and the Royal Wharf development, all in London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 105%;margin: 0cm 0cm 8.0pt 0cm\">Chris Gimson, Commercial Director \u2013 UK, Ireland, Nordics and Baltics at Ravago Building Solutions, said: \u201cWe are delighted that our company now embraces this significant UK business and its successful brands as we continue with our strategy of long-term growth through targeted acquisitions. As part of our Building Solutions group, the business will continue to thrive in its local market while enjoying the synergies and scale of a global group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global plastics group Ravago has bought seven insulation production lines from Dow Building Solutions and signed a licence agreement to continue to use the XENERGY\u2122, FLOORMATE\u2122 and PERIMATE\u2122 trademark names.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravagobuildingsolutions.com\/uk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}