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Furnitubes helping to meet demand for home-grown street furniture solutions
» 14 Sep 2020
Leading street furniture supplier, Furnitubes, is helping to change the UK’s reliance on overseas supply chains by committing...
A desire for greater quality, the need to reduce lead times and aiming to reduce carbon footprint are just a few of the reasons why the long-time model of reliance on overseas supply for street furniture is now being called into question.
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Furnitubes launches touch-free sanitiser dispenser for busy areas
» 10 Aug 2020
As good hand hygiene remains critical in the prevention and control of Covid-19, UK-based street furniture manufacturer...
During lockdown, Furnitubes adapted its Zenith® bollard to accommodate large refillable hand sanitiser bottles. The company has since developed the range to include a kids’ range in bright colours and smaller height size.
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Furnitubes benches complement art forms in gallery garden
» 30 Jul 2020
Although The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery is currently closed, people can still visit the surrounding garden for free and admire the...
The garden was designed by landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith to complement the gallery, which houses Wakefield’s art collection and provides a legacy for Barbara Hepworth in the town in which she was born.
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Furnitubes movable bench seating gives new purpose to square
» 14 May 2020
A vacant space in the centre of a shopping development in Kent has new purpose after Furnitubes supplied long-lasting bench...
The area of Bligh’s Meadow, an infill development on the site of Sevenoaks’ former bus station and car park, is a small square where Bligh’s Walk, Blacks Walk and Brewers Lane converge. It holds a large tree at Christmas time, but had been largely unused the rest of the year....
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Furnitubes launches Akri lightweight large wall planters
» 09 Apr 2020
Furnitubes is launching Akri®, a wall planter enabling large planting beds to be designed as part of a scheme.
Constructed from recycled steel, Akri® planters are a sustainable and cost-effective solution compared with traditional masonry walls or smaller sit-on top planters. Plus, they offer designers more creative options in terms of shapes, curves and finishes.
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Furnitubes becomes BALI accredited
» 20 Feb 2020
Furnitubes customers are further assured of the highest quality of workmanship, products, materials and health and safety...
Founded in 1972, BALI is recognised as the leading trade association that represents all landscape professionals up and down the country, these include design, build and maintenance supply, training and education businesses.
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Furnitubes designs bollards in keeping with memorial
» 11 Nov 2019
High-security bollards installed near the Bomber Command Memorial in central London as part of a pavement upgrade have been cleverly...
The memorial at Green Park commemorates the sacrifice of the 55,573 aircrew of RAF Bomber Command (from Britain, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Poland and other countries of the Commonwealth) who lost their lives in World War II, as well as civilians of all nations killed during raids.
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Furnitubes seating enhances footbridge area
» 02 Sep 2019
People using a footbridge connecting areas of a new development in Wiltshire can relax and enjoy the surroundings, thanks to seating from...
Wichelstowe, on the edge of Swindon, is an urban extension ultimately comprising 4500 new homes, employment space, public open space, shopping, community facilities for residents and various schools. Bounded by the M4 to the south and the edge of Swindon to the north, the area...
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New owners for Furnitubes
» 06 Jun 2019
Furnitubes has started 2019 with a fresh new start. The previous owners, including the son of the founder, sold the company to...
The team is looking forward to the next phase in Furnitubes’ bright future. Some of what they will be doing includes:
- New internal systems and staff training to modernise how Furnitubes interacts with its customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.
* A hiring programme to...
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Furnitubes launches the new Uniun range
» 07 Feb 2019
Furnitubes has unveiled Uniun® – a new range offering a contemporary approach to seating and planting for both internal...
Formed upon a rotationally-moulded base, the module can be used as a full planter, or combined with an Iroko laminated timber bench top to create a seating module or combined seating and planter module.
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Furnitubes seating for gardens of new waterside apartments
» 14 Jan 2019
Residents of new apartments overlooking canals in Manchester city centre can relax in gardens featuring attractive seating by...
Cotton Field Wharf is the latest residential community from the Manchester Life Development Company, offering over 300 new rental apartments in three 7 and 8 storey building blocks. Located in the Ancoats / New Islington area and bounded by waterways on three of its four sides,...
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Furnitubes seating at new school built on slope
» 06 Dec 2018
A £25m new school built to cope with a city’s rising birth rate features Furnitubes seating around the site.
With a 25% increase in the birth rate in Sheffield since 2002 and 1,000 more children entering education each year, the city has embarked on a programme of delivering new schools to supplement capacity in established neighbourhoods.
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Furnitubes seating allows walkers to stop and enjoy the views
» 13 Nov 2018
Walkers and cyclists using paths around North Portsea Island at Portsmouth can take a break and enjoy the views, using seating provided by...
A shared cycle and footpath runs through the area, providing traffic-free links to the city centre. To prepare for predicted rises in sea levels over the next 100 years, around 8.4km of coastline protection in this location is being replaced with improved flood defences.
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Furnitubes benches for redesigned Mayfair destination
» 03 Sep 2018
Bespoke seating by Furnitubes was chosen for a redesign of one of London’s most famous thoroughfares – Bond Street, in Mayfair.
The street - comprising New Bond Street and Old Bond Street - had been narrow in parts and not particularly pedestrian friendly. But major improvements including highway realignment and resurfacing were carried out to rebuild the identity of Bond Street as a destination in its...
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Furnitubes seating complements country setting of donkey charity site
» 21 Jun 2018
Furnitubes external seating was chosen to provide an attractive place to rest for visitors to The Donkey Sanctuary’s...
The Donkey Sanctuary was founded nearly 50 years ago and has become globally renowned for its work, now having over 6,000 donkeys in its care worldwide. At the Sidmouth site alone over 500 donkeys are currently accommodated. The sanctuary has been voted in the top 10 ‘Best...
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Furnitubes seats complement new pedestrian space
» 16 Apr 2018
A newly pedestrianised space in an east London street features seating by Furnitubes International with corten-effect finish to...
The Oval is a cul-de-sac flanked by commercial and light industrial premises, located between the busy Hackney Road and Regent’s Canal in Bethnal Green, east London. As well as a church dating back to 1910, the road is home to a number of industrial printers and design-based...
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Furnitubes goes large with Elements seating
» 23 Feb 2018
Furnitubes has introduced larger products to its popular Elements® range of seating.
The Elements® range began life as a regular-sized seating product utilising a range of standard components, or ‘elements’, to allow the creation of thousands of different seating combinations in a wide range of styles, sizes and materials. Given the popularity of the...
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Furnitubes bollards provide stylish security for shopping park
» 04 Jan 2018
Furnitubes International is delighted to have played a part in the successful opening of a new shopping park in Essex that has...
Contractor McLaughlin & Harvey developed the £14 million Epping Forest Shopping Park in Langston Road, Loughton. It is now home to some of the biggest names in retail including Next, Aldi, TK Maxx, Pets at Home and Hobbycraft.
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Furnitubes seating for transformed shopping centre
» 06 Nov 2017
Visitors to the acclaimed Bullring shopping area in Birmingham, which replaced a Brutalist architecture 1960s complex, can now find extra...
The site, which has been at the commercial heart of Birmingham since the Middle Ages, was already the place to go for market shopping before the first Bull Ring Shopping Centre was constructed more than 50 years ago. This was the first in the UK to mix open-air market stalls...
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Furnitubes seating is a dream for amusement park visitors
» 31 Aug 2017
Seating designed and supplied by Furnitubes has played a key role in a major redevelopment of an historic amusement park.
First opened as a pleasure gardens in the late 19th century, Dreamland is in the seaside town of Margate, Kent. The park’s Grade II* listed near-100-year-old Scenic Railway wooden rollercoaster remains the centrepiece of the park today.
