How Comar Helps Deliver the Thames Gateway Project
Comar is the largest wholly British owned aluminium systems house in Europe and the only British aluminium systems house based in the Thames Gateway area. Comar is based in Mitcham, within the M25. Comar employs 100 Londoners at its Mitcham Head Quarters, employing personnel from many ethnic minorities.
Comar supplies aluminium to fabricators throughout the Thames Gateway area. These companies each employ 10-50 Londoners drawn from the diverse ethnic mix that is London. Comar works in a synergistic relationship with its customers, actively finding work under the Comar brand banner. Comar creates wealth in the UK economy for the UK economy through employment and a commitment to growth which has seen its UK base of offices treble in the Gateway area.
Comar has experienced rapid growth over the last 7 years, between 10-20% growth per year, indicating that its strategy is strong and Comar successfully meets its customers needs. Comar competes with worldwide and European companies in the UK market. Comar is the only company whose wealth is redeployed in the UK economy: no banks or shareholders in other countries take revenues out of the country.
Comar is renowned for partnering Local Authorities, providing fast tender returns to achieve best practice and project-by-project design and installation support. Comar's basic strategic competitive advantage is delivery and stock holding: where competitors are owned by banks or multi-nationals gearing for shareholders often involves running low stocks resulting in poor delivery.
Comar offers design advice and architectural calculations freely to architectural practices throughout Gateway and the UK. Comar regularly develops new profiles and systems to help architects, contractors and the fabricator achieve design briefs.
By utilising Comar as the strategic partner for aluminium facades employment is created in two ways: its fabricator network based in the Gateway area, and Comar employment.
Comar products are aluminium which is one of the most recyclable materials available: over 75% of aluminium used in construction comes from recycled sources. Sustainability concerns are alleviated with the knowledge that there are over 300 years of know sources of aluminium's raw material Bauxite. Comar published its sustainability statement in 2003 and communicates this by its website and the back page of all literature. Internally Comar recycles all its paper material in line with its green policy.
The Pi range from Comar decreases energy consumption in buildings by keeping buildings warmer for longer. The Pi range also serves to keep buildings cooler for longer thus reducing the need for air conditioning. Comar also supplies a range of solar shading which is a passive means of solar shading reducing the need for air conditioning.
The selection of strategic partners who can deliver product in the timescale required is critical to the success of the Thames Gateway. Comar's large stock holding and delivery expertise, with manufacturer's based in the Thames Gateway region, means that Comar can deliver fast effective solutions as well as contribute to the creation of wealth, jobs and career futures of individuals now and in the future in the London area.
Comar offers over 30 years of experience in the design of aluminium facades to the Thames Gateway. With a dedicated team of Architectural Advisors who are trained in providing design advice at any stage of the tender process, the Thames Gateway can utilise day-to-day advice from a Gateway aluminium specialist, whenever detail is required Comar's Technical Department will literally be on hand to offer advice on NBS clause completion, wind loading calculations, U-value calculations. No other company can offer this wealth of expertise on the door step of the Thames Gateway.
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