Open Air Business April 2017
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glampsites, festivals and outdoor events
The UK's outdoor hospitality business magazine for function venues, glampsites, festivals and outdoor events
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EVENTS<br />
All our mats are competitively priced<br />
and provide a fantastic return on<br />
investment. We offer flexible options<br />
and great customer service. Mats can<br />
either be purchased or hired depending<br />
on need: our consultation team will<br />
provide free expert advice on which mat<br />
is best suited for a client’s need.<br />
Where has your product been used?<br />
Longleat Safari Park approached us<br />
last winter as they wanted to turn grass<br />
fields into a 6,000 sqm overflow car<br />
park, to cater for thousands of extra<br />
visitors who would come to see their<br />
annual Winter Festival of Lights event.<br />
Safety was of course the paramount<br />
concern so we recommended our high<br />
traction MultiTrack mats to ensure zero<br />
slips, trips and accidents.<br />
A total of 2,000 MultiTrack mats were<br />
laid to create a safe, functional and<br />
aesthetically-pleasing car park with<br />
enough space to park an additional 300<br />
vehicles.<br />
Graham Crisp, director<br />
GT Trax<br />
01487 823344<br />
www.gttrax.co.uk<br />
What advice can you give an event<br />
organiser on ground protection?<br />
Throughout the past 12 years we<br />
have seen a significant growth in the<br />
use of plastic trackway and ground<br />
protection for outside events. Most<br />
event organisers are fully tuned in to<br />
their requirements, however, some<br />
don’t realise that we offer a pre event<br />
site inspection. These visits can often<br />
help to resolve any issues before our<br />
teams arrive on site.<br />
What is the USP of your product?<br />
GT Trax is a rental company supplying<br />
a range of plastic trackway, ground<br />
protection and temporary flooring<br />
to the events market. The company<br />
was formed in 2005 and remains<br />
independently owned and managed.<br />
The move from traditional metal<br />
trackway to recycled plastic has<br />
taken off over the past few years. We<br />
believe that we have been one of<br />
the pioneers in this change. Our new<br />
Power Tracks 40 temporary roadway<br />
system, launched in 2015, has all<br />
the attributes of metal trackway<br />
but with the advantage of being<br />
environmentally sustainable, as it’s<br />
made from recycled (and probably<br />
more importantly - recyclable)<br />
plastic. Also, using plastic trackway<br />
can help to reduce an organisers<br />
security costs, as plastic has no<br />
discernible resale value, whereas<br />
metal is a valuable commodity.<br />
Outside events can generate<br />
a lot of mud! Recognising the<br />
ecological impact of the volumes<br />
of water which were required to<br />
clean our panels, we developed, in<br />
collaboration with a local supplier<br />
of cleaning equipment, a bespoke<br />
automatic ground plate cleaning<br />
machine, which operates using<br />
recycled rainwater.<br />
What options do you have for<br />
small, medium and large budgets?<br />
We have a range of trackway, ground<br />
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