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FS 638392 ISO 9001
Management and staff at Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime Ltd are celebrating achieving the prestigious ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems standard. Achieving the standard reinforces Ty-Mawr’s ˆ commitment to delivering the highest quality of service and continually improving business performance in a safe working environment. Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Managing Director, Joyce Gervis, commented: “We are justifiably proud to achieve ISO 9001. This is reassurance to our customers, suppliers and staff that Ty-Mawr’s ˆ quality systems have been independently assessed and have met the high standards expected. By being certified to ISO 9001, Ty-Mawr ˆ is demonstrating its commitment to maintaining the highest possible standards in all that we do.”
Jumping for Joy-ce On Friday 11th September, Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Accounts Manager, Marg Price, completed a sponsored parachute jump from 15000 feet, raising money for the cancer charity Velindre Cancer Care. Margaret explained: “I decided to do a sponsored parachute jump to support our Managing Director, Joyce, and to help her to raise money for her trek in Patagonia and support her cause in the process.” Marg added: “I’ve always wanted to give it a go and so I’ve fulfilled a life time dream, and at the same time, I’ve been able to support a great cause!” Ty-Mawr’s ˆ MD, Joyce Gervis, commented: “I was thrilled, and relieved, to get the call from Marg to say that she had landed safely after her 6 minutes falling through the air from 15,000ft! She had a minute in free-fall, then had 5 minutes to take in the view. When I spoke to her, she sounded as if she was still on Cloud Nine!”
New Year, New Website!
The ISO 9001 standard sets out the requirements of a quality management system and provides guidance and best practice for companies and organisations who want to ensure that their products and services consistently meet customer’s requirements, and that quality is consistently improved.
Hello & Goodbye…
David Chambers
Richard Roberts
Sustainable building materials for healthier homes Deunyddiau adeiladu cynaliadwy ar gyfer cartrefi iachach
Products Manufacturers & suppliers of: • Traditional Fat Lime Mortars and Plasters. • Limewashes and Pigments.
• glaster® - Plasters and Mortars.
• ecoCork Insulating Lime Render.
•N atural Insulation including Tˆy-Mawr Thermafleece® sheep’s wool, Thermafleece hemp, FlexCL recycled newspaper batts.
•F ull range of Singleton Birch (Secil), St Astier and Hanson Hydraulic Limes and Premixed Lime Products.
•W ide range of natural, breathable paints for internal and external walls and woodwork.
•B uilding boards/plaster carriers including Reed Mats, Reed Boards, Wood Wool Boards and Woodfibre Boards. •S pecialist stone repair mortar (Lithomex) and decorative/polished plaster (Decoliss) • Proclima airtightness solutions • Laths, Wattle and Battens. • Tools and Books.
Services
2015 Christmas arrangements
Joyce added: “The ISO 9001 Quality Management System has quickly become the cornerstone of Ty-Mawr’s ˆ drive for growth, enabling it to improve business processes and strive for continual improvement.” Toni Allen, UK Head of Client Propositions, BSI said: “Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime Ltd should be proud of their certification to ISO 9001, the world’s most widely-adopted quality management systems standard. By achieving this they have showed their commitment to customers and to driving continual improvement to their internal processes.”
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Winter 2015
Much work is going on behind the scenes to develop a new Ty-Mawr ˆ website and eCommerce platform. We’re on-track to launch our fully responsive, mobile-friendly, new website... with a range of terrific new features... in Q1 2016. Watch this cyberspace!!
Happy Christmas/Nadolig Llawen! Our offices will be closed from midday on the 24th December and will re-open at 8.30am on Monday 4th January. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support, encouragement, friendship and custom throughout 2015. With our sincerest best wishes for a Happy Christmas and a successful, green, New Year! Nigel, Joyce and all at Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime.
Ty-Mawr ˆ are delighted to welcome: David Chambers has joined as our UK Sales Manager for our GLAPOR RFG and Celenit Product ranges. Richard Roberts has joined Ty-Mawr ˆ as our Management Accountant. We also welcome Stephen Humphreys and Nathan Gittins to Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Technical Sales/Product Support team, and Geraint Forsyth to the Warehouse team. We’re sad to say goodbye to: Martin Tavener – Martin joined Ty-Mawr ˆ as PA to the Directors and Course Co-ordinator in August 2013; he quickly became an indispensable, infinitely flexible, knowledgeable and skilled member of the management team, not only taking the promotion and co-ordination of courses from strength to strength but organising and setting up meetings, exhibitions and shows, undertaking H&S, quality, HR, and environmental monitoring duties. He will be hugely missed by all at Ty-Mawr ˆ but we wish him and his family every best wish for Martin Tavener the future.
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•S ite visits with condition reports and problem identification. • Product support
• Established courses
• Product information days
• RIBA-accredited CPD seminars
•H istoric Research, Consultancy and Heritage Asset advice
Innovate UK to fund a Cork-ing Project! Ty-Mawr ˆ is delighted to be a Project Partner in a consortium that has been awarded Innovate UK funding to research a new construction system. Led by MPH Architects, with Amorim UK Ltd, University College London, and the University of Bath also as Project Partners, the project aims to create a profoundly simple and sustainable alternative to the multilayered modern building envelope. The proposed solid-wall system will be made from a single bio-renewable material, and will address issues of building performance across all stages of the life of a building – from resource to design and construction, to in-use, deconstruction and re-use. It is anticipated that this innovative technology will be developed as an easy-to-assemble prefabricated dryjoint construction kit. The project will also benefit from input from ARUP, the University of Edinburgh, BREGlobal, Alliance for Sustainable Building Products and the Good Homes Alliance. Technical Director,
Nigel Gervis, said: “We’re incredibly excited to be involved in this collaboration! This project is just one of a number of projects that Innovate UK is investing in across the UK; collaborative R&D projects that could lead to better whole-life performance of buildings. The overall aim of this initiative is to maximise the longterm contribution of buildings to the economy, society and the environment. This is in line with Construction 2025, the joint strategy by government and industry for the future of UK construction, and is very much in line with Ty-Mawr’s ˆ founding principles!”
• Site supervision and bespoke training
•V isits to Ty-Mawr ˆ farm for interested groups (by prior arrangement) • Hire of our Grade II* listed Training Centre •L ake-side camping for courses and CPD delegates
Patagonia Trek raises £500K!
For details email: tymawr@lime.org.uk
Sustainable Insulation Systems - LABC Registered n Insulated Limecrete and Sublime® floors nW arm roof systems for new build and renovation / conservation projects. n I nternal and external wall insulation systems for new build and renovation / conservation projects. n New timber-frame wall systems
FS 638392 ISO 9001
“8000 odd miles, 3 flights and 10 days, A trip of a lifetime in so many ways. 9 years in the making and well worth the wait 150 years since that unforgettable date!” MR C. HOSKINS (fellow trekker)
Ty-Mawr’s ˆ MD, Joyce, returned to the UK on 5th December after a physically demanding and emotionally draining trek through the snowy hills of Patagonia, with a group led by Rhod Gilbert (left) and including other celebrities such as the Manic Street Preachers and Derek Brockway. They raised over £500K for Velindre Cancer Care!
Distribution warehouse: Units 5 and 12, Brecon Enterprise Park, Brecon, Powys LD3 8BT Tel: 01874 611350 Fax: 01874 622774 Training and Manufacturing: T y-Mawr, ˆ Llangasty, Brecon, Powys LD3 7PJ
COURSES AND EVENTS
An Introduction to Lime & Lime Plastering course 17th/18th March 21st/22nd April 12th/13th May 23rd/24th June Limecrete Day 25th February (now full) 26th February Introduction to Thatching 13th July
Forthcoming Events See us at The Surface Design Show 9th-11th February EcoBuild 8th-10th March
The Green Man Festival 18th-21st August
Courses
We continue to experience incredible demand for our lime courses. In addition to these, in October we held a very successful Limecrete Day, and demand is such that we’ve added additional days for 25th & 26th February. We have been delighted to deliver courses for CADW Stonemasons, for the Canal & Rivers Trust, the Townscape Heritage Initiative, and a Contractors Plastering Day. In addition to next year’s core courses, we are also delivering training for the Welsh School of Architecture, and The Landmark Trust at their keynote project at Llwyn Celyn near Abergavenny.
CPD
We are also continuing to offer CPDs for architects and other building professionals. Once again, our Technical Director, Nigel Gervis has been in great demand, travelling the length and breadth of the country and sharing his knowledge on ‘Lime: Traditional building products for today’s world’. For information on our courses and CPD’s please contact tymawr@lime.org.uk.
Benvenuti in Galles!!
Croft Cottage stars at the h.Energy Festival In October, and as part of a countywide h.Energy Festival in Herefordshire, the owners of Croft Cottages opened the doors of their recently renovated C17th Grade II-listed agricultural dwellings, providing a live example of the opportunities to live more sustainably. Set in nearly 3 acres at the top of Fromes Hill, the cottages have been lovingly restored using Ty-Mawr’s ˆ eco-friendly materials and systems such as sublime® Limecrete Floor using GLAPOR® Recycled Foamed Glass (RFG) gravel, and our timber-frame insulation system using Homatherm Woodfibre Boards, Thermafleece® Welsh CosyWool insulation, and our Lime Hemp Plaster and Top Coat Plaster. The building is being restored with a view to making it as energy efficient as possible and has also used Ty-Mawr’s ˆ Wood Wool Boards for Internal/ External Walls and Ceilings, as well as our Homatherm EnergiePlus: Comfort plaster base boards and Homatherm UD-Q11 sarking and sheathing boards. Geotextile Land-drain
(optional not part of the system)
40mm Cork Board
(Edge insulation optional )
Run-off membrane
Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime Screed
New Mineral Paint Chart
Geogrid Clip rails for floor heating system (if required, not supplied by Ty-Mawr) ˆ
Perforated pipe
Glapor RFG Geotextile
Glapor RFG
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EnergiePlus:Comfort
UD-Q11 Protect
Treledydd Fawr now open for business We are absolutely delighted to have helped to conserve one of Wales’ most important buildings, Treleddyd Fawr, near St. David’s in Pembrokeshire.
Treledydd Fawr is not a castle, nor a cathedral, but a modest Pembrokeshire Cottage; one of the last unmodernised traditional West Wales cottages of its type remaining in this area. We were extremely pleased to supply builder Phil Yates with our lime products including Limewash and Casein Natural Paint to protect this unique building. The Grade II-listed building is set to open as a one-bedroom holiday cottage, with the National Trust keen for visitors to experience a “rare slice of Welsh history”.
Eu Ecolabel:
In October it was a pleasure for us to welcome Celenit’s Sales Director, Domenico Gastaldello from Italy, to Wales and to its Production and Distribution Facility at the Brecon Enterprise Park. Celenit’s Wood Wool boards have been used in buildings for over half a century, and have become a key part of Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime’s product range. Technical Director, Nigel Gervis, commented: “For the last 15 years or so Ty-Mawr ˆ has been promoting and distributing building boards for use with our lime products and during that time, Celenit’s wood wool boards have proved to be an increasingly popular product as a lime carrier. It really is an exceptional product.” Managing Director, Joyce Gervis, added: “It was a pleasure to welcome Domenico to Brecon and to show him how we have geared up through our recent investments to grow and serve the UK market. Domenico agreed that Ty-Mawr ˆ have successfully put in place all of the ingredients to ensure the relationship goes from strength to strength.”
Geotextile
Homebuilding & Renovating Show 14th-17th April The Royal Welsh Show 18th-21st July
PRODUCT NEWS
National Lido of Wales – Ty-Mawr ˆ involved in more ways than one!
Back in the late summer, Lido Pontypridd, the £6.3 Million National Lido of Wales, opened following a major restoration project which has used materials from Ty-Mawr ˆ including Blaenavon Aggregate and St Astier Hydraulic Lime (NHL 3.5). Ty-Mawr’s ˆ involvement extended well beyond the supplying of materials however. Volunteers involved in the restoration of the Lido benefitted from a series of Heritage Skills courses delivered by the Ty-Mawr ˆ Lime team at our Training Centre in Llangasty, as well as at Pontypridd High School. The Lido is now closed for the Winter but we wish it continued success when it reopens later in 2016.
Tˆy-Mawr pure mineral based paints
Our new mineral paint chart is now available! Based on colours from the Welsh landscape, we commissioned a colour designer to undertake a study of colours from our mountains, valleys and coasts to create a unique palette for buildings to have a sense of belonging in their landscape and for harmonising interior design. Our Ty-Mawr ˆ colour range is supplied in the Beeck’s Mineral range, a high quality silicate paint with an excellent historic pedigree dating back to 1884. Call 01874 611350 for a copy of the chart. Exceptional quality paints blended in Wales using Beeck’s finest raw ingredie nts
Winter CosyWool Offer Cosyw
insulat ool ion OFF ER fr £3 per om sqm
What does it mean? The next time you are looking for a true ‘Eco’ paint, look out for the EU Ecolabel flower symbol. Earthborn was the first paint brand in the UK to be licensed to carry the EU Ecolabel. But what does it mean and why are they so proud of this achievement? Well, it provides independent, third party assurance that the product meets the highest possible environmental performance and is the only environmental product certification scheme that is accepted EU wide. Earthborn are proud that their Claypaint, Eggshell and Ecopro Emulsion, all stocked by Ty-Mawr, ˆ have met the stringent criteria to carry the EU Ecolabel flower symbol!
GLAPOR
Recycled Foam Glass: Improved Product + Reduced Price = Increased Sales! Sales of our sublime® insulated limecrete floor continue to go from strength to strength. Since our last newsletter, a key component of the system has been improved and as a result, it has just become much more affordable to install! Enhancements to GLAPOR’s Recycled Foamed Glass (RFG), such as improved thermal conductivity, as well as its size and lighter weight, means that we are able to design our floor insulation systems at their lowest minimum depths ever, and now with our best price ever, it has never been so affordable! For details of our LABC Registered sublime® floor insulation system, contact Ty-Mawr ˆ on 01874 611350 or via technical@lime org.uk.
Winter Guidance
If you haven’t already, a gentle reminder that as with all good building practice using any mortars, plasters/ renders and paints, protection should be provided against all that the Winter weather brings. Please visit www.lime.org.uk/winter-protectionguidance/ or ring us on 01874 611350 to discuss how our Mortar Fleece, Geotextile or Bubblewrap can help to provide Winter protection.
Time is running out on our CosyWool offer! Insulate your home with natural Welsh Wool from just £3.00 per sqm… while stocks last! Visit www.lime.org.uk or call 01874 611350 for details!
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