About Durakerb

The Durakerb Group was founded by its’ Managing Director, Phil Sutton, in May 2003, and, working from a spare room within the family home on a shoestring budget along with two colleagues, Durakerb filed the first of two international patents.

The primary objectives of Durakerb in these pioneering days was to explore technologies and materials available to develop and ultimately produce in large volumes an accredited lightweight recycled composite kerbing system for use within the UK’s highways network.

Sutton knew he had a mammoth task ahead of him in overcoming the construction industry’s inertia to change but in May 2004, the start of the end of the dominance of the market by concrete kerbstones was signalled with the introduction of Health and Safety Executive legislation change limiting manual kerb laying operations to an upper limit of 20kg (concrete kerbstones weigh up to 70 kg). This then enabled Durakerb to secure a substantial cash investment from a major Birmingham based construction consortium allowing it to invest in high quality tooling and to maximize the protection of Durakerb’s intellectual property portfolio by filling their second international patent, based upon the simplistic and instantly recognisable “Cellular and ribbed design” which the award winning Durakerb has become so accredited with.  The consortium also provided crucial input from a kerbstone user perspective.

The Durakerb Group is now the UK market leader in the supply of accredited lightweight recycled composite kerbing systems, and in April 2008, after three years of intensive in-situ and laboratory testing became the first system to gain a BBA-HAPAS certificate for its HB2 profiles, another industry first!

But many people and companies also forget the huge environmentally achievement of Durakerb over the past years which Durakerb are extremely proud of!  This year alone, the manufacture of Durakerb will divert, from either UK landfill or export to China and India, in excess of 3 million plastic bottles generated from local authority kerbside collections. This is a prime example of how the UK can use generated waste to deliver a tangible “closed loop” first - “Kerbside to Kerbside”. This also greatly reduces the carbon footprint compared to its concrete counterparts, thus helping to assist with the C02 reduction mandates and targets of the UK government.

Today, the UK operations of The Durakerb Group are based at their Coleshill (Birmingham) Head Office, with their manufacturing based in King Lynn, Norfolk and with a regional office in Merseyside. Durakerb (Ireland) Limited operates from County Meath and has its own locally based moulding operation.

Looking to the future

The Durakerb Group will continue to lead the UK construction industry with environmental innovation through its research and development arm, Econpro Limited, which through the use of a vast array of waste materials will develop accredited products and practices to assist the UK construction sector with ever rising environmental procurement targets.

Durakerb will be also opening the doors of its own turnkey bespoke recycling facility and Northwest distribution hub based in Merseyside in early 2009, which annually will source over 16,000 tonnes of plastic bottles and other mixed plastics for utilisation within the Durakerb and Econpro innovative product ranges.

Durakerb indeed looks forward to an exciting future.