October 2020

Insulation Updates
STO TO DELIVER FURTHER BENEFITS
Sto Ltd has announced details of a new
logistics partnership agreement which has
been designed to create additional benefits for
customers of the company’s external wall
insulation, rainscreen cladding, render and
acoustic systems. The deal has seen the
company’s palletized freight requirements for
the UK and Ireland being handled by leading
specialists, Clarke Transport, since 1st
September this year.
“The agreement to partner with Clarke Transport
is part of a wider programme of moves to
develop our business structure and further
improve our operating efficiency,” explained Sto’s
Logistics Manager, Steve Catterson. “Our aim is
to provide customers with the best delivery
service available, and working with one of the
leading, privately owned, transport organizations
in the UK is a major step towards achieving that
goal.”
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Clarke Transport is – like Sto – a family-operated
company that places considerable emphasis on
providing high levels of quality, value and
service. “This aligns perfectly with our own
business ethos and that makes Clarke a perfect
partner for Sto,” added Steve.
Established in 1933, Clarke Transport now has a
fleet of over 200 vehicles. These operate from a
network of strategically-located regional depots
which allow the company to provide a wide range
of delivery and warehousing solutions throughout
the UK.
“We realize that with today’s tight construction
schedules, Sto customers depend on timely and
reliable delivery schedules that see our products
arriving on-site exactly when they are required,”
Steve added. “Clarke Transport has the experience,
professional expertise and commitment to quality
service that will allow us to satisfy those
A new report co-authored by the government’s MMC champion Mark Farmer, urging it to put
modular building at the heart of its ‘build build build’ ambition, has been welcomed by Actis
The report, compiled with architect Mike De’Ath, says the government should set a target for 75,000
homes a year to be of modular construction by the end of the decade. This would equate to 25% of
its overall target of 300,000 homes a year. Mark Farmer and Mike De’Ath’s 68-page Build Homes,
Build Jobs, Build Innovation report states that such a move could create 50,000 jobs and result in
attractive, well designed, quality, low and zero carbon homes. The report calls on the government to
stimulate demand for the Modern Methods of Construction, thus giving investors confidence in the
new style of manufacture and ensure there is sufficient factory capacity to create the homes.
Above: Mark Wilson, Managing Director for Clarke Transport
(seated) and Paul Andrews, Interim UK Financial Director for
Sto Ltd, sign the new logistics partnership agreement to
further improve Sto’s operating efficiency.
expectations, and we’re looking forward to working
with them.” www.sto.co.uk
ACTIS WELCOMES FARMER'S MODULAR HOMES CALL
Actis UK and Ireland Sales Director Mark Cooper, says the push to encourage far wider adoption of
MMC is to be welcomed: “The speed with which such homes can be built has two-fold benefits –
accelerating the delivery of much-needed new homes, while at the same time addressing the
shortage of skilled workers to build them. Added to that, quality is far better controlled, and they can
be thermally superb, cutting carbon emissions and saving money and resources.”
Actis UK and Ireland Sales Director Mark Cooper
welcomes the Build Homes, Build Jobs, Build Innovation
report co-authored by the government’s MMC champion
Mark Farmer. www.insulation-actis.com
Mark Farmer explained: “There are multiple market failures that remain to be overcome in growing
modular and broader MMC adoption and at the heart of solving them is a need for demand led
transformation, supported by greater coordination, aggregation and collaboration in the market.
Quality must also always come first to ensure we deliver great homes in great places to live, and the
report showcases real examples of what is now possible using modern and innovative techniques.”
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