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Meet Daphne our Latest Recruit!

Daphne turned up today at our offices looking all prim and proper and we have sent her straight out to work on the roads!

As you might of guessed, Daphne is in fact our brand new screed road…

QMS Staff Go Ape!

Another fantastic afternoon out at Go Ape @ Haldon Forest after our Business Review meeting. No broken bones, but a lot of tree hugging (literally) and a few girly screams (but funnily enough not from…

QMS HyperLine™ Featured In March Edition of Highways Magazine

QMS HyperLine™ makes the front page of Highways Magazine March issue with a stunning photo of QMS HyperLine™ at Seeing is Believing 2010.

QMS Spring Newsletter 2012

Our Spring Newsletter has just hit the streets, find it here.

Full of the latest news, comment, products and services…

QMS Enters The World of Twitter and Facebook

We are always looking to find easier ways to communicate with you and keep you up to date with the latest news.

As a result we have created profile pages on both Twitter and Facebook, where…

2011 - Best Year Ever?

The last few years have been extremely challenging times for the construction industry. Since the Bank induced recession in late 2008, many companies have been struggling to find investment that allows…

QMS Paves the Way at Exeter University

We recently completed phase one of installing Resin Bound surfacing for Sir Robert McAlpine at the prestigious Forum Project for Exeter University.

Originally the specification called for an…

RapidShield Gets Cold, Really Cold, -26°C

During January we installed RapidShield in the freezer sections in some of the UK's leading food chain distribution centres. In collaboration with Quaker RapidShield UK, we have developed an installation…

New Anti-Skid Truck Arrives at QMS

January 2012 sees QMS taking delivery of a new purpose built Anti-Skid Truck into the fleet. Completely designed in house for our High Friction Surfacing Operations, the new vehicle will enable…

QMS Completes Another Succesful High Friction Contract For Devon County Council

QMS recently and successfully completed the annual High Friction Surfacing contract for Devon County Council. The contract consisted of 6500m2 of BBA HAPAS Type 1 MMA Resin with a 1mm to 3mm Buff Chinese…

QMS HyperLine Helping to Reduce Fatal Accidents

At the recent Road Safety Marking Association annual conference, professor Pete Thomas, (Director of Transport Safety Research Centre at Loughborough University), presented that there has been significant…

Bridgwater Distribution Centre completed on time and on budget

Bowmer & Kirkland recently completed the construction of a new Distribution Centre at Bridgwater in Somerset on behalf of Morrison's Supermarkets. The design specification for the internal and…

Integrated Management System

We are delighted to announce that we have been accredited to ISO 14001 (Environmental) and OHSAS 18001 (Health & Safety) management systems. This combines with our existing ISO 9001 (Quality) management…

QMS Completes Safety Improvements to M3

We have recently successfully completed 18,000m of Ribline Removal and Replacement, 70,000m of HyperLine Overspray and the replacement of 7,000 Road Studs in four 7 hour shifts on the M3 Motorway during…

New Company Cars

You certainly won't miss our two foremen when they visit sites in future, both Martin Wright and Rob Adams were the lucky recipients of new (best in class CO2 emissions) Seat Leons, both in bright…

Greg Clark Races at Silverstone

During the 21 years that I have been within the Industry, I have known and heard of too many good people who have been injured, lost their lives or developed terminal illnesses within the Highway Maintenance…

RapidShield Arrives at QMS

QMS has recently introduced RapidShield to our product line up. Designed specifically for internal use, it is cured instantly using Ultra Violet and is highly durable with a 5 year guarantee. There…

More Great News for QMS

We are glad to announce after our three yearly review QMS has maintained our Investors in People Standard and Certification. We have developed the Business not just through innovation but through delivering…

Just Giving

Hi - Greg here, Much to the amazement of my family and close friends, I have decided to run, (YES RUN) the ADIDAS Silverstone Half Marathon on 06th March 2011. Now, the thought of running around the…

Newsflash

The Roadmarking Industry has been notified by suppliers and the Road Safety Markings Association that the industry is facing shortages of materials involved in the manufacture of certain Road Marking…

QMS Secures Large Lidl Contract

QMS Have recently secured a large contract for Lidls for some of their distribution depots around the country. It was remarked that the reason for placing this extensive contract was not based purely…

The Big Freeze

South Hams District Council recently asked QMS to respond urgently to a very slippery and dangerous surface on the River Erme footbridge in Ivybridge. Upon our inspection, it was apparent the existing…

Winners - Highways Magazine Awards 2009

QMS are proud to announce that our highways road marking system QMS HyperLine won the Highways Magazine Excellence Awards 2009 held at the Millennium Hotel, Mayfair in London for the'Road Marking Product/Project…

Decorative Presentation Area Now Open

Our brand new presentation area at our Head Office is now open to the public. The area has been filled with our Resin Bound and Bonded surfaces along with our preformed thermoplastic logo and floor…

QMS HyperLine goes GREEN!

QMS HyperLine is getting more press coverage about the systems superb GREEN credentials. To read the latest article, please go to our press release section and download the article from the March 2009…

Customer Satisfaction Results 2008

Our 2008 customer satisfaction survey figures were released this month showing excellent results, most of our customers come to us by recommendation, all of those that returned the questionnaire agreed…

QMS Secure Contract at RMB Chivenor

QMS are proud to announce, the securing of a contract to apply internal and external line marking to the new MT facility at RMB Chivenor, for Morgan Ashurst. The contract involves the application of…

Stunning Resin Bound River

In November, we installed our Resin Bound Decorative Surfacing System at Newton Abbot Hospital on behalf of Rydon Construction Ltd working with Devon Primary Care Trust. We were asked to install our…

Taylor and Maddy Support Markings

The Chance to shine playground marking project during 2007 saw 280 schools receiving playground markings as part of a 'bringing cricket to state schools' campaign. Over 60 of which were installed by…

QMS achieve Investors in People

We are delighted to announce that following an assessment by Quality South West on 25th July we were officially informed that we have been recognised as an INVESTORS IN PEOPLE company on Monday of…

Chance to shine

36 schools have benefited from the Chance to shine playground markings installed by QMS. With a further 30 planned during the forthcoming summer holidays we have a full season ahead of us. The Chance…

QMS has the chance to shine

QMS have been approved as an installer of playground markings for The Cricket and Football Foundation. The Chance to shine project will be bringing cricket to state schools throughout the United Kingdom.…

HyperLine™ in Surveyor Magazine

QMS HyperLine™ just can't keep out of the headlines of the trade magazines! Only last week we appeared on the front cover with a detailed article in Higways Magazine and this week we appear with…

HyperLine™ in Highways Magazine

The April issue of Highways Magazine includes a detailed write-up on the benefits of QMS HyperLine™ (see page 58 of the magazine "Believing the Hype"). The front cover of the magazine…

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