HARROGATE, England — Belzona, which celebrated its 66th anniversary this year, opened a training and distribution center at its head office in Harrogate, England.

The new £6 million facility will more than double Belzona’s current distribution area floor space, with 12 metres of usable height, adding around 4,000 pallet spaces and 166,100 cubic feet of total floor area. The new training area features a new fully equipped presentation suite as well as a new practical training/demonstrating classroom, showing Belzona’s continued focus on training and raising global application standards. In 2017, more than 40 courses were delivered to 175-plus delegates from distributorships located around the world.

“Here at Belzona, we believe that training is vital to success," said David Blackwell, engineering director at Belzona Harrogate. "Training empowers people to meet the demands made of them in the work environment and prepares them for the unexpected situations that life will throw at them. Belzona’s practical training courses are designed to enhance the theoretical aspects of Belzona solutions by placing them in a practical context.”

The official opening ceremony of the Training and Distribution Center took place on the 5th of April. This included a ribbon cutting ceremony by Belzona’s president, Joel Svendsen. Further adding to the celebrations, the Mayor of the Borough of Harrogate, Councillor Anne Jones visited to support the local company.

For more information, visit www.belzona.com.

Publication date: 04/09/2018