Secured by Design member companies, Vaylia Limited and Marshalls PLC have struck up a relationship. Vaylia reached out to Marshalls earlier in the year looking to work with them on Marshalls’ RhinoGuard GateKeeper product. That’s a crash-tested, hostile vehicle mitigation block, that allows roads and entrances to public areas to be temporarily blocked off while allowing the flow of pedestrians.
Paul Painter, pictured Chief Executive Officer at Vaylia, said: “Once we identified GateKeeper as a building block, we moved quickly to set up meetings with the Marshalls Landscape Protection team. We discussed our future vision and the development route that we planned to follow. The conversations were open and easy, Marshalls also shared their future ambitions with us. The collaboration has already created some significant product developments which will be released soon and are set to redefine temporary security overlay.”
Vaylia will start to market a range of Marshalls Landscape Protection products including crash-tested street furniture and protective bollards.
Chris Plimley, Vaylia Chief Commercial Officer, said: “Paul and I have a direction of travel where we are looking to develop an innovative range of solutions for the high security temporary overlay environment. We have both been involved in major events where temporary overlay has been crucial to safety and security. We both quickly identified the GateKeeper® product as a great starting point that we could build a portfolio of products around.
“I have known some of the Marshalls team for many years and it was an easy conversation to have. GateKeeper® is successfully tested to IWA-14 Standards without the need for any ground pinning or wedging making this a truly temporary product. GateKeeper® is an exciting product that collectively we can develop further with the Marshalls Landscape Protection team and we have already made some exciting progress. Watch this space!”
Jaz Vilkhu, Managing Director, Marshalls Landscape Protective products, said: “When we were approached by Vaylia we recognised an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded people who have a passion for Landscape Protection, an area in which we have specialised for a number of years.
“We recognised the strong synergy between their vision and ours, as well as a good cross over of complimentary products that would allow us to work together to create an all-encompassing product offer for our respective markets. We believe this relationship will go from strength to strength, creating further opportunities and product developments in the future.
“The RhinoGuard GateKeeper is a product that we are very proud of, it offers crash tested, temporary protection without the need for anchorage and really is one of the most innovative temporary protection solutions on the market. Working with Vaylia to develop products around the GateKeeper is not only a positive for me and my team but also the industry as a whole.”
