Sustainability
The greenest gazebo is the one you don’t replace.
We’re not going to tell you a marquee is good for the planet. We are going to tell you how we make ours last long enough to matter.
- Printed & sewn in Cornwall
- Every part available as a spare
- Repair, don’t replace
- No vague claims
4 years
Added to canopy life by the neoprene jackets we’ve fitted as standard since 2005.
2×
How much longer a UK-made PVC canopy lasts compared with polyester in market use.
Overnight
How fast we can usually get you a replacement part, so a frame gets mended rather than binned.
Zero
Reported footplate failures since 2014. A part that doesn’t fail is a part nobody has to remake.
Our position
Durability is the environmental argument.
Most of the environmental cost of a pop-up gazebo is spent before it ever reaches you - smelting the aluminium, weaving the cloth, and shipping it here. Once it exists, the single biggest thing anyone can do is keep it working.
A frame that lasts twelve years instead of three isn’t four times better. It’s four frames that never had to be made, four sets of freight that never happened, and three frames that never went to scrap. That is the whole of it.
So we don’t market ourselves as a green company. We build things that are worth repairing, we stock every part to repair them with, and we tell you honestly which option will last longer - even when it’s the cheaper one.
In practice
How we design for a long life
Five decisions that exist for durability first. The environmental benefit is a consequence, not a marketing angle.
01
Neoprene jackets on every upper joint
Metal brackets abrade canopy fabric, especially folded in a van. We’ve fitted neoprene to every upper joint since 2005 and it has been proven to add up to four years to the life of a canopy. The canopy is the part that wears out first, so protecting it is the highest-leverage thing we can do.
02
Every component stocked as a spare
Bolts, brackets, levers, end caps, footplates - all held in stock and usually with you overnight. A twelve-year-old frame should be worth mending rather than replacing, and that only holds true if the parts actually exist.
03
Replace the fabric, keep the hardware
When branding changes or a flag looks tired, you order the fabric alone and keep the mast and base you already own. Cheaper for you, and it keeps the durable half of the product in service instead of in a skip.
04
Canopies built to outlast the season
Our UK-made PVC is high-frequency welded rather than stitched, treated against mould and UV, and lasts around twice as long as polyester in market use. Where polyester is the better choice we say so - but we’ll always tell you which one you’ll be buying again sooner.
05
Components chosen not to fail
Welded footplates riveted with four high-tensile rivets instead of expanding pins. Captive scissor end caps that can’t drop out. Rubber king-post tops rather than plastic ones that snap and tear the canopy on the way. Small parts, but each one is a failure that never happens.
Where things come from
Being straight about our supply chain
Plenty of companies imply everything is made locally. Here is the actual picture.
Canopies, walls & flags
Made here
Cut, printed and sewn in our own workshop in Camelford. No subcontracting, no freight, and we can remake a single wall without ordering a container.
100% made in Cornwall.
Ultra HD frames
Made here
Designed and built in the UK. It’s the reason we can stock every individual component as a spare rather than only selling whole replacement frames.
UK designed and manufactured.
Octagonal 50 frames
Imported
The Octagonal frame is a high-quality commercial import from China. We sell it because it’s a good frame at a price that puts branded kit within reach of smaller businesses.
We’d rather tell you than let you assume.
Why we’re saying that out loud
Because a sustainability page that quietly implies everything is hand-made in Cornwall would be misleading, and because you’ll find out anyway. The frame origin is printed in our own specification sheet.
If a fully UK-made frame matters to you for a particular job, that’s the Ultra HD, and we’ll say so when you ring.
Materials
What things are made of
| Component | Material | End of life |
|---|---|---|
| Frames & brackets | 6061 aluminium and forged stainless steel | Both widely recycled; aluminium indefinitely so |
| Scissor end caps | Recycled plastic | Already made from recycled material |
| Poly canopies & walls | 500d polyester with PU backing | Returned to us to recycle & reuse as bags |
| Bases | Steel, aluminium or polyethylene | Steel and aluminium widely recycled |
Aluminium is one of the few materials that can be recycled indefinitely without losing its properties - which is worth knowing when a frame does finally reach the end of its life.
How we make them
True sustainability starts on the factory floor
Because we build our kit to last, we believe temporary shelters should never mean throwaway waste. Our manufacturing process is designed to protect both your brand and the planet. Here is how we build a cleaner future into every product we make.
Powered by the sun
Our Cornwall factory runs on solar energy. We power our machinery with clean, renewable electricity to keep production emissions as low as we can.
Cleaning our coasts
We build recycled ocean plastics, collected from local beaches, into our frame components - turning marine waste into structural strength.
Repair, don't replace
Throwaway culture is one of the event industry's biggest problems. We keep a full inventory of spare parts for every structure we build, so a single component can be replaced rather than the whole shelter scrapped.
Our recycling campaigns
Sustainability doesn't end when our products leave the factory. We work with our clients to keep materials in use and out of landfill through two active schemes.
The Take-Back Campaign
Closed-loop metal recycling
Ready to retire a frame? Send your used goods back to us. We work with a trusted local recycling plant so retired metal frames are melted down and repurposed into fresh raw material.
Tent to Tote & Shelter to Shoulder Bag
Upcycled soft goods
We never throw away offcuts, and neither should you. Send back your out-of-date or returned soft goods and we upcycle that tough, weatherproof fabric into heavy-duty carry bags. We ship our own orders in them, which gives the fabric a second life and takes plastic out of our packaging.
The choice
Two ways to do it.
Get it repaired
If you own one already
Broken lever, bent leg, torn canopy, snapped king-post top? Tell us what’s wrong and we’ll tell you whether it’s a part, a repair or genuinely past it. We’ll say so if it’s the last one.
Buy the one that lasts
If you’re buying
Tell us how often it goes up, what ground it stands on and how it travels. We’ll tell you which spec will still be working in ten years - and where spending more genuinely isn’t worth it.
Next step
Tell us what you’re planning.
Sizes, print, ground conditions, how many and when. We’ll come back with a price and a free visual - and if something simpler would do the job, we’ll tell you that too.