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The UK Government, in collaboration with Active Travel England (ATE), has recently announced a significant new initiative designed to make walking and cycling more accessible across England. The £291m fund aims to improve infrastructure and provide better facilities for those who choose greener, healthier modes of transport. This funding will primarily be directed towards local councils, providing them with the resources needed to enhance cycling and walking facilities in communities nationwide. The purpose of the new funding is to assist local authorities to implement measures to create a safer environment for everybody, by reducing vehicular traffic and encouraging the use of cycling and walking as an alternative mode of transport. The longer term aim of the funding is to provide significant...
Falco is delighted that one of its long serving employees has been chosen to represent the main England’s mens pool team at next year’s European Championships. Sales Co-ordinator, Ben Duffield, successfully qualified for England after progressing through the mens England trials in Great Yarmouth back in 2020. Ben, who has been playing pool since aged 11, has represented various teams at local level, before representing his home town of Leek, then progressing onto representing his local county, Staffordshire, at junior level, then further progressing to represent Staffordshire at senior level and now qualifying to represent the mens national pool team at three international events next year. Ben will be travelling to Killarney in the Republic of Ireland to compete in the European Championships...
We are delighted to announce that despite the current problems with raw material prices and lead-times on stocks Falco has had no price increases on its FalcoPod Bike Hangars. Falco is a Europe-based OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) supplier, we; design, manufacture, deliver and install all our cycle parking products in-house and as such have full control over our stocks and supplies. The FalcoPod bike hangar is the most family friendly bike hangar available, with an ergonomically better designed space - the additional space/height means there is no need to remove child seats from the back of bikes or baskets and seats on the front. Additionally the FalcoPod can be delivered in any colour as well as the standard green, so if you’re...
Falco was delighted to have been awarded the Cycle Parking and Infrastructure framework agreement by the NHS’s Shared Business Services and we are pleased to have had this extended. Following a large number of successful installations across the UK’s NHS network, the agreement, which was been tendered to provide best value to NHS related facilities, has now been extended. This framework includes the delivery, supply, installation, management and maintenance of cycle parking goods and services, from bike racks to cycling hubs and everything in between. The framework is open to all NHS businesses as well as all Public Sector Authorities including; NHS Trusts (acute, community and mental health) Clinical Commissioning Groups Local Councils Further Education Colleges and Universities Academies Housing Associations The Blue Light Services Museums Prisons HS2 Botanical Gardens Falco has been...
Europe’s leading designer, manufacturer and installer of high quality cycle parking systems, shelters and street furniture celebrated its 70th anniversary! Established in September 1951, Falco originally specialised in producing transport equipment such as wheelbarrows and tar carts before adding cycle racks to its range in the mid 50’s. Since then the business followed an ongoing strategy of development which has resulted in the core of Falco's present activities - specialists in Europe’s largest range of innovative cycle parking systems and street furniture! Having grown steadily over the past 70 years, Falco’s head office in Almelo, Netherlands, is a state-of-the-art 35,600m2 manufacturing and business complex which is being continually developed and now contains the most advanced production, storage and environmentally sustainable features to date. With offices in a...
We are delighted (and astonished!) that Falco’s Accountant, Netty Barlow, has (yet again) raised over £350 for Cancer Research UK by participating in the Stoke-on-Trent Pretty Muddy 5k ‘mud run’ event at Central Forest Park in Hanley on Sunday 12th September. Netty put her best foot forward and joined hundreds of women and children to tackle a 5k muddy obstacle course, hurdling over obstacles into piles of mud, weaving through spiders webs, scaling climbing frames and tyres, crawling through tunnels, scramble nets and mud pits and finally racing down an inflatable mud chute! After the event Netty said “Cancer can only be eradicated with more money being put into research, to find out what causes it, how we can stop it, and how to...
This month the Energy Saving Trust launched a new eCargo Bike Grant Fund whereby £400,000 has been made available by the Department for Transport in 2021/22 for the purchase of eCargo bikes, to support businesses switching to a sustainable transport solution. In support of the growth in cargo bikes, Falco has a full range of four Cargo and eCargo bike storage solutions offering secure bike parking for every type of cargo bike individually or as a fleet: Product Width Depth FalcoPod-Cargo 2.3m 2.0m FalcoCargoPod 2.3m 2.6m FalcoCargobox 2.4m 3.0m FalcoLok 2.4m 3.9m and extendable Each of these solutions can be fitted with either; eBike charging points or a secure eBike battery charging unit for removeable batteries where the potentially unstable Lithium batteries can be deposited in a secure fire-proof charging locker.. Additionally there is a...
Falco has been a family company with its own production site for over 70 years. Sustainability was in our DNA from the very beginning and this is reflected within our complete range of modular cycle parking and shelter products, all designed with full circularity in mind.
All products ranges are contemporary and durable, typical of a Falco product. Falco has been at the forefront of the cycle parking and street furniture market and has built up a renowned reputation for manufacturing products that exceed in both design and durability.
Falco’s operations have supported the Circular Economy for many years, simply manufacturing products with environmentally friendly products, that can last for decades and at the end of the product life can be 100% recycled and manufactured back into a brand new product.
