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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 to announce the new appointment of Dave Ward as its new Operations Manager! Dave joins us with an abundance of experience, having worked in the cycle parking and street furniture industry for over 9 years as a Contracts Manager, specialising in the supply, manufacture and installation of canopies, walkways and cycle parking infrastructure, through to final sign off. Dave has a vast amount of experience in working as part of a team and finalising projects to customer satisfaction. As a Manager, Dave spent the last few years planning and organising installation work and is delighted to be joining us as Falco’s Operations Manager. Dave’s role involves supporting Falco’s growing client base by managing the operational side of the...
Falco is pleased to announce the new appointment of Rob Harper as its new Managing Director, based at the UK head office in Leekbrook, Staffordshire. Rob, taking over from former Managing Director, Jeremy Green, joins Falco with an abundance of experience, having worked in the cycle parking and street furniture industry at a senior level for the past 30 years. Rob originally joined Falco as Managing Director back in 2003, following Falco’s acquisition of Arunhithe Ltd - a small family-owned business specialising in a limited range of cycle racks and playground equipment, before leaving Falco to seek new work opportunities in the United States. Over the past 30 years Rob has fulfilled a number of opportunities at senior management level within the industry,...
The ingenious FalcoPod Bike Hangar and FalcoCargoBox Cargo Bike Locker has been used as a key reference point in the new Loveable Neighbourhoods Guide. The 60-page guide offers examples of best practice, hints and guidance for the successful mobilisation and implementation of healthy neighbourhood developments, Liveable Neighbourhoods and community regeneration projects. Falco’s former Managing Director, Jeremy Green, discusses the growth of cargo bikes during lockdown and highlights the fact that you can easily hire a bicycle for personal use, but you cannot do the same for a cargo bike. Jeremy discusses the lack of available infrastructure to support the growing trend and how Falco has developed a ‘one size fits all’ solution to providing secure, on-street cargo bike parking. Jeremy then goes on...
We’re sad to say that our MD of 17 years, Jeremy Green, has decided to ride home for the last time and hang up his cycle clips! Jeremy, who joined Falco back in 2006, has developed the business into the UK’s leading provider of cycle hubs, hangars and general cycle parking facilities. During that time, he’s steered the company through many changes as the cycling sector has gone from strength to strength as the focus of UK transport has moved further towards sustainable travel. Under Jeremy’s leadership, the business has been involved in many cycling firsts as well as some of the UK’s largest projects providing quality cycle parking facilities. Today the business continues in this progressive vein and has recently...
Falco has always put itself at the forefront of our industry and we have always played a proactive role in developing new ideas and products for cycle parking facilities. Having imported the first cycle shelters from Holland back in the early 1990’s over the last 20 years, our commitment to ‘pushing the frontiers of our industry we are proud to have a number of UK (and world) ‘firsts’ under our belt; Falco Firsts First cycle hub (Leeds City Station) Largest cycle hub (Cambridge station 3,000 spaces) Second largest hub (Chelmsford) Largest network of community cycle hubs (LBWF mini-Holland) The first app-based locking hub (Bedford) First cargo public bike hangar (Beryl Bikes/Hackney) First app-based bike hangar (LBWF) First hands-free bike hangar (RBKC) Chelmsford first app-based Key Project Summaries 1. UK's First Cycle Hub...
One of the great features of the FalcoPod and FalcoCargoBox is how attractive it can look with some great designs! It’s smooth exterior cladding which makes it ideal for the application of graphic designs and ‘wraps’! Already proving very popular on our FalcoCrea cycle lockers (see below) we have produced some groovy designs here which we hope you’ll like. A FalcoPod or FalcoCargobox wrap is ideal for sprucing up your neighbourhood, promoting a campaign or event, or even advertising to help the Borough bring in some extra revenue. Falco has its own in-house marketing department and produces designs free of charge for clients, saving on time, money and hassle, whilst our vinyls partners at ‘The Edge Design’ make sure your designs are perfectly applied. Also...
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.
