Huge Demand for Thug-Proof Toilets

Demand for vandal-resistant toilets is rising so fast that Wallgate, the sanitaryware specialist, has created 20 new jobs at the company’s Wiltshire plant after agreeing a £300,000 deal for the supply of new casting machinery.

The deal will enable the company to increase capacity by 75%. Wallgate is the leading manufacturer of vandal-resistant sanitaryware in local government, prisons, schools and other high-risk establishments. The company is best known for its range of hole-in-the-wall handwasher/drier units, commonly seen in schools and public toilets.

For the last twelve years Wallgate's designers have developed a range of sanitary ware that is used within secure environments and have refined these products to provide an anti-ligature range of WCs, basins, baths, showers and accessories, which are accepted by the Home Office and Department of Justice for use both within the police and prison sectors. In addition, the anti-ligature design has proved popular with Mental Health Trusts, seeking to protect vulnerable patients.

The company's turnover has trebled, under new management, in the last three years.

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