Hansgrohe welcomed guests to the company’s new UK headquarters in Warwick this week including a guided tour of its shower and bathroom suite showroom.
Its new home is comprised of 70% warehousing and 30% training and showroom space, as part of a relocation of operations from Esher in Surrey.
Jay Phillips, MD of Hansgrohe UK & Ireland, said: “In order to serve all our customers for the future we were best positioned in the Midlands.”
Also at the event, Hans Juergen Kalmbach, CEO of Hansgrohe Group, explained how the German company has kept sustainability as a focus for product development.
Last year, it made ten Green Company initiatives whereby colleagues were trained as “Green Experts”. The Hansgrohe Pulsify Planet Edition hand-held shower was also developed using an environmentally friendly plastic recyclate, together with a vow to make all its new packaging plastic-free by the end of 2025.
“We have to be responsible and take care of the environment,” Hans said. Using a football analogy to summarise a current “better than the market” performance, he added: “We are one of the leading brands and we always want to be Champions League.”
With more than 90% of the energy footprint of showers during the usage phase, the water saving properties of different shower flow rates and spray patterns are demonstrated at the new installer training area and showroom space, pictured.
With water scarcity and rising water bills becoming an increased reality, Jay added: “We need to be taking shorter showers and bathing less. Eventually there isn’t going to be any other option than to have more sustainable showers.”