Leafield Environmental sees export potential of British award winning design.

British highway traffic bollard manufacturer Leafield Environmental has won a contract to supply its Night Owl, retroreflective bounce-back, sign bollards to the Hong Kong Transport Authority through its Kowloon based distributor.

The new Sentry Bollard from Leafield has been developed to help reduce accidents on rural roads by alerting drivers to hidden junctions.

Leafield Environmental has produced a Product Selector for their range of Parking and Site Safety Products. The all new, at a glance, guide features a comprehensive range of Bollards, Sign Bollards and Grit Bins specifically for car park safety, building security and parking control applications.

Our new Base Lit Night Owl, keep left bollard, was launched at TRAFFEX last week and was a highlight for many visitors to the show.

Campaigners' delight as road safety improvements completed

Night Owl keep left bollards have been used a Road Safety Scheme in Leicester. The following story appeared in the Leicester Mercury:
A road safety scheme to tackle speeding motorists has been completed – to the delight of campaigners.

Stand H42 

Leafield Environmental, previously known as Linpac Environmental, will showcase their wide range of Highway products at Traffex 2011 with a strong emphasis on ‘Bounce Back’ or Self Righting Bollards.

LINPAC Environmental Limited will be known as Leafield Environmental Limited due to a change in the ownership of the business at the end of 2010.

Leafield Environmental Ltd is a now an independent business backed by funds managed by investment group Chamonix Private Equity but will continue to be run by the existing management team.

 LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental) has completed delivery of 1250 Grit Bins for Hampshire County Council, a full six weeks ahead of schedule.

Use of Heritage Reflex Bollards from LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental) an innovative road traffic scheme in Hull is helping to reduce injury related accidents and costs.

Night Owl, the highly innovative, self righting ‘Keep Left’ highways bollard from  LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental) has been awarded a Highly Commended Certificate for Plastic Design and Innovation. The award was made by the Worshipful Company of Horners, in conjunction with the British Plastics Federation at a recent Gala Dinner held in London.

 LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental) will be demonstrating the impressive passive safety and impact performance of Night Owl self righting bollards at the ‘Seeing is Believing’ highways event at the MIRA Proving Grounds in November.

Traffic Management and pedestrian safety features are increasingly being created using new materials and construction methods that greatly increase safety whilst reducing traffic hold ups.

Night Owl Keep Left Bollards from  LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental) are playing an important part on the temporary traffic management scheme within Edinburgh City Centre.

The recently published ‘Passive Safety UK Guidelines for Specification and Use of Passively Safe Street Furniture on the UK Road Network’ from the Passive Revolution is now available to download here via the Leafield Highways website.

Retroreflective Self Righting Bollards, insist on the Highest Standard… BS 8442:2006 explained.

With Keep Left Bollards, Passive Safety is certainly an important requirement. However did you know that BS 8442:2006 also requires Retro Reflective Bollards to stay intact and importantly ‘self right’ after an impact?

This year saw the coldest winter for almost 30 years and many Councils struggled to keep public spaces open to residents. LEAFIELD (Formally known as Linpac Environmental) has 200 litre Grit Bin with a compact footprint is ideal for residential areas, Parks and Gardens.

 LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental) will be returning to Cold Comfort in September to show their range of Grit Bins, Salt Bins, Bollards and the Night Owl, ‘bounce back’, Keep Left Bollard.

Responding to the worst winter in 30 years many Councils are currently reviewing their Cold Weather performance in the ‘warmer’ light of day. High on the agenda will are Grit Bins. Were there enough and what state are they now in?

The Night Owl Keep Left Bollard from LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental)is now formally approved by the Department for Transport and is included in the list of non-illuminated bollards authorised for use.

 LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental), a leading manufacturer of highways products was recently invited to join ‘The Passive Revolution’, the high-profile website dedicated to highways passive safety as a direct result of the launch of ‘Night Owl Keep Left Bollard’.

The new Night Owl Keep Left Bollard has impressively passed independent High Impact Resistance Testing at 70km/h and as a result, Night Owl is an approved product for use by the Department for Transport.

The new Night Owl Keep Left Bollard, from LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental), has impressively passed an official independent High Impact Resistance Test at 70km/h, returning, intact, to an upright position after the vehicle impact.

Made from maintenance-free UV stabilised polyethylene with shatter-proof reflective banding, the Reflex Vergemarker is designed to withstand vehicle drive-through and impact from any direction.

Plastic bottles used in homes all over the UK are being chipped and combined with regular polymer by LEAFIELD Environmental (Formally known as Linpac Environmental) to produce an environmentally friendly ECO traffic bollard.