NEWSFLASH
INDUSTRY PROFESSIONAL IS SECRET MILLIONAIRE
Entrepreneur Dawn Gibbins, appeared in the first programme of a new series of Channel 4’s Secret Millionaire on 1st March.
Most of you will know Dawn as the co-founder of Flowcrete (along with her father, the great British inventor Peter Gibbins). Since the company was founded in 1982, Dawn oversaw its growth to become a global market leader in commercial and industrial flooring with 30 offices and 12 manufacturing sites of excellence worldwide. She eventually sold Flowcrete in April 2008 to New York Stock
Exchange listed company RPM, for a reported £30m.
Sharing her fortune, Dawn gave away a whopping £250,000 to three charities in Bristol on the show.
She visited the city last October posing as a volunteer on an outreach project helping women trapped in prostitution.
She also worked with a charity for teenage parents and a café for people sleeping rough and battling addiction.
She said: “Six months ago if anyone had asked me who inspired me, I would have
said Richard Branson or Bill Gates. You can forget that now. The people who inspired and amazed me are the wonderful volunteers – who give their time and their money selflessly to help others make a better life for themselves. I am in awe at
their energy and determination – they truly are amazing.”
Since the programme Dawn, who now runs Cheshire- based Barefoot Living, has gone on to set-up ‘The Barefoot Foundation’ – a charity whose aim is to ‘eradicate poverty and abuse in the UK’ – and 100% of Dawns fees for talks, presentations and appearances will feed into the Foundation – which in turn will ensure that the money goes to where it is needed most.
www.thebarefoot
foundation.co.uk
OLYMPIC GAMES GRAPHICS TO BE RECYCLED INTO FLOORING
3M Canada Company and Mannington Commercial are pleased to announce a joint project, where large format graphics used in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games will be reclaimed and manufactured into high recycled content flooring.
About 200,000 sq ft of the graphics seen during the games will be diverted from landfill and remanufactured into Mannington commercial flooring.
“We learned about Mannington’s precedent for recycling mixed waste similar to our graphic materials into flooring,” says Richard Chartrand, Vice President, Display and Graphics business, 3M Canada.
“Most recycling facilities would quickly turn away
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post-consumer waste streams including drywall and VCT reclaimed from renovation sites, and is certified as an Environmentally Preferable Product, meeting the rigorous requirements of NSF-332-2007 certification.
from the colourful, irregular shaped lumps that the graphics result in after use, but Mannington was up for the challenge.”
“We have invested in technology that puts Mannington in a leadership position in recycled flooring,” says Dave Kitts, Mannington Vice President - Environment. “One of the simplest ways to conserve
resources is to reuse what you can. We’ve found second lives for many flooring products and were intrigued by the opportunity presented by 3M Canada.”
Mannington will recycle the graphics into Premium Tile, a product popular in commercial healthcare, education and retail applications. The Premium Tile product already contains
“As we have innovated to grow our recycling capabilities, we have been looking for waste streams to increase the amount of post- consumer content that we can use in our products,” says John Emmons, Director of Commercial Manufacturing at Mannington.
For more information, visit:
http://3m.ca/2010
http://mannington
commercial.com
www.tomorrowsflooring.com
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