We also have the Big Cat groover that has a 1.6m head and recently grooved the runway at Stansted airport. There are 12 other groovers from 300mm to 500mm wide heads. Our grooving fleet is un paralleled in Europe. All our machines, in addition to the provision of grooves to the required centre, pitch and depth specification, will automatically vacuum up the resultant slurry.

Only operatives with the requisite ability and experience are employed by Concrete Cutters (Sarum) Limited on these contracts. Tests by NASA in the USA have proved that a grooved runway should finish with a co-efficient of friction which, in the wet, equates to 85% of that when it is dry.

Grooving has become the proven, most cost effective way to increase the co-efficient of friction in the wet thus improving the take-off and landing distances of aircraft.

Line markings of runways, taxiways and pavements are a very important maintenance task of airports and Concrete Cutters (Sarum) Ltd Limited undertakes this function throughout all UK airfields. Our main advantage is that unlike companies who only do painting we can utilise the labour on other operations if only small quantities of painting is available, such as runway refurbishment projects. This avoids the need for any min charges, as we would only charge on a LM basis of markings achieved. All work is carried out to the requirements of CAA (CAP168)/ICOA and our extensive experience of this type of work results in minimal disruption to airport operations.

All forms of paint such as chlorinated rubber, one and two pack epoxys can be applied using our large variety of equipment to cover both, type of material and quantity of lines required.

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