Fencing News Publish an editorial on Frontline Automation’s Services, April 2011

After sixteen years in the business, Frontline Automaton based in Bolney, West Sussex continues to excel in the art of design and installation and have become one of the market leaders in automated gates, barriers and access control systems.

Managing Director Mark Parsons tells us that although the market has fluctuated over the years, Frontline has maintained its high standards and secured many new clientele on the way: ‘I think our most gratifying work has come in recent times as we have not only sustained our long-term contracts, but have also begun to do a lot more with bespoke products too. Our bespoke gates that we supply to individual requirements are incredibly popular because customers are able to have a more creative input. We are able to design, manufacture and install everything from bollards, barriers, vehicle and pedestrian gates, roller shutters and acoustic doors’.

Mark goes on to tell us how Frontline’s most popular product is the cantilever gate range which they design and manufacture on site. Wooden gates are also available from Frontline and are manufactured with automation in mind. As well as swing gates, they also provide sliding gates to look like a pair, or single gates in either metal, or with wooden infill, depending on the customers preference.

Now, in 2011, over 80% of Frontline Automation’s trade is based within the commercial market, surely helped by their ISO 9001:2008 accreditation which they have held for over four years. Mark continues, “We do have a large amount of domestic projects, but our mainstay of contracts come from large commercial clients such as Southern Water, BT, and even the BBC’.

Although the company has always fully adhered to health and safety regulations since its creation in 1995, Mark is keen to stress that he, and indeed the entire team at Frontline Automation, continue to provide a full safety assessment on all of the products they fit: ‘We are endeavouring to carry out risk assessments during all maintenance visits where possible, or where the design is known, we may be confident enough to identify any required improvement without attending site’

With growth and innovation inevitably comes success, and that’s something that Frontline Automation are all too familiar with. Mark concludes, ‘We will continue to expand and invest because, after all, we have no intention of moving backwards’.