Arnold Clark has appointed signage options firm Astra Group to ship the signage for its community of ultra-rapid EV charging hubs, dubbed Arnold Clark Cost. Work to design, manufacture, and set up items commenced final yr and the goal completion date is spring/summer time 2025.
As a part of the six-figure contract, Astra Group will ship signage for greater than 500 ultra-rapid chargers at over 100 EV hubs throughout the UK. Arnold Clark’s has invested £23m in its charging community initiative.
Neil Lawson, senior challenge supervisor at Arnold Clark, mentioned: “As a most well-liked and trusted full-service supplier of conventional and digital signage, Astra Group was an apparent alternative of companion for this challenge.
“Delivering on a rollout of this scale and complexity is not any straightforward feat. The crew’s capacity to adapt to adjustments in circumstances all through the method of delivering high-volume, large-scale structural signage requires knowledgeable organisation and an unwavering resolve.
“Astra Group has demonstrated this throughout, working with our civil engineers to ensure a safe and seamless finish to each EV charging hub.”
Astra Group has produced 102 dual-purpose canopies, 25 x 6m branded totems, and 157 signposts.
CEO of Astra Group, Jim Kerr, mentioned: “As electrical autos develop into more and more widespread on UK roads, our charging infrastructure must develop and develop to fulfill rising demand.
“Arnold Clark Cost is a superb initiative that’s already contributing considerably to driving ahead the EV automotive business while assembly speedy necessities.
“We’re proud to play a part in bringing Arnold Clark’s vision to life with a suite of striking structural signage products fitting with the progressive automotive company’s ambitions.”
Astra Group additionally just lately designed, delivered and put in all signage for Arnold Clark’s Innovation Centres in Glasgow and Stafford. It produced illuminated exterior signage, inside signage, graphics and totems.
It additionally just lately delivered all digital and conventional signage for Arnold Clark’s new dealership in Doncaster.
