Exciting. This is the first website I'm going to write about which isn't for a trade association. Oh yeah, it's not all trade associations round here, you know. There's much more going on.
CIS have quite a simple website. They don't need anything complicated, they're happy to let their products speak for themselves. And what wonderful products! While it's true that most people have probably never heard of CIS, everyone who has ever stepped foot outside must be familiar with their products. 126 different combinations of tree grilles! 50 permutations of railings! 40 litter bins! And over 200 different combinations of bollard designs!
The products made by CIS are so ubiquitous they become invisible. It's hard to imagine anyone designing these things, factories manufacturing them, people installing them. Actual humans are involved in every stage of this, but you sort of think these things just appear from nowhere. Actually, you don't even think they appear, they seem to have always been there.
I mean, look at this:
That just looks like a bench. You'd walk past it and not give it a second's thought. You wouldn't even notice it, wouldn't even see it.
Actually, it's a type 583 bench. The iroko hardwood timber is sourced from responsibily managed forests and is treated prior to delivery with two coats of Sikkens HLSO wood preservative. The ends are solid cast iron and are also available with armrests.
That paragraph should have been read in the voice of Dervla Kirwan.
I wish I had an enormous computer brain and I could memorise all the catalogue numbers and specifications for all this stuff. I'd walk down the road identifying things. It would be great.
"That's a 187SS-D cycle rack"
"That's a type 1006 cast iron square tree grille"
"That looks like an SO 120 HT steel litter bin, in green"
OK, so no-one would talk to me, but who needs friends when you can identify products from the CIS street furniture range? At least street furniture isn't fickle and doesn't talk about you behind your back.
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