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Contractor Level Best Concrete Flooring has completed a £1m investment into its base on the outskirts of Goole.

The provider of concrete floors for major manufacturers, retailers and industrial units across the º£½ÇÊÓƵ has converted a series of former agricultural buildings, south of the town, to provide offices and warehouse space. As part of the move, Level Best has installed what it says is the º£½ÇÊÓƵ's first joint-free concrete floor to showcase its capabilities.

The Swinefleet Common warehouse will house an expanding fleet of equipment including six laser screeds to ensure level finishes; 20 power floats for smoothing and polishing and 12 grinding machines to support refurbishment work. A newly acquired concrete crusher has expanded the firm's services and will take concrete from demolition sites before providing an aggregate product to construction teams.

Jon Wilcox, managing director of the company which he co-founded in 2017, said: "Completion of our new facilities is an important milestone for us. I am absolutely gobsmacked with the success we have achieved and I am thoroughly looking forward to what the future will bring.

"We are extremely proud of what we have achieved as a business. When we started we could only imagine the growth and improvements which have taken our workplace forward over the past eight years."

Mr Wilcox started Level Best alongside colleagues Adam Brown, Luke Morrow and Chris Wood - originally operating out of a portable cabin on a friend's farm at Balkholme, near Howden. The firm is said to have ridden out losses caused by the pandemic and turned over £14.5m in its last financial year, having grown to a head office workforce of 12, along with a wider team of two operations managers, six supervisors and 44 site operatives across the country.

Mr Wilcox added: “Land is very expensive to buy and in and around the major cities it’s far cheaper to refurbish existing units. It’s also quicker and more sustainable.

"The new crushing machine brings greater sustainability in terms of enabling us to offer a one-stop shop. It’s reduced our carbon footprint and it gives our customers greater assurance that we are managing everything safely. It’s been tested on a local farm yard and it’s just gone out on its first commercial job.

"We got into joint-free flooring after it was mentioned by one of our suppliers. It’s much lower maintenance because the joints are the things that usually go first. It’s got great potential in food production and storage because it helps to raise hygiene standards by not having cracks, and it all adds up to less down-time.

"The one in our new warehouse is the first to be installed in the º£½ÇÊÓƵ. It only took us a day, and people are welcome to have a look! Overall it’s taken a year to complete the civil engineering, warehouse and offices.

"It represents a £1m investment and it gives us something specific to our needs – a lot more office and warehouse accommodation which is space that we will grow into."