Halesfield Day Nursery

Awesome . . . energy-saving . . . an absolute game-changer. That’s how a nursery has described the SMI thermal curtains which have been installed at its Telford headquarters.

Halesfield Day Nursery is a charity-run nursery providing quality care to children aged from three months to five years.

It wanted to keep the doors open between its indoor and outdoor spaces without losing temperature – and SMI has come up with the perfect solution.

SMI has installed two sets of its Bio-Gard™ anti-bacterial curtains; one over the exit from the nursery’s toddler room, and one leading out from the pre-school area.

And the nursery team say they couldn’t be more delighted with the results.

Manager Helen Childs said: “These new doors curtains are absolutely amazing. They mean we are now able to keep the classroom doors open all day and let the children choose if they are inside or outside – it’s an absolute game changer.

“Usually the room drops so cold with the door being open and it spreads throughout the whole building, making us all feel cold in the winter, and bringing flies inside in the summer.

“But we want children to be able to choose between indoor or outdoor play, so we started looking for a solution that would allow them to free-flow in and out, and solve these temperature problems.”

The solution turned out to be literally right on the nursery’s doorstep – SMI’s headquarters is at nearby Stafford Park.

Helen said: “SMI had just what we needed, and came to fit the curtains for us.

“They’ve been awesome, We’ve seen the heat difference in our classrooms instantly – the curtains keep the warmth in, even when the doors are consistently open, which is exactly what we were looking for.

“Not only has it created a more pleasant environment for our children and our staff, it also means we are operating much more energy-efficiently as well.

“We work with a lot of other nurseries in the Telford & Wrekin area, and I’m sure there is going to be a lot of ‘curtain envy’ when they see what we’ve got!”

Children from the nursery have made a special card for the SMI team to thank them for their efforts, which has been given pride of place at the company’s offices.

SMI is the producer of award-winning thermal insulation material, Tempro®, which has been scientifically proven to cut energy loss by at least 25% in chillers, and 33% in freezers.

It remains unchallenged as the world’s thinnest and most thermally efficient material of its kind.