The world is your oyster’ is fast becoming a by-line for Ossett-based burmatex, which is leading the way for Yorkshire businesses seeking to export abroad successfully.

burmatex, one of the UK’s major manufacturers of contract carpets and carpet tiles, has posted a record year for international trade, breaking into new markets as well as developing existing ones - with a thirty per cent increase in export sales in the last nine months alone.

The organisation now exports to more than fifty countries and, in addition to boasting healthy established trade with countries such as USA, France, The Middle East and Italy, has recently expanded its export business into India, Russia, Australia and Spain. Eastern Europe in particular has also been a major growth area for the organisation and turnover from this market has almost doubled in the last year.

A number of burmatex’s most recent export contracts have seen the company carpeting some of the world’s most prestigious buildings and facilities - from the offices of Russian gas corporation Gazprom in Moscow to an installation in Milan for the pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca - as well as reaching new markets as far-flung as Qatar, Montenegro and Chile.

When the UN’s office in Nairobi extended its premises, burmatex’s recently re-vamped Tivoli 24 carpet tile range was chosen to carpet the 6000m² space.

Another high-profile office sector contract has also just been sealed for a large call centre in Mumbai and the products for the first phase of the new, purpose-built centre – where 400 staff will work – are currently being shipped to India.

ICICI Group, India’s second largest bank, has similarly chosen burmatex carpet to grace the floors at three new call centre facilities in the cities of Hyderabad and Thane, which form part of the company’s expansion plans. Two of the projects for the major financial institution, the first Indian company to list on the New York Stock Exchange, are now complete with a third installation at a call centre in Thane currently underway.

A further indication that the Ossett-organisation is flying high in the export market has been a string of contracts to