polyolefin foam manufacture genre manufacturer fate operating predecessors bakelite xylonite ltd bp chemicals founded croydon london 1940s headquarters london 675 mitcham road croydon uk area served uk usa japan europe asia principal market key people steve good chairman ; david stirling group ceo ; gary mcgrath finance director 1 products polyolefin foams revenue 54.44 million owner shareholders blackrock inc. 14.8 % schroders plc 13.0 % sekisui alveo ag 8.7 % miton group plc 5.5 % 2 number of employees a global work force of around 300 as of june 2016 2 divisions zotefoams international ltd ; zotefoams inc website www.zotefoams.com zotefoams plc manufactures a range of closed cell cross linked polyolefin foams for global use in sports construction marine automation medical equipment and aerospace . the headquarters are based in croydon london with a usa subsidiary in kentucky . nigel howard is the current chairman david stirling is managing director and clifford hurst is finance director . the company was spun off from bp chemicals in 1992 . 3 it began in the 1940s producing block foam . the company makes the majority of its sales from exports overseas with a number of registered trademarks . 2 a fire in early 2001 at the factory damaged 70 % of zotefoams stock and disrupted some deliveries to customers . at this time the company also exited the toy market . in 2001 zotefoams entered into a worldwide sales and marketing alliance for polyolefin foams with the sekisui chemical company ltd sekisui which acts as agent and distributor for zotefoams in continental europe asia and some customers in north america . as of december 2014 of the 305 employees 48 were women . 2 2015 results edit interim results show 4 sales 26.63 m profit before tax 3.19 m interim dividend of 1.8 p share these compare with 2013 interim figures from their 2013 interim report of sales 47.19 m profit before tax 5.93 m gearing under 2 % final dividend of 5p share external links edit official website references edit inverstor relations board of directors . zotefoams . retrieved 25 august 2015 . a b c d cellular materials for global markets zotefoams plc annual report 2014 pdf . zotefoams . retrieved 25 august 2015 . thinkkentucky.com summer99 newsletter interim results for the six months ended 30 june 2015 pdf . zotefoams . retrieved 25 august 2015 . this article about a manufacturing company in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zotefoams & oldid 731999001 categories london borough of croydonmanufacturing companies based in londonunited kingdom manufacturing company stubshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipediaall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 28 july 2016 at 22 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view