It’s been one month since Stormseal Managing Director Matthew Lennox revisited Kellyville to find hundreds of residents still living under tarps in storm-damaged houses. That trip marked 90 day after a massive hail event devastated North-West Sydney in February 2017. 120 days later, and the Hills Shire is only now seeing a majority of…
Stormseal has been named the winner of Anthill’s SMART 100 2017. Stormseal was selected amongst hundreds of innovative, Australian and highly commercial companies that are changing the world, one idea at a time. To view all the winners please click here. Stormseal’s entry can be viewed below and was originally published here. 1. THE BEGINNING…
This weekend marks three months since five fast-moving south-easterly storm cells converged on Sydney’s Western Suburbs, bringing tennis ball sized hail that broke apart tile roofs and left terrified homeowners exposed to torrential rain. As with many catastrophic weather events, the initial shocking deluge received media attention and was then lost in the 24-hours news…
Stormseal inventor and Managing Director, Matthew Lennox, has accelerated his idea for a product that provides huge relief for storm victims and their rescuers and insurers through government funding and securing intellectual property (IP) protection.
The storm only lasted for fifteen minutes, but nearly two weeks later Sydney residents are still reeling from the devastation. The thunderstorm that struck Sydney a fortnight ago hit Kellyville particularly hard, with tennis ball sized hailstones smashing cars and breaking open tile roofs throughout the suburb.
As Queensland mops up from Cyclone Debbie this week, Sydney entrepreneur Matthew Lennox will wish he could help. In 2013 the Cronulla builder launched Stormseal, a polymer film that heat shrinks to storm damaged roofs. Its genius is it restores structural integrity while occupants await permanent repairs.
Catastrophic weather events – like the tornado that hit Kurnell in December 2015 – are becoming increasingly frequent in Australia and around the world, with consequent soaring economic and social costs. The Kurnell tornado provoked 500 calls to emergency responders, caused major damage to 25 homes and traumatised hundreds of residents. A year later, 10…
KATE Adkins is writing to the Insurance Council of Australia, imploring it to look at new ways of protecting stormdamaged homes after seeing the toll on her Kellyville neighbours. A month after the hailstorm that ripped through the suburb, leaving a serious trail of damage in their street, Stynes Ave, residents are coping with added water damage due to the wet weather.
IAG Insurance says it is working through 4290 claims from the four worst hit suburbs in the Hills since the hail storm hit on February 18 with 1638 vehicles and 1013 home claims in just Kellyville.
The storm only lasted for fifteen minutes, but nearly two weeks later Sydney residents are still reeling from the devastation. The thunderstorm that struck Sydney a fortnight ago hit Kellyville particularly hard, with tennis ball sized hailstones smashing cars and breaking open tile roofs throughout the suburb. Many houses in Stynes Avenue are still waiting…
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