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These facilities provide capacity to ensure a turnkey solution to our customers' business continuity concerns, enabling us to dry weekly approximately
Given these facilities and this capacity, coupled with our dedicated team of Salvage Technicians and Document Technicians, we can restore damaged documents and books more speedily and to a higher quality than anyone else.
Coverage
HDRS' disaster recovery services are provided nationwide throughout the UK and Ireland 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Our headquarters in Oxfordshire provide a base for our customers throughout the company, with teams dedicated to specific regions.
Priority Users are based as far apart as County Galway, Jersey, Aberdeen and Truro and salvage projects have been conducted in Perth, Dublin, Pwllheli, Newcastle and Cornwall.
HDRS Staff
HDRS' staff have a unique expertise in dealing with fire and flood damage to paper through practical experience in a wide range of situations involving business critical documentation, damaged school books and highly valuable archival and special collections items.
Training in damage management industry standards (IICRC, BDMA) for Technicians bolsters this practical experience, together with supervision by our IPC accredited consultant Paper Conservators in handling antiquarian materials.


HDRS Facilities and Capacity
HDRS' facilities are Europe's largest dedicated to the recovery and restoration of water and fire damaged paper-based materials including numerous purpose-built freeze-vacuum dryers and a fleet of vehicles with freezer capabilities on stand-by for salvage and restoration nationwide.
Document
Recovery after
Fire, Flood and Explosion
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Senior managers have decades of experience in document recovery. Our Managing Director is a world-leading authority on freeze-vacuum drying technique applied to paper restoration, thanks to a background in Chemical Engineering. The Manager of the Priority User Service Division is a well-known trainer in the heritage sector on emergency planning techniques, as well as serving on the BDMA Executive.
The Divisional Manager of HDRS' contract work co-ordinates our national response teams to the hundreds of claims we manage annually.
If you would like to contact any member of staff, please Contact Us.