Fram (also known by The Fram Group or The Fram Reinforced Concrete Company) were a reinforced concrete construction company based in Salford. The company were predominantly a local contractor until the 1920s when the benefits of reinforced concrete became recognised nationwide and demand for their services became widespread.
Following World War II, Fram became involved in the social housing boom. Initially the company worked almost exclusively within Salford and Manchester, encouraging the local authorities to use their reinforced concrete construction technique. The popularity of this method saw it being applied nationwide throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. The construction technique involved the construction of a reinforced concrete frame with the external walls created by insetting large pre-cast concrete panels between the floorplates and columns. The technique was often called the "Fram Panel System". The company also devised a fireproof floor construction method using hollow precast concrete blocks.
Due to the similarities of its design to the Large Panel System, it was hit with a sudden wave of unpopularity following questions about its structural integrity in the wake of the Ronan Point explosion. It began to incur significant losses with most of its factories closed by 1972.
The company was eventually purchased in 1972 by Fairclough Construction Group plc, turning the new entity into the largest concrete-segment producer in the UK.