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The BPEC team at the recent Life Award presentation ceremony. Left to right, Mark Antrobus (BPEC Trustee), Watson Carlill (BPEC Trustee), Stephanie Moore and Emily Gait (Pump Aid), George Thomson (BPEC Trustee)
More than £41,000 has been given in charitable donations by training and certification provider, BPEC, to projects that use plumbing skills to enhance the lives of others less fortunate, either in the UK or abroad.
Anglo Nordic has launched its new catalogue, developed in response to customer feedback and designed to make it easy for customers to find and understand products. The catalogue also showcases a number of new products.
Worcester, Bosch Group recently held its second annual conference for influencers in the social housing sector, aimed at “managing warmth” within UK housing stock.
Jeremy Hawksley, director general, OFTEC
2015 is set to become a bumper year for the oil heating industry with sales of new boilers up by 9% in the year to August, compared to 2014.
To celebrate the new Energy Related Products (ErP) rating for their entire range of Ecodan heat pumps, Mitsubishi Electric is offering the chance to win a special Ecodan thermal mug by Tweeting an A++ image – an example of which is shown here!
The chief executive officers of 10 of the world’s largest oil and gas companies – which together provide almost a fifth of all oil and gas production and supply nearly 10% of the world’s energy – have declared their collective support for an effective climate change agreement to be reached at November’s 21st session of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework on Climate Change (COP21).
Grant’s new “TechBox” app
Grant UK has launched a new mobile-friendly website and technical app for all trade professionals who want to research the company’s resources using a smartphone.
Supermodel and food writer Daisy Lowe at the AGA Festival
The first ever AGA Festival was held during September, attracting visitors from all over the world.
Firebird Heating Solutions has developed and launched the UK’s first oil fired condensing boiler with blue flame technology for the domestic heating market. Getting ahead of forthcoming NOx emission target regulations, Firebird says it has produced the most energy efficient domestic oil fired boiler in Europe.
A course candidate works on a commercial burner at the Baltur facility
Nine UK heating engineers have returned from a week-long specialist burner training course at the world-renowned Baltur development facility in northern Italy.
Martyn Reed, operations director for Elmhurst energy
Elmhurst Energy believes the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, 30th November to 11th December 2015, may mark a renewed focus on energy efficiency in the UK following the dramatic cuts to ECO, the Green Deal and the Feed in Tariff (FiT).
Grant UK has announced a new partnership agreement with one of the top rugby clubs in the UK. The company is joining forces with its local club, Bath Rugby for the 2015/16 season.
Worcester’s new mobile-friendly website
Worcester, Bosch Group, has launched a new mobile-friendly website, which has been developed to provide installers with a variety of tools and resources, including an ErP label generator.
BES Ltd, the mail order specialist within the plumbing, heating and gas supply industry, has launched its latest catalogue.
Almost three quarters of heating industry professionals think the government’s heat strategy is unrealistic and will fall far short of its target to achieve an 80% reduction in UK carbon emissions from 1990 levels by 2050, according to the results of a poll held at OFTEC’s annual conference.
Specflue has celebrated the first birthday of its Castleford depot and a successful 12 months trading in the north.
A fireman whose part time work as a plumber was so dangerous that at times there was a risk of it causing a blaze, has been jailed for two years.
Worcester, Bosch Group has unveiled a new “handy hints” guide to provide installers with an additional tool to use as part of their handover process with homeowners.