News 20
Jeremy Hawksley, director general, OFTEC
With oil boiler sales reaching a five year high and oil prices dropping to a six year low, 2015 is proving a winning year for the oil heating industry and consumers alike.
With oil prices at a six-year low, boiler manufacturers Firebird, Grant and Warmflow, together with tank manufacturers Harlequin and Kingspan and burner manufacturer Riello, have worked together to promote a pro oil message to consumers reminding them that ‘oil is cheaper’ than all the alternatives in Northern Ireland.
The Abzorb range of 100% organic oil spill products
Burner manufacturer and distributor EOGB Energy Products Ltd has launched ‘Abzorb’, a range of environmentally-friendly oil spill clean-up products specially designed for oil engineers.
Plumb Center/Parts Center have launched a new “Deals” programme for customers, which includes a range of products aimed at the heating engineer at vastly reduced prices.
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).