Our website is greener than your website!

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Here at SEP, whilst we’re aware a lot of our operational activities may have environmental impacts, we’d never considered our online activity could too… Would you believe that even running a website and other online activities such as sending an email, uses vast amounts of carbon?! We were shocked to discover this too. Our external website and marketing partners recently …

Price Changes

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At SEP, we know that many customers are under constant competitive pressure, so we are always working hard to minimise our costs – last year, we had minimal increases on selected product lines, and this year will be the same. We are not fans of cross-board increases, and therefore we have reviewed each of our products carefully and individually. In …

A New Coat

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We have, for many years, had a wet paint spray booth here at SEP, and we have protected and ‘branded’ all of our products with a silver hammer paint finish. However, as hard as our specialists have tried, such a finish is affected greatly by temperature and humidity and we struggle to get a good and consistent finish on our …

Download Update

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We are always working hard behind the scenes to ensure that our website is kept up to date, with our partners CreationADM, and last year we introduced our new Downloads section where you can find pretty much everything to do with our main product ranges – data sheets, O&M Instructions, handy hints, some FAQs and even our Covid-19 risk management …

SEP succeeds in gaining membership to Made In Britain

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We’re delighted to announce our membership to the Made In Britain organisation! Made In Britain brings together the British manufacturing community and under its iconic mark assures, where possible, that products made by its members are of high quality, represent value for money, are safe for anyone that uses or consumes them and that the companies that make them adhere …

Christmas Shutdown & Donations 2020

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2020 has been an ‘interesting’ year. We consider ourselves very lucky to have continued to be busy, so our team need a well-deserved rest! We will be closing for our annual Christmas shutdown from 4pm Tuesday 22nd December, and re-opening on Monday 4th January 2021. Last date for shipping will be 22nd December (midday cut-off) for delivery on 23rd, for …

Brexit update

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With (another) Brexit deadline looming, we are receiving questions from our customers about our readiness, along with being bombarded by ‘service providers’ eager to assist and give advice… So we thought it might be useful for us to update everyone on the actions we are taking to mitigate our own risks, and in turn, the risks of our customers. Of …

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Changes to Sprinkler Regulations in Scotland Coming in 2021

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A Scottish regional MP’s campaign for all new-build social housing properties to be fitted with sprinkler systems should come to fruition next year with the implementation of new Scottish government regulations. David Stewart, the regional MSP for Highland and Islands, launched a members’ bill in October 2017 that placed a ‘duty of care on local authorities and housing associations to …

COVID-19 Update – 05/11/20

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In light of the new, second national lockdown, we thought it prudent to update you on our operations here at SEP HQ. Whilst much of the country, and many in the manufacturing and engineering sectors are once again closing up shop, we are very much open. We are currently working two split shifts over 14 hours a day to ensure …

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Domestic & Residential Fire Sprinkler Booster Sets Introductory Information & FAQs

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Fire sprinkler systems have been popular in commercial buildings for many years, but are now becoming more widely used in Domestic (private dwellings) and Residential (e.g. care homes, student accommodation etc) settings. Although this market is not (yet) as heavily regulated as the commercial fire sprinkler market, we strongly believe that it should be, and in time this will be …