It’s great when endless lobbying by the fire protection industry, and in particular the fire sprinkler industry, comes to something. Both Wales and Scotland are streets ahead in terms of fire safety in buildings…and maybe England still has a way to go. In July, the Scottish government published stricter fire safety provisions for high-rise and buildings for the vulnerable which …
ZG – FM Approved
It is with great excitement and pride that we announce full certification of our Zone Guardian by FM Approvals, officially as of July 2019! As per our recent announcement on this topic, this is another project that has been some time in the making, and is just one more step towards taking our brand global. Rob Bell, our Managing Director, …
Any colour you want!
Henry Ford famously said, “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black”. Well, that’s not quite the case here – in fact, nothing we make at SEP comes in black as standard. But that didn’t stop us making one customer particularly happy when we put our ethos of ‘Responsive, Flexible …
Two years on…
On 14th June 2017, 72 lives were tragically lost, many many more deeply impacted, and others across the world affected in one way or another due to the horrifying events which unfolded at Grenfell Tower within the affluent borough of Kensington in London. What started as a small kitchen fire in a smart-looking but far from affluent building, quickly turned into …
SEP renew Manchester Giants sponsorship
Following last year’s sponsorship partnership with local sports and community basketball club, Manchester Giants, we are proud to confirm that a deal has now been agreed for next season. The advertising exposure and support deal continues to include court-side branding at the Giants’ home venue, kit sponsorship (with our logo taking pride of place on the top rear of home …
Product Focus: Orifice Fittings
We talk a lot about our range of manufactured ‘large items’, such as air compressors, Zone Guardian flow switch testing devices, pump initiation boards, alarm valve booster pumps, domestic & residential booster sets etc. However, maybe we don’t talk enough about our selection of smaller accessories. One range of these is our orifice fittings, where we are able to offer …
FM Approval progress for our ZG
It’s another long (and expensive) road – so far 18 months since the original enquiry and almost 12 months since the formal application – but we are now in a position to report that a landmark step has been made in our attempt to secure FM approval for our LPCB-approved ZONE GUARDIAN . Our enquiries to FM actually started in …
CE-marking
After a long, drawn-out, and quite costly review of our CE-marking requirements and obligations, we are very pleased to advise our customers of a new investment which assures full traceability of our key safety tests and quality assurance processes. As you may know, European law requires detailed attention to be paid to all design, mechanical, electrical and various other aspects …
SEP – “Slicker Engineered Products”?
As most of our customers will know, we are constantly trying to find ways to improve: our products our customers’ experience of installing and maintaining them the end-user perception of the absolute quality of what they are paying for With this in mind, we are in the process of making a number of design tweaks to our compressor range: A brand …
Fire Sprinkler Saves
We think it’s both useful and interesting to consolidate and report a selection of recent fire sprinkler ‘saves’ and other related news – the more of these that there are, the better for everyone… whether it be building occupants, property owners, insurers, fire service personnel or the industry itself. Here are some to digest: On 6th January 2019, fire crews attended …