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Pump Focus: Alarm Valve Booster Pumps

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The SEP AVBP – Alarm Valve Booster Pump Coming into the summer months, our Alarm Valve Booster Pump (AVBP, or Towns Main Booster Pump, or False Alarm Booster Pump) becomes ever more popular. The main reason for this is that water supplies tend to become ever more scarce as demand increases and supply (subject to the British weather!) reduces… The …

Product Focus: Pressure Gauges

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Pressure gauges are a critical component of any fire sprinkler system, and help understand the status of each part of the system, whether it’s wet or dry. Every fire sprinkler system is different; in design, span, number and type of sprinkler heads, flow rate, water pressure etc. Pressure gauges in key areas (or for testing/checking) may be calibrated to meet …

SEP Going Global

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Since our foundation over 30 years ago, SEP has been almost completely UK-centric, with our only significant export market being Ireland. Things are changing! Mainly, our ability to export in volume has been restricted due to our base product range (air compressors for dry/alternate systems, pump initiation boards) being targeted towards UK-type systems and also not being easy to ship …

New Product: Fire Pump Controllers

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At SEP we are continuously looking for high quality products which complement our existing specialist and growing range of products, and from April 2022 we are proud to be appointed distributors for the high-functioning electric and diesel Fire Pump Controllers from Lovato. Lovato’s FFL…EP (electric pump) and FFL..DP (diesel pump) controllers integrate all necessary features required by EN12845 standard. They …

Priority Demand Valves on the UP

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Since we launched our range of Priority Demand Valves (PDV) almost exactly a year ago, interest has grown month-on-month – records were broken in September, December and January…and probably March too (even though we’re only half-way through)! The purpose of the PDV is to shut off the domestic water supply in the event of a fire sprinkler activation. They are …

Community Sponsorship

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As is the case for most companies, we are often asked for money and, where possible and appropriate, we like to share our good fortune – our bigger customers will know this, as we make charitable donations on their behalf each Christmas. However, when we recently received an email with a letter attached, a personal request from a local 13-year …

ZONE GUARDIAN update

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At SEP, we regularly try to keep customers informed of our product range, and any latest developments, using various means (we have a monthly email newsletter, a Twitter account and a LinkedIn account). Therefore, we often have to ‘raise our eyebrows’ when customers – even regular customers – ask if we sell such-and-such a thing. One example is our ZONE …

SEP Animation

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We are excited to announce that we have just released our first explanatory animation, covering the basics of our ZONE GUARDIAN. Using state-of-the-art graphic design and professional production and voiceover artists, this has taken a little work but we’re pleased with the result as a ‘starter-for-ten’. Over the coming months, we intend to produce and release a range of animations …