Move signals the ‘start of new era’

The past year has also seen the firm busy on the new product front, with the launch of a ‘revolutionary’ new range of touchscreen-controlled analogue addressable fire alarms panels which the company claims will put it ‘way ahead of the competition’, and, in response to demand from nursing and care home operator customers, the introduction of a range of components designed to facilitate dementia care as an extension to its well-established Quantec addressable call system. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.

C-TEC, which in 2011 celebrated 30 years in business, designs, manufactures, and markets, a wide range of life safety products and systems including fire alarm panels, addressable call system technology, conventional call systems, infrared staff protection equipment, induction loop systems, power supplies, and ancillaries, to customers in sectors including healthcare, sports and leisure, hotels and hospitality, retail, and office/commercial, in more than 60 countries worldwide, An ISO 9001-accredited company since 1994, and a corporate member of the Fire Industry Association, the company says ‘reliability and durability’ are ‘built into’ its products at all stages – from conception and design at its £2 million R&D laboratory in Mawdesley, some 10 miles away from its new building in Wigan’s Challenge Way, to construction, testing, and despatch, at the purpose-built new headquarters and production facility, into which staff moved early this year. Many of C-TEC’s products are, the company emphasises, third-party certificated by internationally recognised test and approval bodies such as the LPCB (Loss Prevention Certification Board), the BSI (British Standards Institute), and German certification body, the VdS, a factor that the supplier says ‘confirms to specifiers, installers, and consumers alike, that they meet the design and performance requirements of key British, European, and international standards’.

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