Boiler maker gets safety mark to start production
FLOW Group, the Cheshire company that has pioneered an environmentally-friendly micro combined heat and power boiler for domestic use, says it has won the safety certification needed to start volume production this year.
The CE mark from the British Standards Institution (BSI) means that the Flow boiler has passed all safety regulations and has been certified for volume production and home installation, allowing the group to instruct its partner Jabil to start manufacturing.
Capenhurst-based Flow Group, previously known as Energetix, is listed on AIM. Its Flow boiler is a gas-fired domestic boiler that generates electricity at the same time as it uses gas to heat a home, at less than 36% of the cost of electricity from the grid.
The company added that Jabil is making “significant progress” in preparing its manufacturing facility in Livingstone, Scotland, to begin manufacturing up to 390,000 Flow boilers from he second half of 2014.
Tony Stiff, chief executive of Flowgroup, said: “CE certification is one of the most important of our milestones. It allows us to make a simple but crucial statement – that we have a safe, working product that can be manufactured and sold. That is exactly what we intend to do in the second half of this year via an extensive multi-channel sales and marketing campaign.
“Creating an affordable domestic electricity-generating gas boiler has long been a sought after prize in the global heating industry. That the group has achieved this, allowing the commercialisation of this game-changing technology for the mass market for the very first time, means that we open up the possibility of generating significant returns for our shareholders as well as supplying a range of benefits for consumers, society and the UK economy.”
