Press Release on May 14 Conference

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EXHIBITORS WARM UP GAIN CONFERENCE

First Annual GAIN Exhibition for Grant Suppliers

Twenty-six suppliers to the government Warm Front scheme and the wider grant market exhibited alongside the GAIN Conference for those serving the specialist grant market. The Conference was organised by the Grant Aided Heating Installers Network, and sponsored by eaga plc, who manage the government scheme. Nearly 200 registered social landlords, and suppliers and installers within the industry, attended the conference and visited the exhibition.

            The exhibition covered heating, insulation and renewable products, with the following participants:

eaga plc is a green support services company that has grown over the last 20 years into the UK’s leading provider of residential energy efficiency solutions and an established deliverer of outsourced services that address climate change and social inclusion. They partner local authorities, central government and blue chip organisations including over 30 councils, Government departments and all the major utility companies, with a full range of BPO services. Committed to delivering service excellence and value for money for clients, they have experienced continued growth and are recognised as a leader in the outsourcing market. T: 0191 247 3800; f: 0191 247 3802; enquiry@eaga.com; www.eaga.com.

The Grant Aided Heating Installers Network aims to deliver cost effective and energy efficient heating solutions throughout the UK, working with government, agencies and RSLs to address future challenges. The highest levels of technical and safety performance are aimed for, whilst embracing customer and service excellence. GAIN provides a united voice, supporting heating installers involved in grant aided schemes and advancing the working partnership with scheme managers. It holds quarterly, open meetings at a central venue with eaga (itself a GAIN member) to discuss specification and technical issues. This encourages networking to share knowledge and find solutions collectively. GAIN aims to be at the forefront of renewable technologies and actively encourages government and RSL’s to embrace new technologies where a sufficiently robust economic or social argument can be made for their deployment. T: 01428 654011; f: 01428 651401; gainassociation@aol.com; www.gainassociation.org.uk.

Ideal Stelrad are the UK’s market leaders in central heating for both boilers and radiators. HE Combi and system boiler ranges include: esprit. isar, istor, excel and mini. HE heat only boiler ranges include: mexico, classic, icos, icos system, elise and imax. Radiator ranges include: panel radiators: Elite, Compact and Softline Premium Panel: Classic Column, Planar, the contemporary Compact with Style range and ever popular ladder towel rails. Designer models include Optia, Wave, Arc, Ellipse, Esprit, Excel, Vistaline, Concord. T: 0870 849 8056; f: 0870 849 8058; www.idealboilers.com; www.stelrad.com.

Baxi: The Baxi Duo-tec Combi 28 HE was voted the CORGI Boiler of the Year 2008.  Installers were impressed with its ease of installation and service, its exceptional reliability and the technical back up available. In 2007, it was awarded the UK’s Best Buy by Which? magazine. The award winning Baxi Ecogen micro-CHP appliance looks and acts just like a conventional boiler. The difference is a free piston stirling engine that generates heat and 1kW of electricity to use in the home, reducing carbon emissions and lowering fuel bills. T: 08706 060780; info@baxi.co.uk; www.baxi.co.uk. 

Davant Products Ltd are a major UK supplier of plastic products for all above and below ground applications. Pushfit systems for plumbing and heating, cold water storage tanks, mains water pipe and fittings, drainage, rainwater and wastewater. Featured at the GAIN exhibition is the Whitespeed plastic pushfit system for all UK plumbing and heating applications, offering a full range of truly demountable fittings, coupled with the flexibility of white polybutylene barrier pipe to BS 7291. Due to its flexibility the pipe is much easier to cable than copper, thus eliminating joints. Blowtorches, solders and tools are no longer required to make a permanent water tight joint. T: 01531 630068; info@davant.co.uk; www.davant.co.uk.

Honeywell Analytics (formerly SF Detection), is the UK’s number one manufacturer of domestic carbon monoxide (CO) and gas alarms. On show was the latest range of products designed for a variety of domestic applications including carbon monoxide, natural gas and LPG alarms. Key for this year is the ultra compact SF450EN domestic carbon monoxide alarm. This unit comes complete with a six-year maintenance free guarantee and up to 6.5 years operational life, with the batteries sealed inside the unit to prevent tampering or unscheduled deactivation. It is also officially approved and kitemarked to the stringent requirements of the latest European Standard – EN50291. T: 01202 645587; ha.uk@honeywell.com; www.honeywellanalytics.com.

Vaillant Ltd: For more than 130 years, Vaillant has set the standards in the heating market, creating products that have revolutionised the industry. As Europe’s number one boiler manufacturer, innovation still comes as second nature. Products boast the highest energy efficiency ratings and lowest emissions, and come with an enviable reputation for performance, quality and reliability. At the same time they continue to invest in developing new technologies for solutions that further simplify installation, commissioning and servicing, and make everyday operation even easier. Training and sales support services offered. T: 01634 292300; info@vaillant.co.uk; www.vaillant.co.uk.

Robinson Willey: Over 45 years of experience has positioned RW as one of today’s leading specialists within the gas and electric heating market. RW’s reputation for quality, reliability and performance is legendary, so too is the company’s commitment to developing energy efficient products that are in keeping with sustainability and responsibility for the future. RW is also parading its high-efficiency SuperEco Electric fire in the Cosgrove maple surround. This range provides the ultimate electric heating solution for both new build and social housing sectors. Delivering an impressive 2.0kW heat output with superb flame picture and glow, all models feature low energy efficient bulbs, an integral thermostat and a top-positioned heat control. T: 0151 530 5150; info@robinson-willey.com.

Sentinel Performance Solutions: Established in 1988, Sentinel Performance Solutions has grown to become the leading European domestic water treatment specialist. Sentinel's UK head office is located at the Heath Business and Technical Park in Cheshire, with operations also located in France, Italy, Germany, Benelux & USA. Sentinel has an unrivalled product design and development programme, which is focused on introducing new, advanced and environmentally acceptable products to its range. For more than 20 years, using quality management practices and processes, such as Design for Six Sigma and StageGate®, Sentinel has successfully striven to develop technically superior and highly cost effective products and services without compromising quality, durability or function. T: 01928 588349; f: 01928 588368; info.uk@sentinel-solutions.net; www.sentinel-solutions.net.

Mobliq: forms on the move. Mobliq® enables information to be collected in electronic format (including signatures and photos), passed to any nominated person and displayed in customised format. A clear overview of where all jobs are and their status is provided, with easy to manage key performance indicators for each stage of the process. Mobliq® enables users to customise and mobilise a management system specific to their own business and competitive requirements. It can be used to modify a customised mobile solution at user level, or with the assistance of Mobliq's professional services. T: 0191 414 6561; www.mobliq.co.uk.

Myson supply a wide range of heating equipment into the social housing sector. The product range includes both round-top and compact panel radiators, heating controls and towel warmers. In addition Myson offer more specialist products such as low voltage fan convectors. As well as specialist products, it also employs sector specialists to maintain a thorough understanding of the social housing marketplace and to ensure the company stays abreast of changes in legislation and procedure. Myson is a part of a privately-owned, family business with most of its manufacturing in the UK. T: 0191 491 4466; sales@myson.co.uk; www.myson.co.uk.

Horstmann Controls’ ThermoPlus programmable room thermostats break new ground for their ease and simplicity of use. There are four models - the ThermoPlus AS1 is mains powered and offers simple three button operation with factory pre-set heating profiles.  The ThermoPlus AS2 is a battery powered model, while the ThermoPlus PRT1 has been especially designed for vulnerable/older users.  It is mains powered and requires an all-installer set-up to agreed parameters. Finally the ThermoPlus RF is the wireless version being battery powered and making use of the advanced Z-Wave™ control language. ThermoPlus programmable thermostats form part of the recommended controls for use with Warmfront. T: 0117 978 8748; sales@horstmann.co.uk; www.horstmann.co.uk.

Gti Ltd was delighted to take part in the inaugural GAIN Conference. Although many will associate GTi with energy efficiency products and services, they also work in the field of home safety, and in particular the dangers of carbon monoxide. Over the past five years GTi has been involved in many projects to raise the awareness of carbon monoxide and has delivered many thousands of CO Alarms to homes across the UK. They launched the brand new Fire Angel 9x CO Alarm, with a 7-year life and in-built diagnostics: this is the latest and most innovative product in carbon monoxide alarm development.  T: 01369 702070; info@gti-limited.com; www.gti-limited.com.

NEA is the leading fuel poverty charity, working to develop and promote energy efficiency services to tackle the heating and insulation problems of low-income households. T: 0191 261 5677; f: 0191 261 6496; www.nea.org.uk.

Grundfos Pumps is a UK leader in the supply of pumps and pump systems for building services and process industry applications and a major supplier to the water supply and treatment industries and provider of packaged fire sets. Based in over 80 countries, the Group produces over 16 million pumps per year. They have a solution for every pumping application around the home. For example there are the Grundfos ALPHA2 and ALPHA2L circulators for A-labelled efficiency, and for effective condensate removal use a Grundfos Conlift or ConliftL. Free web based training in pump theory and application provided - visit www.grundfos.co.uk/gplus. T: 01525 775402; f: 01525 775236; uk-sales@grundfos.com. 

Honeywell Control Systems: The range of wired and wireless controls helps customers use less energy.  85% of the energy in the home is used to provide heating and hot water. Conversely, only 3% is used in provided lighting, but the main energy efficiency message is to change light bulbs. Fitting thermostats can have a far greater effect. With low energy light bulbs in the home, fit a new, more efficient room thermostat to make real savings. The new DT90 series of Digital Thermostats offer wired or wireless energy saving potential. T: 01344 656591; www.honeywelluk.com (heating controls) and www.honeywellukwater.com (water controls).

Worcester, Bosch Group is a leading manufacturer of high efficiency heating and hot water appliances for the home. As part of the worldwide Bosch Group, all Worcester products are designed, manufactured, sold and distributed with the quality and reliability that is synonymous with the Bosch name.  Worcester’s extensive Greenstar high efficiency condensing boiler range includes: natural gas, oil-fired and LPG products, with combi, regular and system boiler options to suit all homes. The company has also developed its product portfolio to include renewable heating technologies: the Greenskies solar water heating system, Greenstore ground source heat pumps, and Greensource air to air and air to water heat pumps. T: 01905 753102; f: 01905 754601; general.worcester@uk.bosch.com; www.worcester-bosch.co.uk. 

Johnson & Starley’s participation at GAIN underlines the company’s market leading position in heating and ventilation solutions.  Exhibits included the RenoXtra high efficiency combination condensing boiler range, featuring a gas saver module for extra domestic hot water (DHW) efficiency and lower running costs.   The LE 155 heat recovery system with its highly energy efficient EC fans provides an ideal form of ventilation for domestic properties.  The company is also the largest manufacturer of warm air heaters in Europe and is renowned for its efficient Economaire range, which features an electronic control system. Johnson & Starley’s new web-site is at www.johnsonandstarley.co.uk. T: 01604 762881; stan.bell@johnsonandstarley.co.uk.

Heating Renewables Ltd are currently at the forefront of the installation of domestic and commercial renewable energy systems, such as solar thermal hot water systems, solar photovoltaic systems, ground source and air/water heat pumps, exhaust air systems, both in the private and public sector, and are working closely with Eaga Renewables, Liverpool City Council, Wirral Borough Council, Golden Gate Housing, Birmingham City Council, Rhonda Valley Borough Council, Eastbourne Borough Council and South Ribble Borough Council on inner city projects piloting renewable energy schemes. Heating Renewables have assisted and worked in conjunction with architects and consultants on projects for Lancaster University, Leeds University, Pensby Girls High School and Mark Gate School Romford, providing successful operating and energy saving systems and recommending for installation proven quality materials that provide the best performance and efficiency for the end user. T: 08701 621407; info@heatingrenewables.co.uk; www.heatingrenewables.com.

Kershaw Contracting Services Ltd provides specialist heating, insulation and asbestos removal services for the construction industry. It is an approved contractor for the Warmfront scheme and has installed 1000’s of heating systems for households in the south of England during the last 16 years. Since 1972 Kershaw has supplied cavity wall and loft insulation via managing agents and main contractors for domestic refurbishment and new build projects. Kershaw has supplied a specialist asbestos removal service during the last 25 years for all types of buildings; with a broad base of projects ranging from boiler flues to university libraries. T: 01954 250155; f: 01954 251628; sales.office@kershaw-grp.co.uk; www.kershaw-grp.co.uk.

Fernox: At this year's GAIN exhibition Fernox featured the new Fernox Express range of chemical water treatments, 60 Sec Protector Check strips, as well as the established ‘F’ 500ml range of chemical water treatment products. Fernox Express is the fast and convenient way to dose a system - just 30 seconds and the job is complete. This new range means there is no mess, no fuss, and no additional expensive adaptors are needed. All products have been designed to protect central heating systems from the effects of corrosion and limescale build-up, and to tackle common problems that can affect a boiler’s operation and efficiency. Included within the range is: Protector F1, Boiler Noise Silencer F2, Leak Sealer F4 and Cleaner F5. T: 01483 793200; f: 01483 793201; admin@fernox.com; www.fernox.com.

Electrium Sales: Wylex/Volex, recognised brand leaders in UK circuit protection and wiring accessories. Specified throughout the UK by local authorities, housing associations, ALMO’s, RSL’s and house builders. Wylex offer an extensive range of consumer units tailored to meet the needs of the 17th Edition Wiring Regulations. In addition, they offer a be-spoke design service for retrofit consumer units reducing installation time, additional building works and tenant disruption. Volex offer a broad range of wiring accessories to suit domestic and commercial applications in various finishes. Wylex/Volex products are manufactured and tested to the relevant British and International Standards, within an ISO9000 quality assurance environment. T: 01543 455000 f: 01543 455001; www.electrium.co.uk.

Kingspan Solar Ltd provides the commercial and domestic markets with an ultimate solar package, custom-designed to suit requirements of each individual application. The package incorporates high quality flat plate solar thermal panels or high performance Thermomax evacuated tube solar collectors. The system can incorporate the latest condensing boiler technology, underfloor heating, or the traditional radiator system. It is then coupled to a high performance Range Tribune HE Duplex stainless steel solar cylinder. Aeromax heat pumps use natural heat from the air outside to provide central heating (underfloor heating or traditional radiators) and/or hot water for homes. Highly efficient, the units are compact and easy to install. Incredibly quiet, they require virtually no maintenance. Offered with complete package solutions and can be coupled with the highly efficient Range Tribune HE renewable energy cylinder to maximise efficiency benefits. T: 01924 376026; info@kingspansolar.com; www.kingspansolar.co.uk; www.kingspanhws.com. 

Kingspan Environmental Ltd: Gain a competitive advantage by installing a No. 1 oil storage tank and rainwater harvesting system from Kingspan Environmental Ltd. The Titan Environmental Ecosafe range of bunded oil tanks meets and exceeds the current oil storage regulations. Also available is the WatchmanAlarm device which monitors the level of oil in the tank and releases an audible alarm in the event of a potential oil theft.  The KingspanWater range of rainwater harvesting and greywater recycling products helps to meet various levels of the Code of Sustainable Homes and provides a sustainable solution for reducing water consumption within any home. T: 028 3836 4400; f: 028 3836 4445; www.kingspanenv.com.

Warmer Heating Ltd are a leading provider of bespoke central heating systems and boiler replacement, together with providing service and maintenance contracts. They operate from their head office in Liverpool, and Low Prudhoe Industrial Estate in Newcastle. They are a specialist installer of market-leading products such as Vaillant, Worcester Bosch and Baxi, as well as being a major contractor for eaga plc, who co-ordinate the Warm Front grant for those receiving benefit payments. Their engineers can install and service traditional gas, solid fuel, LPG, and oil powered energy efficient systems or renewable energy systems such as solar, air source heat pumps, ground source heat pumps, biomass and CHP. T: 0151 545 2600; f: 0151 545 2618; enquiries@warmerheating.co.uk; www.warmerheating.co.uk.

Mitsubishi Ecodan: their low carbon heating and hot water system for homes has been specifically designed to combat the continued rise in energy costs and reduce CO₂ emissions. With the price of oil and gas rising dramatically the need for householders to reduce fuel bills has never been greater. Compared to the traditional gas and oil fired boilers used in the majority of UK homes, Ecodan can significantly cut costs and revolutionise domestic heating. Boasting savings of up to 36% when compared to the running costs of a gas boiler and a massive 45% when compared to the more expensive oil fired boilers. T: T: 01707 278666; f: 01707 278592; heating@meuk.mee.com; www.meuk.mee.com.

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NB: Company product write-ups supplied by exhibitors and not the responsibility of GAIN.

Editors: Press enquiries to Gillian or Leonie on 01428 654011. Images of some of the exhibits enclosed or available from gainassociation@aol.com. 

  Electrium Sales

  Horstmann Controls Ltd

  Vaillant Ltd

 & Kershaw Contracting Services Ltd

  Johnson & Starley Ltd

  Heating Renewables Ltd