Article Treasures | Bristan and Sirrus by Gummers merge to deliver style and essentiality

Previously a sister brand to Bristan, Sirrus by Gummers has a one hundred forty-year historical past of supplying quality, rigorously examined taps, showers and water controls to the industrial market. The integration of the range into the Bristan brand offers merchants one level of contact for the ordering and delivery of commercial and domestic bathroom merchandise, and makes it simpler for installers and contractors to supply them. The budge is a part of Bristan’s lengthy-term strategy to increase share within the commercial market.

Along with extending its Product and Value Guide, Bristan has mixed main products from both brands to create a new tailor-made assortment of taps, showers and accessories for specification in the healthcare, schooling, leisure and hospitality sectors. The products will probably be showcased in a guide known as Specifier, which can launch in August 2011. It is going to embrace complete product info, technical information sheets and detailed guidance on requirements and laws to help make it easy for specifiers to select the suitable product for the application.

The excellent specification product range consists of thermostatic mixing valves; capacitance non-contact applied sciences for an infection management; HTM64 basin mixers; timed circulate taps and showers; thermostatic showers, basin mixers and bath shower mixers; shower panels, shower kits and equipment; Doc M packs and coordinated tap, shower and accessory collections.

All merchandise are high quality examined at every stage of manufacture, and have been designed at the side of prospects and industry bodies such as the TMVA (Thermostatic Mixing Valve Association). The strong range affords easy set up with technical support if required, coupled with ease of entry for service and maintenance.

The product portfolio consists of one of the largest ranges of TMV3 accepted mixing valves in the UK. The thermostatic mixing valves not only mix water to a protected temperature but will also shut down while in the occasion of scorching or chilly water failure. Among the thermostatic mixing valves have retained the Gummers name.

With sustainability and energy efficiency in thoughts the range additionally includes water efficient taps and mixers and water financial system showerheads. Most merchandise are WRAS accredited and the Pulse 8 computerized controls are eligible for BREEAM points.

Alongside the tried and tested range, Bristan will also be investing in new product growth that reflects the wants of its customers and the market.

Ian Hansell, common manager, Bristan Trade, said: “Bringing our industrial enterprise into the Bristan brand allows us to supply our merchant and installer customers a whole answer for commercial and domestic products, all with the backing of next day delivery, exceptional customer support and technical support.

“We imagine that is the proper marriage of 2 manufacturers, offering each style and substance. We are combining the distinctive style, design, service and trust related to Bristan with Sirrus by Gummers’ 140-year legacy of engineering excellence, durability and rigorous safety and high quality standards; it truly is the best of each worlds.

“Forged again in 1871, Gummers has an extended historical past and its merchandise were put in within the Ritz, the Strand and on the HMS Ark Royal. We might have changed the brand identify to Bristan, however we're dedicated to keeping its legacy alive, that's why you'll discover the Gummers name on many of the thermostatic mixing valves in our collection. A brand new a hundred and forty-yr laurel will seem on all advertising material - providing reassurance to clients who've come to depend on the model’s rich heritage, reliability and safety.

” To assist customers, a new web site can be launched in August 2011. It's going to embody useful data corresponding to knowledge sheets and installation instructions, in addition to a SpecBuilder app, which permits the consumer to build specifications from the Bristan vary of products. A new specification advertising and marketing manager can even be becoming a member of the Bristan group and a devoted specification gross sales team will create demand among architects and specifiers, serving to to tug sales by way of merchant customers.”