Appointment


Ellis extends export excellence with senior sales appointment


Leading cable cleat manufacturer Ellis Patents has strengthened its export credentials by appointing a second export manager.


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sabelle Gantier-Houston, from Paris, has worked extensively in export, sales and marketing roles during her 20 plus year career and joins a sales team that actively sells into over 50 different international markets.


Kelly Brown, Ellis Patents sales director, said: “Exports account for over half of our annual turnover, with sales being achieved through an international network of local distributors who work on our behalf in every country we export to.”


“With international travel well and truly back on the agenda, Isabelle’s experience will be pivotal in helping to deliver our export strategy


Announcement


Reducing energy consumption is vital, says B.E.G.


Businesses must take ‘immediate action’, as energy support for firms is reduced from April.


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ighting controls specialist B.E.G. insists it is vital that businesses and organisations take ‘immediate action’ by working to reduce their own energy consumption in the wake of the Government’s decision to scale back support from April.


Under the new energy support scheme announced on January 10, firms will now get a discount on wholesale prices rather than costs being capped. The current support package, which was first launched in September after prices were driven up in the wake of the pandemic and war in Ukraine, ends on March 31. Now the new energy support scheme, which is mainly used by businesses, public sector organisations and charities, will run from April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2004. However, Paul Jones, director at lighting controls manufacturer B.E.G. UK Limited, says businesses need to do all they can to reduce energy consumption themselves, especially as firms will only benefit from the new


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scheme when energy bills are high. Jones said: “Rising energy costs have been a major concern for businesses, and indeed households too, for some time and whilst the Government will continue to provide some help to businesses, it will be at a less generous level than before from April.


“It will also vary from industry to industry depending on how heavy energy-using these companies are in order to operate. Therefore, it is imperative that organisations take immediate action and do what they can themselves to reduce their own energy consumption. “The lighting industry is constantly looking at ways to help ease and one of the most effective ways to use less energy is by ‘controlling’ how it is used. Modern motion and occupancy sensors are totally focused on ensuring that lighting is only used based on demand.


“These products are designed to consider the luminosity of the room in regards to natural light and engineered in such a way that the sensors


and in ensuring we provide support to each and every company within our network.” Used to secure electrical power cables so that they stay safely in place during a short circuit, Ellis Patents reputation is such that its cable cleats will almost certainly be in the specification frame at the beginning of any new major construction project; whether onshore or offshore; no matter where in the world it is.


“The Ellis Patents success story is an incredible one and I’m looking forward to the challenge of adding a few new chapters to it,” said Isabelle. www.ellispatents.co.uk 01944 758395


automatically dim the artificial lighting to the required brightness. This means the sensor includes as much ‘free’ available natural light as possible in order that energy consumption is significantly reduced.”


“At B.E.G., we have seen organisations using lighting control sensors make energy savings of up to 50 per cent in an office building, up to 60 per cent in a high-bay warehouse and up to 80 per cent in washrooms.” www.beg-luxomat.com


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