Paignton is one of the UK's best-kept industrial secrets. Behind the seaside identity lies a nationally significant photonics and microelectronics technology cluster, a growing precision manufacturing base, and NHS infrastructure serving half a million people across Torbay and South Devon. These environments carry critical fire risk that standard alarms and extinguishers alone cannot address.
At FirePro UK, whether it is a new installation protecting clean room electrical infrastructure, UPS systems, laboratory equipment, diesel generator enclosures, or medical electrical systems, or a retrofit replacing an ageing gas suppression system, we have a certificated solution from single-enclosure to room flood scale.
Our advanced condensed aerosol technology is LPCB, UL, and VDS certificated, carries a 15-year lifecycle and a 3-year warranty, and outperforms pressurised gas systems on installation speed, cost of ownership, and environmental credentials.
With no pressurised cylinders, no pipework, and no overpressure venting required, FirePro is built for the technology, healthcare, and manufacturing environments that define Paignton's real commercial identity.
The Electronics and Photonics Innovation Centre at White Rock Business Park is an £8 million, 3,834 square metre national centre of excellence for innovation in microelectronics and photonics. It provides open-market access to specialist laboratory and clean room facilities for R&D, prototyping, and innovation in light-science and fibre-optic technologies, supported by UK and US multinationals and 32 hi-tech member companies.
Lumentum, a major US fibre-optic technology company, occupies space at Westfield Business Park in Paignton for photonics research, development, and production. Torbay Council is investing £6.5 million to acquire the Lumentum unit and expand the council-owned technology cluster further. The Torbay Technology Park's approved 2,040 square metre Electronics and Photonics Production Centre will add 175 new high-value jobs and unlock 1.2 hectares of further manufacturing space.
These environments carry fire risk profiles unlike anything a standard alarm or extinguisher programme is designed to address. Clean room electrical infrastructure, precision fibre-optic production equipment, UPS systems, and laboratory electronics all require suppression that activates automatically without water, foam, or chemical residue. A single conventional suppression agent discharge in a clean room environment would destroy equipment worth multiples of the fire itself.
FirePro works differently from every service operating in Paignton's current fire protection market.
Our patented FPC solid compound transforms on activation into a condensed aerosol that floods the protected space, interrupting the chemical chain reactions of combustion at the molecular level.
The result is rapid, clean suppression with:
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From sub stations, transformers, HV/LV, electrical distribution, and risers. FirePro swiftly suppresses fire, minimising critical equipment damage
In the era of remote sites, FirePro's versatile and easy-to-install systems offer effective fire protection without compromising efficiency.
The significant rise in imported bulk li-ion energy storage facilities from overseas may also mean a significant increase in fire risk, especially when poorly engineered. Why compromise, FirePro has the answer.
Whether on land, marine or offshore, FirePro ensures fail safe, resilient fire protection for many types of power generation, plant, machinery, even ATEX environments.
The Claylands Manufacturing Facility, a 5,500 square metre facility opened in 2021, provides space for specialist machinery manufacturing products for pharmaceutical distribution and aerospace industries. Torbay Hospital, the main NHS acute facility for Torbay and South Devon managed by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, serves a catchment of approximately 500,000 people with A&E, maternity, cancer services, and critical care infrastructure requiring mission-critical backup power and medical electrical systems.
Western Business Park on Brixham Road adds light industrial and commercial units serving manufacturing, engineering, and distribution businesses across the wider Torbay area. Each of these facilities carries the same underlying fire risk: electrical infrastructure, UPS systems, diesel generator backup, and process or laboratory equipment that a standard alarm cannot suppress.
The fire safety market currently serving Paignton covers alarms, extinguishers, fire doors, damper inspections, and risk assessments. Not one provider offers LPCB certified condensed aerosol fire suppression for the photonics laboratories, clean rooms, pharmaceutical manufacturing, or NHS electrical infrastructure that Paignton's technology and healthcare base requires. FirePro UK fills that gap with certificated, automatic, no-residue suppression built specifically for these environments.
Yes. Photonics and electronics manufacturing environments including clean rooms, precision laboratory facilities, UPS systems, and fibre-optic production equipment are among the most appropriate environments for FirePro condensed aerosol suppression. The system activates automatically without water, foam, or corrosive residue, causing no secondary damage to sensitive precision equipment, a fundamental advantage in environments where conventional suppression would destroy the very assets being protected.
Yes. FirePro UK is the UK and Ireland master distributor for FirePro condensed aerosol fire suppression, supporting specifiers, designers, installers, and end users across Paignton, Devon, and the wider South West.
Our patented FPC solid compound transforms on activation into a condensed aerosol that floods the protected space, interrupting fire's chemical chain reactions at the molecular level. There are no cylinders, no pipework, and no pressurised agents, just fast, clean suppression with no secondary damage to precision electronics, clean room infrastructure, or laboratory equipment.
Yes. FirePro is the only condensed aerosol fire suppression product to hold LPCB product certification in the UK, independently tested to BS EN 15276. This is the standard recognised by insurers, loss adjusters, and building control authorities, and is a credential no provider in Paignton's current fire protection market can match for this technology category.
Passive fire protection uses structural measures such as compartmentation, fire stopping, and fire doors to contain the spread of fire within a building. Active fire protection responds dynamically on detection, suppressing fire at source. FirePro is an active suppression system that works alongside passive measures to protect the critical assets that structural measures alone cannot address.
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