Move signals the 'start of new era'

Thirty-one years after its establishment in a small office in Wigan, independent life safety equipment manufacturer, C-TEC, has moved into a new 75,000 ft2 factory, 'the size of three football pitches', marking the start of what founder and MD, Andrew Foster, dubs 'the next phase in our exciting development'. The past year has also seen the firm busy on the new product front, with the launch of a 'revolutionary' new range of touchscreen-controlled analogue addressable fire alarms panels which the company claims will put it 'way ahead of the competition', and, in response to demand from nursing and care home operator customers, the introduction of a range of components designed to facilitate dementia care as an extension to its well-established Quantec addressable call system. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.