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Fire Protection

Warrington is on expansion path

01 March 2006

The UK-based fire safety specialist Warrington is establishing an office in Dubai in a bid to expand its client base in the Middle East.

The Dubai office will be responsible for business development, improved communications with clients and advocating better understanding in the fire safety requirements and procedures, says Amal Tamim, head of Warringtonfire Middle East and North African region.
“The move to set up a new base in the region is in line with Warrington’s restated vision ‘to become world leaders in supporting the manufacture of products and the complex facilities to provide fire safety’,” Tamim says.
This vision is complemented by a number of new initiatives to extend Warringtonfire’s involvement at an international level – most important of which is its specialised Middle East product listing scheme and factory production control certification to manufacturers that offer products in the regional market. Other initiatives include a change of the company’s image and brand name to warringtonfire, a new corporate logo and a re-designed website (www.warringtonfire.net).
Tamim elaborates: “The warringtonfire Mideast Product Listing scheme is designed to meet the Middle East market needs for product certifications and is developed in cooperation with the local authorities. The service ensures that products supplied to the Middle East market have an appropriate fire performance rating, are manufactured to consistent standards and are traceable once supplied to site. The scheme currently covers all passive fire protection products.
“Warringtonfire has grown from being the UK’s leading fire testing laboratory to becoming a key player at both the European and an international levels for fire-safety testing of products, components and assemblies used in construction, marine and rail industries. The company’s testing laboratories in the UK, Belgium, and Australia are accredited and approved by civil defence authorities while the European laboratories are also certified as competent bodies to serve the process of CE marking of products.
“Warringtonfire certification is designated to serve as a technical approvals body. The company’s inspectors continue to offer a thorough, professional and unbiased third-party assessment and inspection of installed fire protection in buildings.”
The company’s fire safety engineering consultancy group is globally recognised, keeps abreast with the developments in technology and has worked on many iconic buildings in the region including Burj Al Arab in the UAE, Bibliotheca Alexandrina library in Egypt, and Abraj Al Beit in Saudi Arabia, Tamim concludes.