ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCT DESIGN & OPERATION

At Grifen our ethos of "improve where possible" is applied to saving resources in the product manufacture and their impact on site and natural resources.

  • HYDROPULSE; designed as a single piece casting weighing only 0.5Kg saving a vast amount of metal and casting energy, transport and packaging impact is also significantly lower. A reuseable stainless steel product that can have any worn internal components replaced, outlasting the buildings structure.
  • EN HYDROPULSE; all the above and with  the added advantage of using significantly less water, electricity and or diesel when doing weekly fire pump tests. On operation LEDs give accurate results and can give indications of third party product problems which can be rectified whilst still serviceable.
  • JOCKEY PUMPS; low flow pumps which use much less material in their construction and have far lower energy consumption than traditional pumps.
  • FLOWST8n and BOOST8n; both of these products perform unmanned automatic testing and fault reporting. This system would allow off site fault analysis enabling engineers to help from their office without unecessary site visits. Rainwater harvesting tanks can used in suction lift. Despite fire fighting water being free we want to encourage storage and use of our presently abundant supply of rainwater, without using the town main supply.
  • COMPRESSORS; innovative visible LEDs allow simple set up and have the advantage of prolonging motor life, saving site visits and new replacement capital equipment. Improved fire response time could save life and a fire developing.

We are always trying to improve our products and manufacturing process, implementing PLC technology to replace travel time and bulky equipment.

Although at times it would be easy to buy and store new packaging we try and reuse all incoming packaging or send it to suitable recycling.

At the farm we have encouraged others to follow our lead and try to reuse and recycle materials within the on site business community.

We have removed over 500watts of lighting from the workshop without impacting on safety or functionality. 210watts have also been removed from the stores/ packing, demonstration room and office.