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Baxi welcomes the publication of the Government’s RHI policy document

March 15, 2011 – 12:36 pm

Baxi has broadly welcomed the Government’s publication on Thursday 10th March of its Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) policy document. We are encouraged by the main thrust of the RHI documentation.  The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has clearly learnt the important lessons from the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) framework and created an approach which will ensure technologies [...]

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Baxi at Ecobuild 2011

March 7, 2011 – 10:50 am

Graham Parkes, Head of Sales – Low Carbon Technologies, and his team were kept very busy at the recent Ecobuild exhibition at London ExCel. They were demonstrating working models of Baxi Ecogen dual energy system and Baxi Bioflo compact biomass boiler on the Plumb Center sponsored Practical Installer stand.  “People came to the show with [...]

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Spare a thought…

February 24, 2011 – 10:12 am

In the UK, we may be in the grip of tough economic cuts and miserable February weather (we Brits do like to talk about the weather, don’t we!), but our hearts go out to the people of Christchurch, New Zealand, and those in Libya. The earthquake in Christchurch seems all the more shocking because, from the [...]

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Double win for Baxi Ecogen

February 17, 2011 – 12:46 pm

The Baxi Ecogen dual energy system has won both the Heating and Plumbing category and the Green Award in the Homebuilding & Renovating Product Excellence Awards 2011. Michael Holmes, Editor in chief Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine and presenter of Channel 5 “I own Britain’s best home”, said: “The Baxi Ecogen harnesses well established micro generation [...]

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Our man Gary is a hero!

January 13, 2011 – 5:28 pm

One of our salesmen, Gary Wainright, is being hailed as a hero by his family, friends and colleagues after fending off a sword-wielding thug in a bar in Tenerife during a New Year holiday.  His actions enabled over 100 people, including women and children, to escape. The three foot sword broke Gary’s arm in four [...]

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Baxi Group supports the changes to the Benchmark scheme

October 20, 2010 – 9:41 am

In a bid to rid the industry of ‘cowboys’, Baxi Group has joined the other UK gas boiler manufacturers in a campaign to link the commissioning checklist, completed by Gas Safe registered engineers when they have completed an installation, with the appliance’s warranty. The commissioning checklist is issued through the Benchmark scheme, which is managed [...]

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I’d just like to thank…

June 30, 2010 – 4:39 pm

It’s the season for award ceremonies in the heating industry and voting opens for the prestigious CORGI Awards on 1 July 2010.
Last year, we were delighted that Baxi’s sister company Main scooped the Heating Manufacturer of the Year award.

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Successful week!

May 27, 2010 – 3:11 pm

We’ve had a really successful week here at Baxi. The Baxi Bermuda BBU HE triumphed at the IGEM/SBGI Gas Industry Awards 2010, winning the Gas Industry Innovation Award. The award ceremony was part of the Joint Gas Industry Luncheon held at the London Hilton Hotel on Tuesday 11th May. It was presented by National Grid [...]

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New boiler scrappage schemes announced

February 11, 2010 – 8:29 am

On 10 February 2010, the Welsh Assembly announced that it is investing in a boiler scrappage scheme.  This follows hot on the heels of the Scottish Government, which said last week that it would be running a similar scheme.  The two devolved countries are following the English scheme which has been running in England since January 5 [...]

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Boiler scrappage scheme

December 10, 2009 – 11:14 am

Yesterday (9 December 2009), in his Pre-Budget Report the Chancellor announced details of a boiler scrappage scheme to start as soon as possible in 2010. The scheme is designed to help householders with older Band G boilers lower their fuel bills and reduce the carbon footprint of homes. Details released so far say that £400 [...]

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