Fire Industry News for April 2025

On 6th - 10th January, Lorient hosted its first Safety Week at Endeavour House, Newton Abbot, United Kingdom (UK). The aim of Safety Week is to highlight the importance of health and safety across all areas of the business, including a review of their current safety performance and achievements over the last 12 months; and to identify their key safety resolutions for 2020. Number of workshops held A number of workshops were undertaken throughout the week, including hazard spotting in the work...

Lorient is delighted to announce that they have appointed two new apprentices – who have joined their engineering team. Lorient is proud to support the Government’s STEM initiative (target of 3 million apprenticeships in England by 2020) to help future scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians thrive in the UK manufacturing industry. Joe Graham and Darcy Boyle join Lorient Joe Graham and Darcy Boyle are both undertaking the Engineering Technician Level 3 Advanced App...

Lorient is delighted to report that the company was a finalist for the 2019 Construction Marketing Awards for the Best use of Website category! The Construction Marketing Awards (CMA) showcase the construction industry’s creativity, innovation and effectiveness in marketing and Lorient is proud to be shortlisted for this prestigious award, following the launch of their fabulous new website in March 2019! The CMA awards are endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Marketing Construction Int...

Lorient, a globally renowned designer and manufacturer of acoustic door seals has added even more evidence to its popular acoustic search web app.  The acoustic search app provides quick and easy access to a range of tested acoustic sealing systems using typical acoustic and/or fire door assemblies and standard architectural doors. The tool allows users to search Lorient’s library of test data by selecting a specific decibel rating; along with door configuration, fire door rating, do...

Lorient will be presenting at the Arnold Laver Fire Door Safety Day on Wednesday, 23rd October, 2019, at Livingston Football Club, Edinburgh. Fire Door Safety Day This free to attend Fire Door Safety Day will provide visitors with the critical knowledge on latest developments in specification, certification, inspection methods and procedure of fire doors from industry experts with product talks on; doors and frames, door sets, glazing, ironmongery and intumescent sealing, fire door inspections...

After 40 years’ experience, customers can trust that Lorient knows everything there is to know about fire seals, smoke seals and acoustic seals. They’ve updated their popular introduction to the concept of door sealing guide; which is designed for students, or those new to the industry who want to learn ‘the basics’. It can also be a helpful point of reference when reading product brochures, as a reminder of some of the key points, and for definitions of terms. RIBA acc...

The effective fire management of buildings in the United Kingdom (UK) is essential to fulfill the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Responsible persons under Article 11- ‘Must make and give effect to such arrangements as are appropriate, having regard to the size of his undertaking and the nature of his activities, for the effective planning, organization, control, monitoring and review of the preventative and protective measures.’ Provide fire safety...