Berkshire’s tepeo welcomes minister to open new manufacturing facility

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Daniel Face

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tepeo, a Wokingham-based manufacturer of heat batteries, has opened a new facility to triple its manufacturing ability and drive research and development.

Colleagues were joined by Lord Callanan, minister for energy efficiency and green finance, for the official opening ceremony.

The facility is set to provide a new home for tepeo’s growing team, which has doubled in size over the past year, and will enable the firm to produce many more of its zero emission boilers (ZEBs).

There’s also space dedicated to research and development, where engineers will work to create more advanced and accessible ways to decarbonise the UK’s domestic heating as oil and gas boilers are phased out.

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Johan du Plessis, founder and CEO of tepeo, said: “Our mission is to become leaders in low-carbon heating solutions.

“We need to increase our manufacturing capacity to build more of our smart heat batteries to achieve this.

“The expansion is not just a success story for the company, but a promising development for British manufacturing.

“Opening our new facility reflects the increasing demand for low-carbon home heating technology.

“It’s a tangible sign of what the future will hold for tepeo and how we think about home heating.”

Lord Callanan added: “The UK is a world leader in decarbonising, becoming the first major economy to halve its emissions between 1990 and 2022.

“Reducing carbon emissions from our homes is key to helping us push further and support families towards net zero.

“It gives me great pride to see British manufactured technology, like tepeo’s heat batteries, contributing to our mission and giving consumers a greater choice in switching from fossil fuels to cleaner, greener heating.”

Daniel Face

Born and raised in Berkshire, Dan fell into journalism after completing his bachelor’s degree in English at UCL. Writing for The Business Magazine and local Biz News sites has given him the opportunity to chat with all manner of small business owners and share their success stories with a wider audience. Outside of work, Dan enjoys live music, board games and quiz shows, and is making a slow but persistent effort to learn Spanish.