BFM EUROPE
www.bfm-europe.com
Today BFM Europe is the fastest growing gas fire manufacturer in the country with an unequalled reputation for quality and service.
Our success is due to a combination of uncompromising attitude to design and manufacturing standards and an unprecedented investment in technology and personnel.
Our brand portfolio includes three established consumer brands - Kinder, Flavel and Vermont, with products covering a large range of heating related products.
KINDER
There’s nothing like the immediate warmth and comfort of a Kinder Gas fire. Designed to suit your lifestyle with a combination of appealing looks, outstanding warmth and practical attention to detail - Kinder designs gas fires for all tastes, from traditional to contemporary, and including powerflue and balanced flue options. To perfectly complement your gas fire, Kinder has introduced a range of classic and contemporary fire surrounds manufactured in luxurious Portuguese Limestone and the finest quality Micro marble.
FLAVEL
The Flavel product range is extensive, with over thirty five highly efficient products to choose from. With one of the largest choices of styles and features in the UK, from contemporary to traditional and living flame effect, to electric: Flavel makes anywhere feel like home.
VERMONT
The finest cast iron stoves in the world are manufactured by our sister company in Canada and distributed exclusively in the UK by BFM Europe, through independent stove stockists.
Available in an extensive range of colours, and a wide choice of fuels, including multifuel, wood and gas.
VERINE
For over 45 years Verine have sold quality products and given quality service, elegance and innovation to the fireplace industry. Specially appointed retailers have been established nationally to display our products, install them and give expert advice to help you choose the correct appliance to suit your needs.
We want you to get the maximum benefit from this expertise and therefore recommend you avoid purchasing any Verine product over the internet, especially from companies not located in your area who are unable to offer the highest levels of aftersales service.
Verine fires are built to last in our state-of-the-art UK manufacturing facility where our quality standards meet the stringent demands of ISO 9001/2000. That’s why we are available to offer an impressive 5 Year Guarantee on all gas fires.
Every product in the range features a Flame Supervision Device (FSD) which detects the presence of a flame, and in the absence of that flame, prevents uncontrolled release of gas to the burner. For maximum safety each conventional flue model includes an Oxygen Depletion Sensor (ODS) which shuts off the gas supply to the main burner in the unlikely event of a fault.
We recommend that all gas appliances be serviced by a CORGI registered engineer to ensure continued safe operation and optimum performance throughout the lifetime of the product. In order to encourage and promote this good practice, an annual service, including replacement of the oxy-pilot is a condition of our 5 Year Guarantee.
PORTWAY
The Founding Father of Energy Efficiency
In the early 1800’s the owner of an ironmongery store took inspiration from the very first enclosed metal stoves which first appeared in North America at the end of the 1700’s and custom built his own stove to heat his Halstead based store.
Charles Portway’s design proved to be so successful that a neighbouring shopkeeper asked Portway to build a stove to heat his store also. Soon afterwards Portway set up a small foundry manufacturing solid fuel stoves that were so successful they lasted up to the 1980’s almost without any change.
The beauty behind the success of Portway’s stove was in their efficiency. The stoves burned so slowly that they extracted the maximum amount of heat from the fuel. The stoves were named ‘Tortoise’ stoves and proudly produced with the motto ‘Slow but Sure’ displayed on the front. It was the first heating appliance to offer fuel efficiency as a major selling point making its role in the development of our industry of great significance today. Robert Higgs, the chief executive of the Heating and Ventilating contractors association argues the Portway was the “founding father of energy efficiency”.
Portway’s stoves were used to heat churches and halls as well as homes and 19th Century stoves displaying the iconic ‘Tortoise’ trademark can still be found today, making it one of the oldest, most resilient products in the history of heating.
Even today, at 80% efficiency, Portway stoves are amongst the most efficient multifuel stoves on the market. This means that you need to burn less fuel to get more heat compared to similar products on the market.
Portway multifuel stoves are capable of burning a wide range of natural and manufactured fuels. Wood is a renewable and carbon-neutral energy source since a tree will use up more carbon during the course of its lifetime than is produced when it is burned. Thus, making the use of wood the most environmentally friendly energy source available today. Both hard woods and soft woods can be used on our stoves.
Our stoves will also burn a number of other such as, peat, straw, sawdust briquettes, anthracite, lignite and most natural and manufactured mineral fuels.
Each stove is made from 96% easily recyclable material and all cast parts, such as; doors and grates, are manufactured from 70% recycled iron.
Every Portway stove carries independently tested CE Approval to standard EN13240 and approved for use in smoke free zones when burning anthracite or any other authorized smokeless fuel. They can also be used in smoke free zones in the Republic of Ireland when burning wood or peat briquettes.