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Jablite Wins Funding from Innovate Refurb Fund

Jablite is celebrating being awarded Department of Climate Change (DECC) funding from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) Innovative Refurb Fund for a new insulation product that it is developing for non-domestic properties.

“We entered the DECC/TSB fund competition with the London Borough of Bexley, our own Local Authority, as our partner and we are really pleased that our new insulation product was considered good enough for this Innovative Refurb fund,” says Sue Ballard, Technical and Innovation Manager, Jablite.

“Hopefully, once we have completed the first design phase, we will get further funding for phase 2. At that point, we get the opportunity to complete a scale model on a building owned by the London Borough of Bexley- with ongoing monitoring of the energy performance of the building,” adds Sue.  “So we are all hoping the design phase goes well!”

The award of this funding represents more than just a winning a competition as Richard Lee, Managing Director, explains: “The UK government is launching the Green Deal this year to achieve a massive increase in energy efficiency.

“At Jablite, we believe that the fastest way to accomplish this increase in energy efficiency is through new and more intelligent insulation products. Winning this DECC funding will be a tremendous help in our product design and development.

“It gives an SME like Jablite a huge step up and helps us to drive our innovations into the marketplace ready for organisations wanting to take up the Green Deal opportunity,” concludes Richard.