Jo Bird were delighted to be the featured UK company in the latest Make UK Defence member spotlight this week. We would like to extend our thanks to the team at Make UK who do sterling work in supporting the manufacturing industry and for choosing Jo Bird this month as the featured company.
For the last 36 years, Jo Bird & Company Ltd have supplied the offshore energy sector with their high quality safety equipment cabinets constructed from composites. These are manufactured by their dedicated and highly skilled production team at the factory in Somerset. Jo Bird also make cabinets to store lifesaving, fire fighting cabinets as well as more specialised composite structures to Navies around the world. This includes the Royal Navy, Norwegian, Chilean, Algerian and Irish Navies. In addition, the Royal Fleet auxiliary use a variety of Jo Bird cabinets.
The company are suppliers to the UK prime contractors including A&P, BAE systems and Babcock. This is either directly or through their extensive list of LSA distributors across the globe. Quite a number of the cabinets as well as damage control products have NATO stock codes. The extensive range includes high quality injection moulded fire extinguisher cabinets as well as Roller shutter, single door and double door cabinets. These are often customised to perfectly suit the space and specifications requested. This can include insulation and heating to withstand Arctic conditions. Anti-static and flame retardant materials are options too.
If you cannot find what you are looking for, please contact the very experienced and friendly estimating team sale@spacabinets.com who will be happy to work with you to design solutions to match your needs.
Jo Bird were one of the first companies in the South west to sign up to the balanced energy Carbon net zero pledge and have a superb safety record. They have also won two Queen’s awards, the latter for Innovation in 2018 due to the very proactive R&D team, ably supported by the National composites centre and Bristol University. Now working to develop cleaner processes while also reducing waste.
The vast majority of Jo Bird cabinets have achieved Lloyds and ABS approvals with a high ingress protection of IP56. Jo Bird cabinets have a great reputation for their ruggedness and reliability which is backed up by long guarantees and great customer service.
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