About Us
History
Limpsfield Combustion Engineering Limited was registered in February 1995. The company was established in Bromley, South London, in order to produce burners designed for particular applications to customer’s specific requirements.
- The burners were designed by South London businessman and more importantly an experienced combustion engineer Brendan Kemp. Brendan Kemp then sold the burner design on to the owners of Limpsfield once the burner range had been designed and proven.
- Limpsfield moved to its present factory and offices in Biggin Hill, Kent, UK in 2001. At this time fabrication and precision engineering were added to the company portfolio, this allowed Limpsfield to manufacturer their complete burner range without having to outsource keeping close control of costs and quality.
- Limpsfield Combustion Engineering has increased their burner range and designed burners capable of firing many different fuels, such as natural gas, heavy fuel oil, diesel and light distillate oils as well as many more unusual fuels such as animal fats, fish oils, solvents etc. More recently Limpsfield have produced burners to fire bio gas and landfill gases.
- Limpsfield has three departments, fabrication engineering, precision engineering and the burner combustion engineering department. Each department has its own customers from various outside industries as well as producing the various parts and components to make the complete Limpsfield burner range.
- In 2005 Keith Knowles joined Limpsfield to promote burner sales and provide technical assistance to its customers. Keith had worked for Brendan Kemp at Autoflame Engineering (a world leading combustion controls manufacturer based in South London) for 17 years previously and had learnt most of his combustion knowledge whist at Autoflame working alongside Brendan, his wife Sheila and as well as in the company of the many employees of Autoflame. This professional and friendly relationship still exists and both Brendan and Sheila have been instrumental in assisting the staff at Limpsfield in improving the business strategies of the present company. Brendan Kemp continues to offer design and production input into the Limpsfield products.
- In 2006 Limpsfield opened up an office in the USA managed by Keith Fortner. Keith is a time served combustion engineer and had previous experience working on various burners and boilers in the USA.
- In December 2007 Limpsfield purchased its first Mazak 5 axis machining centre followed by a further identical machine in February 2009, bringing state of the art precision engineering to the combustion world, rivaling standards usually only found in the F1 motor racing and in the aerospace industries.
- In 2008 Limpsfield acquired the adjacent premises and moved the fabrication department into these new premises, once they had been prepared to allow for a more streamline flow of work methods. This allowed the precision and fabrication departments to expand.
- Also in 2008, Nick Guy, Dan Lane and Wayne Fairhead were appointed as managers of their respective departments.
- In 2007 Limpsfield gained their ISO 9001:2001 International Quality Management Certificate.
- In 2007 Limpsfield gained their UL Certificate for the design, build and testing of the complete burner range.
- In 2008 Limpsfield gained their CE BS EN 676 Certificate for the design, build and testing of the burner range. Limpsfield Combustion Engineering Limited is continuing to design and test new products, offering the combustion industry world beating products. This is achieved by enthusiastic and talented individuals working collectively as a team, this along with good sound investment by the owners of Limpsfield allow us to progress our products and people with confidence into the future.