Heatmiser adds skills and experience to the team as it gears up for growth
16 December 2024
Advanced heating control manufacturer Heatmiser has added several personnel to its ranks, including a new Operations Manager, as the company continues to update its production and customer services, ready for growth in the UK and European home heating and climate control markets.
The appointments come as Heatmiser has been given a key role in the Climate Control division of parent company IMI following the £110m acquisition of the Blackburn-based business in 2022.
David Goldsbrough joins the company as Operations Manager, responsible for improvements to production quality, warehouse management, and on-site health and safety. David, a highly experienced Operations Manager with an extensive career in a broad range of industries, joins the company from Blackburn-based rubber manufacturer Silicone Engineering where he was QHSE Manager.
Heatmiser has also appointed a New Business Development Manager as the company looks to build on the opportunities of being part of the new IMI Climate Control sector.. Neil Budd joins the company from Wavin, where he served a Global Product Manager, having also previously worked for Purmo Group and Emmeti UK, equipping him with the skills and industry knowledge required to be a key driver of Heatmiser’s market expansion plans.
Further developments at Heatmiser during 2024 includes investment in the manufacturing centre in Blackburn with the aim of improving on existing manufacturing processes and capabilities, ready for future requirements being driven by the market in the UK and Europe.
In addition, there has been significant investment and strengthening of Heatmiser’s product Research and Development capacity, as well as improvement to its logistics operation. The investment is part of IMI’s plan to maintain the industry leading position of Heatmiser, while increasing its capacity to supply products to the European market.
Heatmiser Managing Director, Marc Robertson comments: “We have invested in the people and business infrastructure to improve the already excellent customer service and experience. David will help us to build our culture of empowering people to implement improvements across all of our manufacturing processes and customer service, while Neil can bring a wealth of industry commercial experience to ensure our continued success.
“Heatmiser, which adds more than 50 years of thermostat control knowledge to IMI’s global offer, is now operating with a group of businesses that brings homeowners an increasing range of world-leading climate control systems. This further strengthens the range and quality of product options we can bring to the UK market and our customers at a time when the UK home heating market is becoming more sophisticated, including the introduction of cooling technologies, leveraging heat pump cooling functionality to underfloor systems.”
The companies operating under the IMI Climate Control umbrella include Heatmiser, IMI Pneumatex, IMI Heimeier, IMI TA, and IMI Flow Design.
Heatmiser was established in 1968 by Gordon Kay and has become one of the UK’s leading smart thermostat manufacturers with established partnerships with heating installers and heating equipment manufacturers across the UK.
The company’s success is based on its portfolio of high-quality products, strong customer relationships, digitalised commercial model and great technical support for their customers enabling homeowners to accurately control heating and cooling in each room remotely
