Stelrad is the main British company that manufactures radiator

Radiator (heating)

Radiators and convectors are heat exchangers designed to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of space heating. The heating radiator was invented by Franz San Galli, a Prussian-born Russian businessman living in St. Petersburg, between 1855–1857.- Radiation vs...

s. Its Elite radiator is the UK's most popular radiator.

History

It makes products for central heating

Central heating

A central heating system provides warmth to the whole interior of a building from one point to multiple rooms. When combined with other systems in order to control the building climate, the whole system may be a HVAC system.Central heating differs from local heating in that the heat generation...

 systems. It opened a factory in Dalbeattie

Dalbeattie

Dalbeattie is a town in Dumfries and Galloway , Scotland.Dalbeattie is situated in a wooded valley on the Urr Water east of Castle Douglas and south west of Dumfries...

, Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973...

, in 1983, which has since closed.

Structure

It is situated off the A6022 in Swinton, between Swinton

Swinton (South Yorkshire) railway station

Swinton railway station is a railway station in Swinton, South Yorkshire, England. It has three platforms and a small bus station, and lies at the junction of the former North Midland Railway main line between Rotherham Masborough and Leeds via Cudworth and the former South Yorkshire Railway line...

 and Mexborough

Mexborough railway station

Mexborough railway station serves the former mining town of Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England. It is a station on the Sheffield-Hull Line south west of Doncaster....

railway stations. It has a 17 acre site.

The R&D site is in Belgium

Products

• Radiators - it produces over 2.5 million each year at its South Yorkshire factory on four manufacturing lines which operate 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Every radiator is kite-marked under BS 442.