Petrel has been designing and manufacturing hazardous area lighting from its Birmingham base for over 40 years. Now part of the Pioneer Safety Group, the company offers a wide range of compliant solutions, including ATEX and UKEX certified luminaires integrated with audible and visual signalling from Ex-Tech Signalling
If you are working in oil and gas, energy, process and storage, manufacturing you’ll know there is growing demand for more streamlined, technically coordinated safety systems. Petrel’s product development and in-house expertise support contractors and specifiers just like you to comply with global regulations effectively through forward thinking design.
Why integration matters
Hazardous area projects often require separate systems for lighting and emergency signalling. This can introduce complexity, risk and cost, especially when coordinating between different suppliers or certification schemes. By integrating Ex-Tech Signalling sounders, beacons and call points directly with Petrel’s lighting range, you can benefit from simplified procurement and installation as well as ensuring a better alignment of safety-critical infrastructure.
Together, this integration ensures:
- System-wide compatibility for ease of installation and fewer on-site challenges
- Harmonised certifications that reduce documentation and inspection complexity
- Fewer failure points thanks to coordinated design and testing
- A single point of contact for project specification and technical support
Designing out risk
Petrel offers a free lighting design service, using the latest Relux software to produce accurate visual simulations, lux plots and uniformity analysis. Designs are developed by Petrel’s in-house team who can support you from first enquiry to final installation.
We see ourselves as an extension to your team, and it is this approach that helps identify and mitigate lighting issues before procurement. Our customers tell us time and time again that this consultative approach supports them with better long-term outcomes for energy efficiency, maintenance and safety compliance.
Whether for a single zone 1 area or a full site-wide scheme, Petrel’s lighting design service helps you minimise risks and ensure that lighting layouts are tailored to meet your individual technical and operational requirements.
Backed by British manufacturing
As part of Pioneer Safety Group, Petrel has invested in modernising its Birmingham manufacturing site, upgrading its IT infrastructure and improving stock availability. This improvement has helped shorten lead times and improve supply reliability for our customers across the UK and international markets.
Petrel’s end-to-end control of design, manufacturing and testing gives you confidence in product quality and compliance. It also allows us to respond flexibly to bespoke requirements or project constraints.
Extending capability through group collaboration
As part of the Pioneer Safety Group, Petrel benefits from close collaboration across a wider network of hazardous area experts. The integration with Ex-Tech Signalling specifically enhances Petrel’s ability to deliver:
- Unified lighting and warning systems for better on-site coordination
- Compact, compliant solutions for space-restricted or multi-zone installations
- A streamlined procurement route through a single supplier
For project teams, this translates into faster specification, easier compliance checks and improved installation outcomes, particularly in safety-critical environments.
Start your project with confidence
Petrel, together with Ex-Tech Signalling, offer a smarter, safer and integrated approach to hazardous lighting and signalling projects, and invite you to get in touch for project-specific lighting design and support. By working with our single UK-based team we can help you to reduce project risk and costs and ensure installation performance is optimised.
To learn more or to request a free lighting design visit petrel-ex.co.uk/contractors
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