2023.04 | Pioneering French fireplace company Focus announces 2 new DEFRA-exempt fires

Trailblazing fireplaces

Focus is continuously pushing boundaries and developing new ways to improve technical and sustainable ways of designing fireplaces. Now the latest closed fires, Domofocus, Gyrofocus and Ergofocus have been exempted by DEFRA ensuring the highest standards of air quality for fireplaces throughout the UK. Quite simply, this means these fires can now be installed in Smoke Control Areas because they have low particle emissions, making a cleaner environment for all.

These elegant and desirable fireplace designs have long been the go-to for architects and interior designers seeking original, high-quality, handcrafted heating solutions. Now the three models Domfocus, Ergofocus and Gyrofocus, with their closed glazed hearths, are guaranteeing a new future for these design icons.

Always at the forefront of design innovation Focus has an exceptional collection of designs suitable for all applications from homes to hotels, for indoors and outside and also available in gas and the newly launched zero emission Holographik® range.

ABOUT DEFRA REGULATIONS

This regulation bans the sale and installation of heating appliances that do not comply with particle emission thresholds in specific Smoke Control Areas as designated

by UK government department DEFRA. The independent Danish testing laboratory Teknologisk Institut has confirmed the low particle emissions for these two closed models at all operating levels, allowing them to be DEFRA exempt.

DEFRA EXEMPTED RANGE 2023

Not only EcoDesign, these models now carry the Defra exemption. It is therefore no less than 5 models (Domofocus glazed, Gyrofocus glazed and Slimfocus which come in 3 different balanced flue versions) among our most iconic creations that we offer on the UK market.