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Having come up with the idea of hotun, Russell Armstrong (pictured right) formed his company, with fellow director (and wife) Ally Armstrong, RA Tech UK Ltd. He has invested in patenting the product, testing it fully, and getting it approved by all relevant industry bodies. A major investment in design, development, testing & tooling and then, commissioning all manufacturing to local ISO9000 companies. This means that hotun can be specified and installed with confidence, and is offered with a 5-year warranty.
In his plumbing role, Russell was carrying out an installation of an unvented hot water cylinder, that had a pressure relief device as a safety feature to prevent over-pressures from developing in the unit. To provide that, the installation required a tundish (to provide the regulation required visibility of water dripping from a safety valve) but also some sort of product that allowed flow but stopped smells coming back up from a foul drain, as the discharge line had to be connected to a drain. It had to be in a compact design that fitted the space available. Russell wanted a simple all-in-one product solution and despite scouring the market he could not find something that fitted the bill.
As a designer and not finding a suitable product available, an idea was born and armed with his skills in drafting and design, Russell took pen to paper and sketched out a drawing that, to this day, bears all the hallmarks of the original concept, those concepts went on to become hotun, the product was so original it became patented.
