LOCAL BUSINESS SUCCESS AT NATIONAL AWARDS

Local electrical heating specialist Ecolec, based in Wolverhampton, recently tasted success 

for the second year in the last four, being shortlisted for a prestigious Electrical Times Award 

for 2013. For a small company to reach the finals of these awards alongside the major 

players in the electrical industry is rare once, let alone twice in so few years.

The company, owned by entrepreneur Chandru Ray, was shortlisted this time in the 

Innovative Commercial/Industrial Product of the Year category 2013 for its unique radiant 

ceiling panel heaters produced for a major private yacht MY Vava II.

The brand name ECOLEC® was launched in 1995 with the specific objective of supplying 

radiant flat panel electric heaters to the market that were economic to run. With more than 

100,000 heaters sold since then, ECOLEC® has become a company that supplies bespoke 

designs for architects and designers  with a standard range of space saving radiant and 

splash-proof bathroom flat panel heaters controlled by wireless timer and  sold  through its 

web site at www.ecolec.co.uk and through electrical wholesalers and accredited electrical 

installers across the country. 

Chandru Ray loves nothing better than a challenge and has built a reputation for taking on 

projects that require new ideas and new concepts in electrical heating.

MY Vava II – a mightily impressive private yacht built by Devonport Yachts at Plymouth, 

England is the 97-metre super yacht commissioned by the Swiss-Italian entrepreneur 

Ernesto Bertarelli for his British musician wife Kirsty. 

The requirement from Ecolec was for a controllable radiant heater to provide warmth and 

comfort to the owners and their guests in the open air, while at leisure, whatever the 

weather. It is elliptical in shape comprising of eight manageable sections mounted on the 

ceiling for installation over a seating area spanning 6m x 4m. This type of heating mimics the 

radiant heat of the sun without the tiresome orange glow of other infrared heaters.

Ecolec had been working hard on the concept of concealed heat emitters – in walls and 

behind mirrors for some time, and it seemed a small leap of faith to put the heat emitters 

into the ceiling of this very expensive boat – all £100 million worth of it. These rear deck 

radiant ceiling heaters were designed within the stringent parameters available on the boat 

and were for the deck with three sides open. They were designed to provide a surface 

temperature of 120°C from 10 kW of power with a bespoke control panel.

Chandru Ray is delighted his product has been recognised in the Electrical Industry ‘Oscars’: 

“It’s always nice when what you do get recognition, and we are genuinely delighted that our 

entry for these awards met with success that saw us in the midst of branded household 

names.”

Full details of the company and its range of impressive products can be seen at 

www.ecolec.co.uk.

For further information, please contact::

Chandru Ray, Ecolec – 01902 457 575

or

Steve Paddock, Paddock Communications – 01684 89 33 88