Why Buy Smokeless Fuel?

• A new era for solid fuel
• Created with the environment in mind
• Lower Carbon emissions
• Longer fire life
• Save money
• One of the most carbon efficient manufactured smokeless solid fuels available
• CPL’s Smokeless fuels

A real fire can make a huge impact in your home. But it needn’t make a huge impact on the environment.

A new era for solid fuel.

For many a real fire has always been the heart of the home. The heat, the unmistakable glow, the flickering flame, all of these makes a fire the cosy centrepiece of any room. And today, more and more people are rediscovering the joy of a real fire, whether it’s by opening up existing fires and chimneys, or investing in the new generation of multi-fuel stoves.

Of course, curling up in front of the fire is nothing new. We’ve been warming ourselves in front of the hearth for hundreds of years. What’s changed is the fuel we use to feed our fires.

Many are now choosing to use the latest smokeless fuels. For some people its because technological advances have made smokeless fuels more efficient and cost-effective than ever. Others are using smokeless because they realise that everyone’s contribution to improving the environment, however small, is a step in the right direction.

Better for the air and better for you?

And according to medical research, solid fuels can have a beneficial effect on your health too.

Families who use solid fuels are less likely to suffer from hay fever, asthma and eczema because the use of a chimney draws fresh air through the house and removes ‘polluted’ air; thus creating a better ventilated home.

The burning question: Coal or Smokeless fuels?

Longer fire life

Our smokeless fuels give out a consistently higher heat and can last as much as 40% longer than coal.

*figures from independent analysis from Salkent and Sunderland.

Save money

Burning premium smokeless fuels is much more cost effective than ordinary coal and will actually work out less expensive over the course of a year. Using Homefire smokeless coal as an example, we found that the heating efficiency on an open fire is 37% compared to the 28% generated by traditional house coal. If you were to use Homefire on your multi-fuel stove this figure leaps up to 65%. This means more heat makes it into your room rather than being wasted up the chimney. This, coupled with the fact that Homefire burns 40% longer than house coal, means that you end up using less fuel and spending less money to create your required heat. Switching to premium smokeless coal can cut your heating bills significantly over the course of the year.  And a minor point - You spend less time re-fuelling the fire.

Created with the environment in mind

Without doubt, smokeless fuels are kinder to the environment than coal. Indeed, as their name suggests, a concern for the environment is right at their heart. Smokeless fuels were developed to create smoke free areas across the UK and improve air quality in the urban environment. Smoke emissions for CPL’s Smokeless fuels are a fraction of these from coal (which is usually around 20%).

Lower Carbon emissions

These days it’s not just smoke that’s an issue, it’s carbon dioxide. Our smokeless fuels have lower carbon dioxide emissions than house coal. A coal fire can create up to 20% more carbon dioxide than a fire that uses a CPL smokeless fuel.

The CPL difference - It’ll give you a warm feeling on the inside, too.

CPL Smokeless fuels – One of the most carbon efficient manufactured smokeless solid fuels available.

CPL’s smokeless fuels use more naturally growing matter than those of our competitors. Our smokeless fuels are held firmly together using a natural binder made from molasses – a sugar cane by-product that absorbs carbon dioxide as it grows. This makes our range of fuels more environmentally friendly than other solid fuels, with a reduced carbon footprint.

CPL. At the forefront of smokeless fuel production

As the UK’s leading manufacture of smokeless fuels, CPL carries out extensive ongoing research and development to ensure continual improvement in the performance of our fuels.

A range of products to suit your appliance

Whether you’re heating a single room or a complete house with an open fire, multifuel stove or roomheater, or even fuelling a cooker, CPL has the right smokeless fuel for your needs. Each providing as much heat and as little waste and impact on the environment as possible.

CPL’s Smokeless fuels

Homefire - The market leading smokeless fuel for open fires and multi-fuel stoves.

Acknowledged as the best performing smokeless fuel for open fires and multi-fuel stoves, Homefire generates a lot of heat and leaves behind very little ash. It combines all the traditional qualities of a real fire with its attractive flame-picture and it is also slow burning and easy to control.

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Homefire ovals - The Cost effective smokeless fuel for open files and multi-fuel stove.

A cost effective, clean burning smokeless fuel that will pack together tightly in your fire to give maximum heat, minimum waste and a long burn.

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Phurnacite - A hard, compact and slow burning smokeless fuel for cookers, stoves and room heaters.

One of the most popular smokeless fuel in the country. A hard, compact and efficient briquette with excellent heat output, and an extremely long steady burn.

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Taybrite - An all-purpose smokeless fuel for room heaters, boilers and multi-fuel stoves.

The all-purpose economy smokeless fuel combining high efficiency with low cost. The fuel will burn at a steady heat for long periods – even overnight.

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ECOAL - Our most Eco friendly smokeless fuel, manufactured with 30% renewable materials.  Emits up to 25% less CO2 than house coal. For use in open fires and multi-fuel stoves.

Smokeless fuel made from 30% renewable materials, that emits up to 25% less CO² than housecoal. This is the most environmentally friendly smokeless fuel available today. And there is no sacrifice in terms of performance as Ecoal is comparable to our best smokeless fuels, burning for longer and retaining a much higher heat than housecoal.

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