Phoenix Safe Company at Apex House, 1 Orrell Mount, L20 6NS Liverpool

Phoenix Safe Company is one of the oldest UK manufacturers of safes and security products and can trace its history back to Liverpool in 1799. At that time it was known as the Richmond Manufactury and was supplying the maritime trade between England and the United States with iron banded or iron clad wooden strongboxes and seamen’s chests. In 1832 a group of migrant steel workers from the Toledo area of Spain, were working their passage to the United States, with the intention to sail from Liverpool to New York. They joined Richmond Manufactury where their skills with steel were put to good use replacing the traditional wooden strongboxes with all steel reinforced strongbox’s. The demand for these new secure strongboxes grew with the increasing wealth and expansion of the maritime role of Liverpool as the major English port shipping goods and commodities to the United States in return for cotton for the Lancashire cotton mills. In order to reflect the increased emphasis on security products the company was renamed in 1840, the Withy Grove Safe Company and began to design and patent steel safes, strongboxes, fire safes and vaults many of which are still in use today. They became, with the famous Milners Safe Company of Liverpool, among the best known British safe manufacturers from the 1850’s through to the 1970’s, when rationalisation of the safe industry led to the loss of many of the traditional manufacturers. The tradition of patented and innovative security continued in 1986, when Phoenix Safe Co was formed from Withy Grove Safe Co and adopted one of the oldest names in the British safe industry “Phoenix” The aim was to design and manufacture advanced fire resistant safes to protect the new wealth of data information being produced by computers. The vital importance and catastrophic consequences of the loss of this information demanded a new approach to fire protection. Temperature as low as 60ºC can corrupt data stored on disks or tapes and with fire temperatures in excess of 1000º it was imperative to provide a modern safe for the protection of data media. This resulted in the first Phoenix data safe the 2000 series which protects data against fire for up to 2 hours at a temperature of 1090ºC, while at the same time maintaining a temperature inside the safe of only 39ºC Phoenix is now the largest manufacturer of data safes in Europe with a broad range of products encompassing small domestic data protection products through to the largest Commercial and Banking storage requirements. We are now one of the largest suppliers of security products through distributor channels in Great Britain and have subsidiary companies in Dusseldorf, Germany and Indianapolis USA. In addition with warehouses in Dusseldorf, Madrid Paris, Milan and Indianapolis, we can offer a complete service for our products throughout Europe and the USA. We ensure that although our range has been designed to provide quality, with an exceptionally high level of security. A commitment to service has not been overlooked. The latest innovation to change the way we view security, is biometric technology which use’s either fingerprint or iris recognition to take the place of key to open a lock. While this relatively new and sophisticated technology is in it’s infancy the costs may outweigh the benefits, however, increasing use will undoubtedly reduce this cost and at Phoenix we are proud to be able to announce a world first, our all new FS2240 Series Excel Fire File can be fitted with a Biometric Finger Print Recognition lock and will set the design for the future.

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