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GREATER MANCHESTER RETROFIT SUMMIT & EXPO 2025

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This November...

Hosted by Energy House Labs, University of Salford this exciting new event builds on the success of our previous Greater Manchester retrofit-focused events, first launched in 2019.  

This in-person Conference & Expo event - a key part of Retrofit Action Week Greater Manchester - will celebrate and highlight the opportunities created by devolution, while showcasing the very best retrofit solutions… and we’d love to have you involved. 

  • WHAT? Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit & Expo 
  • WHEN? Thursday 13 November 2025 
  • WHERE? New Adelphi Theatre, University of Salford, University Road, Salford M5 4BR 
  • WHO? Invited attendees will be influential buyers and specifiers of retrofit solutions for domestic property 
  • HOW? Sponsorship, Thought Leader (SOLD OUT) and Exhibition space options available, including outside display space for demo/promo vehicles. For attendees, there will be no admission charge. 
Interested in exhibiting? Click to enquire.

Overview

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Heads-up!
The Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit & Expo comes to University of Salford on Thurs 13 Nov 2025!

This in-person conference and expo event will showcase top retrofit solutions, celebrate GM's devolution and connect key industry players.

Expect insightful presentations, displays, panels and discussions, valuable networking and exciting innovation.

Visitor Registration OPEN
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Key details
  • EVENT: Greater Manchester Retrofit Summit & Expo
  • DATE: Thurs, 13 Nov 2025
  • VENUE: New Adelphi Theatre, University of Salford
  • PURPOSE: To connect and collaborate on retrofit solutions in Greater Manchester
  • AUDIENCE: Professional buyers and specifiers for domestic retrofit solutions
  • OPPORTUNITIES: Thought Leader partnerships (NOW SOLD OUT) and exhibition space (incl. outdoor demo areas close-by)
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Host an activity over Retrofit Action Week

The Greater Manchester Retrofit Action Week (November 8-16, 2025) provides YOU with a platform to host your own engagement activity - anything you like - from advice pop-ups and CPD webinars to eco-fairs and open home visits—whatever fits your goals!

  • Not-for-profits list for free; others pay a small fee.
  • You plan, promote, and host; we list and boost your event within the Action Week's "What's On" communications.
  • Activity listings open soon—start planning!


FEATURED EXHIBITORS

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Benx
Thought Leader

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Benx provides a complete façade solution for any construction type – from masonry to framed, high-rise to low-rise, and site-based to offsite. With over 20 years as a façade innovator, we continuously refine our certified products, systems and services to meet customer needs, especially focusing on modern construction methods. Whether you're an installer, manufacturer, or aiming to reduce on-site work, Benx offers more choice with less complexity and risk. We believe this is the future of façades.

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Groundwork
Thought Leader

Groundwork logoGroundwork's vision is to create a greener, fairer and stronger future for all people, communities and places in Greater Manchester.

Our work will focus on those that need support the most and harness the strengths of Greater Manchester’s people, places and communities in order to mobilise practical action that delivers environmental and social justice.

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Next Energy
Thought Leader

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Next Energy makes your home or business more energy efficient. Specialising in renewables, insulation, and heating systems, we provide energy saving measures by way of retrofit for our clients across a high number of funded schemes and private contracts.

Blauberg UK
Blauberg UK

Filter the air in your home so it’s free from pollutants, encouraging a healthier living environment.
Reduce energy bills and carbon footprint.
Ventilate your home without losing heat.
Prevent damp and mould caused by water vapour in the home from daily activities like cooking and showering.

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Carbon FutureX Group

We provide optimised design and consulting services for your green-retrofitting investment in our all-in-one shop. No matter what kind of requirements, there will always be a tailored retrofit solution for your dream home.

Designing through our all-in-one The Grid tool, we can provide optimized solutions for a green retrofit design of your entire home by integrating and sizing each technology, to meet our clients’ motivation and requirement.

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Daikin UK
Daikin

Discover a heat pump for heating and cooling.
From hot spells to cold snaps, a Daikin heat pump heats and cools your home while lowering your energy bills.

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Energy Innovation Agency

We're accelerating Greater Manchester's transition to carbon neutrality. The Energy Innovation Agency transforms the region's energy systems, making buildings and processes cleaner, greener, and more sustainable. Our work lowers carbon emissions and boosts energy accessibility for all. By bridging the energy innovation gap, we drive the adoption of green solutions in Greater Manchester and beyond, collaborating with innovators, providers, and large consumers to rapidly cut emissions.

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Grant Engineering
Grant UK

At Grant UK, we are passionate about supplying sustainable and high performing heating systems which respond to the challenges of rising fuel costs and climate change. We are on a mission to provide choice for homeowners when it comes to heating their homes today and into the future, ensuring every home is kept warm efficiently with either traditional systems or renewable technologies.

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Keystone Group
Keystone Group

Keystone Group is the UK and Ireland's largest steel lintel manufacturer and Europe's fastest-growing roof window manufacturer. With 2,000 employees across 27 sites in the UK and Europe, our 17 core brands deliver pioneering building solutions across structural steel, building components, and timber. Our brands include Keystone Lintels, IG Lintels, Keylite Roof Window, IG Masonry Support, Smartroof, Keyfix, Stockgap, Showersave, Keywall, Wyckham Blackwell, Timber Innovations, Crendon Timber Engineering, Glosford SIPS, Harmony Timber, David Smith St Ives, Roof Truss, and Lynx Trussed Rafters.

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Livoltek
Livoltek

LIVOLTEK, part of the Hexing Group (est. 1992, SSE: 603556), is a global leader in renewable energy solutions. We leverage our extensive global and local expertise to provide tailored energy solutions in over 90 countries.
Our diverse portfolio includes PV, hybrid, and battery inverters, all-in-one BESS, EV chargers, solar lights, solar pumps, and intelligent energy management platforms. These solutions serve residential, commercial, industrial, and utility-scale needs.
Committed to green energy innovation, LIVOLTEK delivers efficient, cost-effective solutions, empowering a cleaner future through cutting-edge technology and a robust global supply chain.

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Nordan UK
NorDan

We have been active in the UK construction industry for over 40 years.

Working closely with our production factories we supply high performance products to a range of markets including Affordable Housing, Private Rental Sector, Private House Building market & end-user Residential.

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Secure Meters
Secure

We focus on users of energy in homes and workplaces to help reduce energy waste. Our solutions help reduce the cost of energy delivered to users. Users of energy are at the core of our thinking. Defining users of energy as ‘customers’ stimulates us to create products and services that deliver them value.

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Soltherm External Insulations
Soltherm

Soltherm are producers of the highest quality EWI system in the world and leading provider of thermal insulation systems. We have been manufacturing products in house on the most advanced production line in Europe for more than 25 years.
We are engineering-led with a R&D department unique to the EWI industry. With an ongoing commitment to innovation and improvement, we have produced a fully certified A1 fire rated system using fire safe technology which is 75 years approved.

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A day of focused talks, panels, debate and discussion for everyone working in Greater Manchester retrofit at-scale.

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  • 10.00hrs: Presentations and panels
  • 12.00hrs: Lunch, Expo and Networking
  • 13.30hrs: Presentations & Breakouts
  • 15.00hrs: Tea, Expo and Networking
  • 15.30hrs: Presentations and panels
  • 16.30hrs: More tea, Expo and Networking
  • 17:00hrs: Event close