WHEN architects working on the world's tallest building were looking for systems to protect it, they turned to a small company in Hixon.

And that order for the New Burj Dubai is just one of a flood of high-profile contracts from around the world being won by Project Fire Products.

The company's fire sprinkler and related systems export trade now accounts for at least half of its annual sales – around £2.5 million and growing – but it wasn't always that way.

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