Founded in 1980 and headquartered in Havant, Hampshire, on the United Kingdom’s south coast, Apollo Fire Detectors manufactures and distributes fire detection solutions for customers all over the world. The manufacturer has 3,000 products in over 100 global markets, including wireless fire systems and detection devices for a broad range of different environments. Some of the company’s most widely used fire detectors include the Soteria, Discovery, and XP95 range detectors, high-performance systems that enable improved customization and draw on multi-sensing capabilities to reduce false alarms.

Apollo Fire Detectors has been recognized by the UK government with the Queen’s Award for Export Achievement for three consecutive years, the first company to earn the accolade three successive times. In addition, in August 2025 Apollo earned a platinum EcoVadis Rating, positioning the company within the top 1% of all organisations evaluated by EcoVadis. Apollo is part of Halma, a global conglomerate of life-saving technology companies that also includes Advanced, Ampac, and Orama.

The Challenge

After Brexit, the UK exited many of the key environmental regulations maintained by the European Union, opting to develop and implement their own versions of directives like the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH). These new regulations represented a challenge for Apollo, adding an additional layer of complexity to the manufacturer’s compliance responsibilities. 

At the same time that the UK was creating its own versions of existing EU environmental laws, new regulations like Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and the revised Construction Products Regulation (CPR) were taking shape and entering into force in the country. Collectively, all the emerging requirements were contributing to a denser, more demanding regulatory landscape. As it grappled with its new compliance responsibilities, Apollo knew it would have to strengthen its existing processes if it wanted to remain a model firm in the regulatory space. 

​​Compliance specialist Egle Siusiene led Apollo’s response to the growing regulatory challenges. With extensive experience managing product-level and material compliance regulations, she expected the transition to the new legislation in the UK to be relatively straightforward. But the evolving requirements were more difficult than Egle or her team anticipated. Rather than signalling a setback, however, she saw the regulatory demands as a strategic opportunity for Apollo to evolve its data environment and position the business for long‑term compliance success. 

At the time of the transition, Apollo used a manual process to gather critical compliance documentation. Though well-established at the company, this method was time-consuming. “It was a lot of spreadsheets and a lot of sending out emails,” Egle said.

Because critical information was distributed across multiple documents, spreadsheets, and internal systems, compliance activities became increasingly long and time-intensive. For Egle and Apollo, it was a clear sign that the company needed to use this challenge as a springboard to strengthen its efficiency. One potential way to do that was by introducing a platform that would support the expanding regulatory environment they were now facing. Without such a tool, it would become increasingly difficult to prevent delays, inefficiencies, and risks of falling into noncompliance. “It was unsustainable,” she said. “We definitely needed a centralized database.”