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Process Combustion Ltd.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7247236
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Process Combustion Ltd (PCL) is a now defunct international supplier of products and applicable support services based on combustion and heat transfer technology located in Harrogate, England. PCL specializes in combustion engineering, heat transfer and controls.

PCL designed, supplied and installed fire training units for the British Royal Navy, the London Fire Brigade, Greece’s Hellenic Navy and the United States Air Force at Mildenhall and Lakenheath (RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath).

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This entry incorporates text from Process Combustion Ltd.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.