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Almost 20 years since Fred Dibnah visited our factory!

  • 16 December 2020
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We can't believe it's been almost 20 years since Fred Dibnah came to our factory to film an episode for his 'Made In Britain' series giving a grand tour of the wonderful manufacturing that took place many years ago which we still do today! When we were based in Atherton, Fred would visit regularly to purchase fasteners for his steam engine, he was a very charming and charismatic man who had a passion for Engineering.

In the last 20 years we have switched from furnace fired forges to induction heating, back then grade 8.8 (metric) and Gr S/R (imperial) was the limit on manufactured bolts, we can now produce high tensile grades up to 12.9 as well as many different materials such as Stainless Steels, Exotic Alloys, Super Duplex and Non-Ferrous.

Our machinery has also improved significantly allowing us to manufacture to a high specification. We offer CNC manufacturing in house, Cut & Roll Threading, plus Secondary Operations - Turning, Milling, Drilling and Grinding.