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W.T. Atkin and BHP were both long established UK companies providing
engineering and industrial automation solutions to a wide
variety of international industries. They were owned by Robert
Hyde & Son (Holdings) Limited for a number of years,
but in early 2004 a change of policy by the parent company
meant that these two subsidiaries were no longer compatible
with its investment portfolio.
The senior management team
of both the companies believed passionately in their high
quality British manufactured products
and, with the support of international bankers HSBC, Atkin
Automation was formed to acquire the assets and intellectual
property rights of both W.T. Atkin and BHP.
Today Atkin Automation
is a profitable British manufacturer of production lines for
industries which need to process metal
strip as part of their volume production operations. The company
is entirely owned by its employees, and its ethos is to provide
innovative high quality products and turnkey automation solutions
on time and within budget.
Since the recent expansion of the
EU, Atkin Automation has worked with a growing number of companies
which are establishing
production facilities in Eastern Europe, building machines
and production lines at its UK manufacturing facility, shipping
them to site and providing a complete local installation and
commissioning service.
Atkin Automation is proud to be maintaining
the heritage of British engineering
on a truly international basis into the twenty first century.
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