Founded by Mr Williams in 1921 the company was established in the heart of the Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter to supply the decorative and tableware market with EPNS ~ electroplated nickel silver. As the business grew he purchased adjoining properties to expand his production area, this now forms the site of our current 19,000 square feet purpose-built factory.

The second world war forced the firm into war work and so we moved away from our traditional decorative finishes to engineering and industrial coatings.

After the war engineering in the Midlands grew rapidly. This enabled our company to further develop its industrial coatings capability. In particular the expanding automotive industry in the area (Austin, Jaguar, Land Rover, Roots) gave rise to many well known component and sub-system suppliers, many of whom were (and some still are) our customers.

During the 1970s our site in the Jewellery Quarter was completely rebuilt from the ground up. This gave us the opportunity to design a purpose built electroplating factory with a view to the future. Even then we realised that the environmental issues would become increasingly important and so drainage systems, effluent capability and health and safety issues were all addressed and built into the design.

Now a third generation company we are still looking ahead, investing in lower manufacturing costs, better performance finishes and further improving our environmental policies.