Hadley Industries Plc
IndustryCold Roll Forming
Founded17 January 1964;
60 years ago (1964-01-17)
FounderPhilip Hadley
HeadquartersSmethwick, West Midlands,
UK
Revenue$193.79 million
OwnerStewart Towe[1]
Websitewww.hadleygroup.com

The Hadley Group is a privately owned multi-million pound British company, founded in 1964 by Philip Hadley, which is a large producer of cold rolled steel sections and allied products.[2] The company operates from purpose-built manufacturing facilities in the United Kingdom, Dubai, Netherlands, Thailand and a Joint Venture in the USA.[3][4]

Company

The Hadley Group headquarters is in Smethwick.[5] The company also has bases in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Dubai, and Netherlands and conducts business in 36 countries covering 5 continents.[6][7] In 2018, the company employed more than 600 people worldwide.[8]

Awards and recognitions

The company was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise (now called the King's Award for Enterprise following the coronation of King Charles III): Innovation, in 2014.[9]

UltraSTEEL® process

Hadley developed the UltraSTEEL dimpling process in 1982 and won the 2006 and 2014 Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation.[10][11]

The process offers an advanced industrial manufacturing technique that transforms plain steel sheets into high-performance, dimpled steel products.[12][13] This process increases the energy absorption capabilities of the steel, and can further optimise its performance by adjusting the depth of dimpling. The UltraSTEEL process utilizes a pair of rolls with specially shaped teeth that deform the plain sheet from both sides before undergoing traditional cold roll forming. This innovative approach has resulted in the increased use of dimpled steel products in a variety of applications such as wall studs, framing, roofing members, corrugated panels, vineyard posts, and window and door reinforcement.[12][14]

References

  1. ^ "Companies House PSC Register". Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  2. ^ Magazine, NI Builder (14 October 2019). "Introduction to Hadley Group's custom cold rollforming solutions". NI Builder. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Hadley Industries (ME) FZE". AEC Online. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  4. ^ Musson, Kimberley (3 February 2019). "Hadley Group enhances its production capabilities - netMAGmedia Ltd". www.housingmmonline.co.uk. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Global engineering firm shows steel and takes 200,000 sq ft Smethwick premises | TheBusinessDesk.com". West Midlands. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  6. ^ Revill, John (10 November 2005). "Hadley signs deal to market steel process". Birmingham Post.[dead link]
  7. ^ "Hadley Group | Bus Ex". www.bus-ex.com. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Hadley Industries at thefuturebuild.com". Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  9. ^ "Hadley Industries Plc: Winners of 2014 Innovation". Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  10. ^ "Ultrasteel® | Rolling | Hadley Group". Plant Automation Technology. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  11. ^ "UltraSTEEL - HADLEY - Page - PDF Catalogs | Documentation | Brochures". pdf.archiexpo.com. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
  12. ^ a b Nguyen, V. B.; Wang, C. J.; Mynors, D. J.; English, M. A.; Castellucci, M. A. (1 August 2014). "Dimpling process in cold roll metal forming by finite element modelling and experimental validation" (PDF). Journal of Manufacturing Processes. 16 (3): 363–372. doi:10.1016/j.jmapro.2014.03.001. ISSN 1526-6125.
  13. ^ Liang, Ce; Wang, Chang Jiang; English, Martin; Mynors, Diane (1 January 2017). "Optimization of the UltraSTEEL Dimpling Forming Process for Energy Absorption". Procedia Engineering. International Conference on the Technology of Plasticity, ICTP 2017, 17-22 September 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 207: 1284–1289. doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.10.884. ISSN 1877-7058.
  14. ^ "Hadley Group: Global cold rollforming specialist". www.barbourproductsearch.info. Retrieved 25 September 2023.

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