______________________________________________________________________________________________ Marwood
Group
With over 55 years’ experience in non-mechanical products, Marwood Group Ltd( Marwood) combines extensive industry knowledge with a comprehensive range of highquality hire products and ancillary services. Over the last 15 years, the company has invested significantly in its own steel and plastics manufacturing facilities, offering greater control over quality, durability, and innovation. Through Railtec Engineering, Marwood provides bespoke steel design, manufacture, and servicing, supported by in-house CAD and engineering expertise, while the group’ s plastics facility, Europalite, manufactures a durable range of barriers and traffic demarcation products.
With 18 national depots and manufacturing sites across the country, Marwood is well-positioned to support projects across the UK, from standard nonmechanical hire requirements to complex, bespoke solutions. We sit down with Andrew
Piggott, Marwood’ s Managing Director, to learn more about the company’ s five-year investment programme, which is driving advancements in its fleet and infrastructure modernisation, vertical integration, and product development.
“ We’ re really lucky that we haven’ t got to rely on outside funding. As an independent, non-mechanical plant specialist, modernisation is more of a migration to newer equipment,” Andrew explains.“ When I first started at Marwood, for instance, we were known for our concrete skips; now, with the development of concrete pumping, they’ ve fallen out of widespread favour. Today, we always hold large stocks of bulk items for our customers. That means that if a new product comes to market or we develop one ourselves, we can respond quickly.
“ Being able to offer our facilities to our customers is a nice feather in our cap, but we do go out to our manufacturers and provide services for their own direct customers. We build lots of products for the school market
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