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Unimer’s MD honoured
Unimer plc, a UK invoice clearing house for the building products industry, is celebrating the honour
bestowed on Howard Grant, who was recently made Freeman of the City of London.
Howard Grant, managing director of Unimer, was invited by John O’Carroll-Bailey, current Master of the
Worshipful Company of Builders Merchants to become a Freeman of the City of London.
The ceremony was held on the12th September at the Chamberlain’s Court, Guild Hall in London, and
Howard was presented a certificate, ‘Freedom of the City of London’, by the Chamberlain himself.
Howard Grant says; “I am very honoured to
have been made a Freeman of the City of
London and I am looking forward to getting
involved with the fellowship, the Worshipful
Company of Builders Merchants, and the
charitable work they are actively involved in.”
Suzanne Millward, marketing manager at
Unimer, says: “We are absolutely delighted in
Howard becoming a Freeman of the City of
London, and we are all looking forward to
seeing Howard driving sheep across the
London Bridge. This is apparently an ancient
privilege dating back to the 11th century!”
Italians move to Hampshire
Unifast srl Sistemi di Unifast’s Italian office, now clients by providing
Assemblaggio, a European they can have their orders unparalleled access to its
fastener manufacturer, has filled directly from the fully innovative engineering team
opened a new Hampshire stocked warehouse at Woodlea based at Woodlea Park. “What
based office for its UK Park. The company says its we want to do is show clients
partner company Unifast decision to base in Hampshire how our higher performance
Fastening Systems Ltd. was due in strong part to the products can reduce their
Opening the new premises area’s excellent air, road and in-placed-costs, from purchase
at Woodlea Park, near Alton in rail communications and the through assembly to final
Hampshire is the first significant local availability of skilled staff. function.” says Unifast’s
step in a planned worldwide The company plans to recruit a managing director, Simon
expansion by Unifast srl. number of specialist employees Beauchamp. “This is what
The new site has both over the coming months. Unifast is about, we offer our
engineering design and Unifast believes it will now clients innovative, economic
warehouse facilities. Previously be better able to service but reliable fastening
UK customers had to deal with existing, and attract new, solutions.”
BST invests £120,000 on in-house
coating plant
A UK company that supplies the nuclear, naval and petrochemical industries with “fail-safe” fasteners
has invested £120,000 in a new coatings plant, which is expected to save the company money and
create up to four new jobs.
BST Supplies Ltd has spent six months phasing in its new PTFE coatings unit at its Zenith site in
Wolverhampton, as well as also working towards achieving environmental standard ISO 14001.
“Our staff should be very proud of what they have achieved in bringing two complex projects to fruition,”
comment joint directors, Tony Lawless and Stuart Mee.
“Our new in-house coatings plant will ensure that our products have the anti-corrosion and anti-gaulling
security that is required. The various fasteners we supply are colour and uniquely coded to ensure that they
can be correctly identified even when they are in sub-sea service.”
BST Supplies manufactures precision special fasteners, threaded and machined components, often in small
to medium or prototype-sized batches. The majority of components are manufactured in materials that are
corrosion and/or heat resistant and maybe required to be chemical resistant with many being safety or
life-critical.
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