Bodycote International
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| legal form | Public limited company (Plc) |
| ISIN | GB00B3FLWH99 |
| founding | 1923 |
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Macclesfield , UK
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| Number of employees | over 5,000 (2018) |
| sales | 541.4 million pounds Sterling (2008) |
| Branch | Metal processing |
| Website | www.bodycote.com |
Bodycote International plc is an international company based in Macclesfield , Cheshire in the UK . The company specializes in material refinement through heat treatment .
Bodycote International has over 5000 employees in more than 180 locations in 23 countries. Sales in 2008 were £ 541.4 million.
The business fields are heat treatment, hot isostatic pressing , colsterizing of stainless steel, coating of metals and material testing.
Company history
- 1923 Arthur Bodycote was founded in Hinckley, Leicester (England) in 1923 as a textile manufacturing company.
- In 1969 the merger with the Slater Walker Group took place.
- 1973 Spin-off from the Slater Walker Group and renaming to Bodycote International.
- 1979 After the earnings in the textile sector continued to decline, a realignment as a service company was decided. Blandburgh Limited was taken over for this. Thus the transition to a supplier of heat treatment of materials was started.
- 1980 With the purchase of Zinc Alloy Rust Proofing Ltd. The entry was made as a provider of surface finishes.
- 1983 Nemo Heat Treatments was taken over. The company was the first to offer vacuum heat treatment in the UK market. This created another corporate sector.
- Expansion abroad began in 1992 with the acquisition of Industrial Materials Technology Inc., a North American company with a branch in Belgium.
- 1997 Sale of the last textile factories. The realignment was completed.