Our History
The foundations to our success.Products
RENT/HIRE
PROJECT WORK
1956
Where it all began.. as Courtburn welding acting as agents for Yates & Macobe Positioning Equipment.
1980
Purchased Murex Positioning Equipment from BOC.
1995
Key Plant moves into Liverpool facility (25,500sq ft.) on Regent Road.
2001
Purchases Bode facilities and factory, a 6 acre site with 70,267sq ft of factory from Bode Positioners in Leek, Staffordshire
2003
Expands Liverpool facility, purchasing an 47,571 sq ft from Huntleigh Healthcare.
2006
Key Plant purchases the entire rental fleet from Sneep Industries (fomerley Traffo Rent) in the Netherlands.
2017
Key Plant further invests in it’s in-house capabilities portfolio, with the purchase of a polyurethane (PU) production facility in the UK.
2019
As part of our continual growth and investment in the welding automation market we expand to North America. Opening a Key Plant USA office, and manufacturing & assembly facility in Houston, Texas.
1956
Where it all began.. as Courtburn welding acting as agents for Yates & Macobe Positioning Equipment.
1980
Purchased Murex Positioning Equipment from BOC.
1995
Key Plant moves into Liverpool facility (25,500sq ft.) on Regent Road.
2001
Purchases Bode facilities and factory, a 6 acre site with 70,267sq ft of factory from Bode Positioners in Leek, Staffordshire
2003
Expands Liverpool facility, purchasing an 47,571 sq ft from Huntleigh Healthcare.
2006
Key Plant purchases the entire rental fleet from Sneep Industries (fomerley Traffo Rent) in the Netherlands.
2017
Key Plant further invests in it’s in-house capabilities portfolio, with the purchase of a polyurethane (PU) production facility in the UK.
2019
As part of our continual growth and investment in the welding automation market we expand to North America. Opening a Key Plant USA office, and manufacturing & assembly facility in Houston, Texas.
50 years manufacturing and producing at Key Plant.
Steve ‘Clay’ Clayton – 1970 (aged 17) to his retirement in 2020.
