Manufacturing and Engineering Magazine Volume 425 - January 2016 | Page 48

MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING BLACKHILL ENGINEERING SERVICES

THE PROVIDER
OF CHOICE
Blackhill Engineering is a premium engineering
and fabrication service providing an expansive
portfolio of machine engineering

“There's nowhere quite like the UK
for quality assurance in the manufacturing and engineering industry,”
asserts Dan Baker, Business
Development Manager at Blackhill
Engineering Services. “And we are
very much a part of that ethic.” With outstanding technical aptitude and a willingness to
improve and develop, Blackhill Engineering
Services is a company which demonstrates a
flexibility and proficiency which is certain to
secure its future.
Originally established in the fifties as the choice
engineering support services provider for the
English China Clays quarrying group, Blackhill
Engineering Services has since expanded and
diversified its operations to the extent that it has
becoming something of a one-stop-shop in largescale machining and fabrication. Indeed, boasting

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the largest physical machining capability within the
South West, and matching the capacity of some of
the biggest and best across the UK, its expertise
lies in big – and it has big ambitions to boot.
Since its privatisation in the late seventies and
subsequent procurement by SC Group, the company has diversified its aims enormously and now
supports a number of key industries, including:
defence, marine, quarrying, construction, petrochemical, and powder-processing. Since establishing in-house design capabilities and establishing
collaborative contracts with suppliers, Blackhill
Engineering Services has developed a complete
end-to-end manufacturing and engineering service, particularly well-suited to single unit or low
volume production.
It's to SC Group that the company owes much
of its recent development; Blackhill Engineering
Services has not only modernised and improved its

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