Hydraulics & Pneumatics
Group HES
celebrates 50
years of trading
2015 marks an impressive fifty years in hydraulic engineering for Group HES.
The Group has grown to become one of the leading fluid power companies
in the UK with offices nationwide with products and systems in use
worldwide.
F
rom its humble beginnings
in 1965 on a farm in
Cheltenham repairing
tractor hydraulics, the
company is now a multi-million pound
success story employing over 70
people with a customer base that
spans all areas of the engineering
world - from control valves in Chiswick
to ship lifting power packs in China!
With its roots steeped in engineering
history, Hydraulic Equipment
Supermarkets was originally founded
by the highly respected Ted Dowty
and has been serving generations of
engineers in the fluid power industry
ever since. While the Dowty brand
is still evident within the product
portfolio today, Hydraulic Equipment
Supermarkets and its younger sister
divisions, Branch Hydraulic Systems
(est. 1976), HES Tractec (est. 2005)
and HES Lubemec (est. 2008)
have all established themselves as
market leaders among engineering
professionals. The Group’s fifth division
HES Automatec is the newly formed
Automated and Control department,
another example of the forward
thinking of the Group. The company’s
rich heritage remains at the heart of
the business and sets a precedent
for current operations, central to
the values and principles of today’s
organisation.
Since 1966, the Group has been based
in Gloucester, in addition to operating
sales/service and trade counters in
Birmingham, Leeds and Durham,
providing the Group with nationwide
coverage.
Throughout its fifty-year trading, the
company has built its business on
securing top tier, and in some cases
exclusive relationships, with a number
of global manufacturers, including
Danfoss, Parker, Duplomatic, HyPro, Webtec, Hallite Seals, Carraro,
ZF, Bosch Rexroth, MP Filtri, Comer
Industries, SKF and Lincoln.
Group HES has always been committed
to providing products from the top
manufacturers with excellent customer
service. They continue to invest in
systems, infrastructure and their
people. With a large proportion of staff
with over 15 years of service, the level
of service and knowledge received is
unrivalled.
Group HES has built a reputation of
being innovators in the industry and
need a website to reflect this, so to
align with the 50 year celebrations, the
company has launched a new site, with
a brand new look and feel in a new
easy to use, attractive and customerfriendly layout. Alongside this they
have become more vocal on social
media accounts Twitter, Facebook and
LinkedIn.
Group HES would like to take this
opportunity to thank their customers
for their continued commitment as
without their loyalty and support would
not have made it to 50 years. Here’s to
the next 50 years!
Tel: 01452 730774
Email: [email protected]
www.grouphes.com
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PECM Issue 18