COMPANY PROFILE
All the buzz about Beehive
A family run company, Beehive Coils has been a stalwart of the industry since 1968 and celebrated its 50th birthday in January.
F
rederick J Bartram started working in the refrigeration industry in the early 1940s, building his knowledge through extensive experience in air conditioning design. He developed a particular interest in coils and eventually, on 29 January 1968, he formed Beehive in Newmarket.
The company grew quickly in size and customer base, relocating back and forth between Newmarket and Mildenhall into larger facilities as the years went by. In the early 1990s, the company settled into the premises in Newmarket where it is still based. Since then, Beehive Coils has expanded its manufacturing capabilities and capacity year on year, and it is now able to design and manufacture a wide range of different tube sizes and configurations to suit requirements
from small water coils, to high pressure CO2 evaporators, to 8-9m condenser unit assemblies. Frederick J Bartram passed away in 2014, but he has left behind a strong and capable company.
That Beehive is primarily a family-owned and run company remains at the core of its
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philosophy, with Mr Bartram’s son, Robert, currently managing director and his grandson, Mark, a director. For the eagle-eyed, one of Mr Bartram’s many grandchildren features on the back of the company’s new enhanced efficiency lorries.
Now in its 50th year, Beehive is investing in staff excellence training programs to give them the capacity and experience to design and manufacture many different tube configurations in their products. The company also hopes to have refrigerant handling capabilities awarded during 2018.
Beehive is also continuing to significantly invest in new and more advanced tooling, fin presses and bending machinery. It can now produce 7mm, 5/16”, 3/8”, 12mm, ½” and 5/8” tube coils, each on a variety of tooling pitches to ensure a unit can be designed and manufactured to meet almost any criteria. They can even match European coil sizes, if required. The company has estimated that the number of coil products manufactured since incorporation is well over 3.5 million. With regard to the comapny itself, Beehive is
currently working on upgrading the BS systems from ISO 9001:2008 to the new ISO 9001:2015 to ensure that it remains at the forefront of its industry, running the business in accordance with the latest British Standards requirements and ultimately ensuring the customer benefits from the resulting superior and reliable systems in place.
“For a family manufacturing company which has been running over 50 years to remain so strong and ever-present in the UK HVACR industry is certainly a substantial achievement in this day and age,” says director Mark Bartram. “I believe Beehive’s continued success and prominence in the UK market is thanks to the tenacious attitude of both my grandfather and father over the years, ensuring that we are company who is totally focused on providing the best service and product possible to our customers at the best price achievable – while retaining the incredibly high quality standard we are and have always been renowned for.” Beehive continues to develop its abilities further and plans to offer its customers more than just coils in the very near future.
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