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Services partnering with Cappellotto is the perfect partnership for both businesses. Cappellotto build some of the very best tankers in the world but are relatively unknown in the UK. Whereas Williams Tanker Services have the facilities, expertise and ambition to not only sell these state-of-the-art tankers throughout the UK but also become a market leader in the after sales provision as well”
And Williams Tankers has not been timid. It has ordered 10 CapCombi 2600 units which are due for delivery before the end of 2020. Exhibiting the flare of Italian design, the CapCombi 2600 comes on a 6X4 Scania chassis, polished stainless steel barrel and water tanks providing greater capacity and huge suction and vacuum as standard.
solid materials as well as the transportation of dangerous goods.
Williams Tanker Services are already a well known name in the UK tanker industry as the distributor for LAG. However this is to be expanded further as the West Yorkshire based tanker specialist recently concluded an
agreement with Italy’s Cappellotto S.p.A. to act as exclusive agents for the distribution of their tankers in the United Kingdom & Northern Ireland, including becoming the after sales service and parts provider.
Peter Hughes, General Manager of Williams Tanker Services comments “Williams Tanker
However, Williams’ are not stopping there. They plan to supply equipment to meet the needs of all requirements in the industry: from small 14 ton tankers for the inner city right up to 32 ton recyclers using Cappellotto’s innovative and market leading recycling technology. We’re sure to be hearing and seeing much more of Cappellotto in the near and distant future.
Naylor reports steady progress
Naylor Industries, the construction materials manufacturer, has reported a steady improvement in profitability in the financial year to February 29 2020, the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sales - which grew 13 per cent in the previous year - were only fractionally higher at £55.6m (2019: £55.3m) due to challenging market conditions. However, over recent years, Naylor has invested heavily in its manufacturing operations, with increased efficiencies resulting in a 34 per cent increase in profit before tax to £2.7m (2019: £2.0m).
Naylor is a fourth-generation family business with six manufacturing sites across the UK, including three in the Barnsley area. The company manufactures clay and plastic pipes as well as concrete products and employs nearly 400 people.
Recent years have seen the company invest heavily in plant and premises, acquiring two new freehold sites in Barugh Green and Wombwell and constructing a £5.5m manufacturing plant for large diameter plastic drainage. In July 2020, the company commissioned a new automated £2m concrete lintel plant at Barugh Green, following this in
August 2020 with the acquisition of £3.3m- turnover concrete fencepost manufacturer Procter Fencing, based in Garforth.
Edward Naylor, Chief Executive, said: “2019-20 was a year of steady progress despite challenging market conditions. Although our key construction markets remained unsettled in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, we achieved an encouraging increase in profitability, with our factories becoming more efficient thanks to the capital investment of the last few years.”
The company said the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic had been disruptive,
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with two of its factories closing temporarily, although all its sites continued to service the requirements of its customers, many of whom were engaged in key infrastructure and healthcare projects.
Edward Naylor added: “The pandemic has blown us off-course and we’re expecting a £5m shortfall in 2020-21 sales. We saw activity levels nose-dive in April but more recently, sales have recovered to within 5-10 per cent of normal levels. We raised £5m of extra finance from HSBC earlier in the year which strengthened our capital base and gives us the firepower to keep expanding the business.”
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