Malthouse Engineering prepares to celebrate 65th anniversary

A BLACK Country engineering company is preparing to celebrate its 65th anniversary.

Oldbury-based Malthouse Engineering started trading in 1947 and has grown to become the UK’s number one steel profiling company.

Over the years the company has grown from a single site business to a five-site operation with a 150-strong workforce and a £20m turnover.

The firm has acquired 14 companies along its manufacturing journey and continues to expand its workforce to keep pace with demand.

The company now has a presence in Worcester, Wakefield, West Bromwich, Wednesbury and Oldbury.

It said it was focused on skills development for the next generation of its workers. In recent years the company has worked closely with the University of Wolverhampton and Birmingham City University as part of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme. This has resulted in two graduates being brought into the business to support the development of online marketing and sales order processing systems.

The firm said the honorary doctorate in business administration awarded to managing director Roy Taylor by the Business School at the University of Wolverhampton had been one of the highlights of the anniversary so far.

Taylor said a consistency of management style had been one of the reasons for the firm’s continued success.

“There have only been two managing directors in the past, the founder Bert Hands (35 years) and Roy Taylor (30 years),” he said.

“Another factor (is) a continuous yearning for innovation which has covered areas such as computer design, online marketing, sales databases, suggestion schemes, patents and intellectual property.”