Heskins Ltd is 25

From humble beginnings we have grown into a leader of safety tape production and worldwide distribution, and we are very proud of that. This would not have been possible without the help of our loyal customers and hardworking staff.

We are excited for the future of Heskins, but we want to take this opportunity to look back from where we started. Our timeline below will touch on some of the events of the past 25 years that have helped to shape Heskins into what it is today.

April 1997

Established in a back bedroom in a rented house in Charnock Richard, we used a company that no longer exists in Manchester to subcontract manufacture for us.

1998

The company subcontract manufacturer closed, we purchased machinery from them. Storage and production was in an old stables that was demolished many years ago to form a restaurant in Chorley. Our website was launched, we are proud of being a pioneer of using the web.

1999

ISO9000 registration, we always took quality seriously.

2000

Our first true warehouse.

2003

Purchased part of our existing industrial estate location.

2009

Heskins LLC (USA) opened.

2014

Heskins LLC (USA) expanded to its present large facility.

2015

Heskins UK purchase the entirety reast of the industrial estate to facilitate more production, storage and office space.

2018

Major investment at Heskins USA for production machinery.

2019

Our Devon UK factory opened; large scale fully-automated plastic film production facility with adhesive coating.

2020

New warehousing built on our UK location.

2021

Heskins BV opened in Netherlands.

2022?

We are looking to open Heskins in Poland providing us even better market access.

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Thanks again to our customers and staff over the years. Heskins wouldn’t be what it is today without you.