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After
two decades Howco Group is still an agile and highly spirited
company whose desire to stretch and improve remains just as
strong as the early days when described as ‘entrepreneurs
with their jackets off’.
From
the outset, the main goal for Howco Group was to develop a strategic
approach that would differentiate the company from
conventionally organised service centres and deliver
significant competitive advantage to its customers through
quality, value and service.
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By
1990 Howco Group had defined its core business as materials
management and established itself as a highly regarded
organisation throughout the UK and Europe. By 2000, the
company had grown significantly and opened new service
centres in the USA, Canada, Singapore, and Norway. The
group’s long term commitment to the oil and gas industry
worldwide had been truly established.
In 2001 the acquisition of the Henry
Whitham special steels group in Sheffield, one of
Europe’s largest processors and distributors of
speciality steels and Carbon & Alloy Metals inc of
Houston, brought century-old know-how and processing
excellence to the group both in the UK and US. This
included Rotherham based Millhouses Engineering, which
has one of the best-equipped heavy engineering machine
shops in Europe.
By the end of 2004 these facilities
were expanded to form Howco Special Processing and Howco
Engineering both of which now operate as independent
divisions. Howco Quality Alloys was also launched as
an independent division in 2003 to provide dedicated
focus on nickel alloy forged products.In August 2003 Howco
Metals Inc and Carbon & Alloy Metals Inc were
successfully merged to form Howco CA Metals LP
operating from Telge Road Houston, Texas. This
together with the international positioning of Howco
Group plc now enables Howco Group to operate in
seven countries with facilities in 14 locations. |
