A very British manufacturer
20 May 2016
With 95 years of experience, Jubilee® Clips Ltd has never been a company to pursue short-term trends and has maintained its UK production for every single original range clip it has ever sold throughout its history.
British manufacturing has played a key part in maintaining a position right at the top of the quality end of the global hose clamp market for Jubilee®. Indeed, the range of products manufactured by Jubilee Clips in the UK has been growing in recent years, with the acquisition of a factory in Birmingham in 2013 adding not only the Multiband range of endless band clamps, but subsequently a range of quick release clamps, which was shortlisted for the innovation prize at Fastener Fair Stuttgart 2016.
More recently pipe retaining ‘P’ clips have been added to the range, also manufactured in Birmingham. However, the growth in product ranges and volumes produced in Birmingham is nothing to compare to the advances in production at the company’s headquarters in Gillingham, UK, where a self-sufficient tool room facility enables the company to continually improve production automation. All production machinery is developed entirely in-house, so Jubilee really is a very British manufacturer – not only of the hose clips for which it is world renowned, but also for its highly specialised machines.
“This solid base of homemade excellence allows us to compete on a global scale,” says Ian Jennings, managing director at Jubilee Clips Ltd. “With exports significantly outweighing home market sales, and in an ever shrinking world, it is important you are able to offer increasingly high service levels to every corner of the globe.”
