Metalrax
Metalrax was the main supplier of non-stick coated steel bakeware to the UK market, since the 1960s, and the trade (product) name of a series of manufacturing companies. It has been Europe's largest supplier of non-stick coated steel for the bakeware industry.
History[edit]
Metalrax was, historically, a Worcestershire company. By 1979, the company was formed of eighteen subsidiary companies, which made other types of non-bakeware industrial products. Its bakeware products were made of steel and aluminium.
Ownership[edit]
On Tuesday 17 March 1964, the company was listed on the London Stock Exchange as Metalrax (Holdings), through the amalgamation of four companies.[1] Th company was incorporated on 27 February 1964.[2] It became Metalrax Group in January 1982.
It was owned by Metalrax Group, which was bought out after it lost a main contract for a UK supermarket in July 2012, and had been listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) from June 2008.
The company had a management buy-out in July 2017.[3] Another division of the company, EWS[4] a cold roll forming company for housing fenestration and the UK market leader, on the A449 south of M54 junction 2 was bought in July 2018.
Structure[edit]
CCC is the company, on the Steelpark Trading Estate in Wednesfield off the A4124, which makes non-stick coatings of steel.
Products[edit]
- Wine racks
- Wooden and plastic housewares
- Non-stick bakeware (coated with polytetrafluoroethylene, or PTFE)
References[edit]
- ^ Times, Wednesday 18 March 1964, page 18
- ^ Companies House
- ^ Express & Star July 2017
- ^ Companies House
External links[edit]
- British companies established in 1964
- Aluminium companies of the United Kingdom
- Companies formerly listed on the Alternative Investment Market
- Companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange
- Cookware and bakeware
- Kitchenware brands
- Manufacturing companies based in Wolverhampton
- Manufacturing companies established in 1964
- Steel companies of the United Kingdom