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For many years, Dr Chris Champion has been the company’s medical officer and his hobby is motor sport. Helipebs Controls operates in the advanced engineering sector and was recently able to assist Dr Champion with a small modification to a component for his car, as a result of which Chris has written a few words about his hobby.
Read MoreHelipebs Controls is pleased to announce the appointment of Gareth Edwards to the internal sales team. Gareth comments “having joined Helipebs, I am pleased by the hard working mentality within the company and the future that this company holds for me. I am also proud to become a member of the sales team and look forward to expanding my role within this business; I am 30 years old and have recently returned to the UK after residing in the Netherlands for the past 5years. Before moving abroad, I was employed in an engineering sales and design department within an industrial environment. Currently living in Gloucester, I am looking for my first apartment in Cheltenham. I have a strong passion for Rugby, hiking and visiting new places”.
Read MoreTry telling 100-year-old Gloucester business Helipebs that British manufacturing is dead and they may point you to their turnover figures – up 34 per cent to a predicted £7m.
Read MoreSome years before the 1914-1918 war, a cement chemist, William Fennell, began experimenting with HOLPEBS (hollow pebbles) – tubular steel bodies – as a means of improving the fine grinding process in cement mills.
Read MoreHelipebs Controls is exhibiting at the Offshore South East Asia Conference and Exhibition 2014 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from 2-5 December 2014. If you are attending OSEA 2014 please visit us on the Helipebs Controls stand – 1H6-03 where we will be pleased to discuss all of your offshore hydraulic actuator requirements.
Read MoreFollowing on from initial successes in doing business in China, Helipebs is now taking the next step, in collaboration with local company ‘Join in China’, to set up a China Desk. Qing Lin, a Chinese national who currently lives locally, will head up our activities on the China desk and deal with new business.
Read MoreCourtesy of Cotswold Life, Business Section, Helipebs is again hi-lighted as a company to watch in the future.
Some say that British manufacturing is dying. It’s not. Gloucester-based Helipebs may not be one of the biggest manufacturers in the Cotswolds, but it’s certainly one of our most continuously successful, largely because 10 years ago it focussed on high value, quality designs rather than play the Asian manufacturing market at its own game of lower quality, lower price ‘catalogue’ components.
Read MoreThere was plenty to smile about at the Helipebs Group recent AGM which announced record sales and profits for the year ending 31st March 2014. Group Chairman, Ross Cole, was pleased to announce sales of £5.234 million, up 26% on the previous year. Profits also exceeded targets. In his report he says “Helipebs Controls has had an exceedingly busy year in all areas of the business.
Read MoreHelipebs Controls are proud winners of the Manufacturing Excellence award from Cotswold Life, a regional publication covering Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Geoff Davis, Managing Director says “the company works hard to be where it is today and it is pleasing to be recognised in this way. We have a great team of people who are dedicated to making the company a success”.
Read MoreFollowing the success of last year, Helipebs Controls decided to enter two teams to play in The Milestone School fundraising ‘Golf Day 2014’ which took place on Sunday 18th May at the Rodway Golf Club. The Milestone School is a community Special School in Gloucester that provides for approximately 290 children with a wide range of special educational needs.
Read MoreApart from Helipebs Controls having won a number of prestigious contracts in the Offshore Oil & Gas industry since the beginning of the year, they have also won their first ever order in China from a major subsea tree manufacturer.
Read MoreHelipebs Controls Ltd has gained a prestigious award having been named as the winner in the category ‘Family Business Manufacturing Excellence’.
Read MoreOne of Helipebs young engineers, Lucy Nichols, recently visited a local school, Elmbridge Junior, to help promote engineering to year 5 and 6 students. The day was spent working with small groups to design and build a lego robot, which had to be programmed and complete a range of functions. The winners had the opportunity to visit Helipebs Controls where they were shown the latest computer programmed machines as well as spending time working with engineers to design 3D models.
Read MoreFollowing detailed discussions at Board level, Helipebs Controls Ltd has decided to withdraw from the specific ‘Intelligent Systems’ market with effect from 1st April 2014. The company will no longer offer frames, structures or servo controllers. The financial results of this division have been poor over the past few years and this has regrettably resulted in one redundancy.
Read MoreIn 2010, the U.S. Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the ‘Act’), following which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘SEC’) issued rules requiring reporting companies to make disclosures concerning the use of Conflict Minerals – defined in the Act as tantalum, tin, tungsten (and the ores from which they originate) and gold. Conflict Minerals originating from the DRC region of Africa have been linked to severe human rights abuses and the raising of funds for violent and illegal purposes.
Read MoreFor the second year in succession, the Cheltenham North Carol Concert was held in the Princess Hall at Cheltenham Ladies’ College, and once again Helipebs were keen to sponsor this prestigious annual event.
Read MoreHelipebs Controls was happy to support the Freemasons of Mythe Lodge, Tewkesbury who held a Charity “Snail Racing Night” at the end of last year in aid of Tewkesbury Abbey. The Abbey’s only income is raised through donations unlike our Cathedrals which receive regular revenues.
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