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Helipebs 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”.

Try 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.

Some 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.

Helipebs 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.

There was plenty to smile about at the Helipebs Group recent AGM which announced record sales and profits for the year ending 31^st 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.

Helipebs 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”.

Following 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.

Apart 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.

Helipebs Controls Ltd has gained a prestigious award having been named as the winner in the category ‘Family Business Manufacturing Excellence’.

For 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.