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The company was formed in 1935 by Mr. Arthur Bate under the name of Staffordshire Service Engineering Co. Ltd. In the late 1940’s the company moved to its present day site of Pedmore Road Dudley, the early years saw the company’s primary business based around general machining and engineering. During the 1950’s the company was approached by John Thompsons who were a main contractor to the newly formed United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA) and from research and testing started to diversify from the standard engineering disciplines to forming and manipulating pipe into special pipe fittings in stainless steel for the new “Atomic Industry”. Over the following years the company experimented in producing branches and stubs on pipe work with various methods including explosives.
In 1993 the company saw the need to expand its business in the elbow market and purchased an elbow forming press. Due to the success of the production from this machine in 1994 two more machines of the same type were purchased.The machines are capable of producing elbows from ½”NB to 6”NB in schedules 10s and 40s, 1993 also saw the company achieve BS5750 Pt.2 Quality approval (Now known as ISO 9002). Due to the requirements of the American market where the size range for fittings extends more to the larger sizes i.e., 8”, 10” and 12”NB it was decided to purchase equipment to make that particular range so in 1995 the Belgium pipe fitting manufacturer “Befima” was purchased. The whole plant was taken apart transported to the UK and reassembled in Pedmore Road. This equipment gave S.S.E the ability to produce elbows from ½”NB to 12”NB. Along with the two Schäfer forming presses equipment for sawing, heat treating, machining, pickling and finishing were also purchased which reaffirmed SSE’s commitment to ongoing improvement. In 2000 the company was taken over as part of the RMH group by Wilsons Plc. But continued to trade under their own name. Then in August 2009 the Wilson Plc group was taken over by a private investor who is in the process of making a substantial financial investment in the business. The take-over involved the separation of Stockholding and Manufacturing, whereby SSE became a stand alone company responsible for its own destiny SSE Pipefittings are renowned manufacturers of cold formed butt-weld pipefittings, extruded outlets, manifolds, elbows, tees,reducers, caps, stub ends, concentric and eccentric, swage nipples, etc; as standard products or to customers specifications. Our Dudley operation includes some of the largest cold extrusion presses in Western Europe. |
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