Two new hoist companies have emerged in the UK from the Chadburns materials handling business that was closed in January.
Chadburns’ Clayton wire rope hoist manufacturing business has been taken over by its managers as a new independent operation, called Clayton Hoist, in new premises in Liverpool.
Those Clayton staff previously managing the side of the business distributing Italian-built Donati hoists, branded as Clayton DRH hoists, have joined Donati UK, a new company owned by Donati of Italy. Donati UK is also based in Liverpool on the same industrial estate as the new Clayton Hoist.
Chadburns was folded in January by its parent company, the mechanical and electronic engineering group Widney.
Clayton had been part of the Chadburn group since 1956 and in recent times had been sole agent for Donati in the UK, the business now taken on by Donati UK. This business is headed by Jim Bristow, who transferred from Clayton.
The new Clayton Hoist company will continue to manufacture the K and M wire rope hoist models. Although production is slow, with just three units produced this year, the spare parts and service business has become core.
A third strand of Chadburns’ business was power transmissions. This has also now been registered by its management as a new company, Clayton Power Transmissions, and is run from Glasgow.
Donati itself is owned by the German company Demag Cranes & Components.
