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Who are BWC Profiles?
Your single point of accountability and contact for all of your extrusion needs.
Mission
To provide a true manufacturing partnership to every corner of the UK industry; bringing expertise, capability, simplicity and reliability to extruded profile projects in aluminium, plastics, and beyond.
Values
To never lose sight of doing business with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner by being the manufacturing department our customers wish they had.
To keep growing by building close partnerships with customers that solve their most challenging problems and by adding value to their operation.
To keep growing by building close partnerships with customers that solve their most challenging problems and by adding value to their operation.
Apr1999
WHERE IT ALL BEGAN...
Our business was established in 1999 by a plucky salesman called Guy Barker.
After several years in the aluminium industry, Guy decided he wanted to paddle his own boat and founded BW Aluminium (with 'BW' coming from the names of his eldest children, Bailey and Will).
May1999
GROWTH & EXPANSION
The business started by buying and selling aluminium extrusions, organising sub-contract operations such as cutting, fabrication, painting, and anodising.
Growth began to take shape, with new teams members, new customers, and an ever-growing number of profiles.
Jan2012
ADDING PLASTIC EXTRUSION
Guy decided the business needed to expand, and that plastic extrusion would offer an excellent synergy with the growing aluminium side of the business. A small plastic extruder located in Cornwall was acquired into the group.
A new Barker baby, Connie, was born, and BW gained its C, and became BWC.
Jan2013
NEW CONTRACT, BIGGER FACILITIES
A new contract with a business who needed a large and consistent quantity of plastic profiles was established.
Guy and his team worked tirelessly building production capabilities needed to serve the new contract, including relocating to a bigger factory and taking on a second production facility in Cornwall. Certain other acquisitions were made along the way.
Jun2017
TIME TO MOVE
The intensity of running a small business across the country meant changes were needed.
Struggling with the need for further expansion, constraints on our power space, and management from afar, the decision was made: BWC needed to be under one roof. The search began for the premises we are in today...
Nov2017
BWC PROFILES' HQ
Our 65,000sq ft factory and warehouse in Milton Keynes consolidates our extrusion, mouldings, stock holding facilities (and at that time greenhouses facilities) into one premise, along with our office and management teams.
Our HQ helps us streamline, drive efficiency, and set ourselves up for high growth and productivity.
Since then, we have gone from strength to strength, including building a metal fabrication department that has six CNC machines, seven extruders, two saws, three injection moulding machines and a powder coating line.
Feb2021
MANAGEMENT BUYOUT
BWC Group founder, Guy Barker, announces his retirement from the extrusion industry with a management buyout of his business by directors Danny Varley and Mark Barker who said:
"We are delighted to be able to continue to offer our customers the uninterrupted level of service that they have come to know and expect from BWC over the last 22 years, for many more years to come."