Buy well.
Leave it working.
Grow the group.
Northern Industries was founded in 2019 to acquire JHT, and has bought a business roughly every other year since. The target is one to two more each year, in precision steel engineering, with a focus on the north of England and on customers whose work has to be exact.
Nothing is stripped out. Each unit keeps its name, its plant and its managing director, and the corporate team works one level up: capital, M&A, group-wide operational and ESG improvement, and the synergies between units. The destination is a horizontally integrated, full-capacity UK steel engineering group.
Where the group has been.
- 2019
- JHT Engineering
- 2020
- Steelway
- Steelway Fensecure
- Steelway Brickhouse
- 2022
- CEL Sheet Metal
- 2026
- Landguard Engineering
- Next
One to two more business units a year. Nothing announced yet.
Dates as published by Northern Industries. Steelway Protect carries no acquisition date.
What the corporate parent is for.
Buy
One to two new business units a year, in precision steel engineering, with a focus on the north of England.
Keep
Each unit keeps its name, its plant and its managing director. Daily operations stay where they are.
Improve
The corporate team works on financial, operational and ESG improvement across the group, not inside one plant.
Integrate
Synergies across units: shared capability, shared customers, and a route to a horizontally integrated group.
Selling a manufacturing business?
The group says it is looking for owners with ambitious growth plans. That conversation starts with the CEO.