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Brief History and Background of Manesty
1905
A firm of manufacturing chemists in Liverpool, namely Thompson and Capper Wholesale Chemists Limited, developed an existing business as agents for chemical machinery, to become agents of pharmaceutical machinery. Their first factory was situated in the City Centre of Liverpool in Manesty's Lane (which, still exists and is the origin of our company name).
1920
As this buisiness developed it was separated from the wholesale chemist side and Manesty Machines was created. It was during these years that Manesty, with its extensive range of pharmaceutical equipment, laid the foundations of its reputation as a manufacturer of excellent, robust, reliable machinery, a reputation that continues to this day.
1946
Manesty was purchased by John Holroyd and Co. Limited. Holroyd were manufacturers of specialist machine tools and had, over the years, designed and manufactured many special purpose machines including a rotary tablet press as early as 1888. The special building skills of Holroyd, linked with Manesty's in-depth knowledge of the Pharmaceutical Industry, set the standards of tablet machine design and manufacture which are in force throughout the industry to this day, such as rotary feeders, pre compression, dry coated and two layer presses.
1964
Holroyd was taken over by the then Renold Chains Limited (now known as Renold PLC). This takeover by a large multi-national company made available the resources for product market developments which led to a substantial increase in manufacturing capacity. With this increase came a new generation of tablet presss and coating machines.
1990
Manesty Machines was bought from Renold by Barry Wehmiller International (Later known as BWI plc.), who had specific interest and expertise in the development of process equipment.
1998
BWI Pharmaceutical Technologies was formed incorporating BWI Manesty and BWI Hüttlin.
1999
IWKA AG purchased BWI PLC and in turn BWI Hüttlin and BWI Manesty becomes part of the IWKA Pacunion group of companies with a Head Office located at Stutensee near Karlsruhe, Germany.
2000
Planning started on a new green field manufacturing site for Manesty to be located within the Knowsley Business Park, Knowsley, Merseyside. This project was a major investment in both a new factory site and also in new machine tools for the production of Manesty products.
2001
Building work commenced and the new factory was completed by October 2001. The move from the Speke site to the new facility was completed by the end of January 2002.
March 2007
The investment group Odewald & Compagnie purchased the IWKA packaging group from IWKA AG. The packaging group is now part of the newly formed OYSTAR Holdings GmbH with headquarters in Karlsruhe, Germany.
- Manesty
- Kitling Road, Knowsley
- Merseyside, L34 9JS
- Great Britain
- T +44 151 547 8000
- F +44 151 547 8001
- sales@oystar.manesty.com