About Us
Andrew Industries Ltd is a privately owned British multi-national manufacturing Group. Our head office is in the UK and we manufacture from sites in the UK, North America, Mexico, China and Malaysia.
Andrew Industries Ltd was founded by Edward Worsley Andrew in 1894 and officially incorporated in 1923. The company began business in the north Lancashire town of Bury selling woven textiles to laundries.
Our Laundry Division is now a world leader and manufactures a wide range of needle punch non-woven felts to meet the application requirements found in the modern commercial laundry environments of today. From presses to ironers, folders and feeders, the Laundry Division manufacturers a comprehensive range of products to meet the performance requirements of today’s technically demanding commercial laundries. The division maintain the highest standards of service, quality and technical support to a niche market sector and is proud to be a major supplier to the Health Service, Prison Service and the hotel industry.
During the 1970’s the current Chairman, Edward Andrew, led the Groups diversification into the manufacture of highly engineered needle punch felts for the industrial dry filtration market and operates as our Industrial Materials Division. The Industrial Materials Division is a leading supplier world-wide of dust filtration needle felts for pollution control installations. The division has constantly invested in the latest equipment and technology, coupled with a highly motivated international team of expert textile technologists who lead in the field providing innovative solutions to ever-changing and challenging filtration and laundry felt applications.
A second phase of diversification took place in late 1970’s with the establishment of the BMP Engineering Division and was involved in the supply of engineered textile components for use in the Digital Print & Automation market (copiers, laser printers and ink jet printers.). BMP has since expanded to supply engineered textile and polyurethane components to a host of new market sectors such as Appliance, Automotive, Offset Printing, Renewable energy and Contract Manufacturing.
Ongoing all Divisions are investing in projects for environmental and sustainable solutions.
Top Image: Edward Worsley Andrew (founder)
Bottom Image: Walton House (AIL Head Office)