Northern Industries is the Corporate Parent to a group of Engineering companies with operations in the Northern region of the U.K. As of Summer 2022 the group consists of 4 business units, but is constantly on the look out for acquisition opportunities in the UK steel engineering sector and is particularly seeking companies who service clients in “sensitive industries” where design and specialist manufacture is a key requirement. Northern Industries was Founded in 2019 as part of the acquisition of it’s first business unit, JHT Fabrications Ltd. It subsequently acquired Steelway Fensecure Ltd and Steelway Access Covers Ltd (Steelway Brickhouse), based in the West Midlands in 2020 as part of it’s growth through M&A strategy. In 2022, Northern Industries was proud to add CEL Sheetmetal to the group. CEL is a specialist sub-contract Sheetmetal business. The group intends on acquiring an additional 1 – 2 new business units per year for the next 3 years. Each business unit has a dedicated Managing Director that manages the daily operations of the business’s, whilst the corporate parent management team focuses on subsequent M&A activity as well as extracting synergies across the group, optimising the business units, and rolling out various ESG activities across the group. The ultimate ambition for Northern Industries is to expand into being a full capacity, horizontally integrated steel engineering group with operations primarily in the Northern region of the UK.
