Widdops - The UK Brush Company

Lockdown 3.0 – We’re still open

As 2020 came with it’s fair amount of challenges, 2021 is off to a good start with a new lockdown in place from 05th Jan onwards, closing all but essential industries. At Widdops, along with our sister company Bentham & Holroyd we will be remaining open full time to continue manufacture and supply of components…

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Keyway Machining

This week Widdops Brush took delivery of a new Excel turret milling machine, further investing in our keyway machining capabilities. A large portion of the brushes we provide are on rollers for numerous uses and this expands our capacity in being able to machine these shafts with customer specified milled keyway slots prior to covering…

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Long Bed CNC Turning

Thanks to our latest purchase of a new Pinacho CNC lathe with travelling & fixed Steady, and fully driven tooling for quick and accurate machining of keyways, Benthams can now offer more specialist turning to long length brush shafts up to 3mtrs long that would have traditionally had to machined manually taking up far too…

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Waste Management Brushes

Exhibiting at the Recycling & Waste Management expo for the 3rd year now at the NEC, Widdops Brush are proud to have been showcasing several of our brushes used in the waste management industry including our trommel screen roller brushes and our heavy duty forklift attachment brushes

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500 Ebay Sales

Today Widdops are celebrating our 500th sale on Ebay We have only recently started marketing our industrial draught excluders and garage door brush seals on the website offering sizes and quality not previously available at great value. Our nylon brush strip seals come in either 1.5 or 3mtr lengths, trimmed between 50mm to 100mm and…

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MIY Commercial Feature – April 18

This month Widdops Brush are very happy to be featured as a commercial feature in Made in Yorkshire’s most recent publication. Going back through the history books our company goes all the way back to 1830 as W.Waddingtons, with nearly 200 years of industrial brushes in Bradford we’re proud to be part of this group…

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World Fish Migration Day 2018

Every year World Fish Migration day is held to celebrate the efforts that people have made to improve fish migration and riverine habitats for fish. This year we would like to celebrate our contribution where, through collaboration with the Environment Agency and the University of Southampton, a new cost-effective fish pass prototype has been built…

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Forklift Brushes to the EU

Last week we were very happy to be exporting our very first set of forklift sweeper brushes into Europe! The metal recycling company recently contacted us wanting 3 of our heavy duty FLB23plus brush units. At 2.3mtrs each with extended fork-sleeves and some serious weight, we had an interesting learning curve in logistics to ensure…

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New Pivot Function Forklift Brush

The newest edition to our range of heavy duty forklift brush attachments is a fully bespoke adjustable pivot unit, now available as part of our FLBcustom models Designed in December 2017 to meet one of our customers specific requirements, this unit allows the brush to be fixed at an angle up to 15 degrees either…

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