Group Rhodes

Supplying machinery for Metalforming, Material Handling, Waste Management, Clay Preparation, Concrete Working and Special Purpose applications. Group Rhodes is one of Europe’s largest Original Equipment Manufacturers in its field. The main divisions of the Group consist of Joseph Rhodes, Rhodes Interform, Craven Fawcett, Beauford Engineers, Rhodes Environmental, Slater & Crabtree and Hallamshire Engineering. The Group actively manufactures and markets over fifty basic ranges of machines, although pride is taken in its ability to design, develop and manufacture bespoke machinery and complete turnkey solutions. The Technology and Products menu provides general overview of the machinery supplied and industries that utilise Group Rhodes products and services. Group Rhodes are double winners of the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of its continuous development of Super Plastic Forming and Diffusion Bonding Presses (SPF/DB) specifically designed for the high temperature forming of titanium and aluminium alloys, primarily used in the aerospace and automotive industry. In 2012, the Company was recognised again, this time for its outstanding achievements in overseas markets in particular China. In 2012, Group Rhodes was listed in the London Stock Exchange Group ‘1000 Companies to inspire Britain’, while in 2015, the Company was ranked 29 in the Sunday Times top 100 SME exporters in the UK (all industries). As well as its two Wakefield sites, which offer over 18,500sqm of production capability, Group Rhodes also operates divisions in Sheffield and Manchester, and this year completed its new facility in Bangalore, India, which was inaugurated by the Right Honourable Nick Clegg MP, the Deputy Prime minister of the United Kingdom.