Member spotlight: Thorne & Derrick
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This week we caught up with Thorne & Derrick to find out how they’re going further with Chamber membership.
Where are you based?
Two locations, Chester-Le-Street & Bristol.
How many people do you employ?
30
Give us a brief overview of your business.
Thorne & Derrick are a specialist provider of industrial & hazardous area electrical equipment. This includes Process Heating, Power & Control, Lighting, Signalling, Instrumentation and LV-MV-HV cable accessories. Established in 1985 and with a branch in Chester-Le-Street we are ideally located to service the needs of our clients in the region. Understanding client demands is key to our business strategy as is our commitment to providing fit for purpose, independent technical proposals that fulfil customer specifications. We also strive to bring product innovation to our clients to help develop safer, reliable and cost-efficient working procedures.
– Scope – single-source supply of extensive range of products
– Stock – a multi-million pound stock holding provides complete global supply solutions
– Staff – technical support from a trained, proactive and friendly team
– Delivery – UK stock turnaround with express logistics to all international destination
Tell us about a recent business success.
Thorne & Derrick, based in the UK, are delighted to announce that we are Winners of the Delegates’ Award at the annual HazardEx Gala Dinner on 1st March 2023.
The Delegates’ Award was voted for by delegates and attendees at the Hazardex 2023 Conference and Exhibition, to identify which of the nominated entries provides the overall best hazardous area sector product, system or service. Thorne & Derrick were also highly commended in the ‘Best Customer Service Award’ after scooping the gong back in 2021.
Hazardex Live! is the original high hazard industry event for process safety professionals concerned with protecting Personnel, Process & Plant.
Widely recognised as the most important global event specific to hazardous area operations across all major industries, Hazardex Live! brings together the process safety community on an annual basis to review current or forthcoming legislation and stay up-to-date with best practice and the latest research in those areas key to managing process safety effectively.
Terry McDonald said, “It was an honour to collect the final award of the evening on behalf of Thorne & Derrick – we have a robust reputation for supporting our customers with the replacement and upgrade of end-of-life equipment to deliver significant operational safety and process improvements to their project or plant.
It is great to be recognised by our peers operating in the industry for providing a service above and beyond within the hazardous area sector.
I am very proud that the effort from our hard-working staff has been recognised and I would like to thank the organisers for running a successful event.”
We would like to thank everyone who took the time to vote for Thorne & Derrick and all Delegates, Speakers, Exhibitors and Visitors that attended Hazardex 2023.
Why are you a Chamber Member?
The Chamber is a great way to connect with other business within the North East as well as supporting Thorne & Derrick with our worldwide operations. Having access to support and services relevant to our business helps us to prosper regionally and internationally saving the company valuable time and money. Additionally, the Chamber is a great tool for all our exporting queries. The team are extremely responsive with any questions and if they cannot help directly they will find someone who can!
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