Heap & Partners Ltd marks a century of trading

1966 W S Durkin assembling and testing a Serck actuator on to a Saunders diaphragm body for ICI. Using an early portable test kit.

Brian Aves and part of the basement stores in Empire Buildings, Liverpool in 1967.

Heap & Partners first permanent test bench, built in 1966 to mark the company’s centenary.

WIRRAL manufacturer Heap & Partners has recently celebrated one hundred years as a limited company. The valve company was first registered at Companies House on 19^th March 1924. 

Today Heap & Partners is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and distributors of fluid control equipment.  

Specialising in equipment for oil and gas, sub-sea, pharmaceutical and nuclear markets, Heap & Partners has supplied equipment to over 85 different countries.  

The Wirral-based manufacturer was founded by William Heap in 1866 as a partnership, but the firm was not registered as a limited company until the 1920s. 

William Heap spent his lifetime working around the world as Chief Bridge Builder to Thomas Brassey, the pioneering Victorian civil engineer. 

Following this historic tenure, he set up Heap & Partners in Merseyside as an engineering supply company to the world. 

Heap & Partners currently operates from four offices around the United Kingdom in Birkenhead, London, Teesside, and Derry. 

The firm’s Export Department has been shipping goods all over the world for more than 150 years. 

The firm’s staff are skilled in ensuring all packing and documentation comply fully with each country’s specific requirements. 

David Millar, Managing Director of Heap & Partners said: “It is a tremendously proud moment for each member of the Heap & Partners team to mark the centenary of our incorporation. 

“I like to think we are as passionate today about what we do as our forefathers were a century ago. 

“We now look ahead to the next 100 years where we hope to grow further, instilling the same values we have always had.” 

Published: 23rd April 2024