Charting Hutchinson’s Growth into an Industry Leader.

Explore ‘Our Story’, a journey through Hutchinson’s significant milestones, reflecting our evolution and growth into an industry leader over four decades.

1979 - Hutchinson formed

The Group, including Hutchinson Engineering, is formed to service the local petro-chemical industry.

1995 - First telecoms contract

The company enters the telecoms sector after securing our first contract to supply rooftop lattice towers.

1998 - Opened design department

We form our in-house design and product development department.

2000 - Opened distribution centre

A new secondary processing and distribution centre is opened in Widnes.

2002 - In-house telecoms rigging and test facility opened

All Telecoms rigging and testing done in-house by trained team

2002 - Collaboration with 02

In collaboration with 02, we develop a market-leading high-capacity street works structure range.

2005 - First Vodafone structure

Manufacture and supply of structures to Vodafone.

2007 - First wind turbine structure

First micro generation wind turbine structure is manufactured and deployed.

2008 - Expansion of facilities

The expansion of our workforce and fabrication facilities to accommodate growth in wind turbine structure design and manufacture.

2009 - Hutchinson becomes independent

Hutchinson splits from Group to become an independent company.
We register our first patent.

2010 - Major investment in Laser profiling

First laser profiling machines installed

2012 - Wind turbine contracts

Due to our growing manufacturing capabilities and expertise, we win several major wind turbine contracts.

2012 - Increased fabrication capacity

We increase our fabrication capacity by opening an additional 1200ft2 facility.

2013 - First 500Kw wind turbine

Our first 500Kw wind turbine structures are designed and fabricated.

2014 - Open 40,000ft2 manufacturing site.

We open an additional 40,000ft2 manufacturing site to allow in-house plate rolling and blast and paint facilities for structures up to 4.2m in diameter.

2015 - First offshore wind contract

Hutchinson Engineering is awarded its first offshore wind contracts.

2015 - First lattice towers designed

We design a range of modular lattice towers, for use in a wide variety of locations.

2017 - Opening quayside facilities

Our quayside manufacture and painting facilities are opened at the Port of Garston.

2019 - New manufacturing site

The opening of a new purpose built 4500m2 manufacturing facility on a 5-acre site.

2020 - In-house CNC facility

Our new 300m2 in-house CNC machining facility is opened, housing the latest technology.

2021 – First rail contract

We win our first rail contract manufacturing rail boggies.

2021 - 1mw wind turbine towers

We commence serial production of 1mw wind turbine towers

2022 - First Nuclear sector contract

We secure our first contract in the nuclear sector

2023 – Overhead cranes

We commence manufacture of large box girder overhead cranes on our dedicated production line.

2023 – Robotic welding

We install our first fully robotic welding cell.