During the week of 13 January William Johnston & Company Limited supported the Infrastracuture Conference held by one of our main customers, Wolseley UK, in Stratford-upon-Avon. This featured excellent presentations on the company and its products and services from key Wolseley personel. As well as the conference, Wolseley hosted an exhibtion by its suppliers and Read More
Two of the Directors from William Johnston and Company Limited, Craig Edwards and Billy Hardie made the journey to Flexitallic UK Head Office in Yorkshire recently to take part in their 3-day Advanced Sealing Training event. William Johnston & Company Limited are Flexitallic’s Allied Distributors for their products in Scotland (outside the Aberdeen area). The Read More
Customers and visitors to the trade counter of William Johnston & Company’s Inverness branch have raised in excess of £250 for Macmillan Cancer Support over the last few months. A donation bucket was placed next to the counter for collection of spare change. Billy Hardie the company’s Director based in Inverness said, “I would like Read More
The Silverstone 24 hour race, held at the Northamptonshire Grand Prix track on 27/28 April, made history by having the largest racing grid ever seen in UK motorsport with 100 identical Citroen C1s racing round the clock. Teams of 4-6 drivers sharing each of the race prepared, small saloon cars battled from 5.30 pm on Read More
Our Managing Director, Sandy McEwen has recently been asked to consult with the Scottish Government on the Brexit implications for Scottish SMEs. Due to this he was involved in an event yesterday with one of our customers, Allied Vehicles in Glasgow, to promote the availability of a “Brexit Grant “ for SMEs in Scotland. More Read More
NEW DIRECTOR ANNOUNCED Having celebrated 50 years as a limited company in 2017, William Johnston & Company Limited has an established reputation as the leading gasket manufacturer supplying the water, waste water and gas utilities and the pipeline industry throughout the UK and abroad. Over 70% of the products we supply from our Glasgow factory Read More
The Inverness Branch of William Johnston & Company Limited, having opened over 45 years ago, is well known to many businesses, large and small, in the North of Scotland. The present factory, which opened in 1982, is based in Longman Industrial Estate, Inverness allowing easy access to the A9 carriageway. Customers from Perth to the Read More
ISO 9001:2015. William Johnston & Company Limited are delighted to announce a successful transition in their Quality Management System from the ISO 9001:2008 standard to ISO 9001:2015 six months ahead of the required implementation date of 14 September 2018. Our certifying body, BSI, carried out their audit of our new procedures in February 2018 and Read More
Reduce leakage when joining steel to steel or steel to ductile flanges within the UK water utilities sector, Novus Supra-WRAS approved gaskets offer higher flange to flange sealing integrity than the commonly used EPDM rubber gasket. Why? Stronger flanges allow greater compression and inherently a tighter seal. To achieve this you need controlled installation. High Read More
Corrosion at the flange gasket interface is a well-documented phenomenon in upstream hydrocarbon recovery and processing. Flexitallic Corriculite is a specially formulated spiral wound gasket filler material designed to address the issues associated with the use of graphite and mica filled spiral wound gaskets. Graphite is an effective electrical conductor and as such has the Read More