1990

1990’s

During the 1990s BWT further stepped up its game. By 1992, our company had received the Queen’s Award for Export (nowadays known as Queen’s Awards for Enterprise), an awards programme for British businesses who excel in technological innovation and international trade.

In 1996, our company changed hands and was sold to Cork Industries. According to the Manchester Evening Gazette from May 29, 1996, the company’s new Chairman Stephen Wearing, stated: “The transaction required considerable co-ordination, given the large number of family shareholders. The company can now look forward to a period of continued growth”.

Indeed, up to then, the company had been owned and successfully managed by John Taylor’s heirs (the “T” in BWT). This transaction, however, helped the company expand and grow even more, as soon the company would count over 300 employees and a turnover of £9m.

A bit before of the dawn of the new century, our company took another turn for the better. In 1999, Cork Industries sold their aerospace ducting division to Senior plc, our parent company to this day, thus proudly becoming known as Senior Aerospace BWT, finding its final permanent home.

Despite the company’s various moves, shake ups and transformations, it is pleasing to record that BWT have always had a solid reputation throughout the industry for supplying 80% of the world’s aircraft and for always meeting delivery promises. Therefore the 1990s saw us developing and manufacturing ducting and side-wall insulation for all the major aeroplane brands: SAAB of Sweden, Fokker in the Netherlands, the refurbishment of the British Airways and Air France Concorde fleet, as well as collaboration with many other major companies such as Boeing, Beech Aircraft and Canadair.