Bolton: A Legacy of Innovation & Excellence
When it comes to helping the world take a step forward, Bolton has always been right up there.
We’re so proud to be part of this town. Great stuff has come from here – from the humble – but delicious – ice cream wafer sandwich to the genius of Carbon 60, the stronger-and-lighter-than-steel substance that earned its Bolton-born inventor Sir Harry Kroto a 1996 Nobel Prize.
The very first running spikes were hammered into shoes in a cobbler’s shop in Bolton – that little company went on to become American giant Reebok.
Lord Leverhulme, the original king of the soap industry and founder of Britain’s first modern multinational was born in the town centre in 1851.
Even the doors of the 19th Century Imperial Ottoman Bank Museum in Istanbul read: “Chatwoods of Bolton.”
None of this is surprising when you remember that Bolton’s manufacturing pedigree is built on the world-changing inventions of Richard Arkwright and Samuel Crompton, two of the Industrial Revolution’s greatest design engineers.
All these incredible advances started as a niche, but have contributed greatly to the world.
We like to think the same can be said of Beldam Crossley. Our industrial precision sealing technology is protecting lives, investments and environments. Think F1 racing cars and our components are there. They are also inside the Ariane 5 space satellite and many commercial and national naval fleets.
Our PTFE polymers and slide bearings have massively improved the safe operation of the oil and gas industry. At the same time, we are committed to advancing renewable energy, producing sealing solutions for wind, hydro, electrolysis and tidal.
Surely history will judge the first transatlantic flight powered by 100% sustainable aviation fuel as every bit as significant as Messrs. Arkwright and Crompton’s cotton-spinning mules. Beldam Crossley was there on that day too.
Maybe there’s always been something in that Bolton air…