by Chris | Dec 2, 2024 | News
Simplas PVC Recycling have recently collected around 40 pallets of old PVC hose that we are unable to sell. This means that rather than going to landfill, the hoses will now be recycled into usable products. Val Gardner, Manging Director of Winster Limited commented...
by Chris | Jul 9, 2024 | News, News
Inflation may have dropped recently, but the rate remains higher than it was for a long time before 2022 and the 3%-4% we are currently experiencing is of course on top of the 10%+ annual increases of the last 2 years. And of course, whilst this is the average...
by Chris | Mar 17, 2023 | Home & Garden Improvement (HIG), News
A joint statement from John Newcomb, CEO of the Builders’ Merchant Federation (BMF) and Peter Caplehorn, CEO of the Construction Products Association (CPA) who are co-chairs of the Construction Leadership Council’s Product Availability working group covered in the...
by Chris | Dec 21, 2022 | News, Winster
Winster leads the Way on working practices The hose industry probably looks like a typical traditional manufacturing and warehousing industry to most observers. From Winster’s early days in the 1960s supplying hydraulic hoses to the deep mining industry...
by Chris | May 31, 2022 | Home & Garden Improvement (HIG), News, Sell more hoses, Winster
In 2020 and 2021, demand for Home Improvement and Garden (HIG) products saw significant growth. It is widely accepted that the pandemic and specifically lockdown was an important stimulus for this sector. Numerous reasons have been suggested for this growth,...
by Chris | Jan 13, 2022 | Black Country Chamber of Commerce, News
Winster Limited has just renewed its membership of the Platinum Group of the Black Country Chamber of Commerce. After joining the group in 2016, this is the 5th renewal and for Winster Managing Director Val Gardner it wasn’t a difficult decision. “Since we took the...
by Chris | Jan 11, 2021 | News
Winster Limited has come to the aid of a conservation project in Yorkshire. Conserve Wildlife, established in 2005 relies heavily on community support and sponsors to support its vital conservation work. Typical projects include hedgerow restoration and tree...
by Chris | Dec 16, 2020 | News
We’re ‘Working in a Winster Wonderland’, our ‘Elves’ are busy processing orders and the Christmas music is playing in the warehouse. As you can see we’ve even got some hoses ready to deal with the snow melt in the New Year!...
by Winster Hose | Nov 19, 2018 | News
The Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan has made a speech at the CIWEM Surface Water Management Conference to warn people of the dangers related to surface flooding. Speaking at the conference, Sir James Bevan said that the surface water is a...
by Winster Hose | Oct 9, 2018 | News
Winster Ltd have successfully transitioned from the 2008 version to ISO9001 2015. The Black Country company has worked incredibly hard over the past year to prepare for the new accreditation and has made continuous improvements and developments in order to make...
by Winster Hose | Aug 29, 2018 | News
As the road to Brexit continues, it was announced this month that the British pound has reached a new record low this year against the dollar, and has fallen further against the euro too. The news of these falls comes despite an increase in the interest rates of the...
