Description
The company was founded in July 1950 by John D. Hughes MBE, graduate engineer and father of the current managing director. Together with pipeline and steel structure installations for the chemical and petrochemical industry, he dealt with the production of pipelines and pressure vessels.
During work at various chemical production sites, employees became aware of a lack of effective emergency showers and eye wash facilities.
This deficit was painfully felt several times as employees contracted burns and other burns.
This was also the case with Charlie Gamble, an employee of the Hughes company. He mistakenly stepped into a container containing a mixture of sulfuric acid, causing burns to the foot and leg. The only decontamination facility on site was a cast iron bathtub, half full of polluted water!
As a result, long before today's HSE / COSHH requirements and recommendations, the company began planning and developing a range of emergency showers and eye showers. In the beginning, the design of these showers was rather primitive. Thanks to feedback and constructive reviews from our customers, various improvements have been made, including frost protection for the equipment.
Thanks to ever increasing demand, J D Hughes Fabrications Limited was registered in September 1968, specifically for the manufacture of emergency and eye showers. The company soon took over the market leadership and has been Europe's largest special manufacturer of this equipment for 45 years. The company is now responsible for sales and customer service in over 160 countries from various branches. We have offices in Germany, the Middle East and North America, among others.
Tony D Hughes, the founder's son and also a graduate engineer, has taught the company and its products its own ideas and expertise since taking over the business in the late 1970s. Since then, all products have undergone constant technical and external improvements and developments under his direction.
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