Our family values underpin everything we do. Put simply they are:
By putting our customers and their customers’ needs first we have built our business as a trusted innovator for more than 141 years.
We believe we are different to other global engineering companies because we are a private company and because of our close held family values. We take pride in our people solving our customers’ most demanding needs; putting our products and services at the heart of our customers’ amazing engineering. Customers trust us because we have the highest morale compass.
We do the right thing because we want to be a long term valued partner, we never act just for short term gain. By putting our customers and their customers’ needs first we have built our business as the industry experts for 141 years. Our aim is still be James Walker as a private company in another 141 years, preserving the family values that our customer respect so much.
Our activities range from research and development, product application expertise, manufacture and supply through to plant monitoring and on-site maintenance.
We have specialism in the design and compounding of high performance elastomers, engineered plastics, precision machining of exotic alloys and tension control fasteners for bolted joints.
Our worldwide family of companies has 6 production, engineering, distribution and customer support sites in the UK, and a further 40 spread across Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, South Africa and the USA.