Our History
- Mar 20, 2019
1950
Our heritage - Darnley Taylor, hand operated packer for filling valve paper sacks with cement, lime, gypsum and stone dust.
- Mar 20, 2019
1956
Darnley Taylor - Four high-speed cement packing machines under construction.
Impellor Packers destined for Malaya, Ghana, South Africa and England.
- Mar 20, 2019
1957
Philip Wilson - Photo taken during development of the "Groove Wheel" Belt Packer for valve sacks.
Groove Wheel Packers were supplied to all major sugar companies in England, France and Canada during the 1960's, and more were supplied to many Russian fertilizer factories in the 1990's
- Mar 20, 2019
1960
A batch of Grooved Wheel Packers for packing 112lbs/ 50kg granulated sugar into 5.5" thick sleeve valve sacks for Trinidad, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
- Mar 20, 2019
1965
Darnley Taylor/ Webster Griffin manufacture six "Groove - Wheel" Packers for Turkey.
- Mar 20, 2019
1967
Unique to Webster Griffin Mobile Unit including: pre weigher & "Groove Wheel" Packer - that serves 20 styles and grades of plastic pellets. It was supplied to BP Chemicals and Shell Chemicals.
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1975
Philip Wilson founded Webster Griffin, following mechanical automation training with prestigious aero-engineering company D.Napier and Sons and Darnley Taylor, a company specializing in impellor packing machines for valve sacks and crushed rock products.
- Mar 20, 2019
1976
Original "Impeller Packer" - Installed at Watts Blake Bearne filling china clay powder into valve kraft paper sacks.
- Mar 20, 2019
1976
Phillip Wilson’s oldest son Mark Wilson joins the family business after acquiring an Honours Degree in Business Management and gaining experience working for a leading German sack packing manufacturer.
(Photo above shows Mark Wilson clocking up the miles in the CIS).
- Mar 20, 2019
1977
Webster Griffin takes on one of its biggest projects to date — the design, supply, installation and commissioning of a PVC packing plant in Poland for English client Polibur Engineering Manchester. The plant packaged SPVC at a rate of 84 tons an hour into 25 kg sacks. - Mar 20, 2019
- Mar 20, 2019
1978
Webster Griffin releases a new brochure for the 'Universal Air Packer' - This machine handles a wider range of products especially those that are considered difficult to package.
- Mar 20, 2019
1979
Webster Griffin moved from its original premises in Cranbrook in Kent to Dudley House in Tunbridge Wells.
- Mar 20, 2019
1980
Philip Wilson's son, Mathew Wilson joins Webster Griffin after completing engineering training.
- Mar 20, 2019
1980
Webster Griffin successfully launches a range of fully automatic palletising machines for bags, sacks, cartons and cases.
- Mar 20, 2019
1981
Webster Griffin supplies a bagging line to Bakelite UK's Tyseley factory
- Mar 20, 2019
1984
Advert promoting a new range of fully automatic bagging equipment & automatic sack palletisers.
- Mar 20, 2019
1987
Tate & Lyle - Sugar Silver Town London. Hi-speed valve sack packing machine for granulated sugar.
- Mar 20, 2019
1987
'Wow' - Full colour advert Webster Griffin start promoting IBC Big Bag filling machine.
- Mar 20, 2019
1991
Grodno Azot - Belarus takes delivery of mobile containerised bagging system for NPK fertiliser.
- Mar 20, 2019
1992
Webster Griffin were awarded the prestigious Kent Exporter of the Year award for exporting to Russia and Poland.
- Mar 20, 2019
1992
'Destination Tartarstan' Russia - Three railway wagon loaders for the Mendeleyevsk fertiliser complex
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- Mar 20, 2019
1992
Webster Griffin's initial development of IBC - 'PF' series of Big Bag 'weigh fill' machines. This is the first machine delivered to ICI for synthetic rubber pastilles.
- Mar 20, 2019
1995
'Cempack' - Containerised cement packing station. The first system dispatched to Port Harcourt Nigeria.
- Mar 20, 2019
1995
Big Bag Filling system for Quaker Oats Southall London. (First 3 systems for Quaker Pepsico)
- Mar 20, 2019
1996
Colombian Carbon/ Sevalco Avonmouth UK, valve sack packing machines for carbon black.
- Mar 20, 2019
1996
Italpet Pre-forme (now Plasti Pack) Pallanza Italy - High speed bagging line for PET chips.
(Over 80 PET chip systems installed worldwide by 2020).
- Mar 20, 2019
1996
Tate & Lyle sugar, Silvertown London - First Hi-speed big bag filling system for 40 bags/ hour
- Mar 20, 2019
1999
Export to China - Tianjin Dolphin Carbon Black, inspect their new bag packing and palletising machinery.
David Hibbert, T.D.C.B, T.D.C.B, Steven Belcher, T.D.C.B, Mathew Wilson
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- Mar 20, 2019
2000
'A new look' - Webster Griffin goes green - adopting the "packed with know-how" strapline.
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2001
Webster Griffin sells its first Okura robot palletising system — an A1500 supplied to Dairy Crest, WTL and WTL. Since then we’ve gone on to install and service over 80 Okura robots worldwide, including A1800 generation 5 robots for Inspired Pet Nutrition.
- Mar 20, 2019
2002
Factory testing bagging scales for GE Plastics China.
- Mar 20, 2019
2003
PPMA Exhibition Birmingham, UK.
Launch of FFS Velocity Form Fill Seal bagging machine for high speed packing of aggregates, minerals, chemicals, animal feed and composts.
- Mar 20, 2019
2004
PPMA Show London, we unveil the IBC-PF4 patented 'semi-suspension' Big Bag filling concept.
- Mar 20, 2019
2005
Webster Griffin celebrates its 30 year anniversary by moving to our new purpose-built factory and offices in Crowborough, UK.