History

Founded in 1866 by William Heap as an engineering supply company. The full company history is available to buy in hard back, just contact one of our sales offices. Today we operate from five offices around the United Kingdom, located in Liverpool, London, Manchester and Teesside.

Sales Offices

Each sales office has access to the same data and stock information because we have developed a voice and data wide area network covering the whole country. Not only does this mean that one office can access another offices stock but telephone calls can be transferred from a busy office to a quieter one, without the customer incurring any costs.

Distributor

Holding some of the largest stocks in the country, we can supply a vast range of products on next day delivery. From standard mounting kits to high performance triple offset valves! More details can be found under the Process and Instrumentation sections of this site.

Manufacturer

Heap & Partners are however far more than just a distributor. With research, design and manufacturing, all covered by ISO 9001:2000, we manufacture everything from simple extension spindles and mounting kits, to advanced switchboxes.

Test House

Heap & Partners have one of the largest flow test facilities in the United Kingdom. Designed by the National Engineering Laboratory and built by Heap's engineers. It offers a next day service for flow measuring and calibration of flow meters and valve CV measurement. More details can be found under the Instrumentation section.

Training

With seven training rooms in the company we are well equipped to handle both our own training needs, those of our apprentices and also our customers. Heap's run courses on PED, valve sizing and selection, safety principles. Customers have come from as far as Malaysia to be trained by us. The Instrumentation division also run Safety At Work courses for Instrumentation engineers covering the correct use of the products. If you are interested in any of our courses then please contact one of our sales offices for further information.

Drawing Office

The Heap & Partners drawing office uses AutoCAD, mechanical desktop and Ansys Finite Element Analysis software. This combination of software allows the company to produce everything from 2D general arrangement drawings through to 3D solid models of new prototypes that can be fully stress analysed.

Apprentices

Heap & Partners run a traditional four year apprenticeship. The courses typically involve a period working in each department gaining practical skills. A day release scheme to a local college for academic study, in house theoretical training and on the job training. When workloads permit, time is also spent on the apprentices project a Hovercraft, manufactured from aircraft aluminum, it measures sixteen feet long and will carry three people, or sleep two people (Separate beds of course). The Gull Wing doors add an element of style whilst the power is provided by an old 1300cc VW air cooled engine that the apprentices have had to overhaul.