TI Desford Tubes
of Kirby Muxloe
Part of Tube Investments, later TI Group
1954 New rolling mills installed at Desford and Wednesfield[1]
1958 New automatic bearing-tube mill commissioned at Desford[2]
1960 Investment to double the capacity for making bearing tubes and other heavy duty steel tubes at Tubes, Ltd, Desford[3]
1967 Developed a 3-roll piercing method of making tubes which improved on the long established Mannesmann 2-roll piercing method[4]
1969 Investment by TI in the Desford works to make the plant the most advanced and integrated works for making roll and bearing tubes[5]
1972 Jarrow Tube Works Ltd was renamed TI Desford Tubes Ltd
1972 Investment by TI to increase the capacity for making hollow bar at Desford[6]
1974 Manufacturer of hot-rolled hollow bar.[7]
1976 TI Desford Tubes was awarded the Queens Award for Export[8]
1996 One of 3 small subsidiary companies sold by TI Group to Hay Hall Group[9].
Desford Tubes supplied quality machining stock for the bearings industry and for other OEMs to machine into annular components.