Metso to prolong the exclusive distributor agreement with Garriock Bros in the UK

After 11 years of collaboration, Metso and Garriock Bros Ltd, one of Scotland’s largest privately-owned businesses, continue their partnership

Metso, manufacturer of equipment used in the quarrying, mining and oil and gas industries, renewed its exclusive distributor agreement with Garriock Bros Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Garriock Bros Ltd has been distributing Metso’s mobile products since 2005 when they became the official Scottish distributor and saw its distributorship extended in 2011 to include England and Wales. The renewed contract was signed in the company’s premises in Coventry in May 2016.

“Garriock are a partner offering a world class sales and support organisation throughout the UK, who have invested heavily in facilities, tools and people to ensure that the Metso Lokotrack brand is well maintained.

Garriock Bros are our exclusive partner for track mounted crushing and screening equipment in England Wales and Scotland, offering the customer base a large number of services from quickly delivered new equipment from their large varied inventory held in both Edinburgh and Coventry, high quality fully refurbished second hand equipment, rental, lease to buy, high level service and technical support, and genuine OEM spares and wears.

The last ten years have been a true journey, but I can say that Metso have a truly great partner in Garriock Bros and that we look forward to working in unison for many years to come”, points out Adrian Wood, Metso’s Head of Distribution Agg Business Line.

“Renewing the contract with Garriock Bros Ltd, is a logical step after more than 10 years of good collaboration…..”, he adds.

Garriock’s journey started in September 1975 with its main activities being predominantly building Norwegian Fjogstad houses across the North Isles followed on by diversifying into plant hire and sales. From 2002 they became active in the crushing and screening business when they took over a contract crushing operation in Newbridge, near Edinburgh. Since then more acquisitions followed and today they operate ten different UK based divisions providing a diverse range of civil engineering, house building, plant hire, quarry operations, ready mix concrete, machine sales and window manufacturing services and employ around 160 people turning over around £24 million, with the Metso distributorship now accounting for around a third of the business.

“We are delighted to continue our partnership with Metso” said George Garriock, Managing Director of Garriock Bros Ltd. “Our sales success is attributable to the fact we are selling the best designed modern equipment in the world.”

“Metso UK and the factory are constantly giving on-going training and product support to Garriock Bros. to help grow the business through quality, and the relationship with Metso is first class and the quality of their engineering is superb, at the factory they have their own foundry and all impurities are taken out during processing before it goes to production. We are very happy with the partnership with Metso and the quality of the machines and this side of the business is set to grow substantially. We are also very strong on second hand Metso machines and have contacts worldwide so export many machines each year. We pride ourselves on refurbishing the machines so they are like new and there is a very good second hand market for Metso machines, as they command such a good price.”

Offering a UK wide service coverage their own engineers visit clients sites to make sure that any downtime is kept to a minimum, and stock for spares and parts is carried in-house across the depots, so can reach the customer quickly. To find out more about Garriock Bros. please visit www.garriock.co.uk