About the KING organisation.

Founded in 1912, the KING name has become synonymous with industrial boiler plant. In 2004, our growth continues and we are particularly proud that over 72% of our turnover is repeat business. We believe that success is due to our special customer relations.

The KING group is one of the UK’s most successful, privately owned multi-disciplinary engineering organisations and the key to this success is our commitment to provide friendly, personal service and value for money. With specialist divisions covering a whole range of engineering services we are able to provide our clients with a complete package.

Company History

Without a past there would be no future, and the KING history is a proud one. The story began when Langham King, the present Chairman’s grandfather, provided a well-boring and pump repair service within his local Lea Valley area. Formally incorporated in 1958 as L.F. King & Son Ltd., This was expanded in 1946 when his son, Leonard F. King took the business into the repair of steam boilers, agricultural traction engines and industrial boilerplant. Much of the Lea Valley’s vast glasshouse industry also had pipework installations carried out at that time by the Kings. During WWII the Lea Valley became increasingly important as the country depended on the area for much of it’s fresh salad produce. At that time the Lea Valley also had numerous factories geared to important aircraft repairs, furniture manufacture, agro-fertilisers, as well as breweries and large power stations. L.F. King & Son Ltd. served most of them and in doing so expanded it’s engineering experience into every type of production.

During the 1950’s the company steadily grew in size and reputation with clients throughout southern England. An important part of the King service all this time had been the provision of mobile steam boilers to the horticultural sector for soil sterilisation. In 1973 under the control of John King, the company formed perhaps the country’s first specialist boiler hire service with King’s Boiler Hire Ltd. This innovative step took the KING name nationwide, into the very heart of UK industry, offering engineers steam and hot water boilers on short or long term hire to cover emergencies or planned maintenance periods. The service was a huge success and King’s Boiler Hire became the benchmark for emergency boilerplant in the UK.
In 1974 the KING organisation welcomed it’s fourth generation and it’s steady expansion of sites.

Over recent years the wealth of knowledge and energy generated by the Company’s directors has seen the formation of three more specialist divisions – industrial pipeline supplies under the banner of King’s (I.P) Ltd., the manufacture of Bunded Tanks and Chimneys by Taylor Fuel Control and more recently Feed Mill Services (stainless steel fats lines, molasses pipework, air, water and steam lines etc).

Today, KING’s is truly a multi-disciplined organisation based on experience, service and pride in it’s history.

It is with this pride that we continue to serve every type of industry here at home in the UK and abroad. Our customers are our lifeblood:

• We value them highly
• We listen to them
• We learn about them and their needs
• We embrace their challenges
• We inspire them with exceptional service and
• We are rewarded with their continued loyalty.