Company Background

Kingsmill Industries (UK) Ltd are a leading manufacturer and distributor of earthing and lightning protection products for the UK and export markets.

The company aims to provide the highest standards of service and customer care without compromising quality or price. Undeniably, quality assurance is of paramount importance to the company and, to ensure this, all products are designed and manufactured to meet stringent British and international standards - including BS6651, BS7430 and UL467. In addition we have achieved the UK governments full ISO9002 National Accreditation in recognition of the high quality of our management systems and products.

Kingsmill Industries (UK) Ltd is intrinsically sensitive to the needs of its customers and to the requirements of an ever-changing technological world.

Commitment to Standards

Since 1985, BS 6651 has been the guidance on the design and installation of lightning protection in those countries influenced by British Standards. Prior to this was BS CP326, first published in 1965.
 
Since 1992, there has been a noticeable increase in the understanding of lightning. This has been a contributing factor in the introduction of new standards which reflects this increased knowledge from scientists and people within the industry throughout the world.
 
Since 1985, the UK has become more streamlined with the European Union (EU), particularly relating to standardisation. Any British standard now published has to be in common agreement with its European Equivalent.
 
The UK, as far as standards are concerned, are now a member of CEN (Committee Europeande Normalisation), which has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The electric arm of CEN is CENELEC (CLC) and it is the 28 European countries that constitute CENELEC, who are responsible for compiling and producing a brand new suite of standards relevant to lightning protection. It is not easy to gain consensus from differing countries that approach the aspect of lightning protection from different angles. Nevertheless, a four-part suite of standards has been compiled under the reference number 62305 series. This four-part CENELEC Standard has now been published.
 
The UK’s British Standards Institution (BSI) has taken this CENELEC standard as its own British Standard (with minor amendments). There will be a finite period of time when both BS 6651 and the new BS EN 62305 series will run in parallel (this period will be 2 years). Ultimately the BSI will, like all the other CENELEC member countries’ representatives, have to withdraw all their conflicting National Standards (ie BS 6651) in favour of the EN Standard. This will occur at the end of August, 2008.
 
BS EN 50164-1:2000 Lightning Protection Components (LPC)

BS EN 50164-1 relates to the performance specification whereby the material used by the manufacturer is their choice, however, the connection components have to be subjected to a series of tests. BS EN 50164-1 and BS EN 50164-2 have now been incorporated into BS 6651:1999 incorporating Corrigendum No.1 and Amendment No.1 2005 code of practice for protection of structures against lightning.
 
Commitment to Product Quality & Service

At Kingsmill, our wealth of knowledge in structural lightning protection, earthing and transient overvoltage protection gives our customers the ability to offer leading edge product development and unparalleled technical support. Kingsmill Industries (UK) Ltd is an ISO 9001 registered company and this is where our commitment to quality begins.
 
This commitment to quality follows throughout all aspects of the company including manufacture, development and customer support and service. A commitment to excellent customer service is an integral part of the Kingsmill ideology. Part of this involves maintaining excellent stock levels on many of our core product ranges ensuring efficient dispatch schedules.
 
With extensive experience and technical expertise, we can in some cases manufacture ‘specials’ based upon an unusual request to meet the exact specification of the customer.

This helps to ensure that the customer is completely satisfied with the product that will be manufactured for them which enables to create an efficient delivery time and ensure that there is complete cohesion with the customer. All products are designed and manufactured to meet British & International standards including BS EN 62305, BS EN 50164 and BS7430.