Founded in 1864, the Clarke Chapman Group specialises in materials handling equipment, providing manufacturing, consultancy and support services to a wide range of industry sectors. .

The group comprises a number of divisions, all well-established names in their respective sectors. Our headquarters are in Gateshead in the North East of England, on a 3.6 hectare site, which also serves as a manufacturing, assembly and test facility for the group.

In 2000 Clarke Chapman was acquired from Rolls-Royce Plc by Langley Holdings plc, a diverse, privately owned engineering group based in the UK with principal operating divisions in Norway, Germany, France, Italy and the UK and more than 80 subsidiaries worldwide.