Humble Beginnings

In 1973 David Price purchased a small piece of Mermaid Pools based in Sussex and with the company’s possessions contained within a shoebox, headed to West Yorkshire to find a suitable factory to commence production. The company started out in a small factory on the Olympia Industrial Estate on Geldard Lane in Leeds, under the shadows of the Elland Road stadium. From here the company started to manufacture swimming pool covers and soon moved into the more generalised world of tarpaulins. Over time the company expanded into tank liners and covers and soon outgrew the Leeds premises.

A New Era

Following a brief stint in Harrogate, the business finally relocated to Thirsk in North Yorkshire in 1989 and set up shop in what is now our head office.

Power Plastics Today

Today Power Plastics employs over 110 staff and operates from four sites across the North of England, with manufacturing facilities located in Bradford, Thirsk and Teesside. The company operates more tracker welders (FIAB) than any other manufacturer in the UK, 18 at last count as well as half a dozen CNC machines, giving it unparalleled manufacturing capacity and scale. Click Here for a virtual 3D Tour of our Thornaby manufacturing site in Teesside.

From providing protective mats to the ITV 1990’s hit show Gladiators, to supplying a fumigation chamber for cleaning the Mona Lisa and covering the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious, Power Plastics has turned its hand to solving a myriad of problems. Below is a brief timeline of how a small water tank business in the South East of England has morphed into one of the country’s largest fabricated cover engineering business, located across the North East of England.

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