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S Murray & Co Ltd

Holborn House - Old Woking Gu22 9lb Surrey - United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 - 1483 - 740099 - Fax: +44 - 1483 - 755111
E-mail: sales@smurray.co.uk
www.smurray.co.uk

Murray & Co is a leading British manufactur- 1984 and expanded in 1989 with the acquisition of
er of laboratory glassware, surgical instruments blow-moulding and printing specialists Miller Mould-
S and plastic containers. Family owned for four ings Ltd. The company’s range of products expanded
generations and represented worldwide, S Murray & in the 1990s as S Murray & Co became the princi-
Co has an international reputation for quality, service ple supplier to The Body Shop through their formative
and value. years.
S Murray & Co was founded in 1915 by Samuel In 2001, production relocated to a brand new blow-
Muntz, the grandfather of the current Managing Direc- moulding factory, situated alongside the glassworks at
tor. Initially a manufacturer of medical glassware, the Woking. Still a British manufacturer, S Murray & Co is
company quickly diversified into the manufacture and proud to supply a number of household brands today.
supply of products for the healthcare, medical, labora-
tory and domestic industries – both for the UK market
and also on an international scale. It was Samuel who
gave his name to the now internationally known and
respected SAMCO brand. The brand is still manu-
factured in the UK today as the company enters its
fourth generation of owner management.
S Murray & Co has been manufacturing laboratory
glassware in England under the SAMCO brand since
1915. In 1941 test tube production relocated from
London to Woking, still the site of production today.
Whether intended for school, laboratory, industrial
or pharmaceutical applications, the SAMCO name is
now synonymous not only with quality glassware, but
also the complete range of laboratory consumables
manufactured and supplied under the brand today.
The company’s offices were originally located at Far-
ringdon Street, London, with the glassworks based at
King’s Cross. In 1941, in order to ensure the continu-
ity of the supply of the company’s health care prod-
ucts in particular, the factories and offices relocated
to Woking, Surrey – still the base of the company’s
head office and glass manufacture today. The ad-
dress Holborn House is a reminder of the company’s
London roots.
S Murray & Co has manufactured high quality surgi-
cal instruments since 1948, following the acquisition
of Sheffield-based manufacturers George Gill & Sons,
who in turn had over 80 years’ experience of surgical
instrument production. The subsequent acquisitions of
Nowlin & Son in 1990 and Heeley Surgical in 1999
saw the range of own-manufactured instruments ex-
pand significantly and in 2003 the company relocated
to a brand new, purpose-built, 10,000 sq ft factory,
still in the Sheffield area.
The company’s involvement with plastic bottles began
in 1963, through a distribution agreement with Fibre-
nyle Ltd of Beccles. In-house manufacture began in

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