About Us

Planters Clayton holds a legacy of over 100 years engineering excellence, combined with a modern approach to meeting customer expectation.

The PLANTERS division of the company was formed originally in London as PLANTERS ENGINEERING Co. in the early 1900's.

The company then specialised in natural rubber processing equipment and baling presses for natural rubber, metal, tobacco, cotton and many other materials having its manufacturing base at Bolton in NW England.

In 1958 Planters with its expertise in natural rubber baling developed a press for the then infant synthetic rubber industry. This became the forerunner of today's flagship Synthetic Rubber Baling Press.

In 1969 all sales and engineering functions were transfered to the Bolton manufacturing base and new products for metal baling were developed to compliment the existing product base.

These new developments included a large 3-stage baler and the smaller single stage unit.

The latest generations of these balers can now be found alongside the original installations in many recycling applications.

In 1983 the CLAYTON PLASTICS MACHINERY division was included into the organisation. The Clayton division specialises in a range of small verticle lock plastic Injection Moulding Machines mainly for the electrical connection industry.

In 1994 the PLANTERS and CLAYTON divisions of the original company were formed into a new company PLANTERS CLAYTON LTD in order to promote and manufacture the specialised products for which the two divisions had earned a world-wide reputation.

Since then PCL has developed high speed machinery to stay in line with advances in technology, the need for high productivity and material regeneration.

To this day all Planters Clayton equipment is built specifically to customer's order and therefore each machine can be configured to give optimum working efficiency, dependant on the material to be baled.