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  • Celebrating 100 Years.
  • Woodfield management purchase majority of shares from Macgregor.
  • Macgregor (part of Cargotec corporation) acquire Woodfield from Aker Solutions.
  • Woodfield purchase UK precision machining company Intake Engineering and Comet Marine Pumps.
  • Woodfield supply 1st Mk9s cryogenic marine loading arm to ICI Huntsmen (UK), the same design is used 1 year later for ADGAS LNG project.
  • Aker (later Aker Solutions) acquire Woodfield Systems.
  • Woodfield supply first Mk9 marine loading arm, installed in Saudi Arabia.
  • Woodfield Rochester become Woodfield Systems Ltd.
  • Woodfield supply first Mk6 (hi-flow) marine loading arm to Texaco UK.
  • Woodfield Rochester is acquired by David Brown Vosper.
  • Woodfield Rochester move to purpose built factory in Whitstable, Kent, UK for manufacture of marine loading arms.
  • Woodfields first flowboom, hose handling rig supplied to BP.
  • Woodfield start manufacturing truck mounted drilling rigs in conjunction with IDECO in the USA.
  • Woodfield Rochester supply the first ever truck mounted oil well servicing rig to be designed and manufactured in the UK for Shell Petroleum.
  • Woodfield Hoist becomes Woodfield Rochester.
  • London factory bombed during WW2 and Woodfield Hoist relocate to Rochester, Kent. The company starts designing equipment for the oil industry.
  • Woodfield Eng & Co become Woodfield Hoist, manufacturing and repairing hoist and winch equipment.
  • Woodfield supply engineering expertise to London’ shipping industry.
  • Founded 1922 - Woodfield & Co Engineers, Alders End, Beckenham, London.