A BOLTON company is marketing a tipping bin which it originally designed and developed for its own use.

Bolton Fabrications Ltd of Bella Street, Daubhill, is to promote its Skip-it bin at the inaugural North-west Manufacturing Exhibition to be held at G-Mex tomorrow and Thursday.

The bin, which is mounted on a fork-lift truck, was designed by the company seven years ago as an economical and easy-to-operate means of disposing of waste materials.

But other companies expressed an interest and since then they have sold about 20 in the Bolton area.

The decision has now been made to market the bins at the exhibition.

Bolton Fabrications Ltd, founded by owner and managing director David Jones in 1985, operates mainly on a sub-contract basis manufacturing fabricated steel products.

It incorporates Atlas Guardrail Products, a division which Production Director Mark Jones, Mr Jones' son, has developed to manufacture guard-railing for general safety applications.

It specialises in stainless steel products for use in the water treatment and food processing industries.

In December the company will be completing a Defence Ministry order to provide guard-railing for three frigates.

The product has been used by companies throughout the UK and has been exported to Malaysia, Oman and the Cayman Islands.

The exhibition is free to industry visitors.

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