2026 Exhibitors

Boud Minerals is a leading UK processor and provider of specialist sands, decorative, functional minerals, and lightweight fillers. Established in 1984, we use our decades of experience in blending, coating, processing and packaging to work with our customers to deliver custom solutions to make their products easier to handle and their production processes simpler. Boud offer a dry mixing service for cementitious and resin systems. Blending mineral products to specification requires a high degree of know-how, skill, and experience.

Briar Chemicals delivers contract and custom manufacturing solutions to customers across the globe. From our site in Norwich, UK, we service world-leading companies in the crop protection, fine and speciality sectors, utilising a broad asset and technology base, underpinned by quality driven project management. The chemical products that we manufacture benefit society across the globe. The majority of the products we make on behalf of our customers help to protect a wide range of crops, increase farmers’ yields in challenging climates and are key building blocks in the chemical industry. Although Briar Chemicals is a relatively new name in the custom manufacturing sector we have more than 70 years’ expertise and an established reputation for manufacturing excellence and dependability from legacy companies associated with the site such as May & Baker, Rhone Poulenc, Aventis and Bayer. In 2023, the Briar Chemicals business was purchased by Safex Chemicals (India) limited a company with a similar focus and values in the Agricultural Crop Protection segment. Custom Manufacturing Technologies Briar Chemicals has more than 70 years’ experience of performing challenging chemistry. We are primarily a custom and contract manufacturing organisation, with a focus on process safety, total confidentiality and IP protection. We welcome the opportunity to assess new technologies and manufacturing techniques working in partnership with our customers. Our site provides the infrastructure required for new build projects. Our current technologies include: • Bromination (various brominating agents including elemental bromine handled in bulk) • Chlorination (specialised bulk thionyl chloride handling capability) • Esterification • Oxidation • Recovery and recycle of solvents and copper salts Analytical Services As part of our contract and custom manufacturing service package, Briar Chemicals offers extensive analytical development and support services. Our expertise includes: • Development, validation and implementation of new analytical methods for new and existing processes. • Problem solving, troubleshooting and non-routine analytical support for new and existing processes. • Technical appraisal of ideas, studies and trials aimed at providing measurable process improvements. • Seed treatment and formulations development • Environmental monitoring On site, there is an extensive range of equipment and techniques available to support our manufacturing activities: • HPLC, HPLC-MS • GC, GC-MS • Ion Chromatographic (IC) techniques • Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) – Optical Emission Spectrometry (OES) • UV/FTIR and wet chemistry Our proactive approach ensures a fast speed of response and reflects Briar Chemicals’ commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence. Continuous Improvement Our culture of operational excellence underpins everything we do, deriving benefits for all stakeholders through continuous improvement. Continuous improvement through process optimisation will enable Briar Chemicals to remain competitive and sustainable in a challenging business environment; minimising solvent usage and waste generation, increasing process yields and reducing batch times are all key elements to the project delivery and review process. Once the first campaign of a new product has been successfully delivered, we review what went well, what went less well and how we could do it better. Campaign reviews continue to be carried out by the Project Team throughout the life of the project as an integral part of the company’s focus on continuous improvement. Formulation & Packing In addition to expertise with synthesis of chemical products, Briar offers a segregated, highly automated but flexible formulation, filling and packaging facility on an adjacent 6-hectare site. The compact and efficient layout, with its own highly trained team, allows us to respond quickly to customer needs. Supply Chain Management Briar Chemicals has all the necessary skills and experience to manage and plan contract-manufacturing activity. Through the efficient use of sales and operation planning processes, and expert procurement of goods and services, we ensure that we deliver on time, in full worldwide. REACH Briar Chemicals is fully committed to compliance with REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals). Raw materials procurement Briar Chemicals has an excellent knowledge of the global chemicals sector. Raw materials and packaging materials are responsibly sourced worldwide. Our track record in cost improvement and working capital minimisation has enabled Briar to realise benefits for all stakeholders, working in partnership with our customers. Shipping and logistics With more than 50 years’ experience of shipping to over 25 countries worldwide on all continents, Briar Chemicals’ logistics team demonstrates expertise in import / export regulations, and the transportation of dangerous goods by road, rail, sea and air. We have a long established reputation for reliability, working ethically with all our suppliers and logistics partners. In excess of 95% of our transactions are exported to destinations outside of the UK. From our site’s location in Norwich there is easy access to deep sea ports including Felixstowe, Liverpool and London from which we ship liquid and solid products (in bulk and in packages). Our proactive Customer Services team will advise on the most efficient, cost effective routing for shipments, and complete the necessary customs paperwork. Warehousing We offer extensive warehousing facilities and expertise in stock control to manage our customers’ inventories, becoming an extension of their supply chain operations. Multiple warehouses are available on site to allow segregation of packaging materials and different classifications of raw materials and finished products. Download our corporate brochures: Our Vision & Values Who we are Technologies & Services Blending, Formulation & Packing Key facts: • Site area 46 hectares (114 acres) with 13.6 hectares available for development • 250 employees • Global business with > 95% of production exported • Sales revenue ~ UK£ 40 million (Euro 47 million, US$ 54 million, Yen 6000 million) • Wholly owned by Safex Chemicals (India) Limited. • Upper Tier COMAH establishment (Seveso III Directive) • Extensive site infrastructure includes waste treatment facilities, energy generation and warehousing Briar Chemicals is a member of the Chemical Industries Association, BCMPA, Norfolk Chamber of Commerce and proudly accredited to ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 & Ecovadis sliver award – a mark of our commitment to quality and environmental responsibility, Safety & Sustainability

BPMA itself is a member of the European Association of Pump Manufacturers (Europump) BPMA members account for the majority of the £1 billion-plus UK market for pumps and in addition the UK pump industry is a net exporter. Membership of the BPMA is open to any company involved in liquid pumping equipment, including key suppliers BPMA Vision To influence the pump sector business environment in the interests of members' competitiveness and sustainability and to increase sector awareness by providing technical support and pump technology training to members, operators and purchasers of pumping equipment Mission Objectives To be the effective voice of the pump industry To satisfy the needs of the members To encourage the active participation of the members To maximise the membership of the Association Established in 1941, and incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 2009 the British Pump Manufacturers' Association Limited (BPMA) is a Not for Profit trade association representing the interests of UK and Irish suppliers of liquid pumps and pumping equipment

For over 85 years, the British Valve and Actuator Association has, on a not-for-profit basis, supported the British Valve industry and its supply chain with essential services that are exclusive to our members and simply unavailable elsewhere. We represent the interests of 160+ members, employing 10,000+ employees which contribute £3bn annually to the UK Market. Our membership is made up of manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and stockists of everything related to the valve and actuator industry. We also have members who carry out repairs and servicing, as well as product testing and certification. Our members play a vital role in supplying and servicing industries such as oil & gas, medicine, food & beverages, water & waste, nuclear, energy, heating, paper, petrochemical, defence, renewable energy and more. BVAA creates value for our members by providing excellent business networks, new business opportunities, industry recognised training, technical expertise and influence. The membership is involved in more than 50 different committees whose areas of study cover a wide spectrum on the valve and actuator industry, including the setting of European and International standards, writing codes of practice, establishing industry ground rules and, most importantly, providing multiple business development opportunities for our members. Valveuser magazine is the definitive valve news magazine published by the BVAA. Published as a FREE digital news magazine and delivered directly to your inbox, it includes association news, valve and actuator industry news, updates on product developments, application stories, engineering, manufacturing, valve technical expertise and training articles from around the world. Valveuser is distributed to thousands of industry professionals across the world. The e-magazine is emailed to opted-in subscribers, and special edition print magazines are posted out to subscribers and widely distributed at BVAA and industry events. The magazine is FREE in both formats and also available to download to anywhere in the world.