About Us

Michael Broughton Ltd was founded in 1969 by Michael Broughton Senior. The Group currently comprises two companies Broughton Plant Hire and Sales managed by Michael Broughton Jnr and Broughton Thermal Insulation managed by Matthew Broughton.

Broughton Plant Hire was formed in 1984 as a trading division of Michael Broughton Ltd and specialises in the hire and sale of plant and equipment to the mechanical, electrical and fire protection industries.

Now established in the industry for over 30 years Broughton Plant Hire has a wealth of experience and expertise throughout the business from our trained drivers, engineers and depot staff through to our hire desk and management team. This combined with our commitment to ensure that our customers receive the best service possible and a constant investment in our hire fleet has allowed us to build a reputation in the industry of supplying our customers with quality tools and equipment quickly and effectively.

What started in a small yard in east London now operates from four locations in the UK, head office and central hub in Romford Essex, South western depot in Clevedon Bristol, Midlands depot in Alfreton Derbyshire and our latest addition Teams Valley Newcastle. The depots are staffed and resourced locally, fully committed to training and investing in regional communities.

Broughton Plant Hire and Sales has a wide and extensive hire fleet of specialist M&E tooling, coupled with large stocks of general power tools, site security solutions and both powered and push around access equipment.

We operate a large fleet of 50 plus delivery vehicles ranging from electric service vans to 18Ton beaver tail lorries, we are committed to vehicle safety and all of the fleet is FORS Silver and CLOCS accredited.

Broughton Plant hire are the market leaders in the hiring, sales ,servicing and maintenance of pipe press fitting tools. We are approved tool agents and calibration engineers for a number of press fit fitting manufacturers such as Geberit, Pegler Yorkshire, SANHA, Viega and IBP Conex.

We are a specialist supplier of low level access equipment and operate and maintain a large fleet of drive and push around vertical lifts as well as podiums and towers.

Here at Broughton’s we fleet and sell only the best equipment available and are proud to be associated with manufacturers such as Novopress, Ridgid, Youngman’s, Power Tower, Hilti, Genie, Armorgard … the list grows daily.

Broughton Plant hire remains a family run business and pride ourselves on being “big enough to supply the largest site and responsive enough to keep the most demanding of small projects equipped”.