Our Story
James Edward Hatch founded the company in 1974 as a self-employed site-based fitter working on plant and commercial vehicles for numerous customers.
A decade later in 1984, James began working out of his own garage in Chorley where the company is still based to this day. James’s only son Stuart joined him when he left school forming James E. Hatch & Son.
In 1985 we began maintaining and repairing Timber Engineering Machinery for customers across the UK and Ireland.
In 1992 the company began priming timber for a wide range of internal and external uses. This ranged from fascia’s and soffits to architraves and skirting boards.
In 2005 the company began trialling producing fully factory finished timber as part of our long term development plan.
In 2017 Frazer and Jacob Hatch joined the family business.
In 2019 we built ourselves a new timber coating facility, with the focus of improving operations, while providing our customers with the service, advice, help and support they have come to expect.
Where are we now?
Today we are committed to developing our operations, products and services in order to help and support our customers. As the needs of our customers constantly evolve, we are committed to our research and development, improving our expertise and performance. Our goal is to provide every customer with the service, advice, help and support they have come to expect.
Our company strives to continuously improve the manner in which we conduct our business in order to reduce our carbon footprint and work towards being more sustainable. We constantly review our operations, refine them and are investing in cleaner, more efficient machinery and equipment to reduce our impact on the environment.
Why James E Hatch & Son?
Our family-run business has developed a team of experts related to every area of timber engineering and timber coating which enables us to provide a complete range of services for any size of project.
