Artex Ltd. is an English-based manufacturer of building materials.
Artex Ltd. is an English-based manufacturer of building materials.
Artex was started in 1935, with the name Artex coming from “Asbestos Reinforced TEXtured Coating”. [1]
Artex became part of the BPB Group of companies in 1966. [2] It merged with Blue Hawk sometime in 1997. Blue Hawk had been bought by the BPB Group in 1972. BPB was in turn purchased by Saint-Gobain, a large building products company based in France in November 2005. [3]
It owns several brands, some of which have become genericized and are known and recognised as household words. Its brands include:
It has its head office and main manufacturing base at Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, with an additional manufacturing site for texture and liquid products in Newhaven, East Sussex.
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