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Dale Pressings

the Midlands · British manufacturing since 1977

Scaffold board end bands, pressed to order.

Dale Pressings (DEMO / CONCEPT) makes scaffold board end bands, batten bands and nail plates for board mills and merchants. Quality, delivery, and a first-class service — the same promise the works has kept since it was incorporated.

The rangeAsk the works
Power press feeding a strip of galvanised steel inside a metal-pressing shop

Pressing capacity30–75 ton

1 inch machine bands2 inch machine bandsWith or without holesSpikey / SAR bandsBatten bandsNail platesGalvanised steelIZ and coated stripEmbossed to order30–75 ton presses1 inch machine bands2 inch machine bandsWith or without holesSpikey / SAR bandsBatten bandsNail platesGalvanised steelIZ and coated stripEmbossed to order30–75 ton presses

The range

What the old site called the products

All specifications
Stack of galvanised steel scaffold board end bands on a steel bench

1 inch and 2 inch

Machine bands

The everyday scaffold-board end band. Pressed to your width, supplied with or without fixing holes, and embossed with the board maker’s own mark.

Close view of a galvanised toothed end band on the end of a timber board

Toothed end bands

Spikey / SAR bands

Bands with a toothed lip for a harder bite on the board end. The old works page listed them beside the plain machine bands — still pressed here, still to order.

Coils of galvanised strip steel standing in a pressing shop

Narrower sections

Batten bands

Batten bands for lighter timber sections, made to the same habit: your size, your holes, your mark. The company describes itself as the UK’s largest maker of these alongside board-end bands.

Galvanised perforated nail plates fanned on a dark steel surface

Perforated plates

Nail plates

Galvanised nail plates pressed for timber jointing. A long-standing companion line to the bands, run on the same presses.

The works

A family press shop, not a catalogue.

In 1977 Dale Pressings (DEMO / CONCEPT) was incorporated and began with sub-contract metal pressings, running alongside Dale Toolroom (DEMO / CONCEPT). End bands and nail plates became the main business. The company still describes itself as the UK’s largest manufacturer of scaffold board end bands, batten bands and nail plates — made to order, to the customer’s requirement.

The family story
Coils of galvanised strip steel in a factory bay

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Incorporated

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Ton, top of the range

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Characters of emboss

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Day working week

How an order starts

Three things we need

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Section

1 inch, 2 inch, spikey / SAR, batten or nail plate. A sample or a drawing is enough.

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Steel and holes

Galvanised, IZ or coated. With holes or without.

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Your mark

Up to 14 characters: support, year, date, a standard mark, a logo line.

CNC milling a steel press tool in a toolroom

Toolroom

New tools. Repairs. 30 to 75 ton.

CNC milling and wire erosion sit behind the presses: new press tools, progression tools, and repairs or modifications to tools you already own.

Toolroom

Questions the trade asks