Hawco

Hawco is a distributor and national wholesaler of components for air conditioning, refrigeration, process heating, measurement and control systems. It offers over 26,000 components from 250 international suppliers, including Carel, Secop, LG Electronics and Tecumseh, and keeps its most popular 2,500 items in stock at its UK warehouse. The company also sources and develops customised parts and assemblies, and its three divisions are Hawco Air, Hawco Industrial and Hawco Refrigeration.

Its customers include engineers, R&D designers, procurement managers, OEMs, contractors, service engineers and installers. Services include technical recommendations, design advice for refrigeration systems, heat load calculations for cold rooms or comfort cooling, flexible inventory agreements and consignment programmes. It ships nationwide and internationally.

The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Godalming, Surrey, with a warehouse in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It employs 60 people and is ISO 9001 certified. Following a management buyout in April 2023, it is owned by Bay Tree Private Equity LLP; before that it was part of Diploma PLC for 20 years.

Product: Wholesale distribution of air conditioning, refrigeration, process heating and temperature control components, with customised parts and assemblies.