History

Coldstream (Engineering) Ltd was founded in 1947 in Peckham near Tower Bridge, London and later moved to Dulwich, South East London and the company joined the Adelphi Group in 1994. Trading as Adelphi Coldstream the company then absorbed the activities of Fluid Equipment (Adelphi) Ltd in 1999.

Adelphi Manufacturing Company Limited was founded in 1947 and took its name from the Adelphi Building off the Strand where it had offices.  The Company produced simple bottle washing and filling equipment for the pharmaceutical industry and, in 1950, moved to Angel, Islington, where it occupied two numbers and five floors of a Georgian terrace.  Steady progress, with an increase in the range of products manufactured and sold, culminated in a major expansion in the early 1970’s.  Adelphi (Tubes) Limited, now trading as Adelphi Healthcare Packaging, was formed in 1970 to stock and market ampoules, vials and collapsible aluminium tubes, and in 1973 Fluid Equipment Company was purchased to manufacture mixers and stirrers for industry.

In 1977 agreement was reached for Adelphi to solely represent Rota of Germany, manufacturer of automatic ampoule, vial and syringe processing machines used by the major pharmaceutical companies in UK and Ireland.

Soon after, Adelphi, who had been factoring Centrac and Centrair filling machines, purchased the business from Banister Street Works Limited (founded in the late 19th century), who manufactured a range of hand and semi automatic liquid and cream filling machines.  The Response filling machine was launched in 2005.

In 1994 Adelphi were granted the distributorship for TGM of Italy, manufacturers of automatic collapsible tube filling and cartoning machines.

Masterfil joined the group in 2007 having been established in 1984 supplying customers with fully automatic filling and capping machines in the oil, chemical, food, toiletries and pharmaceutical industries worldwide.

Adelphi now occupy and own a one hectare site in Haywards Heath close to the railway station and motorway.

THE OLD ADELPHI LOGO The symbol of a cylinder inscribed over the sphere it contains was requested to be engraved on his tomb by Archimedes. To him it commemorated the fact that he had discovered the relationship between volume and surface area in spheres and cylinders. To Adelphi it symbolises the classical references of our name and the precision with which our machinery is designed and manufactured. In addition it demonstrates our dealing in vessels and containers of all kinds and the classical lines symbolise cleanliness and accuracy in the food, medical and pharmaceutical industries which we serve.