New developments at SMB Bearings...

We've been really busy of late - here's a summary of developments:

New logo, coming soon...

New premises...

New offices...

 New warehouse stocks arriving daily...

& new employees coming soon... could you be one of them?  

We've filled one vacancy already, in our warehouse & technical department, but if  you'd like to join our busy office we're still looking for a dedicated & enthusiastic new member of our team - send us your C.V. if you're interested, or contact us for further details.

SMB's big move approaches & a new era begins...

Well, we are very excited to announce that we now have a provisional moving date for our new premises. On the 17th October, we'll be making the move (hopefully, barring any last-minute snags) from our old building in Brize Norton to our new home at Ventura Business Park in Carterton.

The main office, all it needs now is our furniture!

 The interior building work is completed, flooring is laid, cables & telecoms are installed - all we need to do now is move our office, furniture & many thousands of bearings to the new unit!!

Colin practicing his clog dancing curtsy in the meeting room!

With the new move we'll also have an exciting new employment opportunity,

for a general office & warehouse assistant, so if you fancy being a vital part of the SMB Bearings Ltd team then why not contact us for further details or just send us your CV (all applications will be treated in the strictest confidence).  Go on, don't be shy - we'll look forward to hearing from you!

The new warehouse racking is being delivered & installed this week & then we're good to go!

SMB's new premises at Ventura Park - let there be light!

The kitchen is nearly ready, let there be coffee!

The re-lubrication room's worktops are being cut to size & installed next week 

The ante-room to the re-lubrication room is nearly ready... 

The meeting room has lighting & wiring - also an alien slug seems to have taken up temporary residence...

The main office is now wired & lit & the painting is nearly completed too.

We're really impressed by how light & airy the office is going to be...

...if a little startled by just how much wiring it takes to get the whole "light & airy" thing going!!

We'll be finalising the moving-in date very soon & we'll let you know asap when the big day is - so excited!!!

SMB Bearings Ltd, our new office - a room with a view!

The work on our new premises continues apace & we look all set for our move at the end of September - you can see some of the progress below:

Check out the view from our new offices...

...compared to the current office's vista (pictured above), it's going to be amazing!! :-)

The lighting & heating have been installed in the vast warehouse...

The office & technical areas, as seen from the warehouse...

The technician's re-lubrication lair is still a little bare, but all the equipment should be arriving in the next three weeks

The lovely Jason, from Tapper Interiors, who has been working so hard for us

Our view from the office into the warehouse...

It will be wonderful to have so much warehouse space for our expanding product range & we look forward very much to welcoming clients in our new meeting room & office suite.  

WE CAN'T WAIT!!

SMB's new premises, building work continues...

We are getting very excited here at SMB Bearings, as the building work continues apace on our new, larger premises at Ventura Park, Carterton.  

Ventura Park - our unit is bottom left of the picture - our neighbours include Airbus UK & the local leisure centre.

Tapper Interiors have made a cracking start & the mezzanine level & stairs are now in place, so the upstairs offices & meeting room & downstairs clean-room can be built now. 

The electricians are also on-site, so power & lighting are going in shortly.  It may not look like much yet, but we're sure it's going to be just amazing! :-)

We'll bring you more news as work progresses & look forward to a grand unveiling of the finished building very soon (hopefully around September)... 

Work starts on SMB's new home...

We are so, so excited!  After much hard work, deliberation & cogitation over building plans by our M.D. & the moving about of one extremely awkward staircase (we thought at one point that we'd have to use a rope ladder or fireman's pole to access the new office suite), the finalised architectural plans for our new premises are ready.

We will soon be handing over to the team at Tapper Interiors, who will now be responsible for the full interior build on our new premises.

Before Tapper Interiors get started, the flooring work will be commencing on our new home at Ventura Park, on 7th April - YEAY!!!!!!  The first step will be to have the floors cleaned & shot blasted to a super smooth finish by the folks at Polydeck Resins

concrete flooring during the shot-blasting process...

& then the floors will be given a super-tough & durable epoxy coating.  

We apparently had a fabulous choice - indeed a veritable rainbow - of colours to choose from. 

An example of flooring by Polydeck Resin

And given such a wondrous colour palette to choose from, we have selected this...

Ah well! :-)

We'll look forward to bringing you more news as work progresses.

2015 at SMB Bearings Ltd...

A belated Happy New Year & welcome to 2015 to all our lovely friends & followers - all of us at SMB Bearings wish you every happiness & success for the coming year.

Now that the chaos of returning to work & kicking off a busy 2015 has calmed down a bit, we've begun contemplating what the future holds for SMB this year...

I know we said this first in 2011, but we're actually doing it - WE'RE MOVING!!! 

Our new home...

Ventura Park, Broadshires Way, Carterton...

Work is scheduled to begin inside our swanky new premises in the next six weeks & we'll be moving in later in the summer. Very importantly the move means that we'll be able to increase our bearing stock range from our current 2000+ individual sizes & have even more speciality miniature bearings in stock.

This is an aerial view of SMB's new home, we're the lovely big unit here on the bottom left of the image...

Also coming later this year is SMB's new paper catalogue - old-school but super handy for reference - it's definitely time for a new version, as our stock range has grown significantly & a couple of staff members have an awful lot less hair than when the last version came out over a twelve years ago!

The last SMB Bearings catalogue, in which people still had hair...

Officially antique now, the original SMB catalogue circa 1985... it was typed!!

The finalised version of our new website - tweeked & optimised to the full - is also due to put in an appearance... what a busy bunch we're going to be!!

We're looking forward to bringing news from SMB Bearings 

& from our wonderful friends & customers as the year progresses.