Operating from sites in Farnborough, Hampshire and Rushden, Northamptonshire, UK Inspections Systems Ltd offers foreign body detection and weighing equipment expertise, sales and engineering support to customers in the food industry.

Having worked in both the food manufacturing industry as a maintenance engineer, and as an assembler and field engineer for two of the very well-known metal detection companies, our Managing Director, Roy Hammond, embarked on a business venture of his own.  Working alone for a number of years, building his knowledge and experience, he finally took a leap of faith and established UK Inspection Systems as a Limited Company in July 2009.

When the Company was formed Roy was working from a rented section of a barn on a farm near Windsor, employing one other engineer, who is still with the Company today, and had twelve customers on the books.

Right from the start, the Company has seen steady growth, accumulating more and more customers as time went by, which has required more employees to manage the work.  In 2014, Roy was joined by his brother Paul Hammond, who took on the role of Director of Operations. Paul’s career started in heavy diesel and hydraulic engineering, moving on to vehicle component manufacturing and product development, and finally moving into the public sector for 15 years before joining the Company.

In 2017, UK Inspection Systems acquired a company that possessed manufacturing capability and expertise; although our core business was in service, we had an intense ambition to build our own products. The acquisition allowed us to push forward with our plans to become a manufacturer, which we now do from our plant in Rushden.