News Archive: | New Website from Taylor Lane Trusses
Hereford-based Timber Frame manufacturer, Taylor Lane, today announces a new website: www.taylorlanetrusses.co.uk. The site provides background information and help regarding the company’s stand-alone trussed rafter business together with the opportunity for visitors to request a free estimate for their trussed rafter projects. This user-friendly site also enables visitors to source technical information and to request a follow-up telephone call from one of the team at Taylor Lane.
Long established as a timber frame manufacturing company, this separate ‘arm’ of Taylor Lane’s business deals ...Read more |  | No Walk in the Park for Keith!
In early September 2007, Keith Jones from the Design Office at Taylor Lane, along with 450 other enthusiasts from around the county, decided to shun a walk in the park in favour of a 10 km run!
Eastnor Park, near Ledbury, Herefordshire, was the venue and Keith and his fellow runners were taking part in a fundraiser on behalf of the Cancer Research Campaign. Keith’s girlfriend’s father had died two years earlier from cancer, and Keith felt duty-bound to take part. He says:
“So many people have been through different experiences – and for me, it was a cause very close to home. It was the ‘...Read more |  | Wayne Joins the Taylor Lane Team
Taylor Lane Timber Frame today announces the appointment of Wayne Ricketts as its new Sales Manager.
Wayne will have UK-wide responsibility for sales generation, customer liaison and support. He has already introduced new procedures for streamlining the sales function, thereby ensuring an improved service for new and existing customers.
Wayne joined Taylor Lane in 1999 as a delivery man. Since then he has risen ‘up the ranks’, spending time making timber frame panels in the company’s factories and working in its estimating department before being appointed to his new post as Sales Manage...Read more |  | A Shared Vision was the Spark for Success - Hereford Times Article, Page 2
Building a successful company from scratch takes hard work, determination and vision. Building an outstanding reputation takes a great deal more. Barrie Lane and Colin Taylor, the founding partners of Taylor Lane, are justifiably proud of having built both over the course of the last 23 years. Since the company was founded in 1982, it has grown to become one of the country’s leading suppliers of timber frames to the construction industry as well as one of the largest employers on Hereford’s Rotherwas Estate. Currently, almost 90 staff work for the company on their four sites, the newest of whi...Read more |  | A Sense of Community - Hereford Times Article, Page 3
The reputation Taylor Lane enjoys in the industry for its honesty, trust and reliability applies as much inside the company as it does for its customers. Every member of staff is valued, each one encouraged and a full training programme available for all. As much is invested in the staff as in the business, as the management team aims for a workforce that wants to be at work, proud to work for Taylor Lane and all equally involved in the company’s achievements. Input from the staff is encouraged, with opinions and views listened to and acted on. Ambition is regarded as a positive. And, always o...Read more |  | Designs on the Future - Hereford Times Article, Page 4
Taylor Lane has, since its establishment in 1982, evolved considerably, with expansion managed to meet the changing requirements of a growing customer base. As the structures became more complex, the need for steel in their construction became essential. Recognising this, Taylor Lane opened a steel fabrication unit. Today, the company is able to supply any of the steel elements from the workshop on the Rotherwas Estate, one of very few timber frame manufacturers in the UK to have its own on-site steel fabrication unit. The more complete the service Taylor Lane can supply to their customer, the...Read more | |
