31st March 2005 Cole Tubes Limited and Swallow Metals & Components Limited have now merged and will trade as: Cole & Swallow Materials Limited In January 2004 Cole Tubes was acquired by the Brown Macfarlane Group of Companies. In May the Swallow team joined Cole Tubes at the Wokingham site. Our name change is the latest stage of bringing these two organisations together and making it easier for you to trade with us. We have an extended range of products and services including contract materials management, stockholding, fabrication & assembly facilities. Core business remains tubular products and recent advances in technology allow us to offer bimetallic & leak detector tube, high pressure fittings. see www.coleandswallow.com

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