Our History
Part of the Keystone Group.
The Keystone Group has grown to become one of the UK and Ireland’s largest manufacturers of construction products.
Pioneering, innovating and an uncompromising attitude of ‘go through the wall’ for customers, has been fundamental to the Keystone Group’s success.
Keystone Group now encompasses 17 core brands across three divisions in the structural steel, building components and timber sectors.
Keystone’s relentless dedication to innovation has enabled the group to continuously expand with 2,000 employees across 27 sites in the UK and Europe providing pioneering building solutions for growing markets in the UK & Ireland, Europe, Australia and North America.
The Keystone Group consists of Keystone Lintels, IG Lintels, Keylite Roof Window, IG Masonry Support, Smartroof, Keyfix, Stockgap, Showersave, Keywall, Wyckham Blackwell, Timber Innovations, Crendon Timber Engineering, Glosford SIPS, Harmony Timber, David Smith St Ives, Roof Truss and Lynx Trussed Rafters.
IG Masonry Support was founded by the Group in 2015, when it was approached by industry leaders to develop a range of masonry support product. Now, IG Masonry Support designs and manufactures the most practical and advanced range of ‘patented’ stainless steel masonry support products and revolutionary brick slip soffit systems for the construction industry.
Keystone Lintels Limited was founded in 1989, and now operates from Swadlincote (South Derbyshire) and Cookstown (N.Ireland). The company manufactures steel lintels and brickwork support systems for distribution throughout the UK and Ireland.
Visit WebsiteSmartroof joined the Keystone Group in 2012 and operates from Swadlincote (South Derbyshire). Smartroof provides a complete, eco-friendly, structural timber, insulated room-in-roof panel system, creating instant useable space.
Visit WebsiteKeylite Roof Windows Limited was founded in 2001 and operates from Burton Upon Trent (South Derbyshire) and Cookstown (N.Ireland). The company offers a full range of roof windows, flashings, electric operation kits, loft ladders, blinds and accessories.
Visit WebsiteEstablished in 1958, IG Lintels was acquired by Keystone in 2006 and is based in Cwmbran (South Wales). The company has a strong brand reputation within the construction industry. IG Steel Lintels have been supplied and featured in many prestigious building contracts.
Visit WebsiteCombining optimum performance with design flexibility, IG Masonry Support offers solutions which are easy to install and includes it’s revolutionary brick slip system which radically reduces onsite labour.
Visit WebsiteKeywall is the complete offsite Brick Slip Rainscreen Cladding System for residential and commercial projects. It has evolved from our experience in developing innovative brick slip masonry support systems and also from a need to address skill shortages in the brick building industry.
Visit WebsiteKeyfix Limited was founded in September 2019 and operates from Swadlincote (South Derbyshire) and Cookstown (N.Ireland). Keyfix specialises in the development of non-combustible cavity systems for projects requiring Document B compliance in buildings over 18m high utilising steel frame systems in the external cavity.
Visit WebsiteShowersave is a waste water heat recovery system which provides a simple, sustainable and cost effective solution to achieving Part L compliance. Showersave was developed in the Netherlands and was the first company to bring heat exchanger technology to UK market in 2009, having been recognised by the Buildings Research Establishment in SAP.
Visit WebsiteStockgap is a building products distributor supplying builders merchants in the South East of England. Since its establishment in 1981, Stockgap has steadily grown, offering an extensive range of building products to its customer base of nearly 2,000 merchants.
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