Southern Sheeting expands into Midlands with new Loughborough hub

Southern Sheeting, a leading supplier of specialist building materials with 40 years’ experience, is expanding into the Midlands, investing in a new distribution depot and customer service centre in Loughborough.

The new hub, which will be branded as Southern Sheeting Midlands, opens on 30 May and can be found in the town’s Wymeswold Business Quarter.

It will stock a vast range of roofing, cladding and decking products, for tradespeople needing building supplies for contracts both large and small, as well as those looking to make home improvements.

People can visit the depot for personalised, friendly advice from the company’s trusted experts, who pride themselves on furnishing customers with the technical information they need all the way through a project, from beginning to end.

Tony Hobbs, Managing Director of Southern Sheeting Midlands, said: “Southern Sheeting is enjoying a period of growth, making this the ideal time to enhance our geographical reach. We can now accept orders from customers anywhere in England, then supply what they need when they need it, without compromising our level of care and expertise.

“Loughborough, with its central location in the Midlands, vibrant business economy and strong transport links forms the cornerstone of our expansion plans.”

Southern Sheeting also has two sites in East Grinstead, West Sussex. It will continue to invest in its Loughborough branch with the addition of new product lines, underpinned by a high-quality service to support customers working on industrial, agricultural and domestic projects.

The company has big plans for growth. It has already hired a number of new employees from and plans to recruit more, creating career opportunities and boosting the Loughborough economy.

Southern Sheeting Midlands’ product range includes profiled steel and fibre cement roof sheets, insulated panels, weatherboard cladding, composite decking, rooflight solutions, guttering, fencing, building boards and garden room kits, plus all the necessary screws and fixings.

The company works with leading brands such as Trex, James Hardie and Cedral to ensure products sourced are of the highest quality. Customers can order products off the shelf for fast delivery all over the country.

Tony added: “We are a family business with more than 40 years of experience built on unrivalled stockholding, industry leading quote turnaround times, product knowledge and first name service. We can’t wait to integrate ourselves into the Loughborough community and start working with local tradespeople and homeowners.”