Founded in the UK in 1971, 4B Braime Components, Ltd. has been an industry leader in developing high quality, innovative, and dependable material handling components for the agricultural and industrial sectors.
Founded in the UK in 1971, 4B Braime Components, Ltd. has been an industry leader in developing high quality, innovative, and dependable material handling components for the agricultural and industrial sectors.
4B has one of the world’s largest range of bucket elevator components. A leader in elevator bucket and bolt design and manufacturing, 4B also supplies the highest quality elevator belting and offers its own range of drop forged conveyor chains, suitable for the toughest applications.
4B’s electronic division specializes in level controls, electric sensors and safety control systems that mitigate the risk of explosions in hazardous areas. With an extensive range of ATEX/IECEx/CSA-approved hazard monitoring systems, misalignment switches, bearing temperature monitors and level indicators, 4B can offer anything from a replacement sensor to a fully integrated hazard monitoring system that can be operated either as a stand-alone system or connected to a PLC or 4B’s cloud-based Hazardmon system.
4B has always been known for the quality of their engineering support, which in turn is based on research and ongoing product testing. 4B offer their customers a Free Design Service, whether to trouble shoot an existing problem, increase the capacity of an existing machine, or assist in the detailed design of new equipment. We feel that our additional services are just as important as our products themselves.
A subsidiary of The Braime Group, one of the largest suppliers of material handling components in the world, 4B looks back on more than 130 years of experience. With subsidiaries in Europe, America, Asia and Australia and a worldwide network of distributors, 4B can provide you with practical solutions for all applications at any location.
Read an interview with Nicholas Braime (as published in "Milling & Grain")
With subsidiaries on all continents along with a worldwide network of distributors, 4B can provide practical solutions for any application no matter the location.
See our international subsidiaries
The 4B Group of companies is part of the BRAIME GROUP PLC, registered on the London stock market.
For more information, visit: www.braimegroup.com
A Case Study on using our products for the best results.
A testimonial by CHS Inc (an application in the grain industry)
As seen in Grain Journal
Ensuring our clients have safe, reliable and efficient products is a 4B priority. Continuous research and development maintain 4B products at the cutting edge of technology.
"The 4B Group is a customer focused engineering business, which from its foundation, has always aimed to provide customers with products and solutions which are "better by design".
Nicholas Braime, Group Managing Director
The 4B Braime Group, a British PLC listed on the London Stock Exchange, has just celebrated its 130th anniversary this year. The company has been a pioneer of the material handling industry, introducing the first pressed seamless steel elevator bucket back in 1909 and since then leading the field in elevator bucket design. Innovation has always been at the heart of the group's ethos, and maintaining their tradition of making better products by Engineering Design, 4B has contributed many innovative products and solutions to the material handling industry, including: the Starco elevator bucket (the world’s first low profile elevator bucket using centrifugal discharge on a parabolic elevator head which revolutionized the way bucket elevators work until today), the Bolt ‘n’ Go chain system (a revolutionary assembly method for drop forged chains using bolt-on flights instead of welding), the Watchdog Elite bucket elevator monitoring system (the world's first hazard monitoring system that could monitor a complete bucket elevator or conveyor system), and most recently Hazardmon, a cloud-based hard monitoring solution.
The 4B group is committed to keep up its investment in innovation and looks forward to a bright future.
4B Group opens office in Sharjah, UAE - 4B Middle East
4B Group strengthens its position in Europe with new French office & warehouse
4B opens a subsidiary in China: 4B China
4B Braime Group celebrates 130th anniversary
Braime Elevator Components becomes "4B Braime Components Ltd."
4B USA, 4B Australia and 4B Africa all relocate to bigger premises
4B opens regional office in Australia: 4B Australia
4B opens a subsidiary in South Africa to serve the subsaharian market: 4B Africa
4B moves into Germany with 4B Deutschland
4B opens regional office in Thailand: 4B Asia Pacific
4B opens a subsidiary in Argentina to serve the South American market: 4B Sudamerica
4B acquires the French elevator company SETEM, which becomes known as 4B SETEM, France
Foundation of 4B' first international subsidiary: 4B Elevator Components US, near Chicago
Foundation of 4B Braime Elevator Components, to serve the Bucket Elevator & Conveyor market
Braime introduces the first seamless steel bucket
Foundation of Braime, manufacturer of seamless steel pressings
ISO9000 (more formally ISO9001:2015) is an international quality standard that defines minimum requirements for a company’s Quality Management System (QMS). A company’s QMS comprises the organization’s policies, procedures and other internal requirements that ensure customer requirements are met with consistency resulting in customer satisfaction.
MHEA - the Materials Handling Engineers Association
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