Budenberg Gauge Company

The company is renowned for the manufacture of high quality pressure gauges, thermometers, valves and manifolds.

Export success on the back of the ever increasing steam industry led to the formation of manufacturing and sales subsidiaries all over the world.

In the decades running up to the First World War and the race for naval superiority, products had to be made in Britain if the company wanted to sell to the British Admiralty.

In 1914, the company moved from Whitworth Street to a new purpose built factory at Woodfield Road, Broadheath, Altrincham.

Following the outbreak of war with Germany, Schaeffer & Budenberg was one of many German owned companies in the United Kingdom to be expropriated by the British Crown.

American Gauge was then bought by Manning Maxwell Moore and S&B continued as a separate division, even though sometimes working from the same premises.

The company business connections in St. Petersburg, Riga, Moscow, Vladivostock & Kiev were severed with the war and the Russian Revolution.

In 2002 the company vacated its historic Broadheath factory and moved to Irlam, where it continued to manufacture pressure gauges and accessories until 2020.

Now housed in a purpose built unit which includes a machine shop, assembly and calibration facilities and three new laboratories.

Along with manufacturing bases in Manchester UK, Paris France & Rodgau Germany, recent DH-Budenberg expansion has included opening new offices in San Marcos - Texas, Dubai - UAE, Chennai - India, Singapore, & Perth - Australia.