William Press Group was a British engineering business which merged with Leonard Fairclough & Son to become a FTSE 100 company, AMEC.
The company was founded by William Allpress in 1913 in London.
[1] In 1954 it started to focus on developments in cathodic protection for pipelines forming Metal and Pipeline Endurance Ltd ('MAPEL').
[3] It also diversified into offshore oil and gas under the leadership of Tony Hawken and Ray Daniels.
[5] It merged with Leonard Fairclough & Son in 1982 to form AMEC.