Barclay & Mathieson is a specialist supplier of access and safety walkway solutions for industrial environments, helping reduce the risk of slips, trips and falls across construction, rail and other safety-critical sectors.
We supply a comprehensive range of GRP and steel walkway, flooring and access products — from standard systems available on short lead times to bespoke solutions tailored to specific site requirements. Our approach is engineering-led, with a strong focus on performance, compliance and long-term reliability.
Engineers and contractors choose Barclay & Mathieson for our project support and collaboration, depth of technical expertise, breadth of range, trusted independently-verified performance data and dependable nationwide supply. By providing expert advice on material and product selection, load performance, slip resistance, and maintenance requirements, we help ensure the right solution is specified for each application.
We are experts in low carbon GRP systems, often the material of choice in many industrial walkway applications today. This innovative advanced composite offers an enhanced strength-to-weight ratio over other materials, and we utilise this benefit to provide our clients with material, cost and carbon savings across their projects.
Explore our products, including AutoGrate the Ultimate GRP Grating and our applications or contact us with your enquiry.
A specialist supplier to the precision engineering industry, Barclay & Mathieson distributes black and bright steel bars from 5mm to 350mm diameter in a wide range of carbon and alloy steels. We deliver full or cut bar lengths nationwide.
In addition to cutting, we offer turning, grinding and heat treatment services to meet specific customer and sector requirements.
Our engineering steel is typically used in the manufacture of machined components, including gears, discs, axles, drive shafts, pins and rods, rollers, cylinders, punches and dies etc; parts that are integral to the tools, equipment and vehicles of various sectors, such as agriculture, automotive, construction, mining, oil and gas, material handling/processing and aerospace.
For more information, visit barclayandmathieson.com/bar.
When you click our ‘Shop Now’ button in the navigation above, you are taken to the BM Steel eCommerce website where you can buy many of our products online directly from us. Credit facilities and Trustpilot reviews are also available.
BM Steel, a UK steel stockholder with depots nationwide, is our sister company. We both belong to BM Group (Barclay & Mathieson Limited), a UK company with headquarters in Glasgow, Scotland (company registration number: SC030987).
Stock of our access and safety products is located across the UK; most online orders will be fulfilled by the Barclay & Mathieson team at our large One Stop Shop in Sheffield, UK.
Should you wish to discuss a current online order or ask a question before placing an order, please do not hesitate to contact our sales and technical team directly on 0114 254 3220. We offer bulk and trade discounts.
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Barclay & Mathieson is part of the BM Group, a Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc company.
For our customers, this provides the added reassurance of working with a specialist UK supplier that is backed by the resources and resilience of a global organisation.
The BM Group is headquartered in Glasgow, and in addition to Barclay & Mathieson includes other leading UK brands: BM Steel; BM Architectural; Industrial Metal Services (IMS); Abram Pulman & Sons; Steel Plate & Sections (SPS); and Angus F Gunn.
BM Group is owned by Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc, a major international organisation operating across global steel and industrial markets. This backing provides Barclay & Mathieson with the financial strength, investment capability and long-term stability required to support large-scale projects, and long-term framework agreements and supply partnerships.
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Thank you for taking the time to learn more about who we are, what our areas of expertise are, and what makes us different from other suppliers. Contact us to discuss how we can support you further.
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