23rd Nov 2025
The heritage of Polar Technology has recently reached the twenty-five-year mark. From its origins in 2000, the company has evolved from a small, specialist fabrication business into a global supplier for market-leading customers across a diverse range of high-performance industries.
Since taking over the business in 2012 and introducing the Polar Technology Group, co-founders Mike Dewhirst and Scott Roberts have utilised the existing engineering and manufacturing expertise and further diversified the product portfolio to include the series manufacture of proprietary, high valued-added composite and metallic products and systems. This transformation has included a move to a world-class, 180,000 sq. ft. facility in Eynsham, Oxfordshire.
Scott described the journey to this point: “When Mike and I took over the business, it was in a very different place to where it is today. The company employed around 20 people and was located on a small site called Sutton Farm.”
“What struck us both immediately was the extraordinary skill of the fabricators in manufacturing highly complex exhaust systems and heat shields for the motorsport industry and how, with a bit of investment, this could be grown into a much larger business supplying products across the motorsport, high performance automotive, aerospace, defence and medical industries.”
“That fabrication business, along with its sister composites business, now form part of the £30m-turnover, 250-employee-strong Polar Technology Group that we are today. Many of our original colleagues are still with us and have received acknowledgement for their contribution through the long-service award scheme, with some recently reaching the twenty-year mark.” You can find out more about the awards here.
Finally, Scott was keen to stress that there is still much more to come: “There is still much to do in improving the capability of the business, but the outlook for the next 5 years is excellent, with a strong, diversified order book and a growing market full of opportunities. Here’s to the next twenty-five years!”
