AGILITY AND INNOVATION: HOW UM TERMINALS MEETS CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS

One of the UK’s leading bulk liquid storage companies has put in place a new strategic growth plan and unveiled a name change. UM Terminals managing director Bryan Davies explains. UNTIL quite recently, UM Terminals was known as UM Storage. But the Liverpool, UK-headquartered business has ambitious growth plans and felt that their old name did not do full justice to today’s business.   Commenting on the company’s new name, managing director Bryan Davies says: ‘We felt that UM Terminals and the strapline ‘Bulk Liquid Solutions’ better described the services we offer. The range of services we provide our customers with goes so much further than storage.’ UM Terminals operates out of eight terminals, strategically located across the UK, handling over 40 different products for its customers. It currently has a capacity of over 300,000 m3 of bulk liquid storage across 280 tanks of varying sizes. The plan is to grow this to over 400,000 m3. One of the strengths of the business is the diversity of services it offers and product solutions, including vegetable oils, industrial, food and feed, chemical, fertiliser, fuels, biofuels and base oils. Services include...