Abbey Met Supplies Ltd

Ray, Charlie and Harry Dix are specialists stockists and distributors of Schneider Lead whom are an independent German manufacturer of Rolled Lead Sheet that has the highest quality control certification probably available to any manufacturing company (RAL), ensuring their processes are fully monitored by an independent body. The lead is CE Conformant and fully meets BS/EN12588 and is constantly checked for conformity, Abbeymet keeps in stock and on site over a 150 tonne of all codes of Lead from code 3 to code 8.

From those humble beginnings in 1996 in and from a small back street shop in Orpington, Ray’s original company grew very rapidly to a larger warehouse in Orpington.

Along the way it acquired another company that specialised in lead associated ancillary products, with this acquisition the companies required further expansion to even larger premises and relocated to Sidcup in 2008.

In 2009 Ray passed control of his companies to a large UK lead sheet manufacturer but remained a director in a non controlling capacity and subsequently had to retire from that new company in 2013 for ethical reasons.

Abbeymet was formed and managed in 2013 by members of Ray’s family, and in 2019 Ray and Charlie took ownership of Abbeymet to re create the honest success’s of Ray’s previous relationships and involvement in the lead sheet industry which spanned back to the beginning in 1996.