Adlington is a specialist hirer with two divisions; the supply of welding equipment and associated consumables and the supply of temporary power solutions to construction and related industries. Trading for over fifty years, starting in the small town of Adlington just outside Chorley and now serving the whole of the UK. Bill Turner was the original founder of Adlington and eventually his two sons Nigel and Howard took the reins. In 2013 the business was sold to CorpAcq, a specialist corporate acquisitions and investment.