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Merry Christmas from all at Direct2U! Today and tomorrow are your last chances to place orders over the phone and put in your quotes before Christmas. Any orders placed from today will not be despatched until after the holidays, so if you want your order early in January now is the time to buy! However, if you have been busy looking forward to Christmas and the celebrations that the festive season brings, and have forgotten to purchase that much needed workbench or piece of workshop equipment – fear not! We do offer a range of products which are available on… Read more

We have just added a new range of Perforated Tool Storage to our site. We are constantly working hard to add more products and ranges so that you have more of a choice and can buy all your workshop equipment in one shop. Our Perforated Tool Storage is perfect to grant easy access to tool storage. Position the panels on walls and behind your workbenches and workstations and use with our steel accessories for quick identification of tools, keeping the workshop organised. What’s in the range… Perforated Tool Panels A wide variety of accessories for the perforated tool panels Overlays… Read more

Taking a glance through our product descriptions and one term that pops up frequently is ‘UDL’. A common question we get asked is what do you mean by UDL? And when you put search the internet for answers incomplete or confusing results appear, so we thought it was time to delve in and explain UDL completely. What does UDL mean? UDL or ‘Uniformly Distributed Load’ is used by manufacturers to explain how much weight can be safely placed upon an object. It is a phrase commonly used to describe the load capacity of workbenches, scissor lifts, shelving and racking. The… Read more