Astra Direct | Safety & storage products for business

ASL Direct – providing safety & storage solutions to business customers since 2008

ASL Direct is a family owned business established in 2008 suppling local business with our Stockrax shelving system, today we offer over 10,000 products through our comprehensive online store suppling customers across the UK, Europe & North America a complete range of health & safety, coshh storage, tool & equipment storage and personal locker systems for the workplace.

When placing your order at asldirect.co.uk our customers can rest assured that card payments safe as we have invested in the latest Extended Validation SSL software. In addition we can confirm that NO customer credit card details are stored on our server to improve customer security.

Our product ranges include:

Spill Control & Coshh Storage
Tool & Equipment Storage
Lockers, Cupboards & Benching
Materials Handling Equipment
Pedestrian & Traffic Control
Fire Control & First Aid Supplies
PPE & Workwear
Safety Signage
Shelving & Racking
Workshop Equipment

Our Story

2022 – We took the decision to rebrand the business to reflect our current product offering, the company name was changed to Astra Supplies Ltd and our website was redesigned and relaunched as ASL Direct (asldirect.co.uk) offering over 10,000 products lines providing our customers both existing and new a convenient one-stop shop for all their storage, health & safety and workplace products.

2019 – Was yet another record sales year as we continued building client relationships and further increased and product range to include a comprehensive range of health, safety & ppe workwear products. Having forged good relationship with the UK’s leading manufactures and trade supplies over the last 10 years we were in a position to negotiate the best possible terms which allowed us to pass those huge savings on to our faithful customer base.

2015 – Was a record sales year thanks to our continually growing customer base has also grown five-fold since we started trading. Further product lines added such as materials handling, hazardous storage & tool storage.

2012 – Increased our product range further to include locker systems, cloakroom benching, cupboards & cabinets. This enabled to secure many supply contracts with school, colleges, NHS trusts and other government departments. Our website now offered over 3000 products.

2010 – New shelving ranges added to accommodate our rapidly growing customer base. These new ranges included the still popular Stormor, Euro, Longspan & Eclipse shelving systems. The new systems were added to our website taking our online catalogue offering to over 1000 products. We expanded our delivery options to cover the whole of the UK mainland to further increase growth.

2008 – AS Trading was established in Grays, Essex and operated from a small home office. Primarily suppling businesses across the South of England with our Stockrax shelving system, a product that is still our most popular shelving system today. Our first ecommerce website was launched specialising solely on the Stockrax product range.

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