About Us

History of the company

The business was formed by, Wayne Johnston and Martin Webb in 1987, where they both undertook the laying of road markings, as a subcontractor, for the large national road marking and traffic management companies. Over the last 28 years they have sustainably grown the business by specialising in the application of permanent and temporary road markings, offering a quality service that its customers expected and has proved unrivalled within the road marking industry.

In 2005 WJ Roadmarkings introduced the innovative Hydroblast system, into the UK market, a new revolutionary method of removing road markings from existing carriageways. Hydroblast has now been established as the preferred choice of the Highways Agency and most Local Authorities for road markings removal.

WJ added a fleet of four Hydroblast machines to service the UK market nationally and has developed the system for other applications such as rubber removal on airports, highway retexturing and bitumen removal from surface dressed roads.

The WJ Expansion

The natural progression of the business was to grow the permanent road markings and road studs activity, so through the strategic acquisitions of Moxon Road Markings Ltd in 2004 and Linkline Maintenance Ltd and Ambridge Thermoplastics in 2007, permanent road markings became a major part of the WJ Roadmarkings portfolio. These acquisitions also provided expertise to build bespoke road marking vehicles, now carried out our purpose built depot in Elland and the facility to develop and manufacture high performance thermoplastic road marking materials through Ambridge based in Milton Keynes.

WJ Roadmarkings also expanded organically and in 2010 opened a new depot based in Taunton, Somerset now carrying out the majority of road marking contracts within the South West region of the UK.

In 2012 WJ recognised the need for an enhanced training provision and established a Driver Training Academy based out of the Stoke depot. In 2014 the WJ training division successfully achieved Approved DVSA Test Centre status for LGV testing along with approved training for the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC).

The skills, performance and growing resources proved central in the successful winning and proud delivery of 120 kilometers of temporary lane markings for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Olympic contract was the largest ever temporary road marking contract let in the UK and establishing a temporary depot was essential for the logistics associated with this major operation..

In 2013 WJ established a permanent London presence and depot based in Croydon and now carries out the majority of the TfL LoHAC contracts.
2013 also saw the WJ Roadmarkings group companies come together to form WJ Linkline Group Ltd.

WJ - The Leading Specialist Road Marking Business

In 2015 WJ re-branded with more emphasis on collaboration and client access to the full range of products and services under one single brand on a national basis.
WJ Group is now the UK’s leading specialist road marking business dedicated to permanent and temporary road markings, road studs, high friction and safety surfacing, asphalt repair, Hydroblast line removal and surface re-texturing.

People, client and supplier relationships are our strength and together we have evolved WJ into the most successful innovator, manufacturer and provider of award winning products and services in our sector. Consisting of four sustainable businesses we take pride in our distinctive culture and are committed to our core values: Delivery - Safety - Innovation - Collaboration.

WJ has always been a company where ‘good enough’ is not good enough and building upon our strengths we aspire be exceptional in all we do.

Consistently providing high standards on a national basis we can now ensure delivery of unrivalled local service from the strategically located UK depots.

If you have any further enquiries then please do not hesitate to get in touch.