Dinton Properties specialises in secure storage. The company owns & runs a 100 acre ring fenced storage facility located in Wiltshire.

Running the UK wing of the US TNT Fireworks Corporation.Contracts won included the supply of fireworks to wholesale and Chain store customers which included Asda, Morrisons, Lidl, Aldi, Sainsburys, Netto and Safeway.

Jon was Creator of Millennium Pyrotechnics Ltd in 1991 which specialised in large outdoor audio visual spectaculars using a blend of electronically fired professional fireworks, special effects, lasers, projection and dancing water features. Shows were produced all over the world where several international competitions were won. With blue chip clients such as Disney and F1 the company had few competitors.Jon also designed a large range of shop fireworks which were successfully sold in UK leading supermarkets. At its height the business was having tonnes of its products produced in its factories in China and imported the best of the world’s fireworks from Spain, Germany, Japan, France, Italy and Malta.Millennium was sold in 2004 to the world’s largest firework company TNT Fireworks of Alabama USA.

Jon was Research and Development Manager and then Technical Manager at Pains Wessex Schermuly in Salisbury. (Shermuly was a Swiss pyrotechnics expert whose family equipped Shackletons Endeavour with line throwing rockets and early verey pistol distress flares) Pains Wessex was world leading Pyrotechnics facility. Responsibilities included the design and development of military and marine pyrotechnics including countermeasures for aircraft (Jaguar, Tornado and Eurofighter), advanced IR devices and decoys for tanks and naval vessels. Jon ran a team of chemists and engineers who developed the world’s first successful Naval heatseeking decoy ‘Seagnat’. Jon left Pains Wessex (now Chemring) to set up his own pyrotechnics company.

Design Draughtsman at HiFlex Ltd. Design & testing of hydraulics for mining and other industries. Jon helped develop advanced hydraulic systems for holding up the roofs in pits and introduced the first UK Autocad draughting system.