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UK firm SSC Laser Cutting is anticipating
2012 to be its most lucrative year to date
after announcing the introduction of a new
East Midlands manufacturing site.
SSC, which specialises in both flat bed
and tube laser technology, will accelerate
its national expansion by establishing the
new manufacturing site. The firm, based
in Hixon near Stafford, has invested
£800,000 in two new Bystronic Byspeed
Pro 3015 flat bed lasers, and will install
one of the machines at Castle Donington.
The company had challenged its
sales offices in Sunderland and Castle
Donington to compete for the new machine
on the basis of who had performed the
best at the end of the company’s financial
year. With the other machine to be
installed at the manufacturing centre in
Hixon, company directors subsequently
appointed Castle Donington in the East
Midlands as the new manufacturing site.
Sales director Andy Evans commented,
“We’ve been a customer of Bystronic since
our inception in 2000 and we’ve developed
an extremely strong partnership in that
time. We renew all of our machinery on
a five-year basis, so one of the machines
will be installed at HQ to replace the
oldest machine there. The other will be
installed at Castle Donington. Currently
the site employs three people and is
used purely as a commercial office.” The
company was anticipating the site being
up and running as a new manufacturing
base at the start of 2012.
Following the end of the financial year on
31 August, SSC Laser Cutting announced
a record annual turnover of over £5m,
£1m up on the previous financial year.
The order of the two new flat bed laser
machines continued two years of significant
investment in the business, including the
recent installation of an £800,000 Adige LT8
tube laser cutting machine and a new state-
of-the-art business management system.
SSC Laser Cutting – UK
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Laser firm to open site after £800,000
investment in East Midlands