TPT January 2012

I ndustry N ews

Laser firm to open site after £800,000 investment in East Midlands

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 Fax: +44 1889 270242

Email: sales@steelservicecentre.co.uk Website: www.steelservicecentre.co.uk

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