Staffordshire firm SSC Laser Cutting is anticipating 2012 to be
its most lucrative year to date after announcing the introduction
of a brand new East Midlands manufacturing site.
SSC, which specialises in both flat bed and tube laser
technology, will accelerate their national expansion by
establishing a new manufacturing site in the East Midlands. The
firm, based in Hixon near Stafford, have invested £800,000 in
two new Bystronic Byspeed Pro 3015 Flat Bed Lasers and will install
one of the machines at Castle Donington .
Last year SSC Laser Cutting HQ challenged the 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 said: "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 Donnington. Currently the site employs three
people and is used purely as a commercial office. We take delivery
in December and, with the logistics of getting the new machine
installed and recruiting new staff, we're looking at the site being
up and running as a new manufacturing base at the start of
2012."
Following the end of the financial year on August 31st, 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 in July 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.
Andy believes the company's programme of national roll out will
eventually lead to SSC becoming the largest laser cutting company
in the UK. He said: "We've been extremely busy since the beginning
of the year and the next financial year will be the most exciting
in the company's history. There's a lot of hard work ahead in the
last quarter of this year and we're extremely optimistic about the
future. Next year will see the first of what is planned to be at
least 10 roll outs of the business over the next few years. It's
our aim to be the largest and most successful laser profiling
business in the UK."