Pictured: Stuart Jackson of EOS with Karen Aston from the Warwick Innovation Centre

The clients of a company which celebrated its tenth anniversary in the UK last month reads like a who's who of the great and good in the motoring world.

Electro Optical Systems (EOS), which opened its UK office on November 21, 2001, works with Williams and many others in Formula 1 along with iconic companies Jaguar Land Rover and Ford.

The privately-owned German company moved to the University of Warwick Science Park's Warwick Innovation Centre on Gallows Hill in 2002 and is one of the leading specialists in Europe in laser sintering.

Stuart Jackson, regional manager of EOS, said: "If you imagine a conventional laser printer, we have machines that complete the printing in a 3D way.

"That means when businesses supply us with a Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawing we can produce high quality prototypes and tooling for metallic and plastic components by using 3D CAD data to produce each layer. The technical term is additive manufacturing.

"Our customer base ranges with everyone from the aerospace industry to Formula 1 with Williams and many more to car companies Ford, Jaguar Land Rover and Bentley.

"We also produce titanium heels for shoes - we worked with one designer whose shoes retail at £1,000! - and plastic shampoo bottles which underlines that our work can be used in virtually every industry.

"World-wide we employ nearly 400 people and in the UK we have 12 members of staff. The whole company had a turnover last year of more than 90 million euros and it is a growing company because laser sintering - or 3D printing as some would call it - is very much in the public eye at the moment."

Stuart said the UK arm of the business was worth around 10 per cent of the global business.

"We have six service engineers to ensure service support is available in this country and then we have sales staff here as well," he said.

"This is a great location since we can quickly access the motorway network to travel to our customers easily, the facilities at the science park suits us perfectly as does the flexible leases which have allowed us to take extra space as our business has expanded, which is underlined by the fact we have been here so long."

Karen Aston, centre manager at the Warwick Innovation Centre, said EOS was one of the centre's longest-serving tenants.

"The work EOS carries out is fascinating and it is extremely useful to entrepreneurial companies developing their latest products since it speeds up the process and they can see their ideas brought to life really quickly," she said.

"The business couldn't be based at a more suitable site because EOS' ethos of being at the forefront of technology in their particular field was one of the reasons why science parks were launched to provide a business environment for these kinds of niche companies to flourish - and EOS is living proof of that."