Mec Com, which is part of the Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN), has seen turnover rise to £14 million after it started work on the Siemens’ Alpha project that taps into the firm’s total manufacturing solutions strategy to offer component production, final assembly and testing capabilities.
This has led to the creation of 39 new jobs and driven the need for a new £485,000 Trumpf 3030 fibre laser, with plans for further investment in new panel bending and robotic welding capacity scheduled for 2017.
Richard Bunce, managing director of Mec Com said: “Our management team looked at the short-term opportunities presented by Brexit and decided to push ahead with our growth plans and going after key accounts. This approach proved immediately successful and we are already eyeing new leads in the food processing sector.”
He continued: “It’s not going to be easy and we’ll have to keep a watchful eye on what type of Brexit we actually go for. There is also a lot of uncertainty with the employees at our Romanian facility, which we are trying to alleviate as much as possible.”
Mec Com’s success has been based on a commitment to investing in the latest machinery and in building a global supply network that includes a sister plant in Cluj Napoca and manufacturing agreements in China. This approach allows it to competitively offer high, medium and low volume manufacturing services to clients operating in food processing, machine tool, medical, power and distribution and rail.
Mr Bunce added: “We currently offer fabrication, coil winding, general machining, final assembly and test and are continually adding to the services we can provide our customers. Making sure we have the right people and the right equipment is absolutely crucial and this is reflected in the recent installation of our new fibre laser.
“This 4kW laser increases our cutting speed up to three times faster than a conventional CO2 machine and is capable of working with a diverse range of material from 0.5mm to 25mm thick. We have also integrated lift master compact technology, which automates loading and unloading of sheet material in under 90 seconds.”
Mec Com www.mec-com.co.uk
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