Mec Com has seen its turnover rise to £14m since it started work on the Siemens Alpha project, which taps into the firm’s Total Manufacturing Solutions strategy to offer component production, final assembly and testing capabilities. This has also led to the creation of 39 new jobs at the plant in Hixon, near Stafford.
“We wish the Brexit vote hadn’t happened, but there’s no point stewing on it,” explained Richard Bunce, Mec Com’s managing director. “Our management team sat down and looked at the short-term opportunities it presented and decided to push ahead with our growth plans and going after key accounts.”
These ‘growth plans’ included investing in the latest machinery, and building a global supply network that now includes a sister plant in Romania and manufacturing agreements in China. This means the company is able to offer high, medium and low volume manufacturing services to a number of clients in sectors including food processing, medical and rail. The company has also invested in a new £485,000 Trumpf 3030 Fibre Laser, with further investment scheduled for 2017.
“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,” said Bunce.
Mec Com is a member of the Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN), a group of nine sub-contract manufacturers who collaborate on securing contracts and share best practice and resources. MAN employs over 750 people and has sales of more than £750m.