After securing a major national accreditation and funding to boost its capacity, Metaltech Ltd is targeting growth in aerospace, defence and offshore wind sectors.
The company, which employs 24 people at its Country Durham facility, has become one of the first firms in its field to be awarded the SC21 Bronze Award.
The Manufacturing Advisory Service has worked with Metaltech for more than five years and recently advised it on a successful application to the GROW:OffshoreWind Enabling Fund.
Metaltech has received £50,000 of GROW:OffshoreWind funding towards the purchase of a specialist Bogie Hearth furnace (aimed principally for post weld heat treatment cycles) and additional, larger sealed quench facilities, including marquenching for distortion control.
Dr Graeme Forster, Managing Director , said: “Again we looked to the Manufacturing Advisory Service and were pointed in the direction of GROW:OffshoreWind as a mechanism to gain some additional funding towards our investment plans. It didn’t stop there as we received help to put together the bid and are just about to start production with the larger Bogie Hearth furnace.”
He added: “I fully expect offshore wind and marine to be our biggest growth markets in 2015.”
GROW:OffshoreWind is delivered by Grant Thornton and programme partners the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS), RenewableUK and the University of Sheffield.
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