Steady growing High Speed Lasers has just added a fourth laser cutting machine, featuring the latest technology, to its 25,000 sq ft premises in Stourbridge.
The £600,000 investment in a German-made Trumpf machine will enable the seven-year-old company to extend the range of work it can carry out.
High Speed Lasers was started by directors Simon Wyatt from Stourbridge and Glen Taylor from Kinver.
The business began in a unit at Navigation Drive in Brierley Hill with just one laser cutting machine and moved to its current home at The Stourbridge Estate, Mill Race Lane, two years ago. It now is running a 24-hour operation with three shifts from Monday to Friday.
Managing director Mr Wyatt said they employed four when the firm started up and were now up to 40 and expected to take on another five in the next six months depending on how rapidly the new machine, which features a fibre-optically delivered laser, get to working at full capacity. He said HSL could now offer the fastest processing speeds in its market
We have been expanding at a steady rate with no big jumps. It has been natural organic growth, he explained. When we started out we had a core of about 20 customers and this is now at nearly 700 all over the UK."
The company, which also has two press brake machines, does a lot of work for the shop fitting market and agricultural machinery makers.
We are set up to do any kind of metal work, anything from £75 to £50,000. A lot of what we do is repeat work but we also do one off jobs especially for architectural projects. Our work was even featured in the roof the velodrome for the 2012 London Olympics, said a proud Mr Wyatt.
The company can produces pieces of up to four metres by two metres in size.
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