Move leads to record month for MSS Lasers

RUGBY based MSS Lasers says it won £500,000 of new orders in the first month of this year.

The company, a specialist in providing high-quality refurbished laser cutting machines, said the results stemmed from its move into new premises last year.

MSS moved into 18,000 sq ft premises in Allerton Road, Central Park, while still retaining its site in Somers Road Industrial Estate last March thanks to financial support from Yorkshire Bank’s Financial Solutions Centre in Coventry. MSS also has a 4,500 sq ft unit in Prospect Park in Rugby.

The business, which was formed in 2003, is the UK’s leading independent sales and servicing company for laser cutting machines as well as supplying high pressure nitrogen equipment to the laser industry.

Five new staff were taken on following the move to Central.

MSS managing director Carlos Gonzalez-Lee said the company wanted to recruit more engineers and office staff.

He said: “The quality of the premises has attracted new clients and we are attracting more blue-chip companies from the UK as well as orders from Italy, France, Spain and Germany and we are in talks to become an agent with a company in China.”

 “We have been fully supported in a variety of ways such as using credit facilities and foreign exchange which is vital when we are buying machines at the top end of the market,” he said.

Andy Russell, a business partner at Yorkshire Bank’s FSC at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, said: “Investing for Growth enables trading businesses to grow and develop by buying or expanding their premises, hiring new staff, launching a new product or winning a new contract and MSS met the criteria perfectly.

“The nature of the business means the machines are valuable and we need to move facilities around so there needs to be a degree of flexibility in our relationship which we have.”