Wind powers Staffordshire manufacturer to £8m in contracts

Posted on 11 Aug 2014 by Callum Bentley

A precision sheet metal specialist is exploiting the growth in offshore wind after it secured £8m of new contracts for two of the world’s largest manufacturing names.

Mec Com, which employs 120 people at its Hixon base, has staved off international competition to deliver assembly and testing for Siemens and a large manufacturing package for ALSTOM Grid. Supported by strategic and financial assistance from the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS), the company has used the influx in new business to drive a £1m…

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