Advanced Machinery Services, the new woodworking technology, service, spare parts and rebuild specialist, is moving to keep pace with the growth of the business.
The five-year-old company has been based in the old Wadkin factory in Leicester but, said co-director Steve McGloin, now needed to relocate both to cope with current levels of demand and facilitate development plans.
“We’ve now got 16 staff, including office personnel and our engineering team and we need new premises,” he said. “All parts of the business have been developing. Spares and servicing are doing well, the Bursgreen range of woodworking machines, made in partnership with Rojek in the Czech Republic, is proving popular and we’re about to announce another new distributor. And our rebuild business has been unbelievable – in fact it’s completely booked until November.”
The new site, eight miles from Leicester in Skeffington, was formerly home to a grain business. AMS will be taking one of the buildings and managing the rest of the seven acres.
“We’ve installled new services and are also building new offices and a showroom, with construction work due to start in six weeks and scheduled for completion next February,” said Mr McGloin.
The relocation will be a significant cost, he added, but won’t “overstretch” the business.
“We’re hitting sales targets and making profits and this will be within our resources,” he said.
The company is also raising its promotional profile this year, exhibiting at Timber Expo and doubling the size of its W12 show stand.
It will also shortly make an announcement on a new moulder range which, Mr McGloin said, would be “one of the biggest stories to hit the UK woodworking sector for a long time”.
