Growing success brings 50 jobs from £5m expansion
Growing success brings 50 jobs from £5m expansion
Keywords Tecan Components
Micro-engineering specialist Tecan Components reports that it is continuing its expansion plans with the announcement of a £5m push which will see it triple its real estate footprint and create up to 50 new jobs.
"Ever smaller precision parts, with progressively higher performance characteristics will be a major area of our growth plans", said Tecan chairman and co-founder Paul Cane. "Tecan's success is a combination of specialist knowledge and loyal employees with a sincere desire to please. A good deal of our work is bespoke and depends on excellent communication backed by technical know-how. The new initiative will account for at least £5m in the foreseeable future, this coupled with our ongoing annual R&D funding of around £500,000, will ensure we build on our success and pursue new areas for further expansion."
Tecan uses photo-chemical machining and electroforming to cost-effectively produce extremely detailed precision parts with critical tolerances for a wide range of applications including aerospace. So accurate is the electroforming technique that it is now considered possible to produce parts within a tolerance of ± one micron – a human hair being around 60 microns thick.
