A PLASTICS firm is eyeing more success after investing more than £1million to keep up with growing demand.

MGS Technical Plastics, based at Centurion Business Park, Blackburn, has spent the sum expanding its headquarters and buying five new moulding machines.

The outlay will ensure the injection moulding specialist continues to meet increasing demand while keeping at the forefront of industry innovations.

A new development at its site includes expanded admin offices, a dedicated materials store and an incoming goods receiving area, as well as homes for newly acquired machinery.

Overall, the warehouse section of the extension covers approximately 300 square metres and houses 280 new bays of racking, with another 750 bays having been upgraded. A dedicated overhead crane has also been installed in the new toolroom.

Neil Garrity, MGS manufacturing director, said: “We have invested a significant amount in developing our premises and upgrading our equipment over the last year, due to the ever-increasing demand on production outputs.

“As a company, we have never been shy of making smart investments, from our multimillion-pound relocation to Blackburn earlier this decade to the expanded capacity and capabilities that our new purchases bring in 2017.

“It’s how we remain at the forefront of our sector and is the reason we win the levels of new and repeat business that maintain our position as market leaders.”

MGS’s equipment buys include a newly installed and commissioned central feed system, which handles higher volume polymer throughput demands, as well as five new Sumitomo Demag injection moulding machines.

The new moulding machines are suitable for high-end mass production and all have robotics to aid automation. MGS now has 20.