An engineering consultancy is gearing up for growth after investing more than £80,000 in new equipment, software and training.
AEON Engineering was started in 2016 to provide expert engineering support to aerospace and international R&D projects.
Managed by director duo Robert Gabrielczyk and Kimberley Walley, the Newcastle-under-Lyme-based company has worked on a number of projects in the aerospace industry, including developing satellite testing facilities for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and working with the Satellite Applications Catapult to build the 海角视频’s premier satellite operations centre.
But over the next 12 months the five-strong firm wants to double its number of staff and diversify into new areas of business – such as product testing and reverse engineering.
Commercial director Kimberley said: "We deliver complex engineering products to a range of clients that push the boundaries of science and technology. Over the past three years, AEON has worked on some of the biggest projects in the R&D arena, delivering specialist engineering support to international clients.
"The successful delivery of these projects has led to clients asking us to widen the scope of our services to include complementary support to our usual design, analysis and systems engineering offering."
Last summer, AEON Engineering established a testing facility at its Water Street headquarters with the help of grant funding from the Growth Hub. The cash-boot meant the company could invest around £80,000 on a new tensile and compression testing machine, a 3D scanner and a 3D printer – to allow it to carry out in-house testing.
Kimberley added: "By offering both physical testing and the ability to design, reverse engineer and complete engineering analysis, we stand apart from our competitors and give clients a truly rounded service.
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"This is something very important to our success as often clients need to seek out multiple contractors to provide each element of the development process. Our ethos is handling complexity – simply, we want our clients to reap the benefits of our expertise in the success of their projects."
In the last 12 months, AEON has secured patent pending status for an in-house developed hydrogen maser monitoring and control device which will keep atomic clocks running ultra-accurately without the need for stringent laboratory-like conditions.
Investment has also been made in cutting-edge design and analysis software from Siemens that has allowed the company to access new markets.
Managing director Rob said: "Purchasing Siemens NX design and simulation has opened up new avenues for the business given its prestigious reputation in our industry.
"Our team has great experience across both world-leading technology projects and local manufacturing jobs; our goal is to use the right tools for the job, be that software or equipment, to exceed our clients’ expectations."