Recruitment giant Morson Group has expanded its engineering services business by buying a Greater Manchester company.
Specialist recruiter Morson was founded in Salford in 1959 and has grown into a £1.3bn turnover business with more than 1,500 global employees.
Now it has acquired Trafford Park-based Orange Solutions, a niche safety and control systems engineering firm. Morson says Orange will sit alongside its existing engineering-focused businesses including Morson Projects, Waldeck and Ematics, which work across sectors including aerospace, marine, defence, and energy.
Orange Solutions has worked on projects in the Ƶ and overseas in industries including oil & gas, marine,offshore renewables, petrochemicals, pharmaceutical, transport infrastructure, and heavy industry.
The company has a long-standing relationship with Ematics and Morson Projects, and its new parent group says: “The strategic investment by Morson will enable Orange Solutions to maximise its potential for growth, supported by the Group’s existing engineering businesses and wider portfolio, while benefitting Morson’s clients with niche expertise in a specialist and safety critical field.”
Orange Solutions’s founder and managing director, Tony Hynes, will remain in post, alongside the company’s experienced team of engineers.
Paul Ward, associate director of Morson’s Power and Control Division, has worked on projects with Mr Hynes for three decades and worked on a number of projects with Orange Solutions.
Mr Ward said: “The knowledge, skills and experience offered by Orange Solutions are in high demand, thanks to increasing use of automation across a wide range of industries, along with the need to control extremely complex systems and manage safety.”
Morson Group CEO, Ged Mason, said: “The synergy between Orange Solutions’ track record and client base, and our Ematics business will enable us to offer clients even more expertise from within the Morson Group, with additional capacity and capabilities to resource projects effectively.”
Tony Hynes added: “Orange Solutions has grown by providing the knowledge and experience needed to deliver complex projects on time. With so much potential in our sectors, the time was right for us to seek a strategic partner that can support our continued growth. The synergy and existing relationship with Morson, which is based locally to our existing HQ, made them an ideal fit.
“As part of the Morson Group, we will continue to build on our reputation, while enabling our clients to tap into the 1,200 engineers employed across Morson’s engineering division.”
Morson was advised by Beyond Corporate and RSM Ƶ Corporate Finance LLP.
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