Atlas Machinery, the Wakefield-based bindery equipment specialist, has celebrated its 10th anniversary by reporting a record year of trading.
Managing director Stephen Lamb who set up the firm in 1991 with his father David after they were made redundant from Dornier in Leeds said turnover had been growing at 10-15% a year.
The groups sales are split roughly 70/30 in favour of exports, but in March exports were accounting for as much as 95%, he added.
Lamb attributed much of the firms foreign success to the fact that it has been quoting prices in euros for the past two years.
He said used Muller Martini finishing kit was proving very popular, with the firm reporting the sale of two Muller Normbinder perfect binding lines one to MPG subsidiary Unwin Brothers in Woking and the other to Graphoprint, the Deeside web offset printer.
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