A 'sign' of the times: Strong business growth prompts the purchase of more sheet-metal-working machinery

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Blaze Neon - one of the UK's largest manufacturers of signs for shop fronts, banks and offices - has recently installed a second flat-bed laser profiler and two new CNC press brakes at its Broadstairs factory. Established in 1981 and now employing over 300 people at its factories in Broadstairs and Birmingham (which also incorporates Cygnia Maintenance), Blaze is a long-time user of plant from Coventry-based Bystronic UK Ltd (www.bystronic.com), having purchased a large laser profiler at the end of the 1990s and a water-jet cutting machine in 2007. Managing director Clive Knight said: "We decided to opt for machines from this Swiss manufacturer as, 14 years ago, they were the only supplier of top-quality sheet metal-working equipment prepared to equip a CO_2 laser cutting centre with extraction, filtration and ducting to allow us to profile perspex safely.