Major £500k boost for Leeds spooling business to accommodate growth

ProSpool has invested a further £0.5m into new equipment for its Yorkshire factory aiming to boost growth.

The contract spool-winding business, based in Leeds, is investing in a new, custom-built winding machine, coming as the company marks 25 years of business and the end of the first phase of a three-year capital investment programme.

The company’s custom spooling lines can produce spool widths ranging from two mm to 76 mm, from its 35,000 sq ft factory in Yeadon.

ProSpool’s managing director, Richard Hobson, said: “Demand for spool winding comes from a variety of industries in all corners of the globe.

“We receive a huge range of materials in a variety of different formats into our factory each week, and our job is to cut them to the desired width and wind them onto industrial spools, delivering them back to customers to be loaded onto high speed production lines.

“The materials we process are used in applications as diverse as cheese packaging and window fabrication through to security documentation and hygiene products, and we provide customers with complete traceability.

“Every spool has a unique output label detailing the component parts of the spooled material it holds.”

The investment in the new 26-station spool winder will increase capacity by 25 per cent. This is said to come at a time when ProSpool is winning contracts from new customers including the US-headquartered Berry Global and Japanese corporation, Nitto.

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