Growth fuels new move for Stockton specialists
AN expanding Stockton engineering firm that built its success on the back of Teesside’s chemical and petro-chemical sectors has made its second move into new premises in three years and hit £1m turnover for the first time.
Barely five years old and with a client base of 100, Axiom specialises in short term contracts, including forensic metallurgy, fitness for purpose, and inspection work, undertaken by a team of 14 - seven times as many as it employed at the start.
Opening the company’s new premises, including a lab and new training room, on Bowesfield Lane industrial estate yesterday, Stockton South MP Dari Taylor, pictured, said: “This is one more example where Teesside and Stockton are at the leading edge of value added knowledge.”
She said the company was “at the leading edge of engineering production through problem solving consultation.”
Director Rob Johnson, who is taking on a new graduate engineer in December, said generally recruitment was difficult for firms in the sector.
“With the oil price, a lot of engineers are being tempted to move up to Aberdeen where there’s a lot of money if they go offshore,” he said.
“In this area you are competing to get hold of good people.
“Luckily for us, the staff here have made recommendations and we have been able to recruit that way.”
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