Sertec Group (www.sertec.co.uk), an independent manufacturer of stampings and welded assemblies (and a leading Jaguar Land Rover supplier), has agreed to lease a brand-new facility at Hams Hall Estate.

Located just a mile from the firm’s head office in Coleshill, the 145,000sq ft facility will be become the group’s distribution centre for finished parts. This will allow the existing factory’s storage areas to be re-allocated to production.

Group managing director Dave Steggles said: “Our strategy has always been to attract more customers and a more diverse range of products to manufacture. Furthermore, export markets are becoming more and more important to us, and we must improve our sales to both existing and potentially new customers overseas.

Given such targets, this exciting new development will allow us to demonstrate greater manufacturing capacity across our factories.” The news comes three months after the firm secured a £20 million funding package from the Government-led Business Growth Fund and Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.