East Kilbride-based Surface Technology, which provides surface treatment services, has invested £800,000 in a new plating line for copper, silver and electroless nickel plating.

The new line is processing oil and gas components — including ball valves, gates and seats — as well as indicator housings for customers that include FMC, One Subsea and Weatherford.

The company will also be investing in new Enterprise Resource Planning software.

Allan Marshall, operations director, said: “The engineering and manufacturing sectors in Scotland are robust, and this new plating line will help the team continue to give our customers the fast turn-rounds and high levels of service that they expect.”

Surface Technology (www.surfacetechnology.co.uk) operates four sites in the UK, as well as international operations, offering surface treatment services to manufacturers in a wide range of industries — from precision engineering and automotive to power generation, medical equipment, and food and drink processing.

The business carries out a wide range of industrial coating processes both on and off-site; it prides itself on its application engineering expertise and its ability to build on more than 40 years’ industry experience to solve customers’ surface-finishing problems.