The South Derbyshire engineering firm Carfulan Group (www.carfulan.com) has been officially named as one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK; it will appear in the London Stock Exchange’s 2018 ‘1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ report, which focuses on small to medium-size businesses.

Successful companies have to show consistent revenue growth over a minimum of three years that significantly out-performs their industry peers.

Made up of OGP UK, SYS Systems, Zoller UK and ViciVision UK, the Carfulan Group employs around 50 people (an increase of 400% since 2002) and has a current annual turnover approaching £15 million — and more than 700 customers.

It specialises in the supply and service of multi-sensor inspection equipment, 3-D printing technology, tool pre-setting and inspection devices, and turned-part measurement solutions.

Managing director Chris Fulton said: “It is an honour to be named as one of the UK’s most inspiring companies.

To match our growth ambitions, we opened our Innovation Centre in Foston in early 2015 — a ‘state of the art ’purpose-built showroom facility housing the very latest technology supporting product development, training and testing.

It has given our engineers the scope to innovate and push boundaries more than ever before; consequently, they’ve been in great demand.

“We are constantly looking at adding new technologies to the group portfolio and, guided by our ‘2020 Vision,’ we have a detailed and immediate road-map to success.”