AN ELECTRONIC manufacturer in Clydebank has been praised as “something people need to know about”, during a MP's visit.

European Circuits Limited, based in on Clydebank Industrial Estate, Dalmuir, hosted Martin Docherty-Hughes MP and the Post last Friday.

The delegation was shown a presentation about the firm before being shown through the machinery, laboratories and design rooms of the high-tech facility.

The thriving local business with a £3.2m turnover and 36 staff hinted at expansion in the future.

Company chiefs of the thriving local business, which boasts a turnover of £3.2 million a year and 36 staff, even hinted at expansion in the future.

Mr Docherty-Hughes MP told the Post: “The facility European Circuits have here is absolutely fabulous and a credit to the management and staff who have maintained the company since 1985. It’s a great facility and something people need to know much more about, that manufacturing is happening here in Dalmuir.”

Based in the 17,000 sq ft base in Dalmuir, the company staff are experts in printed circuit board manufacture. 

It creates and supplies printed circuit board to markets across the world, including throughout Europe and as far as Uruguay. 

One of the very few firms producing – from scratch – printed circuit boards, it creates and supplies them across the world.

It has clients in Formula One, aerospace, broadcast, environmental industries, automotive, oil and gas – and many more.

Jim Broom, sales director, and Philip Birscoe, business development manager, showed the delegation around the factory.

Mr Broom has been in the company for around 15 years.

He told the Post: “I think it’s been a good opportunity to give our member of Parliament an insight into the sort of things we do. I think, from what Martin has seen, he has been surprised and impressed in terms of both the technology and width of market application areas that we’re getting involved with.”

Throughout the visit the company chiefs spoke of the ability to expand and how the business has grown considerably since it started out.

Mr Broom added: “Since we’ve moved into this facility, there’s been a degree of expansion and we fully expect we will at some point – at this moment, I couldn’t predict time scales. One of the things we took into consideration when getting this place was the extra land around it that we could possibly expand into.”