A specialist team from a Midlands firm is reversing a British manufacturing trend.
Allelys Installations, part of the Studley-based Allelys Group, has signed a #500,000 deal to assemble and install a new press line at a factory in Telford.
The T2 press line is being built in Japan in readiness to be moved to the plant of Ogihara Europe, which supplies body pressings and assemblies to vehicle manufacturers.
Allelys Installations has started work on a four month project to put together the #8 million press line which is made up of five individual machines.
Director David Allely said: "Nine times out of ten our work involves taking equipment out of the UK destined for Eastern Europe and China.
"This time it is the other way around, with a firm investing in machinery for British manufacturing.
"It is very positive news and a multi-million pound statement of confidence in the automotive industry in a climate where factories have been closing and people on production lines have been losing their jobs.
"It is also one of our biggest contracts and is a huge task to undertake, but one which we are looking forward to, and the press should be up and running by December."
The installation of the press line will involve the Allelys team using specialist equipment including hydraulic lifting systems, mobile cranes and on site transporters.
Major groundworks are being carried out at the Telford plant in preparation for the new press line, which can exert pressure ranging from 1,600 tonnes to 600 tonnes.
The Allelys Group employs 100 people and has two other divisions Allelys General Haulage and Alleys Heavy Haulage. The family business was founded in 1959 and has 60 vehicles on the road.
