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The rescue of the plant was led by Stewart Maudsley and Duncan McDonald, who are former divisional directors at Eliza Tinsley, with backing from private sources and the County Durham Development Company (CDDC).

“We retained five laser machines at the beginning of the buy-out. However, only three were of the standard we consider suitable for the work we needed to produce for our customers,” says Stewart. “So we decided to replace two of the older machines with a new laser cutter.”

Greg Johnson, CDDC's business team manager, said the the factory was strategically important in that part of south-west Durham. Its loss, particularly with a heavily localised workforce, would have had a very serious effect on the county's economy." The former Evenwood Engineering plant, which is more than 50 years old, was taken over by the Tinsley Group in 1996.

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