ENGINEERING firm MB Tech Limited has secured contracts worth more than £560,000 since the start of the year.

The Teesside company, which was set up two years ago to provide access solutions, has already seen its turnover more than double to £1.5m.

Bosses Steve MacDonald and Iain Brown want to expand on the firm's initial success and are actively pursuing contracts.

Already this year, the Stockton company has secured a £200,000 deal to provide open steel flooring, treads and hand railing for the British Sugar Bioethanol Plant, in Norfolk, and a £80,000 contract to provide balustrade and handrails to Britcon Engineering, in North Lincolnshire.

Following successful projects with steelwork specialists the Severfield-Rowen Group, MB Tech has also been awarded a £100,000 contract to supply edge protection for Severfield Reeves Structures' elements project in Scotland.

The firm is also about to complete a £180,000 contract to supply Watson Steel Structures with materials for the Kings Waterfront Conference Centre, in Liverpool.

Mr MacDonald said: "Currently, only 12 per cent of our business comes from the Tees Valley, but we have recently joined the Tees Valley Engineering Partnership and are encouraged by what the partnership is actively doing in the area to promote it as a centre for engineering excellence.

"We hope that in joining the partnership it will assist us in promoting MB Tech in the local petrochemical, industrial and offshore markets."