Northern Neon Lights secures £525,000 investment

Northern Neon Lights Ltd, a company that started life by making signs for the Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the Blackpool Tower Company more than 50 years ago, has secured a £525,000 finance package from HSBC to invest in new equipment.

The new machine brings its range of laser cutting machines to five and enables the firm to work with material such as copper, brass and nickel, which they could not do on existing machines.

Sign making now represents only 20% of the business’s activities, with the remainder focused on fabrication and laser cutting. The company employs 30 people and generates a turnover of £2.7m a year.