A Scottish sand-management firm is doubling its office space in Aberdeen to cope with rapid growth.
Sand Monitoring Services (SMS) had predicted in March last year it would increase its annual turnover to £5million within three years, and is now on course to achieve that target ahead of plan by September 2014.
It also said last year the workforce would increase to nearly 50 by 2015; a figure it is expected to exceed this year.
SMS has employed 15 new staff over the past 12 months due to extra work, and is also taking on more than 15 people this year, both in Aberdeen and its new office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in south-east Asia, to add to the current 42 staff.
The firm has now taken a long-term lease of premises next door to its office at Bridge of Don.
Alistair Moncur, integrated project manager at SMS, said: “This is a very exciting time for the firm.”
SMS is planning extensive growth in international markets in the next five years.
The firm was set up nine years ago by Mr Moncur and business partner Andrew Kinsler after they met while working in the oil industry in Aberdeen.
It carries out work for well-testing companies, operators and engineering companies.
