A Fife-based business, which smashed its first-year turnover target by 50% and created 11 new jobs in the past 12 months, has secured a £40k grant from the Scottish Government.

The Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) money, which was obtained with assistance from Business Gateway Fife, has helped Avtek (Scotland) Ltd pay for new machinery worth £135k.

The equipment, which was installed in its Dalgety Bay headquarters last month (October), has allowed Avtek to immediately fulfil £1 million worth of orders from clients throughout the UK.

Sonis Europe Alarming the Future

SONIS Europe Ltd designs and manufactures affordable state of the art intruder alarms. Based in Buchan House at Carnegie Campus, Dunfermline for last five years, the family business is led by Bill Marr, Co-founder and MD, who has spent many years in the electronics industry and has devoted many of those years to developing the Sonis sound signature technology. In fact, he spent many hours measuring and recording changes to air pressure and movement in his own caravan to develop an appropriate library of sound signatures for the first Sonis alarm system.