Prima Dental Group invests £2.8m in manufacturing and creates 17 new jobs

Gloucestershire manufacturer Prima Dental Group is injecting £2.8m into the business and creating 17 new jobs as it continues on a path of rapid growth and expansion in international markets. This major investment reflects the continued success of the business in exporting Prima Dental’s quality dental instruments to 100 different markets, and comes shortly after the firm clinched a £1.5m contract to supply dental drills to the US market. Prima Dental’s £2.8m investment will finance the purchase of additional high-performance Swiss manufactured machinery, enabling the manufacturer to capitalise on growing demand from across the world for its carbide bur dental drills and other quality dental instruments. As a result of the investment in new machinery, the company is also expanding its 115-strong workforce and kick-starting a recruitment drive to fill a further 17 roles at its manufacturing base in Waterwells Business Park in Quedgeley, Gloucester. Richard Muller, Prima Dental’s managing director, said: “This new investment reflects our strong export growth as we tap into new international and emerging markets, and this tranche of funding will enable us to significantly increase production in line with growing global demand. We are currently producing around 10 million products a year but this is predicted to increase to around 13 million over the next year or so.