A West Bromwich steel processing firm wants five new shop-floor staff to help with a surge in new work thanks to the UK’s booming car business.

New work for the latest Honda Civic and the headline-grabbing baby Range Rover, the Evoque, has seen turnover jump by more than 20 per cent at Steel & Alloy Processing.

The company, with 200 staff across its five sites, including Warley, Darlaston and Cannock, is now looking for five experienced shop floor workers to join its team at the Trafalgar Works, in Union Street, West Bromwich.

Company spokesman Thomas Gibbins said: “We specialise in processing steel for the automotive sector – slitting rolls of steel to produce narrower coils and shaped blanks – and we are handling an extra 20,000 tons this year.”

Like most factories in the region, Steel & Alloy was hit in the downturn as car factories slashed production, having to make redundancies as workloads fell.

But the recovery in manufacturing and at the UK’s vehicle factories, led by the storming performance of West Midlands-based Jaguar Land Rover, has seen more recruitment for firms like Steel & Alloy.

Mr Gibbins said the company’s turnover had risen from £141 million a year ago to an expected £173m this year.