New products and demand for solutions that reduce road accidents could see Spillard Safety Systems hit £10m in sales over the next 12 months.
The West Midlands-based manufacturer of vehicle safety equipment is expecting to grow by 25% following interest in its Spillard Live intelligent video telematics platform and Human Detection System (HDS) from the transport, construction and quarry sectors.
“We did £7m in 2020, our best-ever performance,” said Craig Spillard, finance director at Spillard Safety Systems. “If the pipeline of orders is anything to go by, we should easily do 25% more over the next 12 months and having the capacity to effectively service existing and new clients will be crucial.”
To help achieve its expansion plans, the company has appointed Craig Flowers (pictured above) as operations director. Flowers has experience integrating safety systems in a number of senior management roles in the aggregates and transport industries.
“Our business is growing at such a rate that we recognised the need for additional board-level experience and Craig will bring a new eye for detail and new processes to the company,” said Spillard.
Flowers said: “The HGV market is thriving and, with the demand for drivers booming, we offer systems that analyse driving styles whilst protecting not only the operator and driver, but also the general public.
“There’s no better time to be joining the company and I’m sure my operational knowledge will be put to good use as we target £10m by the end of our financial year.”
Spillard’s latest product, the HDS, alerts drivers when a human shape is detected, delivering enhanced high-definition images with extreme low light.
More than £250,000 has been invested into the Transport for London-approved technology so that it can be used across multiple devices and is made to be extremely hard wearing, with a waterproof and dustproof rating of IP69K and shock resistance of 5.9G.
The HDS can be fully integrated with Spillard Live, the firm’s cloud-based platform that captures and streams real-time video and analytics simultaneously from multiple cameras fitted to lorries, vans and commercial vehicles.
According to Spillard Safety Systems, this means captured and recorded footage can be used in ‘false claims’ if blame is place on the driver after an accident.
