Magicscope, which is based in Helions Bumpstead Road, clinched a deal to make the 8m stainless steel isolators used by chemists to develop bone cement, a biological material that closely matches the properties of real bone and is used to strengthen patients’ damaged vertebrae.

The business has been delivering high quality fabrication, batch work, machining and polishing from its workshops since managing director Ray Webb , who previously worked for a global fabricator manufacturer for 36 years, founded it 19 years ago.

It is that quality that helped Magicsope, which employs ten staff, to supply numerous markets including the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, marine, joinery and food sectors, supply the isolators for research into bone diseases such as osteoporosis.

Ray said: “Stainless steel is the ideal material, being non-rusting.

“It is used throughout the pharmaceutical industry because of its perceived hygiene and they demand such a highly polished finish to equipment used for testing products because you can’t have anywhere for bug life to live in, so you have got to have the right finish.”

Ray said of the company’s success: “If you build in stainless steel you must be able to handle each polishing stage of your manufacturing process in-house. It’s vital, absolutely vital.

“That’s the difference between us and other manufacturers who use independent metal finishers.”