A FAST-expanding firm has set up a satellite site and recruited more staff to help it deal with a bulging order book.

Cad-Capture, which specialises in document management, has opened a new office at Daisyfield Mill in Blackburn after winning two major contracts worth more than £500,000.

The contracts from Shell and National Grid represent a major increase in workload for the Whitebirk Estate-based company, and the new office is needed to house up to 30 extra Computer Aided Design operators to work on them.

The latest orders follow a clutch of contracts completed by the firm, which specialises in transferring paper and microfilm documents into electronic data.

Cad-Capture recently installed a specialist document management system at British Aerospace's technical publications department at Warton.

The Blackburn-based firm was set up 10 years ago as a two-man operation by managing director Simon Watts to convert paper-based documents and drawings into electronic data.

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