The investment by the Manchester-based company has turned created a polywrap supersite capable of 400,000 wraps and 200,000 paper enclosings at C5 size per day.

The kit spend included four Buhrs MTRs with up to eight stations, one Buhrs EMT with six stations, two Domino Jet Array in-line Inkjet systems and three Gimmit (CD/DVD) Stream Feeders.

However, as the financial climate in the UK has taken a turn for the worse, the £2.7m turnover company has seen many of its customers disappear.

Managing director Martin Kemp said: "It is hard work to keep going and we are after anything we can get our hands on. But we picked up a brochure job from a football club recently just from a phonecall. The work is there.

"I lived through the recessions in the 80s and 90s, but I have never known anything like this."

Kemp has already put plans in place to keep work coming in. The company is chasing more public sector work and recently completed a big campaign for a Lancashire university.

It is also finding that more customers are approaching it for polywraping rather than enveloping, due to its lightweight and immediate visual impact.

Kemp believes his 50-staff company will now be set up for when the recession comes to an end.

He added: "This investment was something we needed to do and now we are set up. I am absolutely positive that come June the work will start to pick back up again. We will be geared up for it."