£185,000
Completed transaction · Engineering business
£81,900. An engineering business: cash tied up in work in progress, funded by a lender that understood it.
An established business, funded.
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- Amount
- £81,900
- Sector
- Engineering business
- Structure
- Engineering working-capital
- Outcome
- Completed
In short
The business needed funding for materials, specialist equipment and contract mobilisation costs. We arranged £81,900. The £81,900 facility completed.
Engineering and industrial businesses commit cash to materials, equipment and work in progress long before the customer pays.
This engineering business wanted additional capital from a lender that understood that cycle.
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The requirement
The business needed funding for materials, specialist equipment and contract mobilisation costs.
We arranged £81,900.
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The challenge
The business had to incur costs before the associated customer receipts arrived, creating a timing gap that growth alone would not solve.
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The structure
We compared appropriate commercial-lending routes and placed the requirement with a lender whose appetite fitted the sector, amount and cash-flow profile.
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The result
The £81,900 facility completed.
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How can an engineering or manufacturing business fund work in progress?
Options include working capital loans, invoice finance and asset finance for equipment, depending on where the cash is tied up. See manufacturing finance.
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