A Coventry company which makes specialist interiors for the motor industry is gearing itself up to compete with the very best in car design.

Anderson Ryan has installed a new engineering centre so it can get involved with running entire projects for car manufacturers.

The firm currently makes specialist leather interiors such as seat and dashboard finishes for many of the top-of-the-range producers.

But they have now installed hi-tech facilities to allow the company to take on entire projects.

CAD facilities are being installed and the long-term goal is to get the company to a point where entire car design projects can be run at the firm’s base in Canley Road, Canley.

Peter Edwards, engineering manager, said:

“We know that to progress in the competitive automotive market we need to be more diversified.

“Rather than just being trim specialists we need to move into production with project management.”

The move takes the company, founded 19 years ago by former Jaguar apprentices Dave Anderson and Kevin Ryan to a new part of the market.

Mr Anderson said:

“We’ve been through a learning curve and have taken the business to a certain level. Because we are on the world stage we want to move on from that point.

“We’ve always reinvested in the company and that means we can move on.”