Global Display Solutions Ltd has splashed out £40,000 relocating to Bingley in a move which the firm says will boost turnover and staffing levels.

The firm, which was previously based at five different sites, has moved into 17,000 square foot premises on the Cottingley Business Park.

GDS Ltd, which designs and manufactures a wide range of industrial monitors, used to be based at a site in Cottingley, two in Keighley and two in London.

Display products the firm makes range from screens for ATM machines, to monitors used for checking departure and arrival times at the airport, to marine equipment.

The firm, which expects turnover to hit £22 million this year, was officially founded last year when Keighley-based Emco Electronics Ltd and Italian CA & G Industria merged.

Ian Hudson, commercial director, said: "Our aim is to be the world's leading provider of industrial display solutions, offering customers high performance products with an unrivalled after-sales support service.

"The global establishment of the GDS brand combined with the sharing of talent, technologies, and resources that has resulted from the merger, means GDS is uniquely positioned to achieve this aim."

Emco, which was established more than 25 years ago, designed and manufactured industrial displays for ATMs, public information, kiosks and personal computer monitors in markets such as banking, rail, air, marine, process, medical and entertainment.

GDS currently employs 27 people, because of the move the firm expects the figure to rise to 30 by the end of 2003.

The firm is officially opening its new headquarters with a ceremony on March 19.

The firm, which used to be known as Emco Electronics, was founded by Maurice Cohen in 1977.

It was originally established as an importer and distributor of cathode ray tubes.

When mass production of the products began in the Far East Emco began supplying specialist monitors for ATM cash machines with CA & G Industria.

In the mid 1990s Emco developed a range of enhanced brightness liquid crystal displays (LCDs) which eventually led to the merger CA & G.

The firm has spent £20,000 on the move, and a further £20,000 on adapting the premises which it has signed a ten-year lease on.