A Shipley firm is becoming a world leader in bomb-disposal equipment as it brings in orders worth millions of pounds from around the globe.

MOS Cold Cutting, headed by Steve Tempest-Mitchell, has won £4 million of orders for its bomb and shell disposal equipment in Vietnam, Israel, China and Hong Kong.

And it is the first firm to prove that it can detonate a shell by remote control at a distance of 500 metres for the Ministry of Defence and is expecting to pick up deals from around the world for its weapons decommissioning equipment. The firm is bidding for contracts with the British and US armies worth a total of £30 million.

The company is also pushing for contracts which involve the decommissioning of bombs and shells found abandoned from various wars around the world including Vietnam, Thailand and the Oman.

The firm, based at the Acorn Park business centre, Otley Road, has also quoted for $30 million of contracts around the world in a bid to expand even further.

The company, which celebrated its first anniversary as part of the MOS group, was once a one-man band managed by Mr Tempest-Mitchell. But now, as more work has come in, has become a 15-person company with plans to recruit even more staff.

The firm has also taken on a general manager, Carl Cooper, to assist Mr Tempest-Mitchell who is its managing director.

The company, which is part of the MOS Group based in Shipley and headed by entrepreneur Brendan Larkin, has also formed a subsidiary of its own called Redgem Industrial Services which carried out cold cutting of metal and the cleaning of industrial tanks for firms.