About Us
Just over forty years ago a young electrician went to do some work for a Lancaster signs company. He liked it so much that he went on to buy the business. Now the Morecambe based Alpha Signs & Engraving is one of the area’s foremost signs companies serving major clients throughout the UK.
Alpha Signs & Engraving is a family owned and managed business dedicated to supplying premium quality, premium performance signs, screen printing, stickers, fabrication and engraving. Using our 40 years of experience in the signs and engraving industry we selectively source all our base materials for manufacturing our products from leading manufacturers across the world.
Leading customers of Alpha Signs & Engraving include local government; MOD (Ministry of Defence); private and public car parks; light engineering and heavy engineering companies; nuclear, coal and gas fired power stations; national utility companies; the retail and wholesale sector; clean technology companies; HGV trailer manufacturers; and holiday parks but to mention a few.
Wide range of services
This year has also seen a major landmark in the development of the business with a major investment in a new digital, ultraviolet large format printer that will further enhance the company’s range of services
Whether they realise it or not, the population of Lancaster, Morecambe and the surrounding area will be familiar with the firm’s products ranging from a sign on a Scout trailer to car parks, hospitals, heavy goods vehicles to the workplace of many major employers. A major client is the EDF Energy,one of the UK’s major electricity generating companies.
Family Owned Business
More visibly a recent project has been the provision of high quality, freestanding totem signs which are part of a major development project at Lancaster and Morecambe College.
Like so many businesses, it all started by chance. The electrician, Roger Masheder, was called in to carry out some electrical work at a company, Sign Services, in Moor Lane, Lancaster. He became interested in the signs business and went on to buy it.
The business went through various stages and premises, adopting the name Alpha Engraving in 1990 and taking over its present base on Morecambe’s White Lund Industrial Estate in 1994. In 2019, the name has changed to Alpha Signs & Engraving.
“Throughout the life of the business we have invested in more and more technology, though have also retained more traditional systems where these continue to meet our needs or have advantages in terms of quality. There are now more than a dozen peopleworking in the businessincluding myself. We have always been and remain very much as a family business
And finally… One of Alpha Signs & Engraving’s more unusual jobs was for local artist, John Angus. He supplied the artworks, we printed them and mounted them up on clear acrylic and he then exhibited them in Oxford (pictured below). The signs were suspended then light shone on the face which then put an image on the wall behind.