Sonja Skelton says the biggest cost for her business is staffing - and that's about to get higher with minimum wage increases.
The recent increase in National Insurance has cost her over £60,000.
"And it's getting higher and higher," she says, but she adds she's happy to pay as she says it will help to improve the UK's infrastructure.
Her firm, West Special Fasteners, makes nuts and bolts, and has been doing since 1999.
The firm has over 65 employees and supplies offshore defence and specialist construction firms with non-standard fasteners, made with stainless steel and exotic metals.
"We're trying to be a little bit more efficient, so we're trying to improve all our processes, because that can help claw some of that money back."
But, she adds, if she isn't able to absorb extra costs, the prices of her products will have to go up.
"So there's a specialist material we call that's called Hastelloy C-276. I'd probably say around five years ago, that might have been, say, £30 per kilo.
"We're now looking at around about £50 per kilo. So, as you can tell, it's a massive, massive increase".
As her firm is a high energy user, the rising cost of energy has also "really impacted" her.
On top of that, she says that working in engineering, "you always have ups and downs, because it really depends what's happening all over the world, and conflicts can have a knock-on effect on what we do".