Engineering Firms Win Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

Several firms from the engineering sector have been celebrating after winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise – the UK’s most prestigious annual accolade for business success.

In total, 119 Business Awards are announced this year – 71 for International Trade, 40 for Innovation and 8 for Sustainable Development.  As ever, winning companies come from a vast range of business sectors, and range in size from two firms with just three employees to an international giant employing 68,000 people. 49% of this year’s winning firms employ less than 50 people.

Amongst this year’s winning companies from the engineering sector are a manufacturer of mobile screening, crushing and shredding equipment (Extec Screens & Crushers Ltd); two divisions of JCB; a maker of underground mining machinery (Joy Mining Machinery Ltd); a provider of wheels for eathmoving equipment and mobile cranes (Titan Steel Wheels Ltd); a deepwater and off-shore engineering company (John Wood Group PLC); a supplier of computer controlled lathes and machining centres (Yamazaki Mazak UK Ltd); the developers of portable equipment for determining the exact dimension and shape of pipe ends (Optical Metrology Services Ltd); and the designers of an infra-red, rotating drum dryer for processing plastic materials (UPM Machinery Sales Ltd).

Richard Lambert, Director-General of the CBI, said: "Winning a Queen's Award for Enterprise is a tremendous achievement and this year's winners are very worthy recipients that reflect the strength and diversity of UK plc.

The deadline for applications for the 2008 Queen’s Awards is 31 October 2007. Winners and recipients will be announced on 21 April 2008. For more information, please visit www.queensawards.org.uk.

Posted: 09/05/07