UK engineering group Severn Glocon wins Queen’s Award for enterprise
UK-based engineering giant Severn Glocon Group has been awarded a prestigious Queen's Award for enterprise in the international trade category, recognising the group’s rapid international expansion that has seen export earnings increased by 141% in the past three years.
The awards, which celebrate outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of innovation, international trade and sustainable development, are made annually by the queen on the advice of the prime minister. He is assisted by an advisory committee that includes representatives of government, industry and commerce and trade unions.
Awards are only given for the highest levels of excellence demonstrated in each category, and the number of awards made each year depends solely on the quality of applications, the company said.
The process includes a technical appraisal, after which the best are shortlisted for judging. Each business category has a separate judging panel that follows a thorough procedure.
The Severn Glocon Group designs and manufactures bespoke, severe service control and choke valves that provide performance excellence and asset optimisation for global energy markets, it said. With 50 years experience, the company also provides technical leadership and engineering services to markets in the Middle East, the Far East, Europe, Canada, the US and the North Sea.
Group companies include Severn Glocon (based in Gloucester), Severn Unival and Quantapoint Europe (in Huddersfield) and Severn Ball Valves (in Aberdeen). The Group employs 400 staffers, a quarter of whom are based outside the UK, mostly in the Chennai manufacturing plant in India.
More than 90% of the group’s customers have been clients for more than 10 years, the company said.
“Record investment of £3.75m in new manufacturing and testing facilities, as well as our long-term investment in people, has helped us compound our competitive advantage in design and manufacturing over the last three years,” said group chief executive Maurice M. Critchley. “That investment, combined with the skills and dedication of our employees, has helped us win this accolade, of which we are immensely proud.”
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