Severn Glocon Group Wins Queen's Award For Enterprise 21st April 2011

The Severn Glocon Group plc, has been awarded a prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category, recognising the Group’s rapid international expansion which has seen export earnings increased by 141 per cent in the last 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 HM 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 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. With 50 years’ experience, the company also provides technical leadership and engineering services that deliver World-class quality, reliability and safety to markets in the Middle East, the Far East, Europe, Canada, the USA 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 staff, a quarter of whom are based outside the UK, mostly in the Chennai manufacturing plant, India.

Design and manufacturing excellence, plus technical expertise and exceptional service ensure high levels of client satisfaction and over 90 per cent of customers have been clients for more than 10 years. Expressing his delight at the award, group chief executive Maurice M Critchley 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. That investment, combined with the skills and dedication of our employees, has helped us win this accolade, of which we are immensely proud.”

Severn Glocon Group plc was also ranked as the UK private company having the 61st fastest growing international sales in the Sunday Times Fast Track (2010). 

Please follow the link to see Maurice M Critchley’s response to the Award: 

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