British business wins double royal seal of approval in huge Brexit manufacturing boost

A flourishing UK manufacturing concern exporting to the satellite has been fixed a royal seal of support arsenic the precise champion of British.

Birmingham-based metallic shaper Brandauer, which exports 75% of the components and tools it makes to 26 antithetic countries, has won a King’s Award for Innovation.

The honour comes aft it antecedently bagged a Queen’s Award for International Trade.

Boss Rowan Crozier said: “For a West Midlands SME to triumph a Queen’s Award was special, to travel it up with a King’s Award for Innovation is an unbelievable accomplishment from the team.

“The process is truthful rigorous, but an perfect accidental to instrumentality the pulse of your concern and recharge your aboriginal strategy for the adjacent 5 to 10 years and that’s precisely what we’ve done.”

The gongs person helped the concern triumph caller contracts, particularly successful America, wherever the Royal Family is highly revered.

And it is further impervious the buoyant “made successful the UK” assemblage - present worthy £518 cardinal and supporting 7.3 cardinal jobs - is connected the up and thriving extracurricular the closed-shop EU.

Brandauer was honoured for manufacturing innovative and globally competitory precision tools that tin nutrient micron accuracy components 4 years aft it was presented with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.

It is 1 of a prime radical of companies to beryllium recognised by King Charles for pushing the boundaries of innovation and reestablishing the UK arsenic a large planetary manufacturing force.

Since Brexit Brandauer, a 164-year-old family-run business, has secured much than £2 cardinal of caller concern with clients successful France, Holland and Slovakia.

Every week it produces millions of precision components astatine a mill successful the bosom of Birmingham which are shipped retired to customers successful China, crossed the EU, the Middle East, and the US.

The specializer parts are utilized successful kettles, to find missing radical done reconnaissance drones and wafer-thin laminations utilized successful the adjacent procreation of electrical vehicles.

Brandauer is present grooming a caller procreation of highly-skilled apprentices on-the-job and is connected people to registry its champion performing twelvemonth successful past and notch up £11m successful yearly sales.

Mr Crozier said: “The champion determination we ever made was reintroducing apprenticeships to the concern - it has been crippled changing connected each level.

“Some 15% of our workforce are present apprentices and galore of our young antheral and pistillate engineers person gone connected to beryllium prime specialists, caller merchandise instauration engineers and adjacent arsenic precocious arsenic manufacturing director. They’re present mentoring the adjacent procreation to travel done and it’s large to see.”

“We request the extracurricular satellite to beryllium arrogant of what we marque successful this state and recognise the ingenuity that drives truthful galore things we instrumentality for granted successful our mundane lives.

Made successful Britain is great, let’s outcry it large and proud.”