Top award for Coventry engineering company
COVENTRY engineering firm NCMT is celebrating after being presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade 2018.
A reception took place recently at the machine tool and production solution provider’s Technical Centre in Siskin Drive.
Timothy Cox, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire, officiated in the presence of over 100 staff and guests including John Cooke, chairman of Warwickshire County Council and Stephen Cross, chairman of Warwick District Council.
The award recognises rapid growth in exports achieved by subsidiary operation MakinoNCMT Grinding Division.
It sells equipment for grinding and other metalcutting operations to contract machinists supplying international manufacturers of aero engines and land turbines.
Customers are not only in Britain, Ireland and continental Europe but as far afield as Thailand and Mexico.
Dave Burley, NCMT’s managing director, said: “We are very proud to receive the Queen’s Award for enterprise, particularly for international trade.
“However, I don’t see this success as being due only to the employees in our company that have worked on export business.
“It could not have happened without the support of a great team of people throughout our entire organisation. “Makino-NCMT Grinding Division has enabled the company as a whole to grow and has given us many opportunities since we took the first two-machine order a long time ago (2006) from Piaggio in Italy.
“It was a big step for a very UK-focused company like ours and was the start of NCMT becoming a truly international company.” Lordlieutenant Timothy Cox added: “The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade is a huge honour. Well done to NCMT for your sustained growth over the last few years.
“Her Majesty puts a lot of emphasis on strong teamwork, so it was fantastic to meet the whole team here today and not just the management.
“I think Warwickshire is very fortunate to have companies like yours, with its expertise.
“I am really pleased to hear that your apprenticeship scheme is going so well.
“We all agree we need more apprenticeships so that the generation that might have been lost a few years ago is there again for the future.”