MRT Castings Ltd
In 2022, MRT Castings was proud to receive the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for the second time in six years. Following its 2016 award for International Trade, MRT had experienced a further period of exceptional growth. MRT produces aluminium diecastings and machined components for a wide range of UK and international customers. These components are used in applications as diverse as hi-fi equipment to supercars, and designer lighting to military control systems. One of the company’s largest markets is in medical devices, and in particular, critical care ventilators. When the Covid-19 pandemic struck, hospitals around the world were in desperate need of additional ventilators to treat critically ill patients. Since 2014 MRT have worked with one of the world’s leading manufacturers of these ventilators, supplying 21 components in each unit. Prior to the pandemic MRT produced approximately 4,000 kits of these precision engineered components each year, but between April 2020 and March 2021, MRT dramatically scaled up operations to manufacture over 26,000 sets, enabling our customer to supply life-saving ventilators to every corner of the globe. MRT recently celebrated its 75th Anniversary. The family-owned business was originally
established in London, then relocated to its current production base in Hampshire in 1965. They have steadily expanded the scale and complexity of their production facilities over the years, and just prior to the pandemic, opened a new, purpose-built, state-of-the-art diecasting foundry to accommodate future growth. They weren’t expecting to fill it quite so quickly, but with the challenge of rapidly scaling up operations to respond to the Covid-19 crisis, the business invested in additional diecasting cells and CNC machining centres, and almost doubled their workforce, instantly transforming the new foundry into a hive of productivity and innovation. International sales grew by 437% over the three years to 2022, and the proportion of sales exported increased to 85% of total sales.
MRT’s new world-class die-casting foundry
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Managing Director, Phil Rawnson, explained “To have won two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise just six years apart is testament to the relentless energy and enthusiasm of our team, and to receive this honour during the company’s 75th anniversary year was particularly special.”
LittlePod
SALT.agency
Twelve months have passed since LittlePod received the King’s Award for Enterprise (Sustainable Development). We’ve been spreading the word ever since. Having shared the news with our vanilla farmers in Indonesia, who joined us online as we received our beautiful bowl from the Lord Lieutenant of Devon last summer, we visited our pioneering orchard in Bali in October to mark International Real Vanilla Day. During our visit, we shared stories of meeting King Charles
SALT.agency is a strategic international digital marketing agency that blends industry-leading expertise with innovative organic growth strategies. The team’s expertise in SEO, content, data PR, and more allows SALT to create bespoke solutions to fit each client’s unique needs. In the past decade, SALT has established itself as a leading digital
marketing agency in the UK and abroad, with clients in eCommerce, SaaS, energy, travel, and more. The Queen’s Award for International Trade comes after years of achieving impressive growth within the agency and for its clients at home and abroad. SALT’s consultants work closely with businesses to achieve successful results in critical areas such as SEO, content, and organic search. Speaking about the awards, co- founder Reza Moaiandin said: “SALT
Janet Sawyer MBE BEM, LittlePod’s Managing Director, meeting King Charles.
and thanked the farmers for using vanilla to regenerate the rainforest. This March, we took our Campaign for Real Vanilla to Tokyo, where we exhibited with the UK Food & Drink Exporters Association at Foodex Japan. Our King’s Award was a major talking point. Receiving this accolade has been a great fillip and is helping us tell the story of vanilla and its importance to the planet. We’re proud to display the King’s Awards emblem on our products and to fly the flag at our headquarters.
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began life in an attic with no investment, so it’s an incredible achievement to now be an internationally-recognised organisation. We are so proud of our team’s hard work and achievements. I believe our strategic, high-quality, and conscious mindset has allowed us to receive this special award. SALT.AGENCY Springwood House, Low Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, Yorkshire LS18 5NU Tel: +44 (0)113 460 5671 • hello@salt.agency • salt.agency @salt_agency @salt.agency salt-agency
LITTLEPOD Whyte House, Farringdon, Exeter, Devon EX5 2HY Tel: 01395 232022 • sales@littlepod.co.uk • www.littlepod.co.uk @little_pod @little_pod LittlePodtheVanillaCompany
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