AWARD HOLDERS 2022 - 2025
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 has been 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
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.”
MRT CASTINGS LTD South Way, Walworth Business Park, Andover, Hampshire SP10 5JT Tel: +44 (0)1264 324021 • general@mrt-castings.co.uk www.mrt-castings.co.uk @MRTcastings mrt-castings-ltd
Structural Adhesives Ltd
Unity’s mission is to help create positive social impact, so the highlight of its 40th birthday year in 2024 was achieving a King’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development. It was a proud moment as it recognised Unity’s responsible business practices as well as its commitment to supporting organisations that drive social, economic and environmental change. UnityTrust Bank
Structural Adhesives Ltd is a UK-based dual service provider specialising in high performance grade adhesive technologies for aerospace, engineering and construction as well as automotive, railway and electronics. Founded in 1989, the female-led micro business formulates and manufactures all products on-site in the East Midlands, ensuring full control over quality and compliance. Its innovation engine is Luma R&D Laboratory Services, a dedicated research
division collaborating with industry and academia to advance adhesive capabilities that meet today’s demands for future proofing solutions. The company’s patented A2 Fire Rated Epoxy Adhesive, developed in-house by an all- female technical team, is now helping to raise fire safety standards across high-rise construction and infrastructure projects.
At Unity, every loan proposal is aligned against one or more of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That means customers know their deposits will only be used to make a positive difference in local communities across the UK. In 2025 Unity achieved further milestones: • An Investment Grade credit rating from Fitch Ratings. • Investing £15m in Local Climate Bonds to help councils deliver Net Zero objectives – the first UK bank to do so. • Independently verified as meeting the Global Impact Investing Network’s ‘Operating Principles for Impact Management’. • Distributing a record £140,500 to good causes through fundraising and grants.
Team members within Luma Laboratory – Struc- tural Adhesives Ltd’s dynamic R&D division
Structural Adhesives Ltd continues to spearhead revolutionary solutions because of its ability to lead with science, creativity and purpose, building progress through adaptive thinking and inspirational teamwork. Winning this award recognises the impact of the team’s specialist innovations, and reinforces the company’s role as a trusted technical partner in critical sectors. Structural Adhesives Ltd Units 12-13A Marlow Road Industrial Estate, Off Marlow Road, Leicester, LE3 2BQ Tel: 0116 289 4655 • enquiries@structuraladhesives.co.uk structuraladhesives.co.uk @structuraladhesives @ structadhesives Structural Adhesives Limited
UNITYTRUST BANK Four Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2JB Tel: 0345 140 1000 • us@unity.co.uk • unity.co.uk
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