Trend Control Systems Ltd - Trend Controls Systems tops
Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Awards
Judges say Trend “stood out head and shoulders above
all the others”
Trend Control Systems triumphed as Overall Winner of the
prestigious 2007 Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Awards.
The Building Management Systems manufacturer showed “an
outstanding record in product innovation, process
innovation, customer focus and business development”,
said the judges’ summary.
They added that Trend “stood out head and shoulders
above all the others. Trend Control Systems manufactures
intelligent building controls, making others more
efficient in their use of resources and providing a
splendid example itself of how to build product
flexibility into its systems.”
The MX Awards are the premier awards for the UK
manufacturing industry, presented by the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and sponsored by the DTI’s
Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS). In addition to
overall winner, Trend won the Warwick Manufacturing
Group Award for Logistics and Resource Efficiency.
The overall winner award was presented to Trend by
Margaret Hodge MP, Minister of State for Industry & the
Regions at the Department for Trade & Industry. The
award recognises the winner’s abilities in several
categories that add up to overall competitiveness in
world markets. Trend was judged ahead of hundreds of the
UK’s leading firms in the manufacturing and business
world to win the top trophy sponsored by the DTI’s
Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS).
Margaret Hodge observed, “The future of manufacturing
depends on industry raising investment, applying science
and innovation, best practice and skills to create even
better British products that comply with world demand in
today's markets. The MX Awards show it can be done.”
Tim Darkes, Managing Director of Trend, said, “This is
fantastic recognition of a great business and a great
team. Trend continues to go from strength to strength,
with significant growth in both our UK and International
markets.” Trend Control Systems is a business within
Honeywell Automation and Controls Solutions, a part of
Honeywell International.
For a quarter of a century, the Manufacturing Excellence
Awards have been acknowledged as rewarding excellence
and best practice in UK manufacturing. In being judged
overall winner, Trend joins some of the best-known
companies in UK industry, such as Rolls-Royce, Jaguar
Cars, Westland Helicopters, Dunlop Slazenger, STC
Telecommunications, IBM (UK), British Steel, GEC Alsthom
Large Machines and Strix.
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