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MTL Group win EEF National Manufacturing Award

Sheffield-based contract manufacturing specialist MTL Group have triumphed at the EEF Future Manufacturing Awards, picking up the Westfield Health National Business Growth Award.

The EEF Future Manufacturing Awards celebrate the achievements of companies and individuals that are showing exactly what UK manufacturing can be – innovative, mould-breaking and ultimately a successful engine for growth in the UK economy.

MTL Group were awarded the North East & Yorkshire Region Business Growth Award back in November 2009 and has now won the National Business Growth Award thanks to investments in marketing, machinery and skills which have doubled sales in the last three years and driven exports up by 700%.

In 2006 exports were a fringe activity for MTL. Today they represent a significant share of the company’s turnover.

The management team freely admits that moving into foreign markets meant moving out of their comfort zone. But the plan they developed has delivered beyond even their expectations and ensured MTL Group’s success both abroad and at home.

Dr Henry Shirman, managing director, said: ‘Our people are the face of MTL and it’s critical that customers trust their integrity and ability. We’ve also recognized that, sometimes, you just have to ‘speak their language’; so we’ve recruited employees with the language skills of our major customers’.

The Westfield Health National Business Growth Award was officially presented to MTL Group at the Dorchester Hotel, London, by Westfield Health’s Jill Davies and the BBC’s Declan Curry on 3 February 2010.

 
 

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