EuroWire September 2024

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AWI named manufacturing champion of the year

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The AWI team celebrates winning the Manufacturing Champion award (held by managing director Tom Mander, centre)

A wire specialist that exports to more than 65 countries around the world has been named as the Manufacturing Champion of the UK’s Black Country region. Alloy Wire International (AWI), which is owned by all of its 34 employees, beat the competition of businesses Addfield Environmental Systems and Voestalpine Metsec plc at the Express & Star Business Awards. The judging panel of Alison Jukes ( Express & Star ), Michael Brooks and Lulu Loughlin (both Collins Aerospace) praised AWI’s rapid growth and the ambition of its young manage ment team, as well as the company’s ability to supply a range of 62 exotic alloys to customers involved in critical automo tive, aerospace, medical, nuclear and oil and gas projects. A strong commitment to being carbon neutral was also highlighted, with the firm neutralising 500 tonnes of carbon every year by taking an active role in Certified Emission Reductions (CER) programmes. These also deliver spin-off benefits of supporting education, employment, ecology and clean water in remote countries. Tom Mander, managing director of Alloy Wire International, was delighted with the win: “This is the first time we’ve ever gone in for anything like this, so to win one of the big awards on the evening was a fantastic feeling. We’re very passionate to have our home in the Black Country, and to be named as its Manufacturing Champion by the Express and Star is a massive honour. “Importantly, it reinforces the culture we have built and that is very much about our people, who all own a part of our business. This approach has helped us grow into a truly global supplier, with wire manufactured and treated in our region being sent as far away as Azerbaijan, Australia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan and India.” Alloy Wire International manufactures round, flat and profile wire, supporting more than 6,000 customers at home and abroad. Since a management buy-out at the start of 2023, the company has delivered £17.9mn of sales, a near £5mn rise and £3mn above anticipated revenues. Alloy Wire International www.alloywire.com

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