September 2024

Engineering & Manufacturing Awards 2023 Shortlist

We are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the 2023 Engineering & Manufacturing Awards. We look forward to revealing the winners at the awards ceremony on Wednesday 13th September at The Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, London.

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The 2023 finalists are as follows...

Design Team of the Year

  • Pile Fuel Cladding Silo - Bechtel Cavendish Nuclear Solutions
  • PANDAS-V® - JR Dynamics
  • AutoClock - MSP
  • Protolabs Consultative Design Service - Protolabs

Digital Innovation

  • CloudNC
  • HORIBA MIRA
  • Jaguar Land Rover
  • McLaren Applied
  • Monolith
  • University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)
  • Virtalis

Engineering Consultancy

  • Harley Haddow
  • HORIBA MIRA
  • Ricardo 

Engineering Impact Award

  • OPERATION NEWCOMBE 5 (Long Range Reconnaisance Group) Engineering Support - 2nd Battalion SCOTS - Charlie Company Fitter Section - The Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME) - British Army
  • Crossrail - GD Rectifiers
  • Where “profit = planet” – Machine Compare
  • Water purification and solar power in the Colombian Amazonas – Megger
  • The Mindful Droid - RS DesignSpark 
  • LightLand – TISICS
  • FluRefin - University of Sheffield

Engineering Innovator

  • Intelegent Robot Filler – Adelphi
  • Enabling Change – Aeristech
  • Recon Q – Ecohog
  • LFPAK - Changing the industry with innovation – Nexperia
  • SDC – Petalite
  • UAV Use on a Nuclear Site - Sellafield

Equality, diversity and inclusion award

  • 3M UK PLC
  • Evtec Automotive
  • MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) Training
  • Scitech Engineering
  • STEM Returners

Health, Safety & Wellbeing Award

  • AkzoNobel Ashington
  • Emballator UK
  • LISI AEROSPACE
  • Sellafield

Industry Leader of the Year

  • Kevin Cartwright - Avery Berkel
  • Emma Hockley - Big Bear Plastic Products
  • Iqbal Bahia - Kirkstall Precision Engineering
  • Jim Fairbairn - Megger Group
  • Tony Hague - PP Control & Automation

Manufacturing Productivity Improvement

  • Fairgrieve Compression Moulding
  • Harwin
  • Kirkstall Precision Engineering
  • Precision Acoustics
  • Ultra PCS

Manufacturing Technology Innovation

  • CloudNC
  • Diamond Light Source
  • Haydale
  • MSP & SST Technology

NetZero Champion

  • AES Engineering
  • Parvalux Electric Motors
  • Petalite
  • Harley Haddow
  • Translational Energy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield

R&D Project

  • Smart Sprayer for Black-Grass Mapping and Resistance Monitoring - Bosch UK
  • Project Theseus (AGILE) - HORIBA MIRA
  • Flow Bridge - Knight Architects
  • OCTOPUS - The Thinking Pod innovations
  • Trains with Brains® - Transmission Dynamics
  • The Apollo Protocol - University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)
  • Development Project - ZircoFlex® SHIELD - Zircotec Group

Rising Star

  • Grant Arch - Yunex Traffic
  • Jonathan Bates – Sellafield
  • Joshua Shirley - Elite Electronic Systems
  • Kalum Downey - Kirkstall Precision Engineering
  • Michael Orgill - HORIBA MIRA
  • Jack Gander-Compton - Sunstone Systems
  • Sophie Young - PP Control & Automation

STEM Ambassador

  • North Europe STEM Champion - 3M
  • Mabey Hire STEM Education Programme - Mabey Hire
  • Future Makers - Make UK
  • STEM outreach team and education centres – Renishaw
  • Inspiring the Brunels of the Future - SS Great Britain Trust
  • AMRC STEM Team - The University of Sheffield AMRC

Training and Development

  • Akzonobel Ashington
  • In-Comm Training
  • Megger Group
  • Paragon Toolmaking