Spooner won the award “Manufacturer of the Year”
On Saturday the local firm scooped Manufacturer of the Year at the glittering Bradford Means Business awards amongst fierce competition.
The awards run by the Telegraph & Argus, with partners Bradford Council and the West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, have arrived to the fifth year.
Manufacturing Director at Spooner Robert Proctor, said:
“It’s a great pleasure to be recognised. At Spooner we have been engineering industrial solutions for over 80 years and sometimes you forget how successful we are when engrossed in your day-to-day work.”
This new accolade is hot on the heels of the heels of a visit to the Ilkley premises by the Prime Minster, David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osbourne in February, who were impressed by the technology and commented:
“Spooner is a great example of the kind of ‘advanced manufacturing’ businesses this Government is trying to get behind.”
In addition Spooner has also been recognised in the Apprenticeship Awards and identified as one of the ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’. Collated by the London Stock Exchange the annual report is a celebration of some of the fastest-growing and most dynamic small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK. To be selected, Spooner had to demonstrate not only consistent revenue growth over a minimum of 3 years but also significantly outperform peers in the same sector of manufacturing
Manufacturing industrial process machinery such as industrial ovens, dryers, coolers, provers/proofers, air turns, stabilisers, oxidisers and solvent and energy recovery equipment, the company has been a leading innovator in the principles of forced convection technology since 1932. Designing and manufacturing from purpose built premises in Ilkley, Spooner currently employs over 160 people and exports custom made products worldwide.
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