UK's top manufacturing awards
The Manufacturing Excellence Awards (The MX Awards) is the premier annual award scheme for the UK manufacturing industry run by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers www.imeche.org. The MX Awards programme attracts entries from manufacturing businesses in all sectors and official sponsors for 2009 include companies such as BP, PricewaterhouseCoopers and ERIKS.
The winners can gain high profile coverage in national newspapers and on television and every entrant receives a customised benchmark report rating their performance against best practice and highlighting areas for improvement. Categories for the awards include the Arup Award for Sustainable Manufacturing and the Autodesk Award for Product Innovation while the overall prizes are the BERR Manufacturing Advisory Service Award for Manufacturing Excellence and the National Skills Academy for Manufacturing Award for Manufacturing Excellence Best Small or Medium Enterprise.