Town company engineers its way to award
IT COMES AFTER AWARDING OF MASSIVE PROJECT TO BUILD A TEQUILA DISTILLERY
A BURTON firm has been recognised as one of the UK’S fastest-growing engineering companies. Briggs of Burton employs over 300 staff across six sites located in the UK, US, China and Mexico.
The company which is based in Derby Street, provides engineering for some of the world’s largest food, alcoholic beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
The business has recently been awarded its largest multi-million-pound project to date to build one of the biggest tequila distilleries in the world working with major beer, distilled spirits and pharmaceutical brands in the UK, US and China.
Now, the company has picked up a prestigious regional award in the Make UK Midlands and East Manufacturing Awards 2022. The firm, started by Samuel Briggs in 1865, has staff across the world, including opening two new sales and engineering offices in Guadalajara in Mexico and Louisville, Kentucky.
The company unveiled a multi-million-pound investment in the region in 2021, transforming its headquarters into a new Global Technical Centre. It will now join all regional winners of the category for the national awards in London on January 26, 2023. Managing director Rob Buxton said: “I am incredibly proud of the Briggs team and the achievements we have realised globally. The team work incredibly hard to support our customers and always offer safe, flexible, and sustainable process engineering solutions across all our industries. “It is an exciting time to lead Briggs into the future, grow our engineering and manufacturing footprint along with realising more project opportunities in key regions such as Scotland, Mexico, and the USA.”
I am incredibly proud of the Briggs team and the achievements we have realised globally.
Rob Buxton