Firm receives yet another royal award for innovation

A local engineering company has been awarded yet another award by Her Majesty the Queen.

Renishaw Plc, based at New Mills Wotton-under-Edge, has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2007 in the Innovations category.

This is the twelfth Queen’s Award the company has received in 28 years. Renishaw received its first Queen’s Award in 1979.

This year’s award has been given to Renishaw for the development of a radio transmissions spindle probe system. The RMP60 and RMI probe system, as it is formally known, is used on computer numerically controlled machine tools.

These systems are able to measure work pieces, provide off-set fixtures, control in-cycle processes and inspect work that has been machined automatically.

The innovation includes the introduction of frequency hopping to reduce radio interference. It is believed the system has improved the reliability, speed and safety of computer controlled machines.

Sir David McMurtry, CBE RDI chairman and chief executive of Renishaw, said the company was delighted to receive another commendation for one of its products and he paid tribute to the group’s employees in this country and overseas who have contributed to its success.

As well as its headquarters at New Mill Renishaw also has factories at Old Town, Wotton-under-Edge, Woodchester, Stonehouse and in Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland.

Renishaw will be presented with its Queen’s Award for Enterprise by Her Majesty The Queen’s Lord Lieutenant for Gloucestershire, Henry Elwes, later in the year.

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