Landscaping & External Works
SECOND QUEEN’S AWARD
PRESENTATION IN THREE
YEARS FOR ANCON
Just three years after its first Queen’s Award for Enterprise presentation in 2012, Ancon
Building Products officially received its second award on Thursday 15th October at a
special ceremony at its manufacturing site in Deeside, North Wales.
The 2015 Award, for International Trade, recognises Ancon’s outstanding success in
growing sales across new and existing export markets. It follows the company’s
previous Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation for its ground-breaking Lockable
Dowel, a system that has since revolutionised post-tensioned concrete construction.
The ceremony at the Deeside facility, the largest and most advanced Wall Tie manufacturing operation in the UK, was attended by 36 employees who proudly watched Ancon’s
Export Team Leader, Angela Reeve, accept the ceremonial scroll from the Lord
Lieutenant. Her colleague Lynn Forster, Deeside’s Purchasing Manager and longestserving employee at the site received the commemorative Queen’s Award crystal bowl
on behalf of the company.
The Lord Lieutenant said, “Ancon represents the very best of British innovation and
technology, and this dynamic company, which has trebled its exports in the last ten years,
has led the way in its field.”
“To win one award is pretty spectacular; to win two awards in three years is absolutely
amazing.”
“It is very gratifying to present this award here in Deeside, where Ancon provides 92 much
needed jobs and I wish the company every continued success in the future.”
Ancon Building Products
Tel: 0114 275 5224, Email: [email protected], Web: www.ancon.co.uk
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