Three great manufacturing companies from the North East will be going up against each other to carry off a prize at the North East Business Awards this week.
Universal Wolf, Walker Filtration and Dormor Machine and Engineering are the finalists in the manufacturing award, having won heats held earlier in the year in Tyneside and Northumberland; Durham, Sunderland and South Tyneside; and Teesside.
Now they are vying for the overall regional prize which will be awarded on Thursday at Hardwick Hall Hotel at Sedgefield.
Blyth’s Universal Wolf has a 50-year heritage and history of delivering metal fabrication services in the UK for customers in the defence, security, medical and transport sectors.
The company has spent around £700,000 in the past year on new equipment and technology. It has worked hard to transform itself from a standard engineering company with a relatively indistinct identity and a strong reliance on people and their long-established skills into a forward thinking, modern, process driven organisation.
Walker Filtration - which is based in Washington - designs, develops and manufactures a comprehensive range of high-quality compressed air filtration and drying solutions for a wide range of industrial and medical markets.
The company has made significant achievements in improving its manufacturing efficiency during a time of considerable growth both in terms of value and complexity.
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It is finding inventive and dynamic ways of overcoming the problems that UK manufacturing is facing. The company’s business objective over the next three years is to grow the company by 55% to reach an annual turnover of £48m in 2021.
Dormor Machine & Engineering Company, of Middlesbrough, are sub-contract machinists, and the majority of its regular contracts are machining free issue parts to customers’ specific requirements.
Over the last 10 years, Dormor has worked closely with design partners to manufacture, develop and engineer roller hub assemblies for carousels that are installed on cable laying ships.
In recent years the oil and gas market has significantly decreased and this has led it to diversify its manufacturing processes and work with another of its customers to develop a Line Boring process for pumps that utilises its manual horizontal boring machine.
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Three firms vying for services prize at the North East Business Awards
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