Electronics manufacturer gets Queen's Award

At a ceremony marking Arcotronics' success in the latest Queens Awards, the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire recognised the value and quality of the company's products.

Arcotronics, the Northamptonshire, UK-based manufacturer of electronic components, has been presented with the Queen's Award for Enterprise (International Trade category).

At a presentation on 20 October 2005, at Arcotronics' Towcester plant, Lady Juliet Townsend, The Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, told Adrian Flynn, managing director of Arcotronics, that he had: " A very good team, and a winning team.

The award was made in recognition of Arcotronics' outstanding achievement in growing its export activities by almost 70% over a two-year period from 2002, in difficult market conditions.

In her speech, Lady Juliet told the assembled company that Arcotronics delivered a first-class product which was fault-free for applications such as military, medical and consumer, and that its ability to look ahead was a critical factor in its success.

Many key personnel present at the award ceremony were introduced to Lady Juliet, representing customers material suppliers and service providers, including Martin Abbotson, now commodity manager with Selex, a recent joint venture between BAE Systems and Finmeccanica Group of Italy, and Jane Waldron of UK trade and Investment.

Pete Evans a key material supplier had flown the Atlantic from Rhode Island to join the celebrations.

Part of the Arcotronics Nissei Group of companies, Arcotronics manufactures capacitors and filters, components which play an important part in almost every type of electrical and electronic product.

However, for various reasons, the global market for such components has, over the past few years, been generally acknowledged as difficult, with most companies in the sector reporting zero or negative growth.

Against this background, Arcotronics has increased its international sales by 68% and its overall sales by 34%.

The company now has realistic ambitions to become Europe's second-largest supplier of (EMC) filters and to enter the US military equipment market over the coming year.

The company's achievements and ambitions were recognised by Lady Juliet.

"This is not an easy award to win, and you [all] deserve congratulations," she said, passing on congratulations from the Queen * About Arcotronics Nissei Group - the Arcotronics Nissei Group is a leading producer of plastics film and metallised plastics film capacitors for suppression and filtering applications.

Arcotronics is a manufacturer of the world's largest range of EMC/RFI filter products, it also produces a variety of wet tantalum capacitors and power factor correction equipment.

The Arcotronics Nissei Group has extensive operations throughout Europe, the USA, and Asia with manufacturing facilities in the UK, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Japan and China.

The Group employs around 1600 people.

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