We’ve had a productive couple of days at the Craft Brewers Conference 2024 in Las Vegas. Our colleagues from Briggs of Burton, DME Process Systems Ltd., and Ziemann Holvrieka have been busy networking and sharing our latest technologies around innovation, sustainability and R&D with our customers, partners, and suppliers. A standout moment was hosting an evening event at BrewDog Las Vegas, a great opportunity for team building and discussing how are building some of the most impressive breweries and distilleries around the globe helping them to craft some of the best beer and distilled spirits. We look forward to sharing more content soon. Watch this space!

Cheers to our team, Brewdog Las Vegas and our customers for making the show a success!

About Briggs of Burton

If you have eaten or drunk it there is a chance that Briggs of Burton has helped to produce it.

Briggs are the engineers behind supplying the equipment, engineering and automation to the world’s largest food, alcoholic beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers

Today Briggs employs over 350 colleagues across six sites in the UK, Scotland, USA, Mexico, China, and Australia. The team deliver turnkey engineering projects for leading household brands covering North America, Europe, Central America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. Briggs’ benefits from a global network of stainless-steel manufacturing facilities, including their own located in Burton on Trent and Prestonpans, Scotland.

Briggs is actively developing sustainable engineering solutions, focusing on their customer’s requirements towards carbon neutrality. 

Briggs of Burton featured in The Press and Journal alongside Gareth Roberts at Organic Architects, Dawn Maskell director at Heriot-Watt University and Liz Fletcher at the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre

Dr Scott Davies spoke to journalist Peter Ranscombe about brewers and distillers being the pioneers of biotechnology and how Briggs of Burton has a long history of supporting its customers by leveraging microorganisms to produce fermentation-based products. The article explores the potential for breweries and distilleries to consider the production of other fermentation-based products with their existing operations. Briggs has worked on many projects around the world, using its process engineering know-how and project delivery experience in engineering systems from propagating and growing yeast for distilled spirits, beer and bread production, to hygienically scaling up fermentation processes to producing liquid biofuels.

Reach out to the team if you want to discuss a project that involves a hygienic process system for the processing of yeast or bacteria across the food, alcoholic beverage, and life science sectors.

About Briggs of Burton

If you have eaten or drunk it there is a chance that Briggs of Burton has helped to produce it.

Briggs are the engineers behind supplying the equipment, engineering and automation to the world’s largest food, alcoholic beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers

Today Briggs employs over 350 colleagues across six sites in the UK, Scotland, USA, Mexico, China, and Australia. The team deliver turnkey engineering projects for leading household brands covering North America, Europe, Central America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. Briggs’ benefits from a global network of stainless-steel manufacturing facilities, including their own located in Burton on Trent and Prestonpans, Scotland.

Briggs is actively developing sustainable engineering solutions, focusing on their customer’s requirements towards carbon neutrality. 

With awards, multiple successful project including our first malt whiskey distillery in China and the brand new Pharmaceutical Systems Assembly opening, 2023 has been a great success for Briggs of Burton.

In this season of giving, we’re delighted to announce that Briggs of Burton, is giving back to the communities and charities that matter to us and the people we work with. Through collective donations exceeding £5000. Our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) underscores the importance of making a positive impact on communities near and far.

In actively engaging in CSR initiatives, we contribute to the well-being of society and set a precedent for the positive role businesses can play in addressing critical issues. Briggs of Burton remains steadfast in its dedication to making a meaningful difference in the communities we serve.

To find out more about the charities we’ve donated to this year please see below:

• Briggs of Burton PLC, Global Technical Centre Burton Upon Trent – YMCA
• Briggs of Burton, Forres, Scotland – Morray Fresh Start
• Briggs of Burton PLC, Guadalajara, Mexico – Techo
• McMillan Coppersmiths, Prestonpans, Scotland – Pennypit Community Development Trust
• Briggs of Burton Inc., Louisville, Kentucky – St Joseph Children’s Home
• Briggs of Burton Inc., Rochester, New York – Greater Rochester Habitat for Humanity

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Community Sponsorship Days

In addition to these festive season donations, we continued to support and encourage our team members to take community sponsorship days, a Briggs initiative which allows our colleagues to use up to three days a year to help the community.

We’re excited to share Yuri and Ed’s stories:

Edward Gould, Global Technical Centre, Burton-Upon-Trent

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Yuritzi Belen, Guadalajara, Briggs of Burton Mexico

Thank you to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Food and Drink Engineering Committee and Giles Hartill CEng FIMechE for visiting our Global Technical Centre last week.

George Crombie and Robert Buxton hosted the committee, providing an exclusive tour of our Global Technical Centre and Pharmaceutical Systems Assembly (PSA) facility, demonstrating our continued investment towards UK Engineering and Manufacturing.

The committee were particularly impressed by Briggs’ global reach and the positive impact they have created in the Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical industries delivering large scale projects in various locations around the world offering sustainable engineering and equipment solutions to several blue chip clients.

About Briggs of Burton

If you have eaten or drunk it there is a chance that Briggs of Burton has helped to produce it.

Briggs are the engineers behind supplying the equipment, engineering and automation to the world’s largest food, alcoholic beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers

Today Briggs employs over 300 colleagues across six sites in the UK, Scotland, USA, Mexico, China, and Australia. The team deliver turnkey engineering projects for leading household brands covering North America, Europe, Central America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. Briggs’ benefits from a global network of stainless-steel manufacturing facilities, including their own located in Burton on Trent and Prestonpans, Scotland.

Briggs are actively developing sustainable engineering solutions, focusing on their customer’s requirements towards carbon neutrality. 

On Friday the 1st of September, Briggs of Burton hosted the central committee meeting at the Global Technical Center for members of the International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE). 

ISPE is the global industry leader in connecting pharmaceutical knowledge to deliver manufacturing and supply chain innovation, operational excellence and regulatory insights to enhance industry efforts to develop, manufacture and reliably deliver quality medicines to patients. 

Briggs of Burton have recognised the ISPE as a key enabler to access a network of contacts to grow our pharmaceutical market share. There are currently several people of the Briggs team who serve on the committee and hold memberships with ISPE. 

The meeting at the Global Technical Center (GTC) was organised by Sonia Ganatra, an ISPE committee member and part of the Briggs Marketing Team. Sonia’s interests lie in both pharma and marketing, and her role within the committee is to facilitate their marketing and outreach. Briggs will benefit from this by raising awareness to the ISPE community of our pharmaceutical capabilities and the new Pharmaceutical Systems Assembly (PSA), highlighting us a potential venue for future ISPE events. 

Max Flannery, ran the meeting on behalf of Briggs, and has now joined the ISPE central region committee: “As the recently appointed Pharma Sales Lead at Briggs of Burton, I’m delighted to join the ISPE as a committee member. This collaboration offers us a valuable platform for connecting with industry peers, customers, and suppliers. Being part of the central committee is a significant opportunity for us to gain insights and proudly represent Briggs as dedicated Pharma Ambassadors within the ISPE community.”

We look forward to hosting the UK ISPE in early 2024 for a tour of the new PSAfacility.

To celebrate National Manufacturing Day (NMD) on the 28th of September, Briggs of Burton will welcome 20students from John Taylor High School in Burton at the Global Technical Center for a variety of ScienceTechnology Engineering and Math (STEM) activities.

NMD is a chance for UK manufacturers show their local community, schools and colleges behind the scenesaccess to a sector of global importance that plays a pivotal role in the economic life of local communities acrossthe UK. The day itself will be a national celebration of UK manufacturing and a chance to raise the profile of thesector. 

NMD will demonstrate the value of jobs and in particular apprenticeships in our sector to showcase manufacturing as a future career. 

The Manufacturer, an industry publication providing manufacturing news, hastoday released the nominees for the MX awards. 

In partnership with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), the MXawards celebrate manufacturing excellence.

We’re excited to announce that Briggs of Burton has been nominated in theInternational Trade category! The award application highlights our continuedglobal growth, entry into new markets and delivering large Engineering,Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects for many of the biggest breweries,distilleries, food and pharmaceutical companies. 

This nomination is a testament to our team’s unwavering commitment toexcellence, innovation, and global collaboration.

Congratulations once again to the entire team! Thank you for your hard work anddedication which continues to help us be recognised by major institutions.

Read the official press release here

Michael Oates’ journey at Briggs started just over five years ago, and his recentattainment of chartered status from the Institution of Chemical Engineers(IChemE) marks a significant milestone in his career. Progressing from his initialrole as Graduate Process Engineer, Michael has become an integral part of theteam. Overseeing projects from design to commissioning across a spectrum ofour industries including brewing, distilling, and pharmaceuticals. 

IChemE, a well-known professional institution, has a profound impact on the fieldof chemical engineering and its members. It serves as a guiding force, not onlyrecognizing excellence through chartered status but also offering comprehensivetraining and support. 

Attaining chartered status involves a three-step process: 

The first step entails building a strong educational foundation.

The second phase is Initial Professional Development (IPD), with Briggsbeing part of the Accredited Company Training Scheme (ACTS), Michaelwas able to successfully complete an ACTS, and was able to complete theIPD stage. 

The final stage is the Professional Review: where qualified assessors,themselves chartered members of IChemE, evaluated his competency andcommitment. 

Michael’s proudest achievements while working at Briggs include the ShanghaiBacchus project, which was a two-year commitment, from detailed design tocommissioning, or how Michael put it “the whole shebang.” Overcomingchallenges like working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, hereviewed complex software documentation and crafted exhaustivecommissioning documents, Michael was key in ensuring the project’s success. 

Michael’s aspirations remain centred on continual growth and learning. Heenvisions sharpening his engineering skills and making meaningful contributionsto his field. 

Michael would like to thank his mentor, Mark Phillips – Technical ProcessManager. As the scheme manager, Mark has played a pivotal role in Michael’ssuccess, offering unwavering support and guidance throughout. 

Mark had this to say about Michael’s achievement: 

“Huge congratulations to Michael on this fantastic achievement. Our relationshipwith the IChemE is hugely important to support our valued team, to get charteredand become well rounded chemical engineers. It is also great to see Briggsreceive a 4-year re-accreditation from the IChemE, further supporting our effortsin recruiting the next generation of engineers; like Michael, who is the firstengineer to gain chartership via completing the ACTS.” 

Well done Michael from everyone at Briggs! 

We’re overjoyed to announce that Briggs has secured the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)Gold Award for a 6th consecutive year, demonstrating our strong continuous commitment to the safety of ouremployees.

RoSPA recognized the company’s exceptional efforts in maintaining the highest safety standards in 2022.

John Blundell, Head of HSE, had this to say about the sixth consecutive win:

“This award would not have been possible without the great work of everyone across Briggs with their positiveattitude and commitment towards Health and Safety. The H&S team: Alexis Griffin, Jose Laguna, Rob Goodhandand Hugh Graham would like to thank everyone for their efforts over the last 12 months and look forward to thecontinued support moving forward.”

At Briggs, your safety will always be a number one priority. Which is reflected in our corporate values, “Thesafety of our employees, clients and public is paramount. We want all employees to go home as they arrived atwork every day. We ensure that safety for all is inherent through design, construction, and long-term operation”.

Huge congrats the team!