Season’s Greetings from Briggs of Burton! 🎄 ☃ 🎅 🎁 🎉 🥃

Thank you to our global team, customers and suppliers for your continued support in helping us deliver projects across the Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical industries.

This Christmas, full of festive and engineering spirit, it is with great pleasure that the Briggs of Burton team is making a commitment to support 100 local Burton families through The Salvation Army Community Foodbank. This amazing initiative by The Salvation Army provides nourishing week-long food parcels to the less fortunate within our local community. This year we are supporting those local to the Global Technical Centre in Burton on Trent, UK, which is our central hub to our sales and engineering hubs around the world.

We wish you and your families a safe holiday season and look forward to working together again in the New Year.

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

Briggs of Burton is attending this year’s International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) UK Affiliate Conference!

The ISPE is a national conference bringing together all corners of the pharmaceutical industry. This year’s event is at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds on the 10th of November 2022. 

Briggs of Burton is a global partner for turnkey pharmaceutical projects. The Briggs Pharma team specialise in delivering hygienic process engineering and systems for the pharma industry worldwide. Our capability includes designing and building Hygenic Design and Clean in Place systems. We have also been particularly active in the design and build of market leading pressurised Metered-Dose Inhaler (pMDI) production systems.

Steve Marshall, Sonia Ganatra and Jonathan Carter will represent Briggs of Burton at this conference and are excited to meet with customers, gain insight into the latest trends and discuss potential pharma project requirements. The Briggs Pharma team will also be attending the evening awards dinner to network with the ISPE community.

If you would like to get in touch with a member of the team ahead of the conference to discuss your next pharma project, follow this link: Contact | Briggs of Burton (briggsplc.com)

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

We are delighted to share that Briggs of Burton has won the “Business Growth & Strategy” award at the Make UK Midlands & East Regional Dinner last night!

 

Briggs of Burton are at the forefront of supporting both UK Manufacturing and Engineering by delivering large EPC projects for the biggest beer, distilled spirits, food and pharmaceutical brands globally.

The Briggs team attended the Make UK Midlands & East Regional Dinner last night after being shortlisted for both the Business Growth & Strategy and Energy & Sustainability categories. This year, Briggs were recognised for our outstanding global growth, exceeding our revenue targets ahead of 2024 and accelerating our Energy and Sustainability position in the market for years to come.

The success is a testament of our team’s hard work and aspiration to grow as a global award-winning engineering company.

“Over the past year, Briggs of Burton have been on a continuous growth trajectory, expanding globally by delivering large EPC projects. It is a proud moment for Briggs to achieve this award and a testament of the hard work the team put in to help us achieve our goals”.

​​​​​​​Kevin Leach, Sales and Commercial Director – CCO

Briggs will now be invited to the National Manufacturing Awards which will be held in January 2023 in London. We will go head-to-head with other UK regional winners of the “Business Growth & Strategy” award for the prestigious prize.

Once again, a big congratulations to everyone in the team!

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 280 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 behalf of Briggs of Burton, we are deeply saddened at the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Her legacy bears testament to her inspirational and unfaltering sense of duty, as well as her selfless commitment to our country and the Commonwealth. Our thoughts are with the Royal Family as we mourn her passing and give thanks for her lifetime of public service.

 

Briggs of Burton are at the forefront of supporting both UK Manufacturing and Engineering. We support some of the biggest beer, distilled spirits, food and pharmaceutical brands globally by delivering large EPC projects.

Briggs have been shortlisted for not just one but two categories this year. Last year, we achieved runner’s up for the Business Growth and Strategy category. This year, we have been nominated for Business Growth & Strategy and Energy & Sustainability. The Make UK judging panel have recognised many of our recent successes.

The Make UK judging panel have been impressed by Briggs’ accelerated growth globally in existing and new markets. The committee also recognised our drive to always offer our customers sustainable engineering solutions across all industries.

This is the first time we have been recognised for our achievements in Energy and Sustainability at a formal awards event.

​​​​​​​The two award nominations are followed by a successful win at the Made in the Midlands Awards earlier this year when Briggs were awarded Manufacturer of the Year (Over £25m). 

Our global team made this success a possibility by helping us to be a safe and flexible engineering company.

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 280 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. 

Briggs of Burton backs youngsters bid to race at the iconic Goodwood track as part of a community project to encourage more young people into the world of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

Hilton Formula 24 is an innovative  project run by local science and technology company STEM Venturi, giving youngsters aged 9 to 16 the opportunity to design, build and race an electric car as part of a nationwide competition run by Greenpower Educational Trust. Primarily run through schools, the group are the first community team of its kind in the Midlands and one of only a handful available across the UK.

Briggs, work with leading blue-chip companies around the world to deliver turnkey engineering solutions, are supporting the project through sponsorship funding and providing engineering expertise to help local youngsters to take part.

Specialising in leading engineering solutions for the brewing, distilling, food and pharmaceutical industries, the company has not only donated £5,000 to support the project but will also provide the opportunity to hold test runs for the racing car at their new Global Technical Centre. Experienced engineers from the company will also provide technical talks on related engineering topics and hands on demonstrations on techniques such as sheet metal bending and welding.

Tom Barnett, Business Development Manager at Briggs as well as a STEM ambassador, said the project was a great opportunity for the company to inspire young minds looking at a career in engineering.

“Briggs is proud to be able to support HF24 and this community project. More needs to be done to encourage and support young people who are interested in a career in engineering,”

“The UK is home to a wealth of leading engineering expertise and projects like HF24 help to nurture and encourage new talent and helps to support the growth and development of our current engineers.”

A team of 12 9- to 14-year-olds have so far put together the basic structure of the race car, with work now turning to designing the outer shell as well as completing the electronics and solar powered charger for the battery.

The group will then go on to test and race the car with drivers aged 11 and over taking it in turns to race around various UK tracks to qualify for the final championship race at the end of the year. The final will be held at the iconic Goodwood race circuit, in Chichester, famous for the super car Festival of Speed.

Holly Davies, Founder of STEM Venturi  which offers coding and STEM opportunities to young people, said it was a great opportunity for young people to get hands on experience within the industry.

“Receiving financial support from Briggs has given the project a much-needed boost. Having the opportunity to work with engineers from Briggs who are equally passionate about engineering and encouraging young people to get involved with STEM is rewarding.  The project’s core aim is to help the youngsters learn and develop their soft skills such as problem solving but also learn the fundamentals of engineering in a fun way.”

“We are there to help and supervise but the real work, ideas and skill comes from the young team working together to bring their vision to life. It’s really refreshing to see them in action and the friendships they are forming along the way.”

The team meet every Sunday in Fauld, and it is hoped that the bespoke car will be ready to test by the end of the month with the team facing their first qualifying race at the historic Goodwood race circuit in May.

The event by Greenpower Education Trust aims to inspire young minds to consider a role in engineering after research by The Royal Academy of Engineering found a skills gap of around 104,000 STEM graduates every year and 56,000 technicians.

STEM Venturi’s purpose is to prepare students for their digital future. They do this through fun hands-on coding and technology projects including 3D design and printing, game design and coding, programming robotics and more. The small, not-for-profit organisation run after-school technology clubs, holiday clubs, online coding courses and an innovative 3D printer loan scheme for schools across the Midlands.