Sprint Electric presented with Queen’s Award for International Trade

Sprint Electric won the Queen’s Award in the International Trade category in April this year. A special reception for the Queen’s Award winners was held in Buckingham Palace on 13 July, hosted by Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal Family.

At the presentation ceremony, Sprint Electric was presented with a crystal bowl engraved with The Queen’s Awards Emblem as a symbol of its success as well as a grant of appointment. The company is now also entitled to use the Emblem in all its marketing and on packaging for the next five years, here and abroad.

Sprint Electric designs and manufactures industrial motor controllers, specialising in DC drive technology. With an export share of approximately 75 percent, the products are sold worldwide. Sprint Electric’s Managing Director Edwin Prescott explains, The Queen’s Award for International Trade is a result of our sustained export growth measured over the last six years. We are planning for further growth and are confident of enjoying continued success over the next six years and beyond. Sales Director Gary Keen continues, Our success also owes a great deal to our overseas distributors. Every distributor is offered full training at our offices, so they can support our DC drives in any industrial application. Because we design and build the complete range of products at our Arundel site, we can be very responsive to our customers. Being able to ship our DC drives immediately means our customers receive their orders quickly – regardless of where they are in the world.”

Founded in 1987, Sprint Electric offers over fifty models of motor controllers, from low voltage servo performance controllers to fully digital three phase DC variable speed drives of many hundreds of amperes. Whether in retrofits or original equipment, DC Drives from Sprint Electric are being used in many different applications including metal processing, the pulp and paper industry, rubber and plastic processing, lifting equipment, food processing, leisure industries and many more.

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise exist to champion the UK’s most enterprising, creative and sustainable organisations – from all business sectors. Companies can apply for an Award in three categories – International Trade, Innovation or Sustainable Development. The Awards are open to any UK-based business with two or more employees.