Queen’s Award: Bridge of Weir wins for fifth time
23/04/2018
In Bridge of Weir’s case, the 2018 success will sit alongside earlier awards in 1985, 1996, 2000 and 2012.
Assessors highlighted Bridge of Weir’s focus on automotive leather, picking out its operations in the US and China to support local customers there, and its strong presence in other important automotive markets, including Germany, Canada and Poland. They also praised Bridge of Weir’s “unique and industry-leading sustainability strategy”, pointing out that this has helped bring in new business, particularly because it supports the environmental focus that many automotive manufacturers are now pushing.
Bridge of Weir has been running an on-site thermal energy plant since 2010, taking what was previously waste sent straight to landfill and converting it into energy for heating recycled water for the manufacturing process. Thanks to this and other initiatives, it calls the material it produces Low Carbon Leather, 90% of which is sold overseas, to customers in a total of 30 countries.
Commenting on the 2018 Queen’s Award, Bridge of Weir managing director, Karen Marshall, said: “This Award is a huge source of pride for our company and it is down to the hard work of each and every individual within the business – all of whom deliver the outstanding quality, craftsmanship and service we are recognised for. In the three years of trade that this award represents, from 2015, Bridge of Weir Leather Company has embarked on a number of ambitious business developments. None of these developments have been without heavy investment or risk, and this award is an endorsement of these ambitions and their reception by the international auto industry.”
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