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News Issue 3 March 2014
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ATG Access
Scoops Top Manufacturing
Prize
PSSA
Member News.
ATG Access has been crowned
the Manufacturing Company of
the Year at the Insider
Magazine’s annual “Made in
the NorthWest Awards.”
The company, which makes security
bollards and vehicle barrier systems,
took the main award on a glittering
night designed to showcase the region’s
manufacturing strengths. Held at the
Park Royal Hotel in Warrington, the
evening featured keynote addresses
from EEF regional director Darrell
Matthews and John Rogers, managing
director of International Safety
Products. Chris Maguire, editor of North
West Business Insider, said:
“Our economy has coughed and
spluttered back into life and the medi-
cine is manufacturing. The North West is
leading the way when it comes to mak-
ing things and the list of shortlisted and
winning companies demonstrates we’re
getting better at it and we’re exporting
our products across the world.”
Other finalists included GJD
Manufacturing, Jaguar Landrover Group,
Meltech Group, Plastic Card Services
and Precision Polymer Engineering. ATG
Access won the accolade due to“putting
the NorthWest region back on the map.”
ATG Access has continued to have great
success in both the national and
international market during the 2012-13
period. Having won the largest security
bollard tender to date, supplying the
New Doha International Airport; ATG
Access have sent several teams of
engineers to commission the site once
installed and train the onsite security
staff prior to hand over.
Other large projects have varied hugely
in scope from a local project to control
traffic flow in and out of the new St
Peter’s Square development in
Manchester to over 80 high security
road blockers
supplied to an undisclosed project in
Saudi Arabia.
Projects continue in Qatar also with the
first phase of the Heart of Doha project
won with many other having been
quoted. New markets include Brazil
where we have just announced a new
manufacturing facility, Russia where we
held a hostile vehicle mitigation seminar
to VIP contacts and Nigeria where we
received our first order for surface
mounted blockers to protect a
financial facility. The company is going
from strength to strength within the
North West region.
Due to ATG Access’s increase in export
sales and product sales over the last
year, the North West region has
benefitted through increased supplier
orders, fabrication work and also
specialist engineering work. Further
value has been brought to the North
West as ATG Access works very closely
with local universities and colleges to
bring interns into the business such as
the Manchester Business School every
year to complete final year projects to
provide students with a live business to
work with and build their commercial
experience.
The projects they undertake equip the
business with the knowledge it may
need in years to come, helping them
understand markets and product gaps
and exploit opportunities in the future.
The company also works with
apprenticeships in the North West.
One of our budding young project
managers started with ATG Access as
an electrical apprentice as did our UK
High Security Sales Manager who was
responsible for the Olympic Games
2012 project. Our recent success has
also allowed us to contribute to a
variety of North West charities and also
sponsor local sports teams. We have
even attracted visitors to the region
such as a royal visitor - HRH Prince
Charles, various international military
bodies and even appeared on BBC
Breakfast News discussing the
buoyant export market outside of the
EU. Promoting the North West region
as a hub of manufacturing and export
innovation.
ATG Access will now go through to the
Insider Made in the UK Awards, to be
held at the International Festival for
Business in Liverpool in July 2014.
Above
: ATG Access beat strong competition to be named the winner