Three Awards in Three Months! Fresh Accolades for Proto Labs

Telford, UK. June 29, 2010: No World Cup blues for the staff and management of Proto Labs Limited, as the company notches-up a hat-trick of prestigious and high profile awards. Just days after receiving the MWP Award at MACH 2010, the UK’s largest manufacturing exhibition, and only weeks after winning the Queens Award for Enterprise, the Shropshire company received The Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Award for Integrated e-Business.

 Nominees for the MX Award - what many have called ‘the toughest award of all’, undergo a rigorous process involving self-assessment audits, company visits from a team of MX assessors and presentations to a panel of industry experts. The 2010 MX roll call of winners boasted some of the world’s best known engineering companies, including Siemens, BAE Systems, Autodesk, Leyland and Michelin.

The award ceremony was held at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on June 23^rd and representing Proto Labs was Commercial Manager, Mr. Damian Hennessey: “Reaching the finals of MX, and winning, is great recognition for the many people behind the scenes at Proto Labs,” he said. “For a professional body as prestigious as the IMechE to honour our business makes us all very proud, particularly as all too often the UK is dismissed as a viable location for ground-breaking engineering innovation.”