AMRC gets Boeing award - first for UK

In January, the AMRC was notified that it was one of 558 companies to receive the Boeing Performance Excellence Award. Achieving the Supplier of the Year designation further acknowledges superior performance and labels this class of winners as best of the best. The awards were presented at a black tie event at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, on May 18. The AMRC is the first UK-based recipient of Boeing Supplier of the Year since the company-wide awards began in 2001. The University of Sheffield AMRC works with companies to resolve manufacturing problems and increase competitiveness. The centre's core focus is on developing new technologies and processes for machining high performance metal alloys used in aerospace and other industries. Professor Keith Ridgway OBE, founder and research director of the AMRC, said: "This is a great honour for us, and a tribute to the hard work and talent of our team in South Yorkshire. In the 10 years since we launched the AMRC with the support of Boeing, we have become internationally recognised as a centre of excellence for manufacturing research. "This award is further evidence that Britain can still lead the world in innovative engineering."