Celebrations for Queen’s Award

The Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2017 was presented to Thermoseal Group by Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Greater Manchester, Mr Warren J Smith KStJ JP at an event hosted at the group’s manufacturing and distribution site, which also houses the group’s technical centre.

Almost 100 guests attended the event to witness the presentation of the award, followed by a tour of the group’s Thermobar and Thermoflex warm edge spacer manufacturing sites, its new Decraled decorative design studios, and its technical centre and EN1279 facilities.

Thermoseal Group now supplies its warm edge spacers to 22 countries in five continents, and trials of the products are currently being carried out worldwide.

From the design, through mixture of raw materials and production of the products, to final delivery to the customer, the whole process is subject to Thermoseal Group’s quality control procedures.

Samantha Hill, Thermoseal Group’s head of marketing and communications said: “We were delighted to share our special day with customers and guests from the industry, who joined as many of our Thermoseal Group colleagues as could attend to join the celebrations.

“As well as many UK insulated glass (IG) sealed unit manufacturers, journalists and industry contacts, we were also joined by customers from Europe and the Far East.”

Thermoseal Group’s managing director, Gwain Paterson said: “It is often very humbling to see the some of the efforts my colleagues go to too achieve the right results. Mark [Hickox] and I started to list all those colleagues we wanted to thank, but the list became far too long and we didn’t want to miss anyone out, so to all the Thermosealians out there thank you.

“We would also like to thank all our customers, particularly those who attended the event. We thank you for your support, confidence and encouragement, without which we would not be selling the volume of spacer we do today.”