Metal 3D printer manufacturer, Renishaw closes 2016 with awards and innovations. Receiving ‘Company of the Year’ award in National Microelectronics Institute Awards, the firm attracted great interest with innovative works.
The awards are an annual event hosted by the NMI, the UK trade association representing the electronic systems, microelectronics and semiconductor communities. The awards celebrate the year’s key electronic innovations, people and companies from across the UK and Ireland. The evening also saw the trade body’s 20th anniversary celebrations and a presentation from Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, the minister of state responsible for digital policy.
“This award recognises Renishaw as a forward-thinking engineering company that supports its employees, future employees and new product design and development,” explained Pete Leonard, Electronics Design Manager at Renishaw. “Renishaw offers engineering and product solutions and is committed to developing a pipeline of engineering skills in the UK.”
“This year’s winner is considered to be a hidden gem in the Great British crown,” explained Derek Boyd, CEO of the NMI. “Renishaw is a world leader in additive manufacturing and the only UK business that makes industrial machines using metal powder. It supplies products and services in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture to dentistry and brain surgery.
The NMI supported Renishaw in its development of the Embedded Electronic Systems Design 
and Development Engineering Apprenticeship as part of the Trailblazer apprenticeship scheme. Pete Leonard, Electronics Design Manager at Renishaw sits on the NMI’s Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) Frontrunners board contributing in-depth application specific knowledge to develop a strategy for communicating the best technologies to industry.