Businesses triumph at Awards

Invertek Drives and Stadco Powys, from Welshpool and Llanfyllin respectively, are celebrating after being crowned winners in the Wales region heats of the national Chamber Awards 2015.

The Chamber Awards, now in their 12th year, are a highlight of the business calendar, showcasing the pivotal role local businesses play in the UK’s continuing growth story.

Having won the regional Export Business of the Year Award, Invertek Drives – manufacturer and global distributor of variable frequency drives – will now go forward to represent the Wales region in the national finals, which take place in London.

They will be joined by Stadco Powys, a supplier of pressings and painted assemblies to the automotive industry, who scooped the regional Business in the Community Award.

Keith Palmer, Group CEO of the South & Mid Wales Chambers of Commerce said:

“The Chamber Awards are the perfect opportunity to take stock of the outstanding performances of UK businesses over the past year – something made all the more impressive by the continuing global economic headwinds they are facing.”

Invertek Drives was established in 1998 and now employs 190 people worldwide including more than 150 at its Welshpool headquarters. The independently owned company designs and manufactures a range of variable frequency drives, or AC inverters, used to control the speed of electric motors in a wide range of industrial automation and energy saving applications.

Stadco Powys was originally founded in 1968 and now employs over 160 having more than doubled the workforce in four years. Core capabilities are aluminium and steel stampings, paint and assemblies, with Jaguar Land Rover, General Motors, JCB, Ford, BMW and AGCO as main customers.