Sheffield plastic box company wins Queen's Award for International Trade
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Loadhog hit record export sales of £7.3m in 2018 and boosted overall turnover by 79 per cent in the last three years.
The firm, based on Hawke Street, Brightside, makes plastic boxes and pallets and is part of the Gripple Group. Customers include Amazon and French supermarket chain Carrefour.
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Loadhog’s accolade comes after it invested in manufacturing capacity, tooling and 11 injection moulding machines. And it follows a Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2009 for a system for transporting glass called Smartstak.
Shaun Khan, Loadhog managing director, said: “This is an exceptional and notable award which is testament to the hard work by everyone who played a significant part in achieving this highly prestigious recognition – a huge ‘well done’ to all the team.
“We are now recognised as a business able to demonstrate outstanding leadership and, vision, successful performance against business planning, and an inspiration to other companies. I am confident that this great company will continue to flourish and challenge the industry to do more to reduce single-use resources.”
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Hide AdThe firm was founded in 2003 and today employs 100 in the UK and has a base in France.
It is advertising four vacancies: product manager, production operator, quality, environmental and health and safety co-ordinator and a graduate management trainee.