(Renishaw: New Mills, UK) -- On June 27, 2012, Renishaw PLC was presented with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2012 by Dame Janet Trotter, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. This is Renishaw’s 15th Queen’s Award since its formation in 1973, and was granted in the Innovations category for the company’s innovative SP80 high-accuracy analogue scanning probe. The product is used on coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) to accurately measure complex parts such as automotive and power train components.

Trotter was welcomed to Renishaw’s headquarters at New Mills near Wotton-under-Edge, by Sir David McMurtry, the company’s chairman and chief executive. Together with Dave Wallace, director and general manager of the CMM Products Division, McMurtry accepted the award in the form of a crystal bowl engraved with the Queen’s Award Emblem. The citation was read by the Clerk to the Lieutenancy, Jane Burns, director of strategy at Gloucestershire County Council.

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