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MRT Castings Ltd
Manufacturers of aluminium and zinc die castings, precision machined components and innovative electro-mechanical assemblies
Minesoft Ltd
Winner of the prestigious Queen’s Award for International Trade for the second time in 2015. Minesoft has fast become an established leader in the eld of patent information, working with industrial corporations, patent attorney rms, universities and patent authorities around the world.
Founded in 1996, Minesoft develops specialist software solutions in the intellectual property (IP) eld, providing international patent databases, competitive intelligence, analytics and customised archive solutions. Minesoft serves many Fortune 500/FTSE 100 companies around the world as well as patent o ces, IP law rms and patent attorney rms.
Minesoft’s agship product PatBase
is a trusted, global, searchable patent
database with a fully-incorporated advanced analytics platform. A new non-patent literature solution broadens searches beyond patents while the new semantic search functionality facilitates patent discovery and subject searching. PatBase users are able to protect their designs by checking novelty against existing patents and to solve technical dilemmas by studying patent texts, patent drawings and non-patent literature. Users can access and understand the most up-to-date scienti c research, new ideas and competitor information contained in patent documents with a range of search and
AWARD HOLDERS
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display functionalities, including text and diagrams, translations and a range of tools from Citation Explorer to PatBase Thesaurus.
Minesoft have developed a portfolio of patent solutions. The most recent addition being Chemical Explorer to seamlessly combine chemical structure searches within PatBase and extract essential chemical information from the full text
of patent documents. In addition, the recently renamed Pat-KM (previously PatentArchive) provides a central location for monitoring, searching, reviewing and sharing patent information.
Headquartered in Richmond-Upon- Thames, London, with o ces and representation globally including Germany, USA, Japan, China, Israel and India. Minesoft was awarded the Queen’s Award
for Enterprise in both 2009 and 2015 for its impressive, sustained growth in international trade. At the end of 2016, Minesoft received an award for Innovation and Export success at the Richmond Business Awards.
MINESOFT LTD
Boston House, Little Green, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, TW9 1QE
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MRT Castings Ltd
MRT CASTINGS was established in 1947 in South London, and relocated to its current production base in Hampshire in 1965. MRT manufactures aluminium and zinc die castings, precision machined components and innovative electro-mechanical assemblies for hi-tech OEMs across the world. The company remains a family owned business, and has a highly skilled workforce of 55 sta .
MRT’s Queen’s Award for International Trade 2016 was a recognition of the company’s outstanding growth in export sales over recent years. New production contracts from customers in the USA, Ireland, Hungary, Poland, France and Germany grew exports to 56% of the company’s total sales. To support this expansion
the company invested £1.5m in
additional production capacity
and automation, and has moved
into two additional manufacturing
units adjacent to its existing site in
Andover.
high pressure die casting processes. Subsequent precision machining operations are performed by MRT’s 23 highly automated CNC machining centres. Surface nishing processes are managed by MRT through a network of local specialist subcontractors. Finally, MRT o ers a comprehensive electro-mechanical assembly service to integrate their castings into nished products ready for direct distribution.
Phil Rawnson, Managing Director and grandson of the Company’s founder, said “We were incredibly honoured to receive the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, particularly in Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday year. It was a great tribute to the skill and hard work of the whole team at MRT, and gave us a
Minesoft is headquartered in Richmond-Upon- Thames, London, with o ces and representation globally.
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MRT focuses on producing complex components for applications in the medical, defence, aerospace and electronics industries. Working in partnership with their customers from the initial component design concept, MRT adds value by managing the complete production supply chain. The company’s foundry produces castings through the gravity and
wonderful opportunity to pause and re ect on our recent achievements. The past few years have been a busy and exciting period in the Company’s history, and the Award was a great motivation
to continue our development to create one of the most innovative and exible production facilities in the global foundry industry.”
The company remains a family owned business and has a highly skilled workforce.
Queen’s Awards Magazine 2017
MRT CASTINGS LTD
South Way, Walworth Business Park, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 5JT, UK Tel: +44 (0)1264 324021
Fax: +44 (0)1264 333773 www.mrt-castings.co.uk
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