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19th June 2024

Briggs of Burton feature in the English Whisky Guild’s annual review

We take pride in being founding members of the English Whisky Guild (EWG). Earlier this year, we proudly hosted the inaugural meeting of the Guild’s Founding Associate Members at our Global Technical Centre in Burton-upon-Trent.

We are excited to share the EWG’s Annual Review, which features Briggs of Burton and McMillan Coppersmiths and Fabricators on Page 23, which you can read here.

The EWG promotes best practices in the English whisky industry. As members, we support a vibrant community of producers, sharing achievements and insights for the collective benefit of English whisky.

At Briggs of Burton, we are committed to delivering safe, efficient, and sustainable distilling projects.


About Briggs of Burton

If you have eaten or drunk it there is a chance that Briggs of Burton has helped to produce it. Briggs are the engineers behind supplying the equipment, engineering and automation to the world’s largest food, alcoholic beverage, and pharmaceutical manufacturers

Today Briggs employs over 350 colleagues across six sites in the UK, Scotland, USA, Mexico, China, and Australia. The team deliver turnkey engineering projects for leading household brands covering North America, Europe, Central America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. Briggs’ benefits from a global network of stainless-steel manufacturing facilities, including their own located in Burton on Trent and Prestonpans, Scotland.

Briggs is actively developing sustainable engineering solutions, focusing on their customer’s requirements towards carbon neutrality. 

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