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4th October 2023

IMechE Food and Drink Engineering Committee Visit Briggs

Thank you to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Food and Drink Engineering Committee and Giles Hartill CEng FIMechE for visiting our Global Technical Centre last week.

George Crombie and Robert Buxton hosted the committee, providing an exclusive tour of our Global Technical Centre and Pharmaceutical Systems Assembly (PSA) facility, demonstrating our continued investment towards UK Engineering and Manufacturing.

The committee were particularly impressed by Briggs’ global reach and the positive impact they have created in the Food, Beverage and Pharmaceutical industries delivering large scale projects in various locations around the world offering sustainable engineering and equipment solutions to several blue chip clients.

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

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