Acres shortlisted for Manufacturer of the Year 2025 Business Award

We’re delighted to announce that Acres Engineering has been shortlisted as a finalist for Manufacturer of the Year at the 2025 Business Awards for East Staffordshire & South Derbyshire.

With a record-breaking number of entries this year, being selected by the Steering Committee is a fantastic recognition of our team’s craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and customer focus across aerospace, automotive, defence, energy and rail.

“This shortlisting is a credit to our whole team—from design and fabrication to assembly, quality and apprentices,” said Luke Parker, Managing Director. “Thank you to our clients and partners for trusting us with complex, safety-critical projects. We’re proud to be flying the flag for British manufacturing.”

Recognition of our People First approach

At Acres, our success is built on people. This nomination reflects not only our technical capability, but also our long-standing commitment to the People First Pledge. Now in its 10th year, the pledge is our promise to:

• Create opportunities – through apprenticeships, internships, and structured work experience for young people across the region.
• Build skills – by investing in training, mentoring, and continuous professional development for our workforce.
• Support social mobility – by working closely with schools, colleges, and community groups to inspire the next generation of engineers and remove barriers to careers in manufacturing.
• Back our Armed Forces community – as a Gold Award holder under the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, ensuring veterans, reservists, and service families have the opportunities they deserve.

This shortlisting validates the impact of those commitments. It’s not just about the machines and solutions we manufacture—it’s about the culture, values, and people that make them possible.

Looking ahead

Being recognised as a finalist among such strong competition reinforces that Acres is on the right path: delivering engineering excellence while ensuring that people remain at the heart of everything we do.

A huge thank you to the Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce and the awards Steering Committee for this recognition—and congratulations to all fellow finalists. Most of all, thank you to our brilliant team and customers who make achievements like this possible.

We look forward to celebrating the best of regional business in November, and to continuing our mission to grow, innovate, and support our people and our community.

You can read more about the awards and fellow finalists at: https://business-awards.co.uk/awards-and-entries/

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Acres have a range of standard products but also support clients with custom machinery and medium-high volume products such as trolleys, stillages etc. 

We have manufactured lots of different tables / workstations / workbenches for various industries.

We also manufacture access platforms, jigs and fixtures and many other types of production support solutions / products. 

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We are based in the UK from our Headquarters in Derbyshire, England and have a European office in Malaga, Spain within the EU.

 

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