EV innovation
A global leader in complex aluminium sand castings has secured the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation after pioneering a new breakthrough in developing lightweight structures for electric vehicles. Casting breakthrough fuels King’s Award
Grainger & Worrall, which employs 525 people at its state-of-the-art facility in Bridgnorth, is one of only 46 organisations to be recognised in the high-profile category and this latest ‘win’ follows three previous Queen’s Award successes. The company’s critical role in supporting the world’s pursuit for lightweight components played a key role in its recent triumph. Significant investment in R&D, combined with the firm’s unrivalled technical expertise, has seen it develop ‘gigacastings’, which not only reduce vehicle weight but also enhance structural performance and ease of assembly.
Grainger & Worrall has developed methods to produce prototype gigacastings rapidly and consistently so that they perform like ‘die- castings’ made for high volume cars and off highway production. This gives customers the opportunity to test vehicle designs quickly before committing to expensive production equipment. “There is no bigger business accolade than the King’s Award for Enterprise, so we are thrilled and honoured to claim our fourth award, an achievement that puts us in an elite group of companies that have won so many,” explained
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