Norfolk, UK-headquartered structural component specialists, Airline Component Services (ACS) is one of this year's winners of the Queen's Award for Enterprise.

The Queen's Awards are the most prestigious business awards in the United Kingdom that celebrate business excellence. They are only awarded to companies who are deemed outstanding in their field and this award for International Trade recognises ACS' outstanding continuous growth in overseas sales over the last six years, which has seen a rise of over 600%.

Technical Director Graham Higgins commented: "Our business is extremely proud and honoured to have received the Queen's Award for Enterprise. It is fantastic to have all the hard work, talent and technical experience of the entire team recognised at such a high level. Quite simply this significant growth over the past six years would not have been possible without their endeavours.

"The award is also a testament to our company's focus on providing specialised technical expertise on aircraft structural components and flying controls. Our commitment to providing and delivering these difficult to source components to our customers has been the foundation of this growth.

This award comes at an exciting time in the success story of our company as we are preparing to move into our new facility at Braintree, Essex. This will enable us to double our capacity for component repair as well as improving our response and delivery times.

I would also like to extend a personal thank you to all our customers and suppliers, without whom this achievement would not have been possible. We look forward to working together to achieve further success to enable us to continue this fantastic growth."