AES Engineering receives King’s Award for Sustainable Development

Tue, 06/05/2025 - 11:10

AES Engineering Ltd has received the King’s Award for Enterprise in the sustainable development category.

This is the 16th Queen’s or King’s award won by AES group companies but the first to be won by the overall holding company.

Group Managing Director and founder Chris Rea said that the King’s Award for AES Engineering was not only a huge honor but was also unusual due to the size of the business, which has 66 subsidiaries operating from 96 branches spread around the world.

A King’s Award is the ultimate establishment to business award and a huge boost to morale and motivation, but this award is particularly special as it encourages AES Engineering Ltd to continue to invest in sustainability, not least of which is our commitment to invest £29 million by 2029 on environmental projects.

By recognising that a UK based group can combine leadership on the environment and sustainability with commercial success these awards can only inspire others to play a greater part in combatting climate change, he added.

AES’s seal support systems have prevented enormous quantities of water being unnecessarily consumed in industrial processes. A total of 42,000 of these systems have been installed around the world over the past decades, saving an estimated 1.6 trillion litres of water – enough to supply the population of South Yorkshire for over 20 years.

These and other savings by companies using group products translate into a reduced carbon footprint and better environmental record by significant sectors of global industry, far outweighing AES’s own direct and indirect energy use, and the cost to the environment of the group’s supply chain.

Previous Queen’s Awards by individual parts of the group have included those for exports and technological achievement. AESSEAL plc has been the recipient of 13 Queen’s Awards over the years, including individual sustainability awards in 2009 and 2022.

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