Analysis
UK manufacturing given boost by visit of Penny Mordaunt MP
Harwin was delighted to host a recent visit from Penny Mordaunt, its local Portsmouth North constituency MP. On a fact-finding mission to ‘better understand the needs of the UK manufacturing industry’, Ms. Mordaunt spent an instructive morning at Harwin’s Farlington factory, being shown round by Harwin Chairman Damon de Laszlo and CEO Andrew McQuilken, when she took the opportunity of speaking with many company employees.
CommMs. Mordaunt was impressed by Harwin’s technological capabilities and in its policy of large-scale capital investment, along with its apprenticeship programme. The company was also able to demonstrate its international presence, having recently returned from a highly-successful attendance at the major electronics event Electronica in Munich, where a record number of orders and enquiries were taken.