Excalibur Screwbolts has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.

Managing director Charles Bickford, the inventor of the Excalibur screwbolts, received the award from The Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Lord John Petre of Ingatestone.
Bickford said: “Our products have scores of applications and it is due to the hard work of everybody at Excalibur that we now have a global product and a worldwide name.”
Fewer than 50 awards in the Innovation category are given out each year over the whole.