Multifab Metals are pleased to announce they have just been awarded their biggest export order. The contact is to supply Water Filtration Plants to a UK based company which will be exported to the Middle East.

The treatment plants are to be installed adjacent to villages and settlements that have no running water. They are able to covert low grade contaminated water to drinking water via a 3-stage filtration and dosing process. Managing Director Franc D'Agnano said ' We have successfully formed a partnership with a UK based Middle Eastern Company who have developed this system. They are looking to build generic systems that can be installed to serve towns and villages of all sizes in order to provide healthy water which is essential for day to day life. We see this first contract to provide two clarifiers and two sand filter tanks as an initial step to a long and fruitful partnership which will make a real difference to thousands of individuals". The system is due to be exported from the UK in December for installation overseas early in the new year.

Multifab has recently completed the manufacture of a 75 cubic metre fuel storage tank for Peterborough City Council.

The tank shall be installed at John Clare Primary School in the village of Helpston on the outskirts of Peterborough and shall be filled with a newly formed fuel, namely wood pellets, which shall be conveyor fed into a new state of the art boiler system provided by Remeha Broag to supply heating and hot water throughout the school.

This new environmentally friendly fuel type will radically reduce the Schools CO2 emissions whilst also saving costs as an alternative to ever increasing primary fuel sources.

Multifab Managing Director Franc D'Agnano said " This is one of the first fuel conversions of this type in the Country and certainly the first in this area. As we specialise in bespoke and unusual work this project was perfect for us. We are very pleased to be contributing to the environment in some small way and hope to work on further projects with Remeha Broag (Boiler Manufacturers) and Peterborough City Council on other similar projects.

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	WE'VE WON
	Company director Steve Crowson and his wife, Lisa, share the overwhelming emotional moment when he heard his firm had won first prize in the best small business category. Picture: PAUL FRANKS
	MULTIFAB TEAM
	WINNERS: Steve Robertson, of Business Link, second left, presenting the directors of Mulifab Metals Engineering, from left, Adrian Crowson, Steve Crowson and Franc D'Agnano.
	JUDGING CRITERIA
	THE Small Business of the Year Award is given to the business which has increased its profitability and potential over the latest financial year. The size and age of such an enterprise is considered against the financial performance. The judges were also interested in innovative products, services or processes, and expansion into new markets and areas of business activity.

It was the ultimate accolade for Steve, his brother Adrian Crowson and Franc D'Agnano, who are founder directors of Multifab Metals Engineering Ltd in Peterborough.

The entrepreneurs had come back to the awards with a fiery determination to make it to the top spot after acquiring a taste for success when they reached the finals last year.

And so it's no surprise that the team was ecstatic to be called on stage to collect the coveted award from host presenter Dermot Murnaghan and Steve Robertson, of the sponsors, Business Link for Cambridgeshire.

Steve was lost for words, but his brother Adrian said: "We tried to win this award last year, and we're absolutely overjoyed to get it this time.

"This is another 12 months on, and in that time we have learned a great deal. Our business has gone from strength to strength, and gets better and better. It's always down to the people that work for you."

Franc added: "We have been driven by the desire to achieve even more than last year, and this is absolutely fantastic."

Multifab Metals Engineering Ltd began trading in December 2001 as a three-man partnership between Franc, Steve and Adrian.

It continuously increased its sales figures by huge margins for its first three years, and in 2004/5 notched up a £1 million turnover – representing an increase of 45 per cent on the previous year.

In the last 12 months alone they have invested in new machinery, increased the volume and diversity of their client base, and purchased a 16,000 sqft factory unit in Newark Road, Fengate, Peterborough, where they relocated in September. They have taken on an extra four staff, bringing their total workforce up to 10 people.

More than 230 of the region's business leaders attended the glittering gala dinner at Peterborough's Moat House Hotel, to mark a decade of business excellence.

Dermot Murnaghan, presenter of BBC Breakfast, was this year's guest host at the event which began with a champagne reception sponsored by Badenoch & Clark, followed by a sumptuous four-course meal.