Ashtree Glass has been awarded the Queens award for enterprise for exports.
The official citation reads: "Ashtree Glass Limited was established in 1977 and is concerned with the design and manufacture of commercial vehicle rear view mirrors, providing these to medium volume producers of vehicles such as buses, trucks, agricultural machinery, construction equipment and fork trucks.
"It wins the Award for the first time for its outstanding achievement in export sales growth, achieving an 86% growth in overseas earnings.
"Ashtree Glass maintains a competitive edge by cutting its own mirror glasses, instead of buying them in as most of its competitors do.
"As a niche manufacturer, Ashtree operates a strategy that concentrates on its strengths, which are supplying competitively priced high quality products and flexibility in designing and manufacturing what the customer requires, in order to open new markets and consolidate others."
