Leicestershire-based JJ Churchill (www.jjchurchill.com) has received a ‘Trusted to Deliver Excellence’ award from Rolls-Royce.

The family-owned precision engineering business serves the aerospace and defence sectors and has more than 80 years’ experience of producing gas turbine blades from forgings, castings and solid billet. It was one of four companies to be presented with the coveted award by Rolls-Royce this year.

Mark Cooper, Churchill’s managing director, said: “We have worked hard to deliver change within our business over the past three years.

"Our partnership with Rolls-Royce and their acknowledgement of our dedication to best practice, efficiency and innovation is reflected in this award.”

The Rolls-Royce award scheme covers key partners and suppliers, focusing on shared goals on communication, principles of good business practice, benchmarking transparency, integrity and honesty across all aspects of the business.

Mr Cooper continued: “Effective management of our pipeline — from order to delivery — is pivotal to our partnership with Rolls-Royce, as is our commitment to engineering excellence and transparent communication.

"This award has undoubtedly been a team effort, which would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of our whole workforce.

"It reveals much about the JJ Churchill attitude to our stakeholders and our innovative and sustained approach to improved systems and processes.”