Pictured: Andrew Bridgen, MP (right), with Zeeko's managing director, Richard Freeman, in front of one of the company's Intelligent Robot Polishers

The Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire, Andrew Bridgen, paid a recent visit to Zeeko, Coalville, a manufacturer of very high precision polishing and measuring machines. The company was one of this year's winners in the Innovation category of the Queen's Awards for Enterprise.

Mr Bridgen said: "It is a pleasure to visit a business that has earned one of the UK's most prestigious awards. It is continuing to innovate and remains at the leading edge of its business. I wish Zeeko all the best for the future."

The MP has nominated the company for Parliament's Associate All Party Manufacturing Group Made by Britain initiative. He has named the company's product as the best example of manufacturing in his constituency.

Zeeko specialises in the manufacture of polishing machines that are used to make high precision optics, orthopaedic joints, semiconductor products and precision moulds. The company's winning entry at the Queen Awards was its Optic Fabrication Centre, a corrective polisher with integrated measuring capability. Based on Vulcan Way, Coalville, Zeeko has just celebrated its tenth anniversary.

Mr Bridgen concluded, "Zeeko has progressed from being a start-up company with innovative technology for polishing ultra-precision surfaces for telescope mirrors and other optical surfaces, to become a market leading company with a wide polishing and metrology product portfolio that competes impressively in a global market place. 

"The company is an innovative, young and dynamic technology-based business with globally protected intellectual property extending to over 52 worldwide patents."