Lorien Underpins Growth With
Senior Management Appointments
Lorien Engineering Solutions has Steve Slater, Managing Director at Lorien, At the same time, the business welcomed
announced two key appointments to its said: “It’s very pleasing to recognise the more than 20 new customers to its
UK-based management team. development of our people and to reward burgeoning portfolio and has continued
them with promotions that enable further to invest in the skills, training and
expansion of the business. I’m sure that development of its staff as well as
both Phil and Jonathan will excel in their attracting more professional engineers to
new roles.” its ranks.
Lorien Engineering Solutions, a division of Steve Slater added: “We’ve learned
GP Strategies Corporation, specialises in through the years that businesses
capital projects for food, brewing, drinks, cannot afford to stand still. It’s an
life sciences, advanced manufacturing, ongoing process of business innovation,
logistics and safety compliance. supported by investment in both people
The multi-disciplined engineering and
project management business has
appointed Phil Colquhoun as Head of
Projects and Jonathan Cannon as Process
Engineering Manager.
The promotions follow a record-breaking
year for Burton on Trent-based Lorien,
with revenues up by 11% and a best-ever
sales performance in 2017.
Both Phil and Jonathan are internal
appointments, in keeping with the ethos
of the business to develop talent and
to promote from within. The new role
of Head of Projects has been created
to manage the company’s expanding
projects portfolio.
Lorien’s revenues in the UK and Poland
and technology.
increased by 11% during 2017, and with a “We are fortunate to have the backing
best-ever sales performance, it was the of our parent company, GP Strategies,
most successful year in the firm’s 33- in providing a broader range of CapEx
year history. services, across a greater geography to
our clients, alongside an excellent team
of engineers both here in the UK and in
Poland.”
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