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Technical Services (UK), wins King’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2025

By  Louise Carney  ·  1 minute read
CEA member company Technical Services (UK) have received royal recognition for our outstanding short-term growth in overseas sales. This recognition comes from the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2025, a highly esteemed accolade that acknowledges companies' exceptional performance in international trade.


The family business was founded in 1986 by Gerard McMahon, a Chartered Mechanical, Marine and Automotive Engineer specialising in automotive cooling systems for commercial and off-highway vehicles. With the shift away from combustion engines to electrification, the company now provides complete thermal management solutions for electric and hydrogen fuel cell applications for the automotive, marine, industrial and battery energy storage sectors.

Gerard McMahon, founder of Technical Services (UK) with his wife and children, Joanne Kay and Andrew McMahon (Directors) who have been driving the business forward for the last 15 years.
Within just three years (2021 to 2024), Technical Services (UK) have achieved an outstanding increase of 253% in overseas sales predominantly in Europe and the USA but also developing in Australia, New Zealand, the Middle and Far East. This growth was a result of the company’s strategic response to the growing demand for electrification and the increased use of hydrogen fuel cells across all commercial applications to reduce carbon emissions.

The company’s international strategy, which focuses on design competence, consultancy, supplier partnerships and sharing its engineering expertise at specialist conferences, exhibitions and events, played a significant role in this success.

Through its consultancy work, we plan to expand its customer base overseas by continuing to provide the latest thermal management solutions, including low- and high-voltage systems and new world-class technologies. We will also continue to develop our off-the-shelf thermal management kits for OEMs and its R&D facilities at our Yorkshire premises.

Sales & Engineering Director, Andrew McMahon, who has substantially grown the business and honoured his father’s legacy alongside his sister Joanne Kay (Finance and Operations Director) for over 15 years, is thrilled to have received the King’s Award:

“We are extremely proud of our King’s Award for International Trade, which we will hold for five years as a royal acknowledgement of excellence for the hard work of our team in achieving such a high standard. Awarded to only 116 companies in 2025, it will open further opportunities to consolidate our position in UK Engineering & British Manufacturing as well expand our market internationally. The achievement is a whole-team celebration.”