The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (2007)

The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (2007) was awarded on 21 April 2007, by Queen Elizabeth II.

Recipients edit

The following organisations were awarded this year.[1]

  • Air Products PLC, Packaged Gases Group of Basingstoke, Hampshire for Integra-Maxx gases and cylinders for welding and cutting.
  • Aquapac International Limited of London SE24 for design, manufacture and marketing of waterproof protective cases.
  • Autoflame Engineering Ltd of London SE6 for the Mk6 Evolution MM Combustion Management System.
  • BMP Europe Ltd of Altham, Accrington, for paper transport rollers for high speed digital printers.
  • Baxi Heating UK Ltd (t/a Andrews Water Heaters) of Wednesbury, West Midlands for 'MAXXflo' direct fired high-efficiency condensing stainless steel storage water heater.
  • The Binding Site Ltd of Birmingham, for novel blood test for bone marrow cancer.
  • West Midlands CSR PLC of Cambridge, BlueCore – system-on-chip solutions for bluetooth applications.
  • Care Monitoring 2000 Ltd of Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands for CallConfirmLive!, an IT based monitoring and management service for home care.
  • Charity Financial Services of West Malling, Kent for charitable/financial services to the voluntary sector focusing on small and medium-sized charities.
  • De La Rue Currency of Basingstoke, Hampshire for StarChrome wide windowed optically variable banknote security thread.
  • EA Technology Limited of Capenhurst, Chester for the UltraTEV Detector Partial for discharge instrument for monitoring high voltage equipment.
  • Enterprise Control Systems Ltd of Towcester, Encrypted for COFDM digital video transmission systems.
  • FlavorActiV Limited of Chinnor, Oxfordshire for Taster Validation for scheme to assess and track beer tasters' competencies within breweries.
  • Fortress Interlocks Limited of Wolverhampton, West Midlands for design of 'mGard', a mechanical safety interlocking product.
  • Freeman Technology Ltd of Malvern, Worcestershire for fT4 powder rheometer for measuring the flow properties of powders.
  • James Halstead plc of Radcliffe, Manchester for commercial safety flooring, branded 'Polysafe'.
  • Hickman Industries Ltd of Wolverhampton, for timber system building products.
  • West Midlands i-level Ltd of London SW1 for i-level – changing from a media agency to a commercial agency.
  • International Paint Ltd (Marine Division) of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear for 'Intersleek 700' fouling control coating for use on hulls and propellers of scheduled ships.
  • K2 Medical Systems of Plymouth, Devon for products for improving maternity care.
  • Medi Travelcover Ltd (t/a InsureCancer) of Farnham, Surrey for pioneering insurance underwriting innovation for those affected by cancer.
  • Molecular Profiles Ltd of Nottingham for contract analysis and research services to pharmaceutical and biomedical companies.
  • Motorola Point to Point Fixed Wireless Solutions Group of Ashburton, Devon for wireless point to point transmission equipment delivering broadband.
  • IP OPRO Ltd of Hatfield, Hertfordshire for custom fitted mouthguards allowing for future growth patterns and orthodontics.
  • Optical Metrology Services Limited of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire for Pipe Checker- for accurate laser dimensional measurement of oil, gas and water pipes.
  • Oxford Instruments Nanoanalysis of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire for 'INCADryCool' radical innovation in cooling technology for high performance x-ray detectors.
  • PCME Ltd of St Ives, Cambridgeshire for innovation in the design and distribution of particle emission instrumentation.
  • QRG Limited (t/a Quantum Research Group) of Southampton, Hampshire for electronic touch sensor chips and technology licensing for control surfaces of consumer electronic products.
  • Renishaw plc of Wotton-under-Edge, RMP60 and for rMI spindle probe system.
  • Rockfield Software Limited of Swansea, Wales for elfen-FEM/DEM computational system for simulation of multi-fracturing solids.
  • Rofin-Sinar UK Ltd of Hull, SCx60 sealed diffusion cooled RF excited for cO2 laser.
  • Shackerley (Holdings) Group Limited of Chorley, Lancashire for sureclad aluminium sub-structure for fixing ceramic granite slabs.
  • Snell & Wilcox Ltd of Havant, Hampshire Kahuna Multiformat for sD/HD production switcher.
  • Solagen Limited of Thornbury, Bristol for solar powered highway safety products.
  • Tacktick Ltd of Emsworth, for Hampshire 'Micronet' wireless marine electronics.
  • Taylor Bloxham Limited of Leicester, recently entered into administration, for paint colour cards using the lithographic printing process.
  • Title Research Group Ltd (now known as findmypast) of London EC1 for provision of public internet access to official genealogy records.
  • UPM Machinery Sales Ltd of Langley, Slough, for removal of moisture from hygroscopic materials.
  • Ultra Electronics of Weymouth, Dorset for the Alto family of low cost colour ID card printers for manufacturing and card systems, portrait identity card and badge printing.
  • School of Pharmacy, The University of Nottingham of Nottingham for pharmaceutical applications of nanotechnology.

References edit

  1. ^ Queen's Award – Innovation Archived 6 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine at Business Link