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Queen’s Awards for Industry
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• A device that allows users to avoid queues
• Tragic accidents at sea is now the stuff of sea faring yarns - -
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Awards reveal both breadth and depth
The UK has greater need than ever to draw on its talent to devise world-beating products and services and sell them across the globe, writes Brian Groom
International Trade: Castings group steeled for future
Bonds specialises in the manufacture of heavy steel castings and steel precision castings for the construction, oil and gas, power and marine market sectors, writes Chris Tighe
Taking pride in preventing a fall
Tragic incidents at sea are nowadays the stuff of seafaring yarns, writes Michael Kavanagh
Queue-buster takes strain out of waiting for theme-park thrills
Queueing has become so disliked by US consumers that some will pay up to $500 a day to rent one of Lo-Q’s devices and avoid standing in line with their families at a theme park, writes Virginia Marsh
Related content and features
Winners from across the regions
More stories
Diagnostics group keeps evolving
MacUK Neuroscience, a company founded by a former doctor in the National Health Service, has become a force in the sector in less than a decade, writes Andrew Bounds
Doing rather well over there
Craneware allows hospitals to capture revenue properly and meet strict regulatory requirements over their dealings with government-sponsored entities such as Medicare and Medicaid, writes Andrew Bolger
Soft-drink company gets the recipe right
Mangajo, the green tea and redbush-based soft drinks company had international intentions from the start, writes Harriet Arnold
Icap makes it two
Two Queen’s Awards for International Trade in six years suggest that Icap, an interdealer broker – a middleman in securities trades between banks – is doing something right, writes Charles Batchelor
Innovation Award: Adversity prompts founding of International Health Partners charity
When the devastating tsunami hit in southern Asia at the end of 2004, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of people, Anthony Dunnett stopped taking soundings on his idea and starting acting, writes Andrew Jack
Sustainable Development Award: Mobility enterprise goes the extra smile
The not-for-profit social enterprise recycles used mobility equipment, such as motor scooters, power chairs and bath lifts, with the help of a workforce, several of whose members are severely disabled, writes William Hall
