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Two Queen’s Awards for Plextek
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Cambridge based electronics and communications design consultancy, Plextek has won two Queen's Awards for Enterprise in the Innovation and International Trade categories.
Plextek nearly trebled exports over the last three years to an aggregate of £48m and the company has also been recognised for its continued innovation, particularly in the field of wireless technologies.
Colin Smithers (pictured), cofounder and managing director of Plextek comments: "Plextek, by its very nature, sells innovation and for the last 20 years has been continually developing the best and most effective new technologies for our diverse clients. This innovative culture and advanced technology has helped fuel impressive international sales growth, particularly in the US, Far East and Middle East. It's a proud feeling knowing that our talented team's hard work has been recognised and rewarded with not one, but two prestigious Queen's Awards."
Plextek won the Innovation award for continued innovation in all facets of its business of communications system and product design, in particular the commercial application of its UNB technology and various radar based projects.
Plextek's Blighter family of portable and fixed electronic scanning radar systems were selected and purchased last year by the UK Ministry of Defence for an operation requiring intruder detection and target identification. Blighter radars have been sold into Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the US.
The UNB technology has formed the core of a low power transmitter system designed for the UK MOD enabling communications between military vehicles in convoys, with minimum risk of enemy detection. UNB based wireless meter readers, with a battery life of ten years, have also been developed for domestic gas and electricity suppliers. Similar systems based on UNB have been developed to monitor hospital cardiac patients, for controlling street lighting and for covertly monitoring stolen vehicles.
The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious awards for business performance. The Awards are made each year by The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister, who is assisted by an Advisory Committee that includes representatives of Government, industry and commerce, and the trade unions.
