Malvern Instruments gains Queen's Award

Malvern Instruments a world leading supplier of analytical instruments, has been presented with the 2006 Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade.
Malvern Instruments gains Queen's Award Malvern Instruments a world leading supplier of analytical instruments, has been presented with the 2006 Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade. At a ceremony held on Friday 7 July, Michael Brinton, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, presented the 2006 Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade to Paul Walker, managing director of Malvern Instruments. The presentation took place at the company's global headquarters located on Malvern's Enigma Business Park, following a tour of the manufacturing facility.

Accepting the award, Walker had words of praise for the Malvern Instruments teams around the world, saying, 'This a great achievement and my thanks go to everyone in the company for their hard work and commitment.

The Queen's Award is highly prestigious and reflects our continuing development as a global organisation.' Malvern is a world leading supplier of analytical instruments that are used to characterise a wide range of different materials.

The company's 2006 Queens' Award for Enterprise was announced on 21 April this year, the 80th birthday of Her Majesty the Queen's and is Malvern's fourth such honour.

Previously the company has received: The Queen's Award for Technology in 1977; The Queen's Award for Export in 1981; and The Queen's Award for Export and Technology in 1988.

Facing the future with confidence, Walker anticipated continued growth.

'Having achieved an international reputation for our products and service, business is expanding throughout the world.

Like many companies we are pushing forward in Asia, South America and other rapidly developing economies and the future looks extremely promising.' * About Malvern Instruments - Malvern Instruments is a global company that develops, manufactures and markets advanced analytical systems used in characterizing a wide variety of materials, from bulk powders to the latest nanomaterials and delicate macromolecules.

Innovative technologies and powerful software produce systems that deliver industrially relevant data enabling customers to make the connection between micro (e g, particle size) and macro (bulk) material properties (rheology) and chemical composition (chemical imaging).

Malvern laboratory, on-line and in-line solutions are proven in sectors from cement to pharmaceuticals and support the understanding, improvement and optimization of many industrial processes.

Headquartered in Malvern, UK, the company has subsidiary organizations in all major European markets, North America, China, Korea and Japan, key partnerships in India, a global distributor network and a number of applications laboratories around the world.