PRESS
RELEASE - 5th September 2017
Northamptonshire based
Metrosol Limited Receives Queen's Award for Innovative Precision
Thermometers
Northamptonshire based precision instrument company Metrosol
Limited has received the prestigious business accolade of
a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category
for the co-development with Isothermal Technology of its
ground-breaking microK instrument. The award was announced
on the Queen’s birthday and presented on her behalf
by the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire Sir Peter
Ellwood CBE during a visit to Metrosol on 5th September.
The accurate measurement of temperature is vital in a wide
range of applications ranging from human health, energy
production, pharmaceutical manufacture and metals/ceramics
processing to oceanography and environmental science. Metrosol
specialises in the development of the most accurate thermometers
and their flagship microK instruments are used around the
world to establish a reliable temperature scale and provide
the basis for the consistent global measurement of temperature,
which is essential to international trade, science and research.
The microK instrument was the first product developed
by the company with the support of a grant for research
and development from the East Midlands Development Agency
in 2004. Since then it has added new products to the range
and improved the technology so that its instruments can
now measure temperature to a precision of 0.000 02°C.
Over 80% of the microK instruments are exported to both
developed countries such as the USA, China, New Zealand
and Germany as well as developing countries such as Botswana,
Ecuador, Brunei and Papua New Guinea. Sales during the last
5 years have risen by 86% as the product became the instrument
of choice for some of the world’s top standards laboratories.
Founder and managing director Paul Bramley said “This
has been an incredible journey. It started with a lunchtime
conversation with a business associate during which we discussed
the lack of good measurement instruments for the precision
temperature market. Rather than just lamenting the situation
we saw this as an opportunity and were spurred on to meet
the challenge, ultimately leading to today and this prestigious
award. I spent several years working in the back bedroom
as do many start-ups, but the project soon took off and
outgrew the bedroom so that we are now recognised as the
world leader in our industry. All this is the result of
the skills and dedication of the team and our many collaborators
such as Isothermal Technology, the National Physical Laboratory
and Metron Designs as well as many others without whom we
would not have been able to achieve such success. It’s
been a great privilege to work with these fantastic people
and is testament to the creative spirit that I believe characterises
the UK engineering sector; we may struggle to manufacture
consumer products in the UK but we punch well above our
weight in innovation and product design.”
Further information from:
Tessa Taylor
Metrosol Limited
Plum Park Estate
Watling Street
Paulerspury
Northamptonshire
NN12 6LQ
T: 01327 810284
E: tessa.taylor@metrosol.co.uk
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