Penlon has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation Category for the Sigma Delta Vaporizer.

A Queen’s Award is recognised as the highest honour that can be bestowed upon a UK business, and to receive one is to be acknowledged as being the best in your field.
The criteria for the Innovation Category includes ‘outstanding innovation resulting in substantial improvement in business performance, sustained over a minimum of two years’.

The award for Delta reflects the unique design and construction of the vaporizer, which gives greatly enhanced responsiveness to changes in gas flow during clinical procedures.
This translates into a product with outstanding performance over the widest range of vapour concentration and temperatures, particularly at low flows. In addition, low body weight, ease of use and a maintenance free system provide improved user efficiency.

Commercially, the vaporizer has been an outstanding success since its introduction in March 2000, with total sales approaching £10 million worldwide, including over £2.5 million to the USA.
Following record sales in 2001, Penlon has opened a new manufacturing site in Abingdon close to its headquarters and assembly facility. To meet increased demand the company has increased its manufacturing capacity by 50% in the last two years.

Peter Tudor, Penlon’s managing director, is proud of the contribution made by the workforce towards the company’s success, ‘None of this would have been possible without the tremendous team spirit that exists at Penlon. All departments work cohesively together to bring new products to the market quickly. The Queen’s Award is recognition that Penlon is a world-class company with world-class products.’