Great honour for Heraeus Noblelight Ltd, of Cambridge. On the birthday of Queen Elizabeth the company has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for its development of an automated manufacturing process for flash lamps. The process has led not only to greater production yields and manufacturing flexibility but also to improved product consistency and extended lamp lifetimes. Commercially, it has helped the company to increase its market share in the face of overseas competition and reinforce its position as the global technology leader in its field.
The formal presentation of the Award will be made by the Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, later this year and all the Award winners will attend a special reception at Buckingham Palace in the summer.
Heraeus Noblelight will present flash lamps at World of Photonics in Munich in June in Hall B1 booth 313.
„We feel very honoured to receive this award,“ says Debbie Playle, managing director of Heraeus Noblelight in Cambridge, „It acknowledges the hard work and expertise of a company which has been at the forefront of lamp technology since it was founded in Cambridge in 1978. The manufacturing process itself took around five years to develop. Utilising our global leadership position has allowed the company to re-invest and transition from being simply a component supplier to a solutions provider. Today our lamps find application in areas as diverse as printed electronics, the annealing of silicon wafers, Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP), ink curing and drying and other rapid photonic processes“.
Flash lamps deliver high power radiation from Ultra-Violet to Infra-Red and historically the main application areas have been in Solid State Laser pumping and Intense Pulse Light (IPL). The manufacture of flash lamps, has traditionally relied on mechanical skills to produce the glass-to-metal seals and meet the very tight tolerances. The new manufacturing process is the first that combines modern electrical, mechanical and software components in single piece flow production cells, using proprietary auto-assembly equipment to replicate manual tasks.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise
This is the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s Awards, which provide an opportunity to celebrate and encourage excellence in UK business. The awards are presented for outstanding achievements by UK businesses in one of three categories. These are:
– Innovation
– International trade
– sustainable development
To receive the accolade in the innovation category, a business has to demonstrate either
– outstanding innovation, continued over at least 2 years
– continuous innovation and development over at least 5 year Award winners may use the prestigious Queen’s Award emblem on all literature and goods for five years, to acknowledge their success.
Firmenkontakt und Herausgeber der Meldung:
Heraeus Noblelight GmbH
Heraeusstraße 12-14
63450 Hanau
Telefon: +49 (6181) 35-8492
Telefax: +49 (6181) 8410
http://www.heraeus-noblelight.com
Ansprechpartner:
Juliane Henze
Abteilung Marketing/Werbung
+49 (6181) 35-8539
Patricia Bernard
Heraeus Kulzer GmbH
+49 (6181) 35-3561
Knuth Kersken
+49 (6181) 35-5396
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Automated Flashlamp Production At Heraeus
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