Jun 26 2008
DuPont Teijin Films (DTF) has been honored as a recipient of the "Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2008" -- the U.K.'s most coveted business award -- for its patented range of Melinex® light-blocking polyester films.
Alan Cook shown with the "Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2008."
The products, which have helped to revolutionize the way that images are prepared for point of sale, exhibition "pop up," and banner stands, were created at DTF's Global Technology Center in Wilton, U.K., and manufactured at a facility in Dumfries, Scotland.
"This success has been possible by identifying a market need and then driving our great technical innovation capability to meet it," said Alan Cook, DTF European market manager.
DTF also received the award in 2003 for its unique development for the global identity card market.
Inaugurated in 1966 as the Queen's Award to Industry, the award was renamed the Queen's Awards for Enterprise and is divided into international trade, innovation and sustainable development categories. The Queen selects the awards each year, on the advice of the Prime Minister, who is assisted by an Advisory Committee that includes representatives of government, industry and commerce, and trade unions.