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Vistage member Nick Heaton of Envirovent wins Queen's Award for Innovation

Written by sgilroy | 06/10/09 14:06

 

EnviroVent – the UK’s leading manufacturer of low energy, sustainable domestic ventilation equipment – has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, the country’s most prestigious annual prize for business success.

One of a handful of companies in the UK to be awarded a 2009 Queen’s Award for Innovation, Harrogate-based EnviroVent was praised for its work developing and manufacturing the unique EnviroVent Filterless Extract Fan which has revolutionised the extractor fan market.

Nick Heaton, managing director of EnviroVent said:
“We are all incredibly proud of achieving this renowned award as years of work have gone into building the success of the EnviroVent Filterless Extract Fan and our other innovative, sustainable Lifetime Range® products. The Queen’s Award will undoubtedly add commercial value to our company and give us an advantage over our competitors. 2009 was already proving to be a good year and this accolade will help us with our expansion into new markets.”