Coltraco Ultrasonics Chairman, Dr Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter OBE, Head of Built Environment, Major Bernard Hornung and Senior Physicist, Mr Daniel Dobrowolski MPhys were delighted to formally be presented the company’s second Queen’s Award for Enterprise by Mr Kevin Traverse-Healy DL Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the City of Westminster.
As a high-exporting advanced manufacturer Coltraco Ultrasonics won the Queen’s Award for International Trade in 2019 and were honoured to win it again in 2022 for Outstanding Growth in international trade over the last three years. Being presented with this award in March 2023 is a great privilege for the company.
Queen’s Award for Enterprise
The Queen’s Award for Enterprise are awarded to UK businesses to recognise their outstanding achievements in the categories of:
- Innovation
- International Trade
- Sustainable Development
- Promoting Opportunity Through Social Mobility
We export 89% of our products to 120 countries both directly and through our Global Network of Partners, Distributors, Agents and Resellers. It was a great honour to win our second award in recognition of our company’s success and resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic.
As with our first award, we see this as a culmination of our vision to:
- To create a happy, dynamic environment for our people, so as to create a sustainable and profitable one
- To hold integrity at our core and apply this throughout our scientific research and commercial operations
- Continue to innovate and drive excellence in our technology and our business methods
It is our mission to “see the sounds that others cannot hear”, enable people to live safer lives and secure critical national infrastructure on land and at sea. We will achieve this by designing and manufacturing world-leading technologies, systems and instrumentation solutions operating in safety-critical environments across the maritime, naval, energy, laboratory, built environment, medical and safety-engineering market sectors.
This award will further support us in delivering on this mission and you can learn more about the Queen’s Award for Enterprise and its impact on the official blog, here.
Chairman Professor Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter OBE commented:
“It was our great honour to receive the Queen’s Award for Enterprise from His Majesty’s Representative in London, the Deputy Lieutenant. The 3 years’ work for which this Award was presented, covers COVID19, during which we placed not 1 member of our team in to furlough and during which we continued to invent and manufacture and support our customers in 120 countries. I warmly congratulate Chloe Barker, Daniel Dobrowolski, Bernard Hornung, Adrian Saw, Benjamin Cowan, Angus Hodgkiss and the entire company for their exceptional work.”
Our Global Distributors Network
We are grateful to each of our distributors network for all their work in partnership with us.
We export 89% of our products to 120 countries across a diverse array of over 25 market sectors from shipping and naval, offshore energy and renewables, mining, and process control, to healthcare and the built environment.
As a global leader in ultrasonic instrumentation, we are proud of our industry-leading products and record. We partner with companies that have vision, energy and the determination to do what is right in a demanding world. Our Distributors experience the opportunity to launch world-first technology to their customers, and benefit from exclusivity in their chosen market sectors.
Our company and each of our distributors are committed to upholding the Safeship™ and Safesite™ principles:
Safeship™: Our instruments are installed on 17% of the world’s 60,000 ships, safeguarding against catastrophic failures by monitoring watertight integrity and ensuring the safe containment of fire-extinguishing gases like CO2. These principles underpin our status as a Safeship™ company in the maritime sector.
Safesite™: Serving over 20 market sectors, our instruments ensure that safety-critical systems—such as gaseous fire suppression systems, sprinkler systems, and process control equipment in high-value assets—function effectively. In the Built Environment, our technology identifies airtightness and energy loss. This commitment makes us a Safesite™ company on land.
