The Queen's Awards Magazine 2021

AESSEAL

Aerofoil Energy Ltd

Cheshire-based Aerofoil Energy Limitedwas founded in 2014. It pioneered the use of shelf-edge, air-guiding technology to improve the energy efficiency of supermarket refrigeration, a feature of the food retail industry that accounts for 3%of the UK’s entire consumption of electricity.

The company’s patented wing-shaped‘Aerofoils’are deployed in a vertical plane on the front of each shelf of the fridge. Instead of creating lift or downforce, as they would on an aeroplane or racing car, they have the effect of drawing the fridge’s cold air streamback into the cabinet, thereby preventing it spilling into the shopping aisle and wasting energy. Aerofoils now feature

AESSEAL®, amechanical seal manufacturer with its head office in Rotherham, has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for a specialisedmixer seal of the type required in vaccinemanufacture and other complex industrial operations. The Short Canister Mixer Seal is the world’s first Zone 0, 1 and 2 range certified mixer seal, based on a modular platform and capable of sealing the most difficult applications in the world by design. Managing Director and founder, Chris Rea, said: “Without a shadow of doubt a Queen’s Award is the greatest single honour that can be bestowed on a business, and the value to the morale and motivation of myself and my colleagues is incalculable. “Part of our drive for excellence has been the motivation to be able to fly a Queen’s Award for Enterprise flag continuously since 1989, and nowwe will have the right and privilege to be able to do so for the next five years.” AESSEAL Mill Close, Rotherham S60 1BZ Tel: +44 (0) 1709 369966 • enquiries@aesseal.com • www.aesseal.com

Aerofoil Energy installed its one millionth Aerofoil in Sainsbury’s.

in over 4,000 supermarkets and convenience stores and are helpingmajor UK and international retailers, including Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Asda, M&S, Target and Walmart to reduce their energy consumption and associated CO2 emissions. The company has gone on to develop further energy-saving technology for new refrigeration cabinets, which will roll out in 2022. AEROFOIL ENERGY LTD Suite F2.1 Adelphi Mill, Grimshaw Lane, Bollington, Cheshire SK10 5JB Tel: +44 (0)1625 560300 • information@aerofoil-energy.com www.aerofoil-energy.com aerofoil-energy-limited

AlphaBio Control

AlphaBio Control, an Anglo- Italian company based in Cambridge, has just celebrated 10 years as a business that believes safe and effective biopesticides are a central part of the future of agriculture. It found that purified extracts of an olive oil by-product have insecticidal properties that are relevant in important food crops, but crucially have a very low environmental footprint. The product, called FLiPPER®, is different because it offers farmers, retailers and ultimately consumers who wish to see a greening up of agriculture, a low net carbon, safe and effective way of managing a range of plant-feeding insects and the diseases they spread. FLiPPER®

A great vision needs a great team, and AlphaBio Control is lucky to have both.

leaves no residues in any crop and has a very low impact on pollinators and other beneficial insects. This is the first of a pipeline of crop solutions that AlphaBio is bringing to the market, providing growers with the highly effective, low impact tools that will enable them to produce high quality crops in a truly sustainable way.

ALPHABIO CONTROL St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS Tel: +44 (0)1223 911766 info@alphabiocontrol.com @AlphaBioControl @AlphaBio-Control-Limited

All AlphaBio Control products are rigorously tested to ensure they do not have a detrimental impact on wildlife.

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