Yorkshire Business Masters 2011: Vote for your Yorkshire Innovator

AN ELECTRIC motor manufacturer, a medical lighting specialist and a company that has developed technology that stops the body rejecting implanted tissues have been shortlisted in the Yorkshire Innovator category in TheBusinessDesk.com’s Yorkshire Business Masters 2011 awards.

Readers are being invited to vote for who they would like to win from the shortlisted entries.

Every day this week we are profiling the entries shortlisted across the six categories.

Readers of TheBusinessDesk.com have the opportunity to vote online for the entries that impress them the most before the awards are presented at the Yorkshire Business Masters 2011 event at Aspire, in Leeds, on June 16.

The shortlist in each category was drawn up by a panel of judges chaired by Andrew Palmer of the CBI with Yorkshire Forward chair Julie Kenny; Finance Yorkshire chairman and Sheffield City Region LEP chairman James Newman; Yorkshire International Business Convention founder Mike Firth; Stephen Martin, chief executive of Clugston Group and Paul Fullerton, agent for the Bank of England in Yorkshire.

The Yorkshire Innovator award rewards the most creative or original business thinking.

Yorkshire Innovator:

ATB Morley

Founded 1897, ATB Morley develops and manufactures top of the range high voltage electric motors, which are designed, manufactured and built to order at facilities in Leeds, Bradford and Stockport, principally for the coal industry.

The company’s unique products have made it a world leader in its niche markets, and it is highly profitable. ATB does not produce standardised products for its customers but rather tailors its products to clients needs.

ATB Morley employs more than 200 people and is currently exploring ways in which to sponsor an award or placement in a higher education establishment to encourage science and technology education.

It now exports some 80% of its turnover worldwide – with exports exceeding £6m in China – which was recognised in 2009 with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade as the business doubled its exports over a three year period.

Last year, the company was rewarded with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category. Among its products is a water cooled motor which provides an alternative greener version to the air cooled motor design and it is also developing motors for other special industrial applications, such as defence and products for the renewable market.

Brandon Medical

Leeds-based Brandon Medical is the number one UK market leader in medical lighting, and is in the top three for its other product areas of medical AV systems, medical architectural equipment and medical control and power systems.

It has developed two technologies that differentiate it from its major competitors: HD-LED and Symposia Audio Visual Systems.

HD-LED (High Definition LED) is a lighting technology patented by Brandon Medical. It is aimed at solving the fundamental problems of poor colour rendition and thermal management that inhibits LEDs being used for energy saving lighting.

Brandon claims HD-LED can reduce the energy consumed for lighting by more than 80% and can be used both in surgical theatres and for wider uses. 

Brandon Medical was awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise in the Innovation Category last year for its HD-LED technology.

Brandon Medical has also developed Symposia, the world’s first fully integrated medical tele-video system for healthcare.

Tissue Regenix

Tissue Regenix is a company that focuses on delivering practical solutions to real clinical issues using its patented dCELL process.

Its technology is already in use clinically and there is a pipeline of products to address significant medical market opportunities.

The dCELL process removes foreign cells and DNA and provides a matrix that repopulates with patients’ own cells once its implanted – integrating into the patient’s own tissues.

The company was launched as a spinout company from the University of Leeds in 2006. It joined the AIM market in 2010 through a reverse takeover of Oxeco and has raised £4.5m through a placing that it is using to develop its product pipeline.

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