News
- Titlee2v Triumphs Again
- Date19 September 2006
e2v held a Queen's Award Luncheon Ceremony at their Waterhouse Lane, Chelmsford premises on Thursday, 14th September to celebrate the Company's 12th Queen's Award. The Luncheon was well-attended by some 80 people, including HM Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Lord Petre, Chairman of Essex County Council, CLLR Gerard McEwen, the Mayor of Chelmsford,Cllr Margaret Hutchon and other invited guests and employees involved in the production of L3Vision™ CCDs and cameras.
HM Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Lord Petre presented e2v's CEO, Keith Attwood, with the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise, Innovation category, in recognition of outstanding business performance and technical excellence in the product design and manufacture of L3Vision™ technology.
Keith Attwood commented that “this is a valuable and well deserved recognition for our innovative engineering teams and the creative talents of all of our employees. We have a long history in Chelmsford and are very proud of our individual and team achievements”.
The winning technology is used in e2v's expanding range of L3Vision™ Charge Coupled Device (CCD) sensors. These sensors can achieve outstanding performance in low light conditions enabling new advances in life science research. The technology allows high resolution imaging for astronomical, surveillance, reconnaissance and security applications and is supplied either as sensors for further integration into customers' camera systems or as complete cameras.
Winning the prestigious Queen's Award entitles the holder to use the Queen's Awards emblem as a mark of this achievement.
Upon leaving the Luncheon each of the attendees were given an engraved commemorative paperweight to mark the Queen's Award ceremony.
