Chelmsford company E2V Technologies has won two Queen's Awards for international trade to add to the string of accolades won as EEV.
The firm employs 1,200 people in Waterhouse Lane and has a smaller branch in Lincoln.
One award goes to the Waterhouse Lane imaging group which uses charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to reduce the need for dental X-rays.
The other has been given to the therapy division, which produces special megatrons - high-powered valves - for use in radiotherapy machines.
The former EEV started using CCDs in dental applications 11 years ago. All production is currently exported, with sales more than doubling in the last three years to £2.6 million.
This is despite strong competition and alternative technologies from markets in Italy, France, the United States, Korea and Russia. The company has forged many close relationships with manufacturers as well as dental schools.
The therapy group's low-power linear accelerator has increased overseas earnings by 95 per cent in three years and accounts for 99 per cent of turnover.
In the US, Germany, Japan and China, E2V is the only foreign manufacturer in the market and has doubled sales in two years.
The Chelmsford firm is one of only 23 in the East of England to receive the Queen's Award in 2003. Keith Attwood, managing director of the company which split from the old Marconi company in a management buyout last year, said that the firm was immensely proud.
He said: "These products are almost exclusively exported and underlines that we have world class expertise here in UK design and manufacture."
Published Friday, April 25, 2003
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