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MAXX Awarded as a TOP-100-Innovator
Xylem Celebrates Top Spot in Nottingham Post Top 200 Companies
Leading global water technology provider Xylem (UK) has been ranked 22 out of the top 200 Nottinghamshire companies for 2016, by the Nottingham Post, up seven places from last year.
The rankings are based on research from staff at the Industrial Economics and Finance Division of the Nottingham University Business School, which determines the largest firms in the region. The top 200 companies collectively contribute over £29 billion to the local economy and employ more than 200,000 people. To be eligible, companies must be active and have a registered office within Nottinghamshire.
Duncan Lewis, Managing Director at Xylem, says: “We’ve worked hard to improve our ranking over the last year and we’d like to thank everyone for their support. As a company we are dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues and Nottingham has been our hub for innovation.
For the 23rd time the TOP 100 most innovative German mid-sized companies are honoured, and MAXX (Germany) is amongst this innovations-elite this year. The company participated in an ambitious, scientific selective process, in which the innovations-management and the innovations- success had been analysed. The mentor of this innovations- competition, Ranga Yogeshwar honoured the TOP-Innovators on 24th of June in Essen. MAXX mainly convinced the jury with their innovations-success, 85 per cent of the turnover the environmental-technology-company is gaining with novelties in their own sector and with innovative improvements, launched in the market before the competitors did. MAXX actually is the market leader in Germany and is one of the leading-group members in environmental technology business worldwide.
With 27 employees the TOP-Innovator from Rangendingen in Baden Württemberg develops and produces automatic samplers for water, waste water and surface water for quality monitoring. The company established in 1997 landed a coup in changing the design of the devices. Together with a technical product designer MAXX changed the look and ergonomics of portable samplers.
“We were totally surprised, about the positive resonance of our clients”, Managing Director Karl-Heinz Walz reports. “If the client is faced with two similar standard devices, they will always go for the most appealing one.”
As the samplers are much handier now, they are easier to carry, which is a positive aspect for the laboratory employees. Such novelties are the result of a well-organised process: During the first meeting with the client, the sampling-experts won’t ask which device the client wants to have, they try to figure out which problem has to be solved. Management, technicians and the production work together neatly, to reach for the best possible solution.
This year more than 4000 companies were interested in the competition TOP100 , 366 applied for the qualification round. 284 made it to the Finals, 238 reached the TOP100 (maximum 100 in each magnitude) The rating is made by Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke and his team at the university of economics in Vienna in the following categories: Innovation- promoting-Management, Innovation-climate, Innovative process and organization, Innovation-Marketing/Exterior-Orientation and Innovation-success. The TOP100 are the pacemakers in their business. Amongst the honoured enterprises 97 are national market leaders and 32 world-market-leaders. Percentually these companies achieved 40 per cent of their turnover through market novelties and productinnovations launched on the market before the competitors. The increase of the turnover has been 28 per cent above the average of the branch. Altogether their companies signed in for 2.292 patents.
The innovational power also pays off in jobs. The TOP100 are planning to employ 9.500 new employees in the next three years. The Mentor of TOP 100 Ranga Yogeshwar is impressed of the quality of the companies and is hoping for a signal-effect. “The way the TOP 100 generates new ideas and pioneering products and services is remarkable. It is good to see that this award visualizes this quality.” “Hopefully your success encourages other companies, to follow your way. As the innovation culture is becoming more and more precious for all enterprises in the future.”
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“The top 200 list highlights the great work delivered by companies in the region that are really putting Nottingham on the map. It’s a celebration and we couldn’t be prouder to be a part of it. Congratulations to all the other companies who made it to the top 200 and here’s to another great year ahead.”
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39549pr@reply-direct.com Edinburgh Instruments Appoints New CEO
Techcomp (Europe) Ltd has appointed Dr Roger Fenske as the new CEO of Edinburgh Instruments. Roger has worked for EI for over 14 years and brings a wealth of customer application and technology experience to the role.
Since Techcomp acquired EI in 2013, the business has launched several new products, including the FS5 Spectrofluorometer, and expanded into new manufacturing facilities at their Livingston site.
Roger replaces the outgoing CEO Mark Vosloo who led the re- organisation of the operations following the acquisition.
Techcomp Europe CEO Chris O’Connor commented on the appointment, “Roger is well known in the Fluorescence world as a regular guest speaker at international scientific conferences and training seminars. During his successful career with EI, he has personally installed more than 240 systems for leading research institutes in over 30 countries. I am delighted that he now takes the lead role in this business and will oversee an exciting period
of new technology and product innovation. I would also like to thank Mark for his valuable contribution during an important transition period”.
Roger added, “EI has an unrivalled position in TCSPC Fluorescence and laser research. Following a sustained period of investment from Techcomp, I am excited to be taking over as CEO to oversee a busy period of new product introduction and further expansion”.
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Autoscribe Informatics (UK) is delighted to announce a record order intake for its Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) in the USA. Results for the 6 months to April 2016 showed a total increase of orders of 161%, with April itself showing the highest ever order book for a single month.
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Autoscribe Informatics President, John Boother, said: “This is the latest step in a period of sustained growth for the company. It is a just reward for the effort we have put in to growing the business in the USA. We have increased our sales and support team there and they have worked tirelessly to provide our customers with LIMS that exactly meet their requirements. While this is greatly facilitated by the configuration tools provided in Matrix Gemini, it is still vitally important that our team works closely with customers to fully understand their current and future needs and ensure that systems we provide are exactly fit for purpose.”
“Similarly we have seen significant growth in our support business as well as system orders, which is also very pleasing”, he continued. “The flexibility of Matrix Gemini means that we are happy to work with laboratories with hugely differing needs. We have worked with single users right up to organisations with multiple laboratories at different sites.”
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