Press book

East Midlands
Innovation
CommAgility Ltd
Charnwood Building
Holywell Park
Ashby Road
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3AQ
Website: www.commagility.com
Employees: 20
Immediate Parent: N/A
Managing Director: Mr Edward Young
Press Contact: Nick Daines
Tel: +44(0)7958 534731
Email: nick.daines@commagility.com
CommAgility Ltd wins a Queen’s Award for Innovation for its development of a wideband, high performance and highly flexible dualchannel
radio frequency (RF) module. The innovation is known as the AMC-RF2x2 and has been developed for designers of fourth
generation (4G) wireless applications. The product allows customers to concentrate on building solutions rather than having to develop
their own RF test cards. This labour saving reduces the overall solution cost and increases the customer’s available market. Customers are
able to concentrate on the value-add of their software, thus improving their competitiveness, and use their resources to implement new
features. Sales of the product have grown rapidly and it now represents approximately 12% of the company’s turnover. The applicant was
established in 2006 and has previously won a Queen’s Award for International Trade (2013).
Inni Ltd
1 Derwent Business Centre
Clarke Street
Derby
Derbyshire
DE1 2BU
Website: www.inniaccounts.co.uk
Employees: 13.5
Immediate Parent: N/A
Co-founder: Mr James Poyser
Press Contact: Samantha Crowe
Tel: +44(0)7855 943019
Email: sam@makeitbe.co.uk
Inni Ltd has been given an Innovation Award for developing a cloud based accounting system, LiveCash. LiveCash unites a number of
external data sources such as bank account feeds, mileage rates and VAT rates to run all the many thousands of transactions a business
may be processing against HMRC’s often changing legislation in just two seconds. It is exhaustive in its calculations and produces
a complete financial and tax position with 100% accuracy on demand. Inni Ltd started trading in 2007 and provides clients with the
means to quickly access their vital financial information and present it in the clearest possible way. This helps customers to stay on top
of upcoming bills and provides the means to investigate the details of income and expenditure. This is only possible if all tax liabilities are
computed, including PAYE, Corporation Tax and VAT. It is the clear transparency of their financial information to small companies at any
time, which is a key innovation.
JCB Power Systems Ltd
1000 Park Avenue
Foston
Derbyshire
DE65 5BX
Website: www.jcbpowersystems.com
Employees: 233
Immediate Parent: JCB Excavators Limited, United Kingdom
Director, Engine Programmes: Mr Alan Tolley
Press Contact: Nigel Chell
Tel: +44(0)1889 593592
Email: nigel.chell@jcb.com
JCB Power Systems wins an Innovation Award for the development of its Ecomax engine family. JCB Power Systems (a division of the
construction vehicle manufacturer JCB) was established in 2004 and specialises in the development and manufacture of engines and power
units. New regulations reduced the acceptable levels of engine emissions for many construction, industrial and agricultural machines. JCB
Power Systems responded to this by developing a novel combustion system using new technology and sophisticated computer control which
is today rewarded with the Queen’s Award for Innovation. The Ecomax family of engines is unique amongst its competitors in that the new and
innovative combustion process prevents the creation of emissions in the first place, rather than eliminating them later using after treatment such
as a catalyst or a filter. The engines meet the regulatory standards and are ten percent more fuel efficient than their predecessors. Since 2010
JCB has saved customers more than one billion litres of fuel through the introduction of more efficient machine operating.
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