Press book

North West
Innovation
Mettler Toledo Safeline Limited
Montford Street
Salford
Greater Manchester
M50 2XD
Website: www.mt.com
Employees: 268
Immediate Parent: Mettler Toledo Group, Switzerland
Managing Director: Mr Alan Purvis
Press Contact: Jonathan Richards
Tel: +44(0)161 8751003
Email: jonathan.richards@mt.com
Mettler Toledo Safeline Ltd wins an Innovation Award for developing a line of advanced metal detection products. The applicant started
trading in 1988 serving the food and pharmaceutical industries with detectors to prevent small pieces of metal finding their way into the
food chain. The industry standard is to use detectors tuned to a single radio frequency, the applicant has developed signal generation and
processing techniques to deploy variable and dual-simultaneous frequency detectors. The development effort to achieve this has been
significant with five granted patents and five further disclosures going through the patenting process. The company has close collaboration
with University of Manchester Electromagnetic Tomography Engineering Department, sponsoring several PhDs to underpin its technology.
The new devices have 50% improved detection capabilities and use of these improved detectors allows customers to maintain standards
while avoiding inefficient and costly false positive readings. The company was awarded in the International Trade category in 2012.
Mobysoft Ltd
Manchester One
5th Floor
53 Portland Street
Manchester
M1 3LD
Website: www.mobysoft.com
Employees: 35
Immediate Parent: N/A
CEO: Mr Derek Steele
Press Contact: Adrian Mills
Tel: +44(0)161 9742030
Email: adrian.mills@mobysoft.com
Mobysoft Ltd wins an Innovation Award for development of a software application to help Social Landlords (SL) reduce and prevent costly
rent arrears from their tenants. The applicant’s predictive algorithm audits a SL’s tenant records to identify the most at risk individuals,
in terms of missing future payments, and then prioritises them in order for the income team. Many landlords have tens of thousands
of properties and the income team’s task is to communicate, arrange and collect payments from tenants which can be a huge job.
This provides savings to the clients and streamlines the income team’s work. The software has proved effective and allowed Mobysoft
(established in 2002) to grow rapidly over the last two years.
Powder Systems Limited (PSL)
8 Estuary Bank
Estuary Business Park
Liverpool
Merseyside
L24 8RG
Website: www.powdersystems.com
Employees: 53
Immediate Parent: N/A
Managing Director: Ms Amanda Pitcher
Press Contact: Camille Flores-Kilfoyle
Tel: +44(0)1514 487741
Email: camille.flores@powdersystems.com
Powder Systems Ltd wins an Innovation Award for developing an efficient manufacturing process for microspheres of uniform size and
distribution used in drug delivery. The applicant started trading in 1989 and is an international manufacturer of filtration, drying and containment
solutions. Polymeric microspheres are used as time-released capsules in injectable drugs with a wide range of potential applications from
vaccines, hormones, anti-cancer drugs to diabetes treatment. A non-uniform microsphere mix would make the drug less effective. The
applicant has developed a machine that can efficiently produce sterile, uniform beads of the right size. The process incorporates a number of
steps into a single machine that can scale from small to full commercial production sizes. The machine utilises 98.7% of the pharmaceutical
product, which is very important to manufacturers as every gram of product can be valued at several thousands of dollars.
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