Queen’s Award

HRH The Duke of Kent visited the global headquarters of Malvern Instruments in Malvern, Worcestershire, UK, to present the company with the 2011 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the category of International Trade. During a tour of the Malvern Instruments’ facility the Royal Party was briefed about the company, its history and future plans. They also met staff and saw examples of products and operations. This included a demonstration of the new award-winning Mastersizer 3000 particle size analyser. His Royal Highness then made a formal presentation of the Queen’s Award to Paul Walker, Managing Director of Malvern Instruments. Accepting the award, Paul Walker praised the Malvern teams everywhere, saying: “It is a great pleasure to receive this award and I am delighted for everyone in the company that Malvern Instruments is achieving such public recognition of our international trading success.”