Air Products have been named amongst the winners of the Queens Awards for 2006.
The awards, established more than 40 years ago to promote British enterprise as a force for good in the world, are becoming ever more finely tuned to the changing needs of modern business. This is reflected in the diverse range of winners from a $quot;green$quot; printing company to a firm which trains people how to taste beer.
Air Products, which has a depot in Didcot, was given a prize for innovation for its Integra gas cylinders. Air Products says the product was developed as a response to feedback from the metal fabrication industry, is unique to the UK market and was designed to make welding easier and safer.
It features a built-in regulator, is 23 percent lighter and shorter than traditional cylinders (but contains the same gas volume), has a quick-connect gas outlet and a built-in contents gauge.
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