Penlon, a small Oxfordshire-based company which claims to be the only UK-based independent manufacturer of anaesthesia systems, was recently awarded a 2010 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in international trade for its “continued record growth” and commercial success in overseas markets, where its revenues have “more than doubled” over the past six years.
The business, for which this is the fourth Queen’s Award, exports over 60% of its production to over 90 countries worldwide. Among its overseas projects have been supplying the first liquid oxygen contract to Sri Lanka for five regional hospitals following the 2006 tsunami, and installing medical pipelines into 12 new hospitals in Iraq.
