Past Awards winners
Take a look at the brilliant winners from previous Lab Awards. You can read through the judges comments and reasons that the winner took home the trophy.
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2022 winners
The Best Stand Award | Scientific Laboratory Supplies
SLS won this award due to their striking stand, their multiple industry partners who hosted pods on their stand, interactive elements and more!
The Best Sustainable Stand Award | Scientific Laboratory Supplies
SLS won this award due to a number of factors, a few of which include; their stand is reusable and has been gracing the Lab Innovations show floor since 2016, all of their gifts onsite were made out of recycled materials, and they were planting a tree for every visitor to their stand!
The Best Exhibitor Marketing Campaign Award | Analytix
Analytix created a fantastic end-to-end marketing campaign focused on their participation at the show, resulting in the highest number of visitors coming to the show specifically to see them!
The Red Swan Partners Award for Commitment to Skills & Training | Elemental Microanalysis
The judges said Elemental Microanalysis’ entry showed a “ Substantial positive impact through training for staff, customers and channel partners with ongoing support with an impressive track record…”
The Kimtech Sustainable Product Award | Grenova
The judges commended Grenova for “intelligently and proactively helping to reduce biohazard waste by delivering ground breaking approaches to dealing with plastic consumables.”
The Diversity & Inclusion Award | ALS Global
ALS Global won this award and they made a clear effort to embed diversity and inclusion by engaging employees from all regions and levels of the business in its RISE initiative and it’s great to see that it’s not just for women, but for everyone.
The Sustainable Laboratory Award | Cansford Laboratories Ltd
Cansford Laboratories won this award for demonstrating a “Supreme effort; with evidence and commitment to achieving NetZero targets through permanent green and sustainable working practices. They also received additional recognition that achieving the ISO standard is hard work for a smaller company.”
The Lab Automation Award | Ellutia
Ellutia won this award for their unique nitrosamines detector. The judges said this was a “unique idea, and well implemented. A solid process innovation with related technical development which Improves ease of use, safety and speed.”
The Consumables Innovation Award | MolGen UK
MolGen won this award for “A game-changing product innovation for the safe collection of saliva samples.”
Extended CRM stability has many benefits to analysts, including cost and time-saving efficiencies due to reduced cross-checking of new batches before use.
Supplier Excellence Award | Haier Biomedical UK
Cytecom were awarded the Mico BioMed Best Technology Innovation Award for their shockingly interesting product that revolutionises the way live bacteria counts are performed. A great combination of tech and design innovation to significantly reduce time involved in a widely applicable task.
The Mico BioMed Best Technology Innovation Award | Cytecom
Cytecom were awarded the Mico BioMed Best Technology Innovation Award for their shockingly interesting product that revolutionises the way live bacteria counts are performed. A great combination of tech and design innovation to significantly reduce time involved in a widely applicable task.
The Innovate UK Collaborative Project Award | Holiferm
Holiferm was awarded the Innovate UK Collaborative Project Award for a very interesting and well-run collaborative project demonstrating the ability for innovation and new and novel processes that would otherwise not happen – all with a bonus positive environmental impact.
2021 winners
Pandemic response award | Francis Crick Institute
Pandemic response awardWinner: The Francis Crick Institute This award puts the spotlight on the best response to the pandemic. This year the development of relationships and solutions towards a common goal has been more important than ever before. The Francis Crick Institute were the winners at the 2021 ceremony, awarded for repurposing its staff and infrastructure to
Best stand award | SciMed
Best stand awardWinner: SciMed This award puts the spotlight on the best stand at Lab Innovations 2021. Voted for by judges at the event on 3 November, SciMed were the winners of the award this year due to their use of space, full stand team and fun addition of a skalectrics track! The team
Health, safety and security development | Zoe Andrews, Harvey’s Gang
Most impactful health, safety and security developmentWinner: Zoe Andrews, Harvey’s Gang This award puts the spotlight on laboratories who have successfully delivered impactful health, safety and security development. This year the development of relationships and solutions towards a current goal has been more important than ever before. Zoe Andrews, from Harvey’s Gang, was the winner of
F2F training | Anthias Consulting
Most impactful F2F training Winner: Anthias Consulting This award puts the spotlight on laboratories who have successfully delivered F2F training. Anthias Consulting defied all odds and successfully and safely delivered face-to-face training this year, despite the challenges that Covid-19 presented. They delivered onsite face-to-face training throughout the pandemic, supporting analysts across the UK with hands-on
Online or print training resource | Anthias Consulting
Most impactful online or print training resource Winner: Anthias Consulting This award puts the spotlight on laboratories who have successfully created an online or print training resource. Anthias Consulting successfully created and delivered outstanding online training resources, transitioning to online training at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. “I am nominating our team
Laboratory research model or simulation | Shimadzu
Most impactful laboratory research model or simulationWinner: Shimadzu This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have successfully developed a laboratory research model or simulation. This award went to Shimadzu for the Advanced i-Series UHPLC. “In 2020, the pandemic hit society very quickly. It impacted both personal and work lives. Although the country was placed
Emerging technology | Appleton Woods
Most impactful emerging technologyWinner: Appleton Woods This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have successfully developed emerging technology that has had a great impact on research projects. Appleton Woods won this award for their partnership with Manchester BIOGEL distributing the ethical and sustainable Peptigel product range. “Appleton Woods has partnered with Manchester BIOGEL to be
Laboratory informatics solution | Clinisys UK
Most impactful laboratory informatics solutionWinner: Clinisys UK This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have successfully developed a laboratory informatics solution. Clinisys UK won this award for the SI-DEP project. “The speed of ramp up of this highly accurate new service was hugely impressive. The work that has been done to get vaccines out to
Consumable innovation | ESSLAB
Most impactful consumable innovationWinner: ESSLAB This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have successfully created consumable innovations that deserve recognition. ESSLAB won this award for its Inorganic Ventures Transpiration Control Technology (TCT™). “Inorganic Ventures Transpiration Control Technology (TCT™) significantly extends the shelf life of these essential Certified Reference Materials (CRM’s), improving efficiencies – at the
Sustainable waste management improvement | Starlab UK
Most impactful sustainable waste management improvement Winner: Starlab UK This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have successfully made their waste management more sustainable. Starlab UK won this award for its long-range waste minimisation journey. “I am nominating Starlab UK because they have been on a waste minimisation journey since 1998 and have consistently
Sustainable product development | Scientific Laboratory Supplies
Most impactful sustainable product developmentWinner: Scientific Laboratory Supplies This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have successfully developed a sustainable product. Sustainability is higher on the agenda than ever before, and Scientific Laboratory Supplies won this award for Jellagen, a collagen-based, disease, vector and BSE free product which is ethically and sustainably sourced from
Sustainable process improvement | CAMLAB
Most impactful sustainable process improvementWinner: CAMLAB This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have successfully developed their sustainable processes. Sustainability is higher on the agenda than ever before, and CAMLAB won this award for reduction of CO2 emissions across the board. “I am nominating CAMLAB for the most impactful sustainable process award because of they have
Collaboration with industry | The Francis Crick Institute
Most impactful collaboration with industryWinner: The Francis Crick Institute This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have worked on successful industry collaboration. This year has seen more collaboration across multiple disciplines than ever before. The Francis Crick Institute won this award for the successful collaboration with industry partner Bywaters that has enabled the Crick
Collaboration with the public sector | Clinisys UK
Most impactful collaboration with the public sectorWinner: Clinisys UK This award puts the spotlight on laboratories that have successfully collaborated with the public sector. This year the development of relationships and solutions towards a common goal has been more important than ever before. Clinisys UK won this award for the SI-DEP project – the IT
Collaboration with Academia | Interactive Software Limited
Most impactful collaboration with academiaWinner: Interactive Software Limited This award puts the spotlight on successful collaborations with academia. Interactive Software Limited won this award for the successful working partnership between Interactive Software Limited and the University of Nottingham that delivered an integrated LIMS solution to support COVID testing in the university and wider community within