AN Astley company received a reward from the Department of Trade and Industry at a special presentation ceremony at John Moores University in Liverpool.
John Hutton, of Electron Microscope Services, received a DTI Smart award on behalf of the company from Dr Tony Price, a Unilever secondee at the Government Office for Merseyside.
The Smart awards are designed to help innovative companies to develop new products and processes with commercial potential involving a significant technological advance.
Electron Microscope Services is carrying out a feasibility project to build an environmental sample holder for use with a conventional transmission electron microscope.
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