Checkmate wins Queen's Award for Innovation

ERJ staff report (DS)

Melksham, UK -- Wiltshire and Kent based manufacturer The Checkmate Group has been honoured with a second Queen's Award for Innovation, four years after receiving their first award, for export achievement. This second award has been given for the development of a new type of rubber air bag, which is used to secure cargo in the holds of ocean going ships.

The Checkmate Group said HRH The Duke of York is to visit its factory in Melksham where he will be given a guided tour of the factory and present the Queen's Award to Richard Berry, the longest serving member of staff at Checkmate UK with 45 years of service.

HRH The Duke of York will also be given a preview of Checkmate's pioneering Anaconda Wave Energy Converter which is being developed as a new source of renewable energy. Anaconda has been developed at the Melksham site and HRH The Duke of York will see a scale demonstration of the bulge tube. Identified by the Carbon Trust as having the potential to deliver breakthrough reductions in the cost of energy and that it could represent the next generation of marine renewable energy. Based on a study from the Carbon Trust Marine Energy Accelerator the projected costs of Anaconda could represent a step change for the industry and a significant improvement over the best current renewable energy devices.

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Press release from Checkmate