Peel Tech wins ECCI-sponsored business award
Peel Tech has won the VIBES Micro Business Award - Scotland's top prize for the best green businesses with fewer than 10 employees - sponsored this year by ECCI and partner Climate-KIC.
Peel Tech have developed an innovative filtration system which helps food processors comply with UK waste regulations, reducing pollution and waste in the food industry.
The award was presented by ECCI Director Professor Andy Kerr at an award cermony in Glasgow today.
Now in their 19th year, the VIBES Awards urge Scotland’s businesses to challenge their everyday working practices and embrace the economic opportunity of sustainability. Winners were selected across nine individual award categories which aim to recognise the different ways organisations are implementing environmental best practice in their daily activity, from reducing the use of plastic or developing a new product or service.
ECCI-supported business IntelliDigest - who were given coaching and funds through our Climate-KIC Accelerator - competed for the Innovation Award. The start-up joined a long list of ECCI-supported former VIBES winners and nominees including Celtic Renewables and Dryden Aqua.
Peel Tech Director Malcolm Wood said: "It makes me so proud to be the winner of the VIBES Micro Business Award.
"VIBES is one of the most prestigious prizes on offer for sustainable Scottish businesses and it's especially fitting to receive this from ECCI who do such important work for the low carbon sector."
Presenting the award ECCI Director Professor Andy Kerr said: "There is nothing more inspiring than seeing small companies with big ideas grow and flourish on the Climate-KIC programmes at ECCI.
"It's astonishing what small companies can achieve when they have the suport to scale up solutions.
"It's this talent, Scotland's excellent support frameworks and consistent political backing that make a vibrant zero carbon future possible.”