ISDI wins a King's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2024
PRESS RELEASE London – 7th May 2024 – ISDI, an innovator in X-ray imaging solutions, is delighted to announce that His Majesty King Charles III, has approved the Prime Minister’s recommendation that ISDI should receive a King’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category this year. ISDI now joins over 7,000 UK enterprises that have received this Royal recognition since the Awards were first created in 1965, then known as The Queen’s Award to Industry. ISDI are one of 59 winners of ‘Awards for Innovation’ in the UK this year.
The King’s Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2024
The King’s Award recognises ISDI’s innovative Spectrum Logic 2824HS and 2824HR detectors for high-speed, inline automated CT inspection of electric vehicle batteries and PCBs. These products are the leading technology for these growing applications and are in production with our Korean partner in EV battery factories in Korea and China. The introduction of these products has led to revenue growth of 246% since May 2022.
2824HS X-ray detector
The 2824HS is also used for the inline inspection of PCBs. The industry leading frame rate and low electronic noise of our detectors permits higher throughput in inline automated X-ray inspection (AXI), which is valuable to EV battery and PCB manufacturers. Next year, we aim to enable 3D inspection of EV battery cells at 70 parts per minute with a new higher speed detector.
Ed Bullard, Chairman of ISDI commented that, “the 2824HS and 2824HR are the fastest large area wafer-scale CMOS X-ray detectors available. Given their large field of view, highly sensitive active pixel sensor, low lag and high framerate, they are ideally suited to high-throughput inline electronics and battery inspection. Our vision at Spectrum Logic is to utilize our world leading CMOS sensor technology to develop high-performance, high-quality X-ray detectors for professional applications in industrial, medical and scientific markets.”
For more information contact:
Asmar Khan – General Manager
Tel: +44 2080370007
Email: asmar@spectrumlogic.com
About ISDI
ISDI was formed in 2010 in London. Our philosophy has evolved from providing design services for image sensors for X-ray imaging to manufacturing X-ray detectors and CMOS image sensors for X-ray and other professional markets. We work with world-class foundries, wafer processing and packaging suppliers.
When undertaking a custom design project, we engage with a customer to collaborate in the design providing a complete imaging solution rather than simply the sensor. Accordingly, we have wide experience within the team encompassing medical and industrial X-ray imaging, X-ray crystallography, proton detection, spectroscopy and electron microscopy.
Since 2014, ISDI has been a volume supplier of wafer-scale image sensors to market-leading manufacturers participating in medical imaging and industrial non-destructive testing markets in Europe, North America and Asia. In July 2019, we established a new UK factory and in March 2022, we acquired Spectrum Logic, a manufacturer of CMOS X-ray detectors. In May 2022, we established a research & development centre in Austria, ISDI.
About The King’s Awards for Enterprise
The King’s Awards for Enterprise (previously known as the Queen's Award for Enterprise) are the most prestigious awards for UK businesses. Officially announced in a special Gazette supplement every year, the Awards are designed to recognise and encourage outstanding achievements in the fields of:
innovation
international trade
sustainable development
promoting opportunity (through social mobility)
The King’s Awards scheme was instituted by Royal Warrant in 1965 with the first Awards made in 1966 (Gazette issue 43953) under the scheme’s original title, The Queen’s Award to Industry.
In 1975 the scheme became The Queen’s Awards for Export and Technology, with Environmental Achievement added in 1992. However, in 1999 the scheme was again renamed The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise with ‘international trade’, ‘innovation’ and ‘sustainable development’ as the categories. In 2017, a fourth category was introduced, ‘promoting opportunity (through social mobility)’. In 2023, it was announced that the awards would be renamed The King's Awards for Enterprise following the accession of King Charles III.