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This year's announcement of companies being given the coveted Queen's Award for enterprise include a small number singled out for their environmentally sustainable approach to business and/or product design. Of the 112 Queen's Awards being handed out, seven are specifically aimed at honouring achievements in sustainable business and three of the awards in the international trade category have a distinctly green flavour.

One of the three international trade awards has gone to green technology firm Dulas, which produces solar-powered vaccine refrigeration systems for the developing world. Dulas has seen its overseas sales increase by 300% in the past three years, with Nigeria and Yemen particularly big buyers.

Another firm that has won the international trade award is Nuaire Holdings, which sells innovative domestic ventilation systems that heat and cool homes using considerably less energy than conventional methods. Finally, Severn Trent Services and Wolfson Research Laboratories in Edgbaston have been given a join international trae award for the Eclox system for testing water quality. Eclox relies on bioluminescence to identify rising levels of a wide range of contaminants.

The sustainable development award winners include the green and ethical bank, Triodos, and SEcond Nature a company that sells building insulation products made from sheep's wool.

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