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UK precision dental instrument manufacturer Prima Dental has won a Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade in recognition of its outstanding growth in overseas sales over the last three years.
A long-established market leader in carbide and steel dental burs in the UK, Prima Dental also exports precision dental products to 90 countries around the world. From its production facilities in Gloucester, Prima Dental engineers 30 million micron-accurate carbon, diamond and steel dental burs a year.
This is the second Queen's Award for Prima Dental who also won the accolade in 2014.
Today Prima employs 215 staff at its production facility in Gloucester and is set to grow to 250 staff by 2020.
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Award-winning dental instruments. Br Dent J 224, 755 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2018.395
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2018.395
