Ace pair at Palace to pick up Queen’s Award for Enterprise
PRINCE Charles learnt about farms when Dundee based business Ace Aquatec paid a visit to Buckingham Palace in June.
The aquaculture technology company won a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation, its second in two years, for developing a humane electric stunner.
Ace’s head of sales and marketing, Mike Forbes, went to the Palace to collect the award with Dr Jeff Lines, who helped create the technology.
The company’s Humane Stunner Universal (HSU) unconscious immediately, without removing them from and improving quality.
Forbes said Prince Charles, who presented the award, spoke to the Ace Aquatec team for a couple of minutes about how farms are using its in-water electric stunner to
‘He said it was good to hear so much effort is being put into improving animal added.
In the autumn of 2016, Charles toured one of Mowi - sequently took an interest in salmon farming, leading high level talks between the sector and angling leaders, through his International Sustainability Unit.
Ace Aquatec won the Queen’s Award last year for its acoustic deterrents.
On hearing about the second award earlier this year, the company’s managing director, Nathan Pyne-Carter, said: ‘Being recognised last year for the positive difference our predator deterrents are having on the Scottish economy was amazing, and to be acknowledged again this year for the wider global impact our electric stunning technology has on animal welfare is a huge honour.’