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SkyDemon
Intuitive flight-planning and navigation software for light aviation
Samuel Grant (Sheffield) Ltd
Packaging specialists, SAMUEL GRANT PACKAGING, were delighted to receive the Queen’s Award for Innovation for their highly innovative pallet wrapping solution, the Samson Nano.
Launched in 2013, the Samson Nano is the first pallet wrapper to have an inbuilt internet-linked reporting software, which allows clients to analyse their usage and plan for seasonal peaks.
The machines are pre-set to avoid human error, but also ensure that they use as little film as possible. This can dramatically reduce the environmental impact of the pallet wrapping operation. Taylors of Harrogate showed an immense reduction in its CO2 emissions from using the machine in the first year alone. Taylors continued to wrap the same number of pallets but reduced the film requirement from over four tonnes to less than one, equating to a CO2 emission saving of nearly 10 tonnes.
As well as the ‘standard’ Samson Nano machine, the team looks for ways to constantly improve machines to offer the best possible service. Samuel Grant Packaging have created machines which incorporate weighing devices, those which wrap with a rotating arm from above, as well as machines that are specifically designed to be used in cold stores.
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Andrew (left) and Matthew Grant, joint Managing Directors.
All of the above are part of the ongoing customer service that clients receive, and all solutions are provided with no capex, servicing or maintenance costs; a fixed price per wrapped pallet, and completely risk-free to the businesses installing the system.
Andrew Grant, Managing Director and great grandson of founder Samuel Grant, said: “We’re honoured to have been recognised for this prestigious award. Innovation is central to our
Samson Nano pallet wrapping system.
ambition to be the best people in packaging, providing the best packaging experience for customers in the UK.”
Samuel Grant Packaging is a fourth generation packaging firm and has been at
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innovation for over 125 years.
With three branches across the north of England, they’re now the biggest packaging distributor in the area.
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2 Cowley Way, Smithywood Business Park, Sheffield, S35 1QP
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SkyDemon
SKYDEMON is a lean, privately owned company, producing world- class flight planning and navigation software for light aviation. We are extremely proud to have won Queen’s Awards in the categories of Innovation and International Trade.
Our remarkable success is based on relentless innovation and continuous development in response to feedback from our customers. We seek not to merely add new features to our products, but to understand the problems that our users are trying to solve, and to create solutions that overcome these problems more effectively than pilots imagined to be possible; we then closely follow how our systems are used, constantly refining, always seeking to reduce the workload of the pilot without removing their options and agency.
We create our products with clarity and ease of use foremost in our minds. Modern airspace is complex, and our customers need to be aware
of all the potential hazards and options without becoming overloaded with irrelevant details. With our common sense approach, we make the skies less intimidating for our pilots, giving them the confidence to engage with their passion to the fullest.
Our innovations have helped to avoid needless duplication of effort; not just by our customers but also by airfield owners, air traffic controllers, and state regulators. We set new standards in how complicated data should
be presented to users in a timely and intuitive way. We work with data producers to improve the quality of the base data for the benefit of all pilots, not just our own. Perhaps most importantly, we make it so that planning and briefing for a flight becomes easy and more fun!
We are known throughout our industry for engaging directly with pilots of all kinds, opening dialogues and supporting their needs with a human touch. We never tire of hearing how our work has made flights easier and safer,
Hannah, Tim and Rob, manning the stand at Aero Friedrichshafen
and so we redouble our efforts such that we can continue to deserve the trust that is placed in us.
SK YDEMON
Clark House, Higher Kingsbury, Milborne Port, DT9 5EB • Tel: +44 (0)1963 250029 www.skydemon.aero • support@skydemon.aero
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