A hi-tech engineering group based in Gloucestershire has won a major European award.

Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company based in Wotton-under-Edge, has won the best measurement laboratory equipment award during Eurolab 2017 in Poland with its RA802 Pharmaceutical Analyser.

The new RA802 is a compact benchtop Raman imaging system, designed exclusively for the pharmaceutical industry.

EuroLab 2017, now in its 19th year, successfully combines the worlds of science and industry.

EuroLab is the only trade show event in Poland dedicated to the laboratory industry.

It is an invaluable source of information and knowledge surrounding state-of-the-art research methods and scientific techniques.

Announcing that Renishaw had won, the judges commented: "We had very strong competition for this award but wanted to show with our decision that small could be beautiful.

"The compact RA802 Pharmaceutical Analyser system wowed us during the presentation, with its high quality, accuracy and speed of mapping, as well as ease of use and powerful data analysis software."

The RA802 enables users to formulate tablets more efficiently by speeding up the analysis of tablet composition and structure.

It brings together the chemical analysis power of Raman spectroscopy and advanced imaging technologies in a powerful, robust system.

Users can reveal detailed chemical and physical information about the contents of their sample, from the distribution and size of API domains to the physical topography.

Picture: Agnieszka Sozańska with Renishaw's RA802 Pharmaceutical Analyser and inVia