We’ve received the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise

The King’s Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2024

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve received a King’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category. We’re one of just 252 organisations nationally to be recognised with this prestigious award.

At Dura, continuous innovation is at the heart of what we do, and receiving this award for our sustainability credentials and patented GRP walkway grating products is an incredible achievement.

Through a careful combination of design, technology, and manufacturing improvements, our d² Dura Grating range has up to 33% less embodied carbon, whilst also being fully recyclable and lighter than anything else on the market, making installation safer, easier and more cost-efficient. As well as being lower in carbon and fully recyclable, the grating is easier to handle and achieves a better performance-to-weight ratio, the highest fire rating, best anti-slip properties and the most proven performance in the GRP grating industry.

The King’s Awards for Enterprise, previously known as The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, were renamed last year to reflect His Majesty The King’s desire to continue the legacy of HM Queen Elizabeth II’s by recognising outstanding UK businesses. The Award programme, now in its 58th year, is the most prestigious business award in the country, with successful businesses able to use the esteemed King’s Awards Emblem for the next five years.

We have previously received Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for International Trade in 2017 and Innovation in 2020.

Our primary driver as a business is to solve client challenges through sustainable innovation, so this award is particularly meaningful, and a testament to everything our team has worked together to achieve. We are guided by a clear vision to solve even the most ambitious infrastructure problems in a way that supports our clients’ sustainability goals. As such, I’m delighted to say that we have saved over 5 million kgs of CO2 through our d² product innovation so far, and are committed to being the greenest company in our space.

Stuart Burns

Managing Director at Dura Composites