(Third Dimension: Bristol, UK) -- Third Dimension, the leading supplier of precision feature measurement solutions, recently celebrating being named winner of the Queen’s Award for Innovation—the UK’s highest accolade for business success—for GapGun, its best-selling hand-held, laser-based optical measurement device.

This year 176 winners were announced: 102 for International Trade; 57 for Innovation; 11 for Sustainable Development, and 6 for Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility). The awards are made annually by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and are only given for the highest levels of excellence demonstrated in each category. This is the second time Third Dimension has won the Queen’s Award, having won the International Trade category in 2015.

The Bristol-based company also won the EEF Future Manufacturing regional award for Innovation this year and the EEF regional award for Outstanding Export category in 2015.

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