CoolLED wins Judges Scientific “Company of the Year”
CoolLED has been named Judges Scientific Company of the Year for a second consecutive year – the first time this has ever happened.
Judges Scientific plc is an AIM-listed group that owns and develops a portfolio of specialist scientific instrument businesses. Across the group’s 23 operating companies, being selected as Company of the Year is a standout recognition and doing it twice in a row is a first in the group.
What this says about CoolLED
Awards are nice but what matters more is what they point to: repeatable stuff done well, over and over again, by a dedicated and passionate team that cares about the details and solving customers’ challenges.
For CoolLED, this recognition reflects a year of consistent momentum across our whole business:
- Products that do what they’re meant to do (reliably, day in, day out). The kind of performance that’s easy to promise, but only comes from careful engineering, thorough testing, and refusing to ship “nearly right”.
- Quality you can feel in the real world. Not just in specs, but in the customer experience: stable output, dependable control, and systems that integrate smoothly into demanding microscope workflows.
- A team effort, not a hero story. From R&D, production and Engineering to technical support, business support and logistics, marketing, sales, and finance. This is what happens when the whole company is aligned and pulling in the same direction.
- The ability to improve without making a song and dance about it. Continuous refinements, better processes, better documentation, cleaner handovers. It’s the kind of changes that compound quietly until the results become obvious.
- The “second year running” part matters because it’s a sign of consistency, not a one-off spike. It suggests we’re doing the fundamentals well: delivering value to customers, staying responsive, and keeping standards high even when things get busy (which, for the record, they always do).
Innovation in the real world
New product development is only meaningful if it turns into something people actually use.
Over the past year, our focus on customer-led innovation has stayed practical: better performance where it counts, cleaner control, and systems that slot into real workflows. It’s the difference between “new for the sake of it” and “actually useful”, and it’s what keeps customers coming back when their protocols get more demanding.
Why new OEM partners trust us as a partner
This award also reflects growing confidence from our new OEM customers, who aren’t just looking for a simple component, they’re looking for a partner they can build around.
That trust is earned through delivering on the hard bits:
- being responsive and technically rigorous during development
- turning requirements into robust, manufacturable solutions
- communicating clearly
- delivering consistent quality once things move from prototype to production
In other words: OEM customers trust CoolLED because we behave like a development partner, not a catalogue.
A Big Thank You
Dr. Jake Davies, Managing Director, said “A huge thank you to everyone at CoolLED, and to Judges Scientific for the recognition. Winning this award two years in a row reflects the consistency and care our whole team puts into what we build and how we support it. Our strong results would not be possible without the ambition, commitment and innovation from of our entire team, and the support they provide to their colleagues and our current and prospective customers.”
