{"id":2736,"date":"2021-10-01T15:03:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aquisense.com\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:40:15","slug":"pearlsurface-uv-c-led-innovation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aquisense.com\/pearlsurface-uv-c-led-innovation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PearlSurface wins \u201cCompany Innovation of the Year\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2736\" class=\"elementor elementor-2736\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4746ee6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4746ee6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1377aa8\" data-id=\"1377aa8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ff42cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ff42cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Northern Kentucky Magazine recently awarded AquiSense Technologies the \u2018Company Innovation of the Year\u2019 award for its development of the <a href=\"https:\/\/aquisense.com\/products\/surface-treatment\/pearl-surface\/\">PearlSurface<\/a>.<\/p><p>The award honoured companies who did an extraordinary job responding to Covid-19, going above and beyond in their responses.<\/p><p>When the pandemic began, our team went into overdrive \u2013 this award is a sign of that hard work!<\/p><p>The magazine credited CEO Oliver Lawal and the team for developing an innovation that could help hospitals to disinfect N95 masks using UV-C light technology.<\/p><p>Lawal said: \u201cAquiSense responded to the pandemic this way because fundamentally we have technology that is effective at inactivating bacterial and viruses. 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