ESA's Space Spin-off Award 2010 goes to Italian
company Kentec S.r.l. for their transfer from space technology to non-space fields in their 'reliable machine vision system for the glass industry'. At the award giving event 19 April 2010 at the Hannover Fair from left: Frank M. Salzgeber (Head of ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office (TTPO)), Colm Kenny (CEO of Kentec S.a.s.), Johann Friedrich Colsmann (Member of the cabinet of European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship) and Dr Werner Dupont (CEO of MST Aerospace GmbH, leading TTPO’s Technology Transfer Network on behalf of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office).