Alert Technology awarded new Innovate UK loan

This new programme from the UK’s Innovation agency is aimed at providing new low-interest financial support specifically designed to help innovative companies.

ATL, developers of the ‘Asbestos ALERT’ - the world’s first and only real-time warning device for airborne asbestos fibres, are motivated by the aspiration that no person should have to put their health at risk, or the health of those around them, by unknowingly being exposed to airborne asbestos fibres at work. 

The ALERT unit was designed to help reduce that risk of prolonged unintentional exposure to airborne asbestos and the diseases associated with it. Using patented laser light scattering technology in conjunction with the unique paramagnetic properties of asbestos fibres - ALERT provides a vital early warning, alerting users if they have inadvertently disturbed asbestos during maintenance, renovation, or demolition.

ATL are one of just 13 pioneering small businesses to benefit from a total of £8m loaned out in this first round of Innovate UK’s recently launched £50m pilot programme.