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November
2001 - ScotWeave Gain SMART Award
ScotCad Textiles Ltd. has become the first company in the Scottish Borders
Region to gain a SMART award from the Scottish Executive. 
SMART:SCOTLAND
Award aims to help small businesses improve their competitiveness
by developing new products and processes to benefit the national
economy. SMART is an open competition between applicants - a successful
applicant presenting a highly innovative and commercially viable
potential new product.
In the case
of ScotWeave the SMART Award means a £ 45,000 boost
towards developing a new complementary software product, the details
of which will be revealed at ITMA
2003
The award was
obtained with the help and guidance of Scottish Enterprise Borders.
SE Borders Business Manager Alistair Moir said: "This
is brilliant news for an innovative and successful company with
whom we have been working closely for some time. They demonstrate
the kind of smart, successful working we are keen to see develop
further in the Borders. This is a great example of diversification
within the textile sector".
For more information
contact www.scottish-enterprise.com/borders
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