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Devon-based GripHero wins two national awards in one night

UK-based GripHero Ltd, the developer of the world’s only fuel nozzle-mounted, anti-static hand-protection dispensers, has walked away with not one but two major titles at the prestigious Association for Petroleum and Explosives Administration (APEA) 2019 Awards.

Honouring the latest products and most innovative services available on the forecourt and in the petroleum market, GripHero’s success in winning both the Environmental Protection and Improvement Award, and the Innovation Award, is a huge endorsement for the Devon business which supplies hand-protection to forecourts that serve over 250,000,000 drivers annually.

Following its launch only last year, GripHero has made major in-roads into transforming the face of refueling across the country.

Forecourts using GripHero are able to fit dispensers on each and every fuel pump ending the need for motorists to search for hand-protection that prevents the transfer of contaminants, foul-smelling fuel, carcinogens, viruses, illness or worse, from the hand of one driver to another via the fuel pump handle.

Commenting on its success at the APEA awards, Oli Yeo, Managing Director and the designer of GripHero’s patented dispenser and anti-static hand-protection, commented: “GripHero’s solution to protecting the health and wellbeing of customers on the forecourt and reducing plastic waste has captured the imagination not only of the judges at the APEA awards, but forecourt owners up and down the country.

“When you realise that the average fuel pump handle is over 11,000 times dirtier than the typical toilet seat, it becomes apparent that we should all be using hand-protection at the fuel pump. The trouble is, it’s often hard to find, or has run out. GripHero addresses that problem by ensuring that hand-protection is where you need it, when you need it; on the very thing you are about to touch, the fuel pump handle.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Lizzie Bailey .