The Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, Viscount De L'Isle MBE, pictured with AbBaltis Managing Director, Giedre Brandao. (c) Mike Hacker.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, Viscount De L’Isle MBE, pictured with AbBaltis Managing Director, Giedre Brandao. (c) Mike Hacker.

AbBaltis Limited was founded by Giedre Brandao in 2010 to provide research materials for the In Vitro Diagnostic Business. This innovative Kent based company based at the Kent Science Park in Sittingbourne, has recorded outstanding overseas sales growth in the last three years and now has a growing staff of nine. The product is perishable and therefore it needs to reach its destination safely and very quickly. AbBaltis prides itself in not having lost any shipments in transit.

Pictured from left to right: The Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, Dennis Gates, Emily Downs, Giedre Brandao, Chris Bellhouse, Janis Sullivan and Lisa Elsden. (c) Mike Hacker.

Pictured from left to right: The Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, Dennis Gates, Emily Downs, Giedre Brandao, Chris Bellhouse, Janis Sullivan and Lisa Elsden. (c) Mike Hacker.

The Lord-Lieutenant congratulated the company – which has just celebrated its fifth anniversary – on Her Majesty The Queen’s behalf. He also praised the increasing number of small companies in scientific manufacturing, which are adding greatly to Kent’s growing knowledge-based economy, which must be the way forward in the 21st century.