Two exporters have achieved successive royal accolades in this year’s Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.

Saltaire-based Pace is celebrating a hat-trick of consecutive successes, while engineering group ATB Morley, with factories in Bradford and Stanningley, has its second award in two years, this time for innovation.

Weighing in with an award for international trade is Shipley engineering firm Carnaud Metalbox whose can-making machinery plant is seeing its highest demand for nearly 20 years.

Pace, which won an innovation award in 2009 and an international trade award in 2008, sells nearly 20m set-top boxes to 120 customers around the world.

Over the last three years its revenues have risen from £175m to more than £1.1bn and it is now the world’s second largest set-top box manufacturer, making a £69m profit last year.

Neil Gaydon, chief executive, said: “Winning a third successive Queen’s Award is fantastic and a real boost for everyone at the company”

Carnaud Metalbox Engineering exports around 90 per cent of its output and this year expects to deliver more than 150 machines. Overseas sales increased by 60 per cent between 2006 and 2008 and total overseas sales now exceed £105m.

Ian Scholey, managing director, said: “This is phenomenal news for the business and our fantastic workforce. We are experiencing our busiest time for around 20 years.

“We’ve taken on temporary staff to cope with demand and by the summer should have about 300 people working here round the clock including weekends. There aren’t many firms that can say that these days.”

Yellow Octopus Limited, in Skipton, which sells clothing and footwear, has also scooped an international trade award.

In its first full three years of trading its export earnings from 16 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East have increased by nearly 400 per cent . In 2009, its main markets were in Poland, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic and Nigeria.

ATB Morley Ltd has won an innovation award for developing high voltage electric motors for the global coal mining industry.

Last year it won an international trade award after doubling exports to more than £8m.

Camira Fabrics, of Mirfield, which produces environmentally sustainable fabrics, received a sustainability award.