Tommy Williams, a former student of De montford University studying Product and furniture Design, s part of the new product. design team at floorcare brand Vax feels that his previous experiance working at the company in 2008 during a summer placement played an important part in his success, and encourages all young design students to seek industrial placements. Vital skills can be learnt and valuable experiences can be won the 2009 EDF Energy Ideal Home Show for his /Micro Kitchen' design. Williams, who works agained giving the competitive edge at university and beyond. he claims that "working at vax gave me a great head start in the world of design." he is now working on a project at Vax to develop a new version of the lightweight multi cyclonic vacuum cleaner called the Mach Air Reach, which is soon to launch.