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Process industry winners donate £6000 to local schools

Winners of outstanding achievement in the North East’s Process Industry have donated all their prize money to help local schools. A total of £6000 was donated to local schools following the announcement of this year’s award winners at the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) Annual Awards on Friday 18 January.

Honoured in the awards were three companies, five young achievers and one school for their contribution in the areas of the environment, safety and career development in the North East Process Industries.

450 top industry leaders and specialists were present at the awards evening to celebrate the achievements in the industry.

Dr Stan Higgins, Chief Executive of NEPIC, said: “We had many outstanding entries from industry, schools and young people from our sector. The prize winners are exceptional projects or exceptional people. This demonstrates that the process industries remain a great opportunity for a fantastic career, in an industry that takes its environmental and safety responsibilities seriously.”

SembCorp Utilities UK and Merck Sharp & Dohme were joint winners of the Environmental Industrial Award, who donated their prize fund of £2000 to South Bank Community Primary School in Middlesbrough. Carillion PME Engineering won the Safety Award and donated their £2000 prize fund to Ormesby School, a specialist engineering school.

Wolsingham School and Community College in Bishop Auckland won the Environmental Schools Award - they received a £2000 cheque to contribute towards their environmental project outlined in their winning entry.

Five Young Achievers from each sub sector of the industry received trophies and cheques for £1000 each to recognise their career achievements to date.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .