Plastics Industry Awards 2009

Plastics Industry Awards 2009 Celebrate Success of UK Plastics Industry

On Friday 2nd October 2009 the ninth annual Plastics Industry Awards took place at the London Hilton, Park Lane. Guest presenter Paul Ross announced the winners to a record crowd of over 500 plastics professionals and guests at the event's gala dinner.

The Plastics Industry Awards is the industry's most prestigious awards initiative, recognising and celebrating achievement throughout the UK plastics industry. The awards offer an insight into current developments in materials usage, product design and innovative manufacturing. Entries came from all sectors of the industry, highlighting a wide range of novel solutions.

"This has been a tough year for the UK plastics industry, which made it all the more pleasing that this year's winners and finalists displayed such strong performances in our innovation, environmental, training and customer service categories," said Steve Crowhurst, Organiser. "It's great to be able to celebrate the success of plastics manufacture in the UK and to showcase the achievements of leading plastics design and manufacture in the UK."

The awards were open to all companies involved in the UK plastics industry including OEM manufacturers, processors and consultants. Each award had different qualifying criteria.

Winners for Plastics Industry Awards 2009



Best Environmental or Energy Efficiency Programme
Won by Rosti Technical Plastics of Larkhall,Glasgow. The company has made a 23% saving at the in waste and is ahead of target on its plans to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions by 12%. It is also working to install a 1.8MW wind turbine to supply 60% of its energy needs.

Processor of the Year
Won by Rosti Technical Plastics of Larkhall, Glasgow for its combination of day-to-day excellence with far sighted, creative thinking. Recent innovations at Rosti include a a dedicated customer care centre; installation of new energy saving lighting, ongoing recruitment of apprentices despite the recession and continued investment in new manufacturing plant.

For more information about the Plastics Industry Awards go to www.plasticsawards.com .

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Rosti Technical Plastics is a global plastics injection moulding company and subcontract manufacturer to the Business Machine, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Automotive, Domestic Appliances, Food & Beverage packaging, Leisure & Outdoor as well as Safety markets. Rosti have facilities in the US (3), UK, The Netherlands, Poland, China, and India, with accreditation in ISO9000/1/2, ISO 13485, TS16949 and many other world manufacturing standards. For more details, visit our website at www.rosti.com.

The organisers: Plastics & Rubber Weekly
The Plastics Industry Awards are organised by the Plastics News Global Group