Archive News 2008
Autumn 2008
More companies should enter prestigious Queen's Awards says ScotAsh MD
With just a month to go until the deadline for the Queen's Awards 2009, the Managing Director of double Queen's Award winning company ScotAsh Limited is urging Scottish businesses to enter the scheme.
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ScotAsh on Official List of Europe's 100 Hottest Green Businesses
ScotAsh Limited is included in this year's CleanTech 100 - dubbed "the official list of Europe's hottest green businesses".
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The Queen welcomes ScotAsh MD
ScotAsh MD Peter Quinn
took his place among Britain's
corporate elite on 14th July,
when he attended a reception
hosted by Her Majesty the
Queen at Buckingham Palace.
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Laying Solid Foundations
ScotAsh is playing a role in
Glasgow City Council's bid to
put sustainability at the heart
of the Glasgow 2014
Commonwealth Games.
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ScotAsh Score with Football Signing
Amateur footballers in Alloa are aiming for the top of the league after scoring with a strip sponsorship deal from ScotAsh.
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ScotAsh staff's cycle-to-work scheme gathers pace
Seven ScotAsh employees have been cycling to work over the summer in a bid to improve their fitness, cut their carbon footprint - and save money on fuel.
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ScotAsh Help Opera Hit the High Notes!
ScotAsh sponsored a performance of Puccini's moving opera, Madama Butterfly, at this year's Culross Festival for the first time.
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New home for sapling
An oak sapling presented to ScotAsh by Scottish Cabinet Minister John Swinney has been given a new home in the leafy gardens of the Scottish Mining Convalescent Trust's premises at Blair Castle, Culross.
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ScotAsh go Dutch!
ScotAsh made its first shipment to Holland in August. A consignment of superfine strengthener Superpozz SV8O was delivered to Dutch company Megatrax Benelux BV to be trialled in various products.
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Pair Make Grade on Safety
Congratulations to Ross MacNicol and Brian Wood who recently attained their IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) certificates as part of their personal development programmes.
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Aberthaw link up
Celtic Ash, ScotAsh's sister company at RWE's Aberthaw Power Station in Wales, have been benefiting from our expertise.
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Lib Dems call in
ScotAsh was pleased to welcome Kincardine and West Fife MP Willie Rennie, Dunfermline West MSP Jim Tolson and George Lyon, the Lib Dem European candidate, during the summer.
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Commons date
MD Peter Quinn attended a reception at the House of Commons on 15th July.
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Summer 2008
We're Bowled Over!
ScotAsh celebrated a hat-trick of prestigious awards in June. Managing Director Peter Quinn collected two Big Ticks at the Scottish Business in the Community Awards in Glasgow on 5th June. The following week, on Friday 13th June, the company received a Queen's Award for Enterprise, in the Sustainable Development category, from Her Majesty the Queen's representative, Mrs Margaret Dean, the Lord-Lieutenant of Fife.
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ScotAsh Sponsors Culross Festival
ScotAsh was delighted to be the lead sponsor of this year's Culross Festival, which ran from 1st -3rd August 2008.
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Recognition of our endeavour
The Lord-Lieutenant of Fife, Mrs Margaret Dean, recalled her last visit to ScotAsh in 2005, when she presented the company with a Queen's Award in the Innovation category.
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Clean Coal Plan is Good for ScotAsh
ScotAsh Chairman Ron Hunter said that ScotAsh was very much "part of the plan" in relation to ScottishPower's investment in clean coal technologies at Longannet Power Station.
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Peak Performers
Peter McAusalan, Lafarge Cement UK's Finance Director, said that ScotAsh winning not one, but two Queen's Awards in three years, had made the senior management team at Lafarge very proud.
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Two more 'Big Ticks' collected by ScotAsh
ScotAsh lifted two out of the 18 Big Tick Awards handed out at Scottish Business in the Community's celebration dinner, held at the Glasgow Hilton Hotel on Thursday 5th June.
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Trio Praised
After Gaining
NVQ Honours
Congratulations to three ScotAsh employees who recently gained new qualifications.
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Walter Is The Apprentice
Walter Cairns is off to Falkirk College in August as he embarks on his four-year ScotAsh apprenticeship as an electrical/instrument craftsman.
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Corporate Responsibility Report
ScotAsh's second Corporate Responsibility Report was published in June.
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Spring 2008
ScotAsh Celebrates Its Second Queen's Award
ScotAsh is to be honoured with a Queen's Award for Enterprise 2008 in the Sustainable Development Category - chalking up the exceptional achievement of receiving two Queen's Awards within three years.
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Trainee Ross makes a return
A young trainee who gained work experience at ScotAsh last year has returned to join the team.
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'Outstanding' IiP
ScotAsh has received re-accreditation from Investors in People for
another three years. In his report, the assessor described the company as "outstanding".
He added: "Its people are inspirational. They are so passionate about what they do. As
a company they are world leaders in their product and the positive environmental impact this is making."
ScotAsh Commits to New Police Car Sponsorship
The company, along with Longannet Power Station and key contractors sponsored a Vauxhall Zafira for use by community police officers patrolling the villages of West Fife from 2004 to 2007. Now the partners have forged a deal to fund a new car until December 2011.
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New Palletiser Commissioned
A £200,000 investment in a new palletiser is enabling the packing team to speed up the shipping of bagged products.
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Winner of a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category - the only one in this category to be awarded in Scotland in 2008.