Two Big Ticks for ScotAsh
ScotAsh, Scotland's leading manufacturer of green construction products, has been awarded two Big Ticks in Business in the Community's Awards for Excellence 2007.
Managing Director Peter Quinn collected the awards from HRH The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay at Prestonfield House in Edinburgh during a dinner last Thursday (31st May) to mark 25 years of Scottish Business in the Community.
ScotAsh received Big Ticks in the eco efficiency and marketplace innovation categories. The company has been short-listed as a UK National Example of Excellence in the TCS Marketplace Innovation category, along with Accenture, Barclays, Lloyd's TSB and Redrow.
The national award winners will be announced at a Gala Dinner in London in the presence of Business in the Community's President, HRH The Prince of Wales, and former US Vice President Al Gore on 2nd July 2007.
Managing Director Peter Quinn said: "Twenty five Big Ticks were awarded in Scotland this year. As a small company with just 24 employees, we were delighted to pick up two awards."
Peter added: "Our success in the Business in the Community Awards comes just after we announced a record year with sales of 833,000 tonnes of products. We are achieving beneficial recycling on a massive scale.
"In the last four years by recycling and re-engineering ScottishPower's ash into construction materials such as cement, we have saved 2.5 million tonnes of primary aggregates, 150,000 tonnes of CO2 and avoided the need to landfill 2.5 million tonnes of ash."
Recently ScotAsh products have been used in the new Upper Forth Crossing, the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine rail link, the shaft isolation project at Dounreay and in repairs of a 300-metre stretch of Edinburgh's Royal Mile that used 90% recycled materials.
ScotAsh will also be supplying cement to Whitelee Windfarm near Glasgow, which will be the largest on-shore windfarm in Europe.
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