ScotAsh Hailed as National Example of Excellence
ScotAsh was voted one of the UK's top companies on 2nd July when the company fended off competition from Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Redrow and Accenture to scoop a national Business in the Community Award.
The company was named as National Example of Excellence in the TCS Marketplace Innovation Award at a glittering event in the Royal Albert Hall, attended by 1700 people to mark 25 years of Business in the Community.
Ticking all the boxes: Peter Quinn (centre) with (clockwise from left) Jack Anderson, Gordon Lang, Stuart Jackson, Stevie Clegg, Billy Anderson
The national award winners were 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.
ScotAsh Managing Director Peter Quinn received a plaque from environmental figurehead Mr Gore and an oak sapling from HRH Prince Charles.
Peter said: "Our success in the Business in the Community Awards comes after a record year with sales of 833,000 tonnes of products. We are achieving beneficial recycling on a massive scale.
"By replacing conventional 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."
The TCS Marketplace Innovation Award recognises companies that have successfully developed products that meet a social or environmental need, or an innovation that has improved the social or environmental impact of existing products.
Keith Sharpe, Marketing Director of award sponsors TATA Consultancy Services, said: "ScotAsh have come up with something truly different. These new products are not only extremely effective and being profitably sold to the construction industry, they offer massive potential to reduce the amount of fly ash that goes to landfill."
There was good news too for ScotAsh's parent companies at the Royal Albert Hall event.
Lafarge Cement was named as the National Example of Excellence in the Eco Efficiency Award and ScottishPower achieved a Highly Commended in the EDF Energy Environmental Leadership Award.
Messages of congratulations have been flooding in, including one from Forum for the Future Director Jonathon Porritt, who emailed Peter to say: "Many congratulations on the BITC Award."
There was praise too from ScottishPower Chief Executive Jose Luis del Valle, who said: "We are proud of our ScotAsh joint venture, which reflects our strong commitment to the environment.
"As part of our commitment to share best practice across the Iberdrola Group there is every possibility that their processes and technology could be used elsewhere within our business."
In June ScotAsh received two Big Tick Awards, for Marketplace Innovation and Eco-Efficiency, at Scottish Business in the Community's Gala Celebration at Preston Grange Hotel in Edinburgh. Peter Quinn received the awards from HRH The Duke of Rothesay, as Prince Charles is known in Scotland.
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