ScotAsh Wins National Environment Award
ScotAsh Limited, the green cement company based at Longannet Power Station, Kincardine-on-Forth, last night (Tuesday 19th May 2009) scooped the Environmental Product/Service Award in the national Environment and Energy Awards 2009.
Peter Quinn from ScotAsh (centre) receiving the Environment & Energy Award in Birmingham, from presenter and comedian Paul Ross, left and Carl Myers of Faversham House, the organisers of Sustainabilitylive!
Managing Director Peter Quinn collected the award from comedian Paul Ross at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham. The Environment and Energy Awards were linked to the Sustainabilitylive! a three-day environmental conference and exhibition, held at the NEC from 19th - 21st May.
ScotAsh - a joint venture between ScottishPower and Lafarge Cement - manufactures sustainable construction products, such as grouts and cements, from pulverised fuel ash - a by-product from Longannet and Cockenzie power stations.
The award was given to ScotAsh for their excellence in maximising resource recovery by recycling ash - which otherwise would be disposed of - into value added products.
ScotAsh, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in July, has sold more than six million tonnes of ash-based construction products since its formation in 1999, saving around 6.6 million tonnes of virgin aggregates, diverting six million tonnes of ash from landfill and saving 400,000 tonnes of CO2 by displacing carbon intensive Portland Cement.
ScotAsh Managing Director Peter Quinn said: "We were delighted to fly the flag for Scotland at this national event and bring another award home to Fife."
Earlier this year ScotAsh won a Green Business Fife Award for Innovation and Managing Director Peter Quinn was voted Regional Director of the Year for Fife and Central Scotland by the Institute of Directors.
ScotAsh received Queen's Awards in 2005 and 2008. The company was a Business in the Community national example of excellence in 2007 and a two-times VIBES (Vision in Business for the Environment of Scotland) award winner. Last autumn, ScotAsh was listed in the CleanTech 100 - dubbed the official list of Europe's hottest green companies.
Products manufactured by ScotAsh are currently being used in the M74 extension and various windfarms. Balfour Beatty is using a high early strength cement made by ScotAsh at Longannet in a challenging pier project on the Island of Raasay in the Inner Hebrides, which involves concrete being placed underwater by a dive team. ScotAsh products will also be used in a major upgrade at Rosyth Docks to prepare the site for the building of two new aircraft carriers.
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