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ScotAsh Scoops UK Business in the Community Award
03 Jul 2007
ScotAsh, Scotland's leading manufacturer of green construction products, has fended off competition from Barclays, Lloyds TSB, Redrow and Accenture to scoop a national Business in the Community Award.
The company, based at Longannet Power Station, Kincardine-on-Forth, won the award for manufacturing environmentally-friendly cements, grouts and stabilisation products from power station ash.
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, on 2nd July 2007.
ScotAsh, a joint venture between ScottishPower and Lafarge Cement, 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 from business, government and NGOs to mark 25 years of Business in the Community.
ScotAsh Managing Director Peter Quinn, who collected a commemorative plaque from environmental figurehead Mr Gore and an oak sapling from HRH Prince Charles, said: "Our success in the Business in the Community Awards comes 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 was carried out using more than 90% recycled materials.
ScotAsh will also be supplying cement to Whitelee Windfarm near Glasgow, which at 322 MW will be the largest on-shore windfarm in Europe.
The TCS Marketplace Innovation Award was designed to recognise companies that have successfully developed products or services 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."