We are delighted to announce the launch of the Chemicals Northwest 2025 Awards programme. The awards will culminate with a first-class gala dinner celebration and announcement of winners at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool on the 20th of March 2025.
The 2025 Awards will incorporate an exceptional pre-dinner drink reception hosted in Rum Warehouse bar which will be sponsored by AXIOM. We are also delighted to welcome CHEMUK 2025 as our Headline Partner for the event and Manntek who are sponsoring the awards brochures. Special thanks also go to our award sponsors, more details on them can be found below.
Chemicals Northwest members play a critical role towards delivering success in our industry and in many downstream sectors. Please share your good news stories with us, the award entry process is simple and straightforward and entry is open and welcomed from members and non-members of Chemicals Northwest.
The Awards honour excellence across a wide spectrum of business activity, from Innovation to Sustainability and from Young Talent to Supplier to the Chemical Industry.
Sponsored by Indaver Solvents, winning this award will represent the ultimate accolade for excellence in the supply of engineering products and services to this great industry. The scope is wide as we are aware of many engineering solutions that have led to success in the industry, from project management and maintenance support to process consultancy and equipment supplies.
Sponsored by PM Group, winning this award will recognise how a company has demonstrated excellence in developing and bringing its products to the market. It will also recognise significant operational improvements / enhancements made to an established process. The winner will have a clear plan for the sustainable growth of the business.
Sponsored by Arcadium Lithium, this award will recognise exemplary practices or services that have made a chemicals operation safer or healthier. The winner will be able to demonstrate how a single, or range of site improvements or the provision of valued expertise, has significantly contributed to the improved safety performance of a chemicals business, or a supply chain partner.
Sponsored by INEOS Inovyn. Recognition of how an organisation has demonstrated an innovative and holistic application of sustainability principles across a product, project and/or wider business practice, leading to measurable positive change. This category will recognise generic sustainability practices or processes or revolutionary practices.
Sponsored by Orbia Fluor and Energy Materials, Successful practices in improving the efficiency and productivity of a process or site. The winner will be able to demonstrate that real business improvements have been made following the implementation of a new project or operating programme.
Sponsored by IKM Consulting, This award looks at Innovative approaches to effective exporting involving the latest systems and thinking, and it will be awarded to a company that is new to, or experienced in, import/export and who has significantly developed their business in new markets or achieved an outstanding international trading record. This award is also open to service providers who have helped other businesses to take their international trading to new levels.
Sponsored by Business of Science Ltd, this award ia a demonstration of creative solutions that present major commercial opportunities for a business. It is open to individual organisations or collaborations including between industry and academia. The winning recipient will be able to demonstrate how they have successfully invested in the research and development of a commercially viable new product, enhanced an existing product, or designed/modified and implemented a process that delivers demonstrable benefits to the business.
Sponsored by SRG, the award will recognise the contribution made by a young person to the success of a chemicals business or service provider; also recognising the learning of vital business skills and their application in taking the organisation forward.
Sponsored by SLR, the winner of this award will have a dedication to environment, community or similar, and that will be ingrained into the way you do business. You will likely see that CSR has business benefits too (which may include boosts to recruitment, retention or PR). The judges will be keen to hear the outcomes and to how the business contributes to the economy.
Sponsored by Hibiscus Plc, this award covers a broad scope of entries, and the winner could be reflected within the provision of innovative problem solving anywhere in supply chains, to the chemicals sector. The winner will be able to demonstrate how their products or services have successfully responded to a customer problem and helped deliver effective supply partnerships.
Sponsored by Studley, this award will likely involve collaboration for example between a company and university on a specific project. The Partnership Awards is open to any individual, organisation, employer, government or university or combination of groups to enter, but a Chemicals Northwest member must be part of the team being entered.
Eligibility for the awards is simple. You will be a chemical manufacturer, a key player in the chemicals supply chain, or an important stakeholder or service provider to the sector.
There is a limit of 1000 words per entry and you may find the following helpful in structuring your entry.
Entry is open and welcomed from members of Chemicals Northwest and non-members.
To enter the awards please email alex.abraitis@chemicalsnorthwest.org.uk by 4pm on Thursday 16th January 2025 with the title of the award as the email header.
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