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News Release from: JohnsonDiversey
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 July 2005
JohnsonDiversey wins MX Awards 2005
JohnsonDiversey has been named overall winner of the government-backed UK Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Awards 2005.
JohnsonDiversey has been named overall winner of the government-backed UK Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Awards 2005 The company was judged to have clearly demonstrated world-class performance in all areas of its manufacturing operation at Alfreton, Derbyshire
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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This JohnsonDiversey plant produces a comprehensive range of cleaning chemicals for use by UK contract cleaners and facilities managers in industries as diverse as food service, lodging, healthcare, government and education, and retail.
Products from the plant are also widely used in the food processing, dairy and brewing industries.
A key factor in securing the MX Award was that the factory has been able to more than triple production since 2000 to 90,000 tonnes per annum, while simultaneously increasing the number of products made at the site from 350 to over 550 in the same time frame.
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The Alfreton plant has also won praise for its commitment to responsible manufacturing.
As with all the company's 38 sites globally, the Alfreton factory is committed to quantifiably reducing the impact of its manufacturing process on the environment.
This is achieved through lowering total water and energy consumption, reducing waste through reuse and recycling, and cutting the amount of biodegradable ingredients lost in to the wastewater stream.
Reinforcing this, JohnsonDiversey has recently become the first manufacturer of industrial and institutional products to be successfully accredited by AISE, the European trade organisation developing a charter for sustainable development.
Commenting on the award, Ian O'Connor supply chain operations director, says: "This success has been driven by the whole team at Alfreton, their expertise, and a culture of continual eagerness to develop new ideas that can improve processes and create solutions for their customers.
"I believe that the judges saw this goodwill of our people as being the one enduring strength of our business".
The MX Awards triumph continues JohnsonDiversey's run of major competition and award wins in 2005.
In March, the company was shortlisted in a record four categories and won the 'Washrooms' product innovation award for its Oxivir disinfectant in the 2005 Cleaning Industry Innovation Awards.
Similarly JohnsonDiversey's new SafePack chemical dispensing system was judged outright winner in the Cleaning and Hygiene Suppliers Association Innovation award earlier this year, while a second JohnsonDiversey product, J-Flex, was also Highly Commended in the same competition.
A further recent groundbreaking technology was Jonmaster, which became the first cleaning system to be approved for use in the Government's Rapid Review programme that is fighting the MRSA superbug.
The MX Awards programme, which is run annually by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and is government-backed through the DTI's Manufacturing Advisory Service, includes the most rigorous benchmarking procedure applied to companies in the UK manufacturing sector.
This includes months of assessor site visits, best practice reports, formal presentations and the scrutiny of a panel of manufacturing industry experts chaired by Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya KB, CBE.
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