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The All-Island Carbon Measurement Study

The All-Island Carbon Measurement study is seeking to assess current carbon footprinting activities amongst businesses in Ireland and Northern Ireland, and the implications of current trends for future competitiveness.

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Reflex Mouldings
Administrators from PwC have sold the business and assets of County Armagh plastics manufacturer, Reflex Mouldings, to the FHS Group for an undisclosed sum.

A Best Practice Visit and a Resource Efficiency Work-shop will be held at Canyon Europe on Thursday 27th August 2009 from 09:00am to 13:30pm.

This event will high-light new opportunities to reduce, reuse and recycle resources within your organisa-tion. The workshop, facilitated by NISP, will enable companies to realise cost savings and create new busi-ness opportunities. The event will be hosted at Canyon Europe who are a leading company specialising in the design and manufacture of high quality and innovative trigger sprayers and dispensers. Canyon is a global company, trading in over 50 markets around the world. The company has state of the art manufacturing facilities in North-ern Ireland, Japan and Vietnam.

Established in 1988 as the Euro-pean subsidiary of the Japanese Canyon Corporation, over the last three years the company has invested approximately £11 mil-lion pounds in advanced injection moulding equipment and auto-mated assembly machines. Innovation is a key driver for Canyon Europe and has led to the establishment of a state of the art Centre of Excellence to provide tailored solutions and develop new products in response to market needs. This is an excellent opportunity to visit a global company delivering manufacturing excellence.

The best practice visit in Canyon Europe will high-light the successes of the company’s waste minimisation programme.
A range of industry experts will be contributing to the event in-cluding, Cherry Polymers and Waste End Strategy. Cherry Polymers will be presenting the new opportunities for polymer processors that have been cre-ated by up-grades in the recycling supply chain and new technological developments. Waste End Strategy will be highlighting innovative solu-tions in waste management.

Places are limited at this event and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
We would recommend that you re-serve a place now.

Following on from the success of Phase 1, InterTradeIreland is delighted to announce Phase 2 of the All-Island Learning Network for the Polymer & Plastics Industry on the island of Ireland. Delivered by First Polymer Training on behalf of InterTradeIreland, each module will provide technical training to polymer companies based in Northern Ireland.

Smart companies avoid the temptation to cut back on training costs during a recession. Continuing to educate and up-skill employees allows companies to deliver great products and services into the market that will satisfy both existing and new customers. If you are a company operating in Northern Ireland's polymer sector, you may avail of discounted training opportunities through this initiative.

Please click here to view the Training Schedule: FPT List of courses

If you are interested in taking part or for more information please contact:

EFQM Quality Awards
Award ceremony took place on 29th January 2009. Of the 14 companies in NI who were presented with awards under the EFQM quality model, 3 were polymer companies.
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