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Deadline nears for manufacturing awards

The entry deadline is nearing for a North East manufacturing awards programme.

The EEF Future Manufacturing Awards will reward enterprise, innovation, environmental performance and skills development in the North East. Particular recognition will be given to companies in the low carbon market.

“With the UK’s services economy in disarray its time for the manufacturing industry to get the recognition it deserves as the UK’s true engine of economic growth and a hot bed of innovative thinking,” says EEF’s Region Director, Alan Hall.

“Too many people have a negative view of manufacturing which is out of date. We’ll show them how wrong they are by drawing the country’s attention to those businesses in the North East that are breaking down barriers, reinventing the rules and reaching out for new opportunities to create a manufacturing industry this country can be proud of.”

The EEF Future Manufacturing Awards will recognise outstanding achievement in three areas – innovation, environment, and enterprise.

The North East winners will be announced in November and go forward to compete for national awards in each category, plus the overall Manufacturing Achievement of the Year Award. These will be presented at a national ceremony in early 2010.

Entry forms are available from the awards web site at www.eef.org.uk/awards.

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