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News Release from: Engineering Integrity Society
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Team on 26 November 2004
Contribution to business wins cash prize
The Engineering Integrity Society has awarded a GBP 500 prize to Jenny Auton of Macclesfield for her project at Colgate Palmolive as part of the national Year in Industry scheme.
The Engineering Integrity Society has awarded a GBP 500 prize to Jenny Auton of Macclesfield for her project at Colgate Palmolive as part of the national Year in Industry scheme In the scheme, students taking a gap year prior to going to university are allocated places in industry to match their chosen degree subjects
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 22 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The country is divided into 13 regions for the Contributions to the Business awards sponsored by the Engineering Employers' Federation.
The Engineering Integrity Society has been pleased to provide 13 regional prizes for "Innovation" and one additional prize of GBP 500 for the overall winner.
Auton, an engineering student at Cambridge University, was awarded the prize for innovation in optimising the way in which toothpaste tubes are filled for Colgate Palmolive.
The company produces over 45% of the global market share of oral products, along with many other consumer goods.
The Salford plant alone produces and fills 95 million tubes of toothpaste per year.
Auton was given the task of creating a mechanism to measure and compare the differences in the flow of new toothpastes with a view to improving the supply and filling processes at the plant.
After extensive research, she designed, made and tested specialised rigs to measure the filling properties of toothpastes, potentially saving the company GBP 250,000 in production costs.
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