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Team on 11 November 2003
DuPont scoops plant award
DuPont won the PICME-sponsored category of Best Process Plant at last month's Management Today Best Factory Awards for Manufacturing.
DuPont won the PICME-sponsored category of Best Process Plant at last month's Management Today Best Factory Awards for Manufacturing The Teesside-based polyester (PTA) manufacturer employees some 380 people at its Wilton site plant, with turnover in excess of GBP 190 million
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Since DuPont bought the business from ICI in 1999, the DuPont management have single-mindedly attacked the received wisdom that the company would lose out to competitors from abroad, particularly in the Far East.
Site manager Kevin Feeney noted that: "If you drive uptime up, then cost, quality, capacity, safety and morale all follow".
PICME Chief Executive Mark Lewis said: "We are delighted to see DuPont rewarded in this manner.
The team inherited a rather ordinary performance of OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) of some 70% and has recovered much of the hidden plant since then through a combination of working smarter and working together - exactly as PICME advocates".
Lewis added: "We believe that improvement in manufacturing fitness of this kind is available to all companies within the UK process sector - in chemicals, plastics, pharmaceuticals and other processes, large and small.
It is particularly gratifying to see a management team successfully determining its future in this way and using the tools and techniques of manufacturing improvement to create a more secure future for the business.
We urge all processing companies - in plastics, chemicals or other products - to let us give them a boost in this way.
Where there's a will to succeed, manufacturing excellence and continuous improvement are always within reach".
PICME has now sponsored of the Best Factory category for Best Process Plant for three years running.
Highly commended this year was Dairy Crest.
Last year's winner was Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare Manufacturing in Hull.
PICME has been charged by the Government to add GBP 120 million to the profitability of the UK process manufacturing sector in redundant cost through increased productivity and reduced cost.
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