Awards
 
Introduction 

Cefic rewards the outstanding examples of best practices within the European chemical industry.


Check our 2008 competitions and their selection criteria:

2008 Competitions Award Ceremony

European Responsible Care Award 4 October 2008


2008 Winners


The winning students - coming from Bulgaria, Malta, Hungary, Poland and Cyprus - of the first Xperimania – from molecules to materials competitions were awarded prizes at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels on 16 September 2008. Read more>>

Dr Emma Taylor, a young British scientist from Leicester University, won the LRI Award for her research proposal on transgenerational effects. Read more>>

2007 Winners

Dr Roman Ashauer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology(EAWAG) received the 2007 LRI Innovation Science Award. Read more>>



Drogas Vigo is the winner of ESIG's (European Solvent Industry Group) 6th Product Stewardship Award, designed to reward best practices in the safe use and handling of solvents.  Read more>>


DOW Terneuzen Wins European Cefic Responsible Care Award 2007
"An innovative water project demonstrating commitment to the local community and to the environment, showing the industry going above and beyond what is required." Read more>>

 
Previous winners

BASF and IVAX received Special Commendations for their submissions to the European Responsible Care Award 2006.             Read more>>


 

Dr. Ellen Fritsche from University of Dusseldorf has received the 2006 LRI Innovation Science Award  for the Validation of a human in vitro model for testing developmental neurotoxicity Read more>>

 

Kartoflex - which represents the Dutch cartons and flexible packaging producers - was recognized for its excellent initiative, "How to deal with solvents for cleaning in flexography and packaging gravure" won the 2004 ESIG Award for the workplace improvement. Read more>>

The experience of Cognis Ltd successfully illustrates how its efforts towards HSE management improvement also make perfect economic sense. Cognis won the 2004 ESIG Award for environmental improvement. Read more>>

The best submission from an applicant based in one of the new EU Member States was accorded by ESIG, in the same year, to PENTA and Balakom.
PENTA  - a 15-year old company with 40 employees from the Czech Republic - gained special recognition for its marked reduction in VOC emissions as well as in improving safety for its workforce. Read more>>

The other winner -  the Czech paints and varnish producer Balakom -  won an award for the second time. The ESIG award that Balakom received in 2004 recognises the company’s achievements in developing and implementing technological solutions to reduce emissions in the workplace. Read more>>



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