Gurit UK honoured at National Training Awards 2010

25th October 2010, Isle of Wight, UK: Gurit UK, a leading developer and manufacturer of advance composites materials, based on the Isle of Wight,  has been honoured with a prestigious National Training Award in recognition of their outstanding contribution and commitment to training, learning and development in the workplace.

Gurit UK was presented with a Regional National Training Award at the South East regional ceremony, held at Oxford Town Hall earlier this month. Gurit UK was recognised in the ‘Large Employer’ Award category for its Production Technicians learning and development programme, where on completion trainees qualified at level 2 and 3 in Polymer Processing and Related Operations. The award also recognises the key collaboration between Gurit UK and the Isle of Wight College in helping deliver nationally recognised qualifications to its employees.

Run on behalf of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) by UK Skills, the National Training Awards inspires and encourages UK industry to invest in training and development as a route to achieving outstanding organisational and individual success. Winning an award is recognition of best practice and provides a benchmark for standards of excellence in training in the UK.

Luke Kerr, Training Manager at Gurit UK Comments, ‘Winning this award has been a fantastic achievement for the training team here at Gurit UK. It has been a fantastic learning journey for us all. We have learnt so much along the way with our employees receiving qualifications and ensuring we meet the skills demanded for our unique and competitive industry, during hard economic times. I’m very proud to have received this award on behalf of Gurit and would like to thank my team for their excellence through out the programme in supporting the successful candidates.

Gurit UK has now been invited to the National Training Awards 2010 UK Ceremony, being held in London on Wednesday 1st December. At the ceremony UK winners will find out if they have won the overall Winner of the Year Award for their category.