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DavyMarkham wins EEF National Skills Award

As acknowledgement of the company's dedication to training, skills and apprentices. DavyMarkham has been awarded with the prestigious National Skills' Award from the Engineering Employers' Federation (EEF). The award was sponsored by Westfield Health.

The company has invested heavily over the last five years in the training of apprentices to ensure that there was a sustainable workforce to take the business forward in the future. Now 25% of the shop-floor employees is a young person under the age of 21 who is part of the apprentice training scheme.

DavyMarkham's Managing Director - Kevin Parkin who leaves the company at the end of February paid tribute to the whole workforce who had encompassed retraining, change management and the passing down of skills to the apprentices. "This award is a national recognition of the efforts that everyone at DavyMarkham has contributed to by making apprentice training a key business priority."

Kevin added "The future of manufacturing is dependant upon a constant supply of well trained, motivated and highly skilled people. We all have a duty to make sure that we impart the knowledge we have all learned onto these young people."

Kevin also praised the work B&ESY are undertaking with him to develop the work-wise program where school pupils aged between fourteen and sixteen are totally immersed in a company for twenty one days over a three year period. "Encouraging young people to consider a career in manufacturing must be driven by industrialists because there are few people involved in education who have any experience of working outside academia"

DavyMarkham will also be opening their doors to a number of selected schools during the Global Manufacturing Festival: Sheffield which takes place between 14th March 2011 and 24th March 2011. The festival will reaffirm the UK, and Sheffield, as a global leader in advanced engineering and manufacturing innovation.

www.globalmanufacturingfestival.com

Issued: 17 February 2011

For further information please contact:
Jackie Cook, Marketing Manager, DavyMarkham on +44 (0)114 291 4346
email jackie.cook@davymarkham.com