Detectamet's Third Award Completes a Momentous Year
After a Royal Enterprise award and another for Innovation, the UK's food safety professionals recognise Detectamet as Company of the Year for 2015
YORK, United Kingdom, November 24, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Britain’s premier professional body of food safety practitioners, the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology (SOFHT), has recognized Yorkshire based Detectamet Limited as its Company of the Year for 2015 with less than 100 employees.
It was presented today at the Savoy Hotel in London to Detectamet’s Managing Director James Chrismas, Angela Musson-Smith Group MD and Sean Smith the company Chairman and this award completes a momentous year for the company.
The upside of achievement is that you know you have got somewhere.The downside is where do you go next? As Lindsay Buckingham said 'If you're any good at all, you know you can be better' When we won this award in 2013 we set your stall out to make further improvements and launch more products and this is the result.
Sean Smith, Chairman
“To be recognized by this respected independent body of food safety specialists is a great honor” said James Chrismas “Over the past 12 months we have launched dozens of new products to improve food safety. We have been honored for our technical innovation by the Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce and received the Queens award for Enterprise in Export.”
The presentation was made by the SOFHT Chairman Alan Lacey and the Awards Panel Chairman Chris Turner, Director at Rokill Pest Control following the Society’s annual lecture by the BBC Countryfile presenter Tom Heap.
Detectamet is the leading manufacturer of metal detectable products and equipment for the food industry with a range of hundreds of products that help to prevent the contamination of food. The company exports its products to over 100 countries around the world.
“We strive to meet the food safety needs of the food industry and this award will be a further boost to all our staff” said Angela Musson-Smith the Detectamet Group Managing Director “In September we opened our new USA business in Richmond Virginia and we are discovering new customers every day as US food producers strive to comply with new legislation and customer expectations.” For more information contact s.smith at detectamet.com