Naas-based engineering company, Nugent Manufacturing Ltd, has three great reasons to celebrate recently. On 4 March 2015, following a year-long implementation of a Factory Production Control programme, it achieved the CE Marking standard for the steel fabrication industry EN-1090 up to Execution Class 2 (now a legal requirement for all fabricated steel). The standard for fabricated structural steelwork is BS EN 1090: Execution of steel structures and aluminium structures. The BS EN 1090-1 standard came in to force on 1 July 2014 and its scope is very wide ranging, covering structural steel and aluminium components and steel components for use in composite steel and concrete structures. Nugent Manufacturing was also awarded with accreditation to the Quality Standard ISO 9001-2008. On that same evening of Wednesday 4 March, at the RDS in Dublin, the company was crowned the overall winner in the Small Firms Association’s (SFA’s) Small Business Awards 2015 in the ‘Energy and Environmental Sustainability’ category. Nugent Manufacturing was also a runner up in the ‘Manufacturing’ category. This is not the first time that Nugent has been honoured at these prestigious awards, having been a finalist in 2010 in the same category. The award was presented by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton in the presence of AJ Noonan, SFA chair and Patricia Callan, SFA director in the splendid surroundings of the RDS Library. The company’s managing director Stephen Nugent dedicated the award to all his staff, for their “tireless determination to make Nugent Manufacturing a world-class quality company”. For further information on Nugent Manufacturing Ltd, call Stephen Nugent at (045) 898101 or email info@nml.ie.