CeeD Industry Award Winners 2025

We are delighted to annouce the CeeD Award Winners of 2025!

700 attendees gathered at the Glasgow Hilton on Thursday 6th March for the annual CeeD Industry Awards in association with Booth Welsh, our Platinum sponsor. Thanks also to Nine Twenty Recruitment, our Silver sponsor, and all our individual Award sponsors. Thanks too to Equi's for providing the delicious ice cream and Ochil Fudge for the delicious tablet, both award winning products in their own right. 

Presenting a unique opportunity for engineering and manufacturing companies, academic organisations, and partners to come together, this event recognised the achievements of the many businesses that have excelled in Scotland and was hosted by Shereen Nanjiani, broadcaster and former main presenter of STV’s ‘Scotland Today’ news programme for nearly 20 years.

We were also delighted to have Richard Lochhead, Minister for Business, Scottish Government as our guest speaker who spoke about "Scotland’s amazing innovation and our great businesses including within our engineering and manufacturing sectors". 

The judges had a difficult job on their hands as the standard of applications was so high. You can also see a list of the finalists here.

Congratuations to all the Winners!

• Operational Excellence award Winner, sponsored by CeeD - Chivas Brothers

• Best Practice Sharing award Winner, sponsored by The University of the West of Scotland - SSEN Transmission

• Skills Development award Winner, sponsored by the Manufacturing Skills Academy at NMIS - Thales UK Ltd

• Women in Engineering/Manufacturing award Winners , sponsored by Arthian - Kareema Hilton of NMIS & Joyce Onuonga of John White & Son

• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) award Winner, sponsored by Glen Turner Distillery Ltd -  Dover Fueling Solutions

• Net Zero Heroes award Winner, sponsored by Star Refrigeration Ltd - Aggreko & the Scottish Business Climate Collaboration (SBC) Climate Action Hub

• Internationalisation award Winner, sponsored by Johnston Carmichael - Forth Valley College

• Transformational Change award Winner, sponsored by Booth Welsh - R&W Scott

• Cyber Resilience award Winner, sponsored by CyberScotland - Bruichladdich Distillery Company

• Marketing award Winner, sponsored by Business Gateway - Equis Ice Cream

• Innovation award Winner, sponsored by The National Robotarium - Scottish Leather Group

• Young Person of the Year award Winners, sponsored by Nine Twenty Engineering & Manufacturing - Caitlin McDowall of Storm Aviation Ltd & Heather Thom of Merck

• Circular Economy award Winner, sponsored by JWF - Renewable Parts Limited/AMRL University of Strathclyde 

• Remanufacturing award Winner, sponsored by WEEE Scotland Ltd - Celtic Renewables

• Knowledge Exchange award Winner, sponsored by Ailsa Reliability Solutions - Phoenix Instinct & University of the West of Scotland

Thank You to all our Sponsors

We'd like to say a big thank you to our sponsors. Especially to Booth Welsh who were our Platinum Headline sponsor this year and Nine Twenty Recruitment who were our Silver sponsor. Also to all our Award sponsors with each award sponsored by a number of new and returning sponsors.

We were also delighted to help raise an incredible £7,070.11 from the Grand Raffle for SmartSTEMs, our charity partner for the night.

And a big Thank You to CA Models, who designed these fabulous, unique trophies for the CeeD Awards - and who created a special award trophy for CeeD in recognition of our 20th anniversary and 20 years of sharing best practice across our community. We were really touched to receive this award, which was presented to our MD Joe Pacitti & CeeD Chair, Dave Pearson by Richard Lochhead MSP. We'll be very proud to show this one off!