Stepan UK Team Recognized At The Chemical Industry Awards

September 15, 2025

We are thrilled to announce that our Stepan UK team has been honored with an award at the 2025 Chemical Industry Awards, recognizing our commitment to excellence and innovation. The Chemical Industry Awards celebrate the excellence occurring across the UK chemical industry and serve as an amazing opportunity to showcase some of the noteworthy achievements from the prior year.

This year, Stepan UK was recognized as the 2025 CIA Manufacturing and Resource Efficiency Award Winner. This award “recognizes the company or individual operating unit that can demonstrate world-class manufacturing performance or the most successful improvement to its manufacturing performance.”

As this award is judged on both quantitative and qualitative improvements over the past two years, the award highlighted our innovation, efficiency, and customer value in quality, cost, and delivery. Specific call outs were made to the transformational reliability improvement program at our Stalybridge site that cut unplanned downtime by 85% with reactive work (once 80% of the maintenance team’s workload), reduced to just 12%. The CIA also recognized us for the site’s overall process improvements and training initiatives that support best practice and have been able to transfer across our organization.

Stepan is honored to receive this award and would like to congratulate George Forrest, Stalybridge Plant Manager, and the entire Stepan UK team on this outstanding accomplishment and well-deserved recognition.