Celebrating long service achievements
Last month, a number of people from our UK sites attended an awards ceremony to celebrate their long service accomplishments with the Company. The evening at Middlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium – close to our Cassel, Wilton and Newton Aycliffe sites – saw services of 20, 30, 35 and 40 years commemorated and recognised for the effort […]
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Inspiring tomorrow’s talent in Singapore
Lucite International Singapore Pte Ltd’s (LISPL) internship program, started in 2014, continues to provide valuable opportunities to students from Singapore Polytechnic who are looking to experience life on a busy manufacturing plant. September 2018 saw two new students, Chew Yu Xiang and Chee Zhi Hao, join the company. Now at the end of their internships, […]
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Focusing on safe attitudes
To link and coordinate all aspects of safe and responsible workplace behaviours, a safety communications initiative at LI’s Cassel site in the UK focuses on developing new attitudes and behaviours to support existing rules rather than just trying to burden employees with new, ever more complicated procedures. Lucite International’s Safety, Health, Security & Environmental Manager […]
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The Shortlist: Acrylic Design Awards 2019
We’re delighted to reveal the 2019 Acrylic Design Awards finalists! After our roadshow tour of Turkish universities encouraging design students across the country to explore acrylic’s huge design potential, our panel of expert judges – renowned Turkish architects and designers – have narrowed down over 100 entries to just 24. The entries followed a brief […]
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An intern’s experience at Lucite International Singapore
Jun Hao, a student from the National University of Singapore, is currently undertaking an internship at Lucite International Singapore Pte Ltd (LISPL) as part of working towards a degree in Mechanical Engineering. We spoke to him about life at Lucite International. Why did you choose Lucite International? I felt that the job scope described would […]
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Lucite International sponsors 13th Annual NEPIC Awards
Lucite International (LI) recently sponsored the 13th North East of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) Annual Industry Awards, celebrating the achievements of the companies and individuals in the chemicals-processing industries in the North East of England. With 430 industry guests in attendance, the evening saw £18,000 donated straight to local schools to support STEM activities […]
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Lucite International people support Alpha 2
The Alpha technology journey has been one of continuous advancement and improvement in MMA production since its beginnings in the 1990s in Wilton, UK. After the successful start-up of the first Alpha production facility in Singapore in 2008, the decision was made to construct Alpha 2 in Saudi Arabia. Commercial operation of Alpha 2 began […]
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As a world-leading supplier of acrylic-based products and material solutions, Lucite International (LI) is committed to working with our partners across EMEA to help shape the future in an inspiring, sustainable and responsible way. As part of this commitment, we have been focusing on the local design community in Turkey with our regional partner, Ak-tas, […]
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Process Technology award for Lucite International apprentice
A Lucite International (LI) apprentice has been named among the UK’s best process technology students at the prestigious Salters’ Institute Annual Awards Ceremony in London. Quinn Hoban, aged 21, studied at The TTE Technical Training Group in North East England before embarking on a Science Manufacturing Technician apprenticeship at LI’s Cassel, UK site. Chris Weldon, […]
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Sale of European acrylic sheet business completed
Lucite International confirms completion of the sale of its European cell cast acrylic Sheet and Composites business (now named Perspex International Ltd) plus its separate UK distribution company, Perspex Distribution Ltd (PDL), to the Swiss firm Schweiter Technologies, owners of 3A Composites and Polycasa. The sale completed on 28th December 2018.
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