Results of the 1st Altawest Internal Competition on Innovation
Philippe Garelli, President of Altawest and president of the jury of Altawest’s internal competition, “Innovation: towards 2025”, revealed the final results of this competition dedicated to Innovation on November, 4th.
Launched in spring 2015, as part of the Altawest 10 year anniversary celebration events, “Innovation: towards 2025” gathered 13 teams, for a total of 40 participating employees, representative of the diversity of its branch companies and the variety of areas of expertise within the Group.
Project files had been assigned into 5 thematic categories:
- Plants-Processes
- Technology-R&D
- Quality-Security
- Human Resources
- Project
The Grand Prize was awarded to a multi-branch and multi-site team, bringing together employees from Jeumont Electric Maintenance, Leroux & Lotz Technologies and Leroux & Lotz Maintys. Their project aims at lowering down to zero the number of workplace accidents and occupational diseases, through the development of a common security culture throughout the Altawest Group, inside a global participatory and collaborative approach.
The all-female team grabbed the competition top spot ahead of a team from Inova, which was promoting an Internet app for refuse derived fuels energy recovery plant sizing, and a joint Leroux & Lotz Technologies/Jeumont Electric team, which was pushing forward a project on on-board residual energy hybrid recovery for ships.
The prize announcement session was held inside the wider framework of a “Technology Day”, which allowed all competition participants to meet and exchange together as well as with the jury members. They also attended interactive presentations given by R&D specialists from group branch companies Jeumont Electric and Leroux & Lotz Technologies.
