The World's Largest Insulin Plant Awarded for Engineering Excellence
Copenhagen. The life science engineering company, NNE, was awarded the Haden Freeman Award for Engineering Excellence on 28 September 2004. The award was given to NNE for the fast track construction of the world's largest insulin plant, built for the healthcare company Novo Nordisk A/S.
The Rt. Hon Michael Portillo, MP, presented the award at the annual Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Awards ceremony, held at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London.
Bo Harvig, General Manager of NNE US - a fast growing US subsidiary of NNE located in Clayton, North Carolina - accepted the award on behalf of the 400 NNE engineers who have been involved in the project.
Hans Ole Voigt, General Manager of NNE, emphasises the importance of the award to NNE: - When we built the insulin plant we only existed as a company in Denmark. Now we have subsidiaries in US, Europe and China, and therefore it is a very satisfying experience to achieve this international award as an incentive to continuing our internationalisation process, Hans Ole Voigt states.
The 360 million US dollars insulin plant was built as a gigantic fast track project. In June 2003, the first batches of insulin were shipped from the 32,000 square metres Insulin Bulk Plant - less than three years after the first turf was cut. The use of Modular Engineering was one of the main reasons that the factory could be built in such a short period of time.
Maintaining a high level of safety at the site had very high priority throughout the project. The project was Denmark's safest building site in its category in 2002 - despite the high speed in all phases of the project. The worst accident in the entire course of the project was a broken thumb!
Other news from the department research and development
