EMPLOYEES at a specialist glass bending company have been presented with NVQ level 2 qualifications.
Some 30 members of staff at Novaglaze Gardner & Newton Ltd were presented with certificates by Tom Steel, external verifier for awards body GQA, and Brian Lee, of Barnsley College, who assessed the employees.
Training undertaken by the Lockwood-based firm covered topics including health and safety, quality and process improvement.
Company director Gary Smith said: “Highly trained staff are key to a growing business and NGN is wholly committed to providing training to its workforce.
“Our staff have produced excellent work and fully deserve the recognition and qualifications.”
Other staff members are now working towards gaining the GQA NVQ level 3 qualifications – again with Barnsley College.
Novaglaze, which dates back almost 200 years, specialises in supplying curved glass for a variety of applications and locations, including royal palaces and stately homes as well as airports, hotels and shopping centres.
The company has a 46,000sq ft factory at Queen’s Mill Road, Lockwood, a 16,000sq ft site in east London and a distribution depot in Edinburgh.
Last year, Novaglaze gained the ISO 9001:2008 quality certificate and two British Standards Institute kite marks.
The company is also donating glass for the conservatory restoration work at Greenhead Park in Huddersfield.
