A CHEMICAL company in Huddersfield has picked up a prestigious industry award.

Syngenta, based at Leeds Road, Deighton, won an Excellence in Engineering Award at the Chemical Industry Awards hosted by the Chemical Industries Association in Liverpool.

The award recognises the contribution of engineering excellence towards improving business performance in the chemical industry.

Syngenta was recognised for the success of partnerships between its own engineering department and outside contractors, which have saved hundreds of thousands of pounds over the past two years, changed culture and working practice and developed innovative solutions to long standing problems.

Examples range from working with a scaffold company to working with power plant engineers.