Seagate Young Innovators took place in the Odyssey Arena on Thursday 19th June……..
The event is a showcase for students throughout Northern Ireland and celebrates the achievements of young people.
The FM Environmental Special Award was won by Brendan Caraher from St Colman’s College with the ‘Bin Press’.
This is a device to squash down rubbish in an overflowing bin with ease. It is a wall mounted project and the plate squashes the rubbish.
Congratulations to Brendan who is pictured here accepting the award from Nicola Whyte, Marketing Manager FM Environmental.

Friday last (23rd May) at the Greater Newry Area Business Awards FM won the Business Growth Award……..

“With the record number of entries to this year’s Business Awards we were delighted to receive the Business Growth Award.
We would like to thank the Chamber of Commerce who organised the Event and to FPM Chartered Accountants who sponsored the Award.”

The High Commissioner is the guest of Newry man Tom Kelly who is Northern Ireland’s Honorary Consul to Malta. Dr Refalo and fellow representatives from the Maltese Enterprise Board are meeting businesses and trade bodies with existing links or an interest in the Mediterranean country. FM Environmental already has operations in Malta and employs a number of Maltese staff both in Newry and in Malta. FM Environmental provides specialist services to the pump and wastewater treatment industry. The company manufactures its world renowned ‘Grease Guardian’ among other products at its manufacturing plant in Malta.

Kevin Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of FM Environmental said, “We are delighted to welcome His Excellency, the Maltese High Commissioner to the UK here to our Head Office in Newry. We have a great relationship with Malta having our manufacturing plant there. A number of key FM staff are Maltese including our Technical Director, Mario Farrugia. It is a very positive development in the growing relationship between the two regions to welcome the Maltese delegation here. We hope it will encourage increased trade and stronger links between Northern Ireland and Malta in the future.”

Honorary Consul for Malta in Northern Ireland Tom Kelly added, “Being from Newry I was particularly interested in taking the Maltese delegation to our city and to meet local business FM Environmental who have established a very economically beneficial relationship with Malta. Through this visit we hope that more companies and indeed businesses from the Newry area in particular will look towards Malta to establish or build on trade and tourism links.”

The delegation came to Newry as part of a three day visit to Northern Ireland. Dr Refalo also met with Mayor Michael Cole, elected representatives, Newry Chamber of Trade and Commerce and a number of business representatives from the city.

The Launch of the Greater Newry Area Business Awards 2008 were held on Friday last in Bellinis, Newry. Newry Chamber are hosting the awards with the Gala Awards Cermony to take place in the Canal Court Hotel, on Friday 23rd May 2008.

This year FM Environmental will be sponsoring the Environment Award.

This award is designed to recognise exceptional improvement in business performance achieved through good environmental management.

This may include any new environmental policies adopted (e.g. waste recycling) or any other ‘green’ policy which has resulted in cost reductions, improved efficiency, profit growth or quality improvements.

Kevin Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of FM Environmental was one of the guest speakers at the MLN – New Horizons Roadshow which was held in the Canal Court Hotel, Newry last month.

Organised by the Management Leadership Network (MLN) in collaboration with Enterprise NI and supported by executive search agency Spengler Fox, the Newry forum is part of a new inspirational ‘Horizons’ roadshow series travelling to only eight venues across Northern Ireland with the aim of helping to promote business growth as well as world class management and leadership capabilities.

Colm McCoy, Chairman of the Northern Region IHCPT presents Grainne Farrell with the Gift Voucher for the Whistledown, Warrenpoint, kindly donated by FM Environmental Ltd., Newry. The evening was a great success with over £20k raised.

Some Information on IHCPT:-
IHCPT, The Irish Pilgrimage Trust is a registered charity in Ireland. In 1972 it began traveling on pilgrimage to Lourdes with a small group consisting of 14 young people with special needs accompanied by 14 adult carers.

Now, each year, at Easter, IHCPT travels with approximately 500 young people. Experienced volunteer adult carers visit the young people prior to the pilgrimage and accompany them throughout our week in Lourdes. The carers pay for their own fare and accommodation while IHCPT covers all costs (approximately €850) for the young people who travel with them.

The trust relies solely on the generosity of the people who make donations to it at church gate collections or at the many functions they organise throughout Ireland. Any donation makes a difference and is gratefully received.

FM Environmental has increased its regional Service & Repair coverage with the addition of four new service engineers. Complimenting its already nationwide support network the new Service personnel will be based in Limerick, Clare, Fermanagh and Newry. This expands the Company’s Service & Repair team to 20 engineers already adding to regional engineers based in Monaghan, Carlow and Derry as well as at the Company’s head office in Newry. FM Environmental also now operates a pump collection and delivery service in selected areas and this will be expanded in the coming year as demand arises.

Should you wish to avail of this facility then feel free to contact the FM Environmental Service Department.

Over 190 young people took part in an environmental competition in Kirovsk Russia which was initiated two years ago by FM Environmental as part of their involvement in the “Show Children the World Project”.

The competition this year had the support of the local Council and the young people were assisted by about forty parents and grandparents.

The mayor of Kirovsk, Vladimir Shaposhnik, thanked FM Environmental for encouraging young people to take pride in their town and hoped that next year the competition would be extended to include an adult section.

In presenting the awards to the finalists at the Cultural Palace, Kirovsk, the Chairman of FM Environmental, Eamonn Fitzpatrick, said some of the work carried out by the young people was excellent, especially that of the winners. This was a group of 12 years of age from School No. 7 who did some great work cleaning up an orphanage building and making it more comfortable for its inhabitants.

Kirovsk City is twinned with Newry and is in North West Russia above the Artic Circle. It is now experiencing polar nights and a temperature of minus 10.