In the past month, the Tredegar based company, which is one of the UK’s leading providers of fully integrated pharmaceutical outsourcing services, won the prestigious ARENA Network Wales Environment Award for ‘Environmental Management Systems and Sustainability Reporting for Businesses over 50 Employees’ and the ‘Business and the Environment’ accolade at the Blaenau Gwent Environment Awards. Valerie Ellis, Human Resources Director at Penn, who is also responsible for health, safety and environmental issues commented: "With environmental management fast becoming a buzz word for industry, we have focussed our efforts in recent years on making improvements to the company’s Environmental Management System and identifying targets and objectives for improvements. We are delighted to achieve these awards in recognition of the progress we have made. "As a global business operating in the local community, Penn takes its Corporate Social Responsibilities very seriously and we have continued to raise the bar to ensure that, as an organisation, we continue to prove our commitment to positive environmental practices." Penn also holds the ‘Green Dragon’ environmental award at level 5 and earlier this year received the SGS/UKAS ISO 14001 standard in recognition of the organisation’s commendable track-record of energy and emissions reduction, waste disposal and recycling. Key environmental achievements over the last year include: • 12% reduction in total CO2 emissions, achieved largely through investing in energy efficient equipment and lighting, purchasing ‘cleaner’ electricity and through an employee energy conservation awareness campaign • A total reduction in non hazardous waste of 68% and a 62.8% reduction in contaminated waste • 260% increase in recycling and a substantial cost saving as a result of the company’s upgraded recycling strategy. • 7.5% reduction in gas usage and 3.14% reduction in water usage Penn Pharmaceutical Services Ltd is a leading provider of outsourced pharmaceutical development services to the international healthcare industry. The company’s core business expertise includes a fully comprehensive product development service, which consists of formulation and analytical development, clinical trial manufacturing, packaging and supply management and extensive contract manufacturing. Penn also offers CMC Consultancy and Qualified Person (QP) Services.