Business Start-up Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Showcasing innovative start-ups showing creativity, growth, and industry impact; highlighting agile businesses driving meaningful progress and fresh ideas. Company must have been started in the last 5 years to be eligible.

Digitalisation, AI and Automation Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises the best project, process or product to demonstrate excellence in process management and control, computer-aided process design or AI applications.

Energy Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises the best project, process or product that demonstrates excellence in the Energy sector, including oil, gas and energy transition, nuclear technology or clean energy.

Excellence in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Celebrating outstanding initiatives that advance equity, diversity, and inclusion, creating fairer opportunities, inclusive cultures, and meaningful positive change across communities or workplaces.

Excellence in Knowledge Exchange and Research Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises work driving learning, collaboration, and real-world impact through sharing expertise, insights, or best practice across communities or sectors.

Health, Wellbeing and Food Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises the best project, process or product to demonstrate chemical engineering excellence in food and drink, pharmaceuticals, palm oil processing, beauty, nutrition and similar fields.

Innovation Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises standout innovations delivering clear improvement, efficiency, or impact through a new or enhanced process or product advancing industry practice.

Learning, Development and Education Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises the organisation that best demonstrates excellence in the learning and development of staff or education of a wider community. Entries should demonstrate how a skills/knowledge gap has been addressed, how a training programme has had a positive impact on business performance and/or how public perception of chemical engineering has been improved. Includes, but not limited to, company training schemes, ACTS, vocational education support e.g. apprenticeships, mentoring.

Process Safety Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises organisations/teams raising standards in safety; covering safety, loss prevention, hazards management and safety innovation.

Responsible Consumption and Production Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises excellence in responsible consumption and production including, but not necessarily limited to, particle technology; catalysis and reaction engineering; mining and minerals; fluid mixing; fluid separations.

Sustainable Systems Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises the organisation, project, process or product demonstrating excellence in sustainability, environment and clean technology and/or the circular economy.

Water and Sanitation Award

For organisations, partnerships and teams

Recognises the best project, process or product to demonstrate excellence in water, wastewater treatment and/or water management.