Excellence Showcase 2023

This year’s Excellence Showcase celebrated the outstanding achievements of teams from across all sites and functions in Tirlán

The level of change in society today demands that companies like Tirlán must be able to adapt and grow, CEO, Jim Bergin, said as he addressed this year’s Excellence Showcase and presented awards to the worthy overall winners.

Above: Winner – Sensory Analysis Internalisation – R & D – COVI – Kyeesha Glenn-Davi, Vivian Gee, Cian Moloney

Among them were Grace O’Dwyer who won the People’s Choice Award for her work on ‘Building the Branch Network of The Future’. Linda Sheehan was also singled out for her team’s work on the ‘Elopak Carton: Cap Light-Weighting’ whereas Damien Sutton was recognised for his stellar work with FarmGen team, the industry-leading solar PV initiative. The fourth and final award winner was Kyeesha Glenn-Davi. She and her cross-functional partners have worked tirelessly on the Sensory Analysis Internalisation project.

Addressing the Awards hosted by the Operations and Supply Chain Excellence Team, Jim Bergin, Tirlán CEO, said: “The level of change in the world and the level of volatility in the world is just increasing all the time. We have a very important value – Adapt to Grow. That quiet evolution or revolution under that value is absolutely critical for us.

Above: Winner – People’s Choice Award – Building the Branch Network of the Future – Agri Category – Customer Impact – Grace O’Dwyer, Robert Kehoe & Paul Ecclefield

Above: Winner – FarmGen – Industry Leading Solar PV Initiative, Agri Category, Sustainability Category, Damien Sutton & Hugh Martin

“There are various characteristics that you are conveying all the time within that, such as imagination, willingness to flex, acceptance of change and creativity, agility, collaboration and awareness of the external environment. That is a huge engine of our success. This process unearths brilliance,” he added.

The purpose of the event is to recognise and celebrate outstanding achievements of teams from across all sites and functions within Tirlán. The original 95 entries were carefully whittled down to 24 finalists under each of the eight award categories, Michael Phelan, Head of Operations & Supply Chain explained.

“The vision of the showcase is to help bring to life the expectation that continuous improvement isn’t extra to the day job, it is the day job. Also, everything is not aways rosy. Problems occur every day for all of us. When we eradicate the risk of blame we can focus more fully on solutions, rather than keeping our problems under wraps. We are further building on really strong problem solving capability. But we should not take it for granted, it needs all of our support,” he urged.

Through our Excellence Showcase, our teams demonstrate how through an open mindset, a focus on continuous improvement and the courage to take risks, we all deliver positive change in Tirlán.