Sixth form students’ study may save 3M factory £100,000 a year

Posted on 3 May 2013

School pupils in County Durham have been commended for their work on an engineering project which could save the industrial products giant 3M up to £100,000 a year.

Sixth form students from Teesdale School, Barnard Castle, worked alongside 3M employees at the Newton Aycliffe factory, which manufactures dust masks. The company had investigated what to do with waste material from the manufacturing process. The four sixthformers who were seconded to the 3M factory looked at how to separate the two main waste materials…

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