The Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG) has welcomed British Glass CEO Dave Dalton as chair of the umbrella organisation that represents the interests of energy-intensive industrial consumers. With over 40 years of experience in the glass industry, Dave succeeds Richard Leese, a director of the Mineral Products Association, in taking up the EIUG chairrole. Dave is to be supported by British Glass Federation’s manager, Jenni Richards, as co-chair during the two-year term.
Dave said: “Energy-intensive industries like the glass sector need competitively priced, reliable and sustainable energy supplies in order to keep processes running. At present, this is simply not the case, and the cost to our industries could be very high. Government needs to act quickly and decisively. We are here as a group to hold them to account.
“Over the next two years as EIUG chair, I hope we can work with government to ensure a long-term energy strategy that will enable and incentivise energy intensive sectors to decarbonise and remain internationally competitive, so that we can continue to manufacture in the UK, contributing to UK GDP and supporting jobs and communities across the industrial heartlands.” Read more about the EIUG online, at http://www.eiug.org.uk/.
