This year an exception was made in the prize awarding because the award in the category outstanding pupil went to the same person in the category outstanding pupil in mechanical manufacturing. The Institute has opted to maintain two awards instead of granting two awards to a single person, and make a “special mention” of the second student best positioned at IMH.

Outstanding pupil IMH 2004: (study grant of €1200)

Maykel Hernández del Cabo (Eibar), second year student in the higher lever courses, specialisation mechanical manufacturing. Placement in Industrial Mail (Eibar).

Special mention: (study grant of €1200)

Gorka Bilbao Bilbao (Bermeo), second year student in the higher level courses, specialisation Industrial Equipment Maintenance. Placement in FOM Industrie (Cattolica, Emilia Romagna, Italy).

Outstanding ex-pupil IMH 2004

Asier Mendibe (Bolibar), design student who completed his training in the IMH in 1994.

After his training and placement with the Anayak Company, he completed a post-graduate program in Quality at IMH (1995), with the corresponding placement at Etxe-Tar. Eventually, he was taken on by Industrias Metala as Quality Manager, and at the end of last year he was promoted to Managing Director of this company. Asier has dedicated his award to Julián Zubiaurre (Julio Metala, may he rest in peace), since thanks to him he was able to achieve what he has during these past years at the company (ISO, certification on prevention) have resulted thanks to his efforts.

The ceremony was attended by the Deputy Mayor of Elgoibar, Miguel Angel Múgica, the Managing Director of Ona Electroerosión, José Mª Onandia, the Director Human Resources of  Danobat S.Coop., Ion Ormazabal, the Quality Manager of AFM, Josu Riezu, the Director of Studies for Curricular Vocational Training of the IMH, Mikel Arregi, and the Managing Director of the IMH, Joxean Egaña.

During the ceremony, on behalf of the IMH Joxean Egaña thanked all companies that sponsored the event (Danobat Group, Etxe-Tar, Ona-Electroerosión, Intza and JLFrench) and also the companies who participated in making these awards possible. Burni Mecanizados, S.A., C.I.Grandes Mecanizados-Gurutzpe, Engranajes Grindel, S.A.L., Fagor Ederlan, S.Coop, Gaindu,S.A, Glual Hidraulica, S.A, Grumal (Pemec), Industrias Agme, S.A., Industrias Alga,S.A, Industrias Metala, S.L., Kondia, Sammic, S.L., T.M.Norma, S.A

The Awards are an acknowledgement of the students who have undergone vocational training in the IMH, and serve as a reminder of the importance of the role they will be playing in the future of the industrial network.