Syngenta Manager helps set up firm's pioneering apprenticeship scheme

A manager who started as an apprentice at one of Huddersfield’s biggest and best-known companies is retiring after helping to transform its apprenticeship scheme into one of the best in the UK.

Ian Nunn was a 16-year-old apprentice fitter when he began his career at the former ICI which is now Syngenta on Leeds Road in Huddersfield in August 1977. The company makes products which help farmers tackle weeds, pests and diseases in plants.

Now, 45 years later, Ian is retiring from his role of apprenticeship manager with the scheme totally transformed over the last 12 years into one which has won a clutch of awards.

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