South Tyneside custom battery pack manufacturer Cell Pack Solutions is fuelling further growth with the acquisition of the battery division of East Anglian based Tracer Power. Award winning Cell Pack Solutions, which was established over 20 years ago, doubled the size of its business in January 2021 when it bought the Tracer Power Battery Division …
South Tyneside Council is extending the support to small businesses to help them through the economic impact of the pandemic. Last month the Council established a Small Business Hardship Grant Fund to help those small businesses which had fallen outside the scope for funding from Central Government’s Covid-19 financial support schemes to date. Funded by …
IQA Elecnor is to launch Invest South Tyneside’s new Business Talks programme early next month. The fast growing utilities firm established its regional headquarters at Monkton Business Park just before the pandemic in February 2020, bringing jobs and investment to South Tyneside and a boost to the North East economy. Already employing more than 160 …
Small businesses across South Tyneside are being invited to apply for a one-off cash injection to help support them through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. South Tyneside Council has set up a new Small Business Hardship Grant Fund to help assist those small businesses which have fallen outside the scope for funding from Central Government’s Covid-19 …
Demolition work gets underway this week at the International Advanced Manufacturing Park (IAMP). Ground will be cleared at Washington, to advance the next stage of the IAMP. A row of empty properties will be demolished, allowing future phases of the 150-hectare manufacturing park – which spans land in Sunderland and South Tyneside – to progress. The work …
The North East Fund has announced that during 2020, it helped more than 100 regional companies to raise £50m of funding despite the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses across Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and County Durham received £20m of investment direct from the North East Fund which then helped them to secure a further £30m of finance …
A Great British Entrepreneur of the Year finalist has moved his innovative business to a new base on South Tyneside. Gary Giles, Founder of OGEL, has taken up space at One Trinity Green to grow his revolutionary building system business, just days after winning recognition at two national and international awards. A finalist in the …
Fast-growing South Tyneside-based Metec UK has won a pair of contracts totalling £5.5million to manufacture sacrificial anodes for the long-term protection of steel jackets and foundations against corrosion used in the offshore renewable energy industry. These recent contract wins – one off the coast of Scotland and two offshore substation jackets off the coast of …
South Tyneside-based CDS Recruitment is supporting its strategic growth with an internal promotion and a new appointment. CDS Recruitment is gearing up to move forward with its business strategy in 2021 and the recent changes reinforces the company’s ambition to scale up through strengthening its infrastructure and resources. Founded in 2009, CDS Recruitment provides specialist …
An award-winning personal development and employment support service is moving its head office from Peterlee to South Shields Business Works to house its expanding team, following several local and national contract awards. Directors Katherine Murray and Dawn Brown established Northern Rights advice service in 2012 within the Citizen’s Advice Bureau in Peterlee and have since …
Dogger Bank Wind Farm and GE Renewable Energy have today announced contracts confirming the 13MW Haliade-X turbine for the Dogger Bank A and Dogger Bank B phases of the world’s largest offshore wind farm. The contract award, which is subject to Dogger Bank A and B reaching Financial Close, includes an order for 190 Haliade-X …
Funding has been secured to create a Manufacturing Zone within Jarrow Business Centre in South Tyneside, to support high growth businesses in the advanced manufacturing and offshore energy supply chain. South Tyneside Council has been awarded almost £500,000 from the Government’s Local Growth Fund through the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), to develop the …
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