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119 apartment City Quay development marks another success for Hillcrest’s development team
Hillcrest’s development team has recently brought their latest Dundee development plans to fruition, culminating in Council Leader John Alexander and Councillor Anne Rendall cutting the turf to mark the start of work at the City Quay site. The 119 apartment, £13m development will consist of 53 flats for social rent and 66 for midmarket rent across two blocks, and will offer a mixture of one and two bedrooms. The ground floor of the block located on Victoria Dock Road will also offer the area’s first retail space. Following over a year of planning by Hillcrest’s development team, the turf cutting marks the project moving into the construction phase, where the plans will finally come to life. The team has been working hard on a number of developments across not just Dundee, but Angus, Edinburgh, Perth and Kinross, and Aberdeen City and Shire. They are currently overseeing a number of projects coming to life around Dundee. Derby Street, being developed in partnership with Dundee City Council will deliver 163 homes in the Hilltown, while the development at Seagate will deliver 28 homes near the city centre. The Victoria Dock development will be delivered early 2022 within the city’s wider waterfront regeneration area, only a short distance to the V&A. Council Leader John Alexander, said: “This is an exciting housing development for the city, one of many in the near future. This is a comprehensive investment in accommodation to meet people’s modern needs and aspirations, in a highly sought after area.”
MacIntyre Chocolate Systems sub contract machinery for local project Sub-contract machining of Power Take Off (PTO) drive shafts was recently undertaken by MacIntyre Chocolate Systems for a local company. MacIntyre were pleased to have their extensive machining capabilities utilised for such an important project. Energy saving is paramount in today’s world – which was a major factor in the redesign by the MacIntyre team of their New Generation Refiner/Conche for chocolates and other fat-based masses. Having the opportunity to diversify capabilities in another sector with the same ethics in mind made the project personally rewarding for the company. Situated in Arbroath, MacIntyre’s inhouse machining expertise, experience and extensive capabilities is only available at
one other plant in Scotland, resulting in a wide range of products and bespoke projects. The plant includes a Richards Vertical Turning Lathe used to machine cylinders for their largest 5000Kg Duplex Refiner/Conches but which has the capability of handling diameters of up to 3.5 metres. In addition, their Asquith machining centre, table size of 2 metres x 4 metres, provides a wide scope for many projects. The plant’s Mazak A16 also offers versatility in turning and drilling a variety of components. Completing MacIntyre’s manufacturing capabilities is a team of highly skilled coded welders with full fabricating and rolling facilities up to 2 metres wide, 30mm thick, while the final assembly shop gives the team the capability of offering complete turnkey projects through to electrical controls.
TAYSIDE MARKETING AGENCIES JOIN FORCES
Two Perth based full-service marketing agencies Volpa and Fraktul have joined forces, further strengthening Volpa’s position as one of Scotland’s top independent marketing agencies. The partnership, which sees Volpa’s team boosted by the strategic marketing expertise of Fraktul’s founder and managing director, Stephen Gorton, brings a stronger B2B focus to the award-winning agency. With more than twenty years’ marketing experience, including senior marketing roles at Kier Construction, Halcrow and Millard Consulting, Stephen is a Chartered Marketer who founded Fraktul in 2009. In 2014, he was responsible for the rebrand of one of Scotland’s largest recyclers, Binn Group, and has provided marketing since which has helped to increase turnover from £10 million to £16 million. Stephen will take up the senior management role of Account Director at Volpa and will continue to service Fraktul’s extensive client base of more than 100 clients, which he has built up over the last decade. Stephen’s appointment is the latest in a series of senior appointments for the award-winning agency. Former Head of Marketing at Crieff Hydro, Sarah Brown, has recently joined the agency as a senior account manager, which followed the appointment of Emma Davies as senior account manager, who brings more than 18 years of PR experience in the B2B agency environment and who also previously ran her own PR agency. Tricia Fox, founder and MD of Volpa, commented: “We’re absolutely delighted to be joining forces with Fraktul and welcoming them into Volpa’s den, further strengthening our credentials as one of Scotland’s leading marketing agencies.”
DACC • CONNECTED | WINTER 2019
