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Yields peak as refinery Offices are final piece recovers tidalpuzzle surge of potatofrom empire by David Laister by Dave Laister Business Editor

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NIGHTMARE six months following the flooding early £3-million been devastation at has Port of invested into making Immingham is being put Lincolnshire a behindnorthern the 40-strong team at for the needs Greencentral ergy’s hub biodiesel plant, ofwhere some further of the investment UK’s biggest is potato drivingsellers. even greater efficienElsham Wold has just become the cies. new headquarters for AKP Group, Yieldsto of supermarket up to 98 per cent are supplier giant being recorded at thechip Morrisons and major eight-year-old site, where 200,000 manufacturer tonnes of usedMcCain. cooking oil can be A state-of-the-art office for block, refined annually, ready temperature controlled potato blending with vehicle fuel. storage facilitytidal and surge grading line, December’s wiped together with extensions to out the controls at the plant, existing handling have where nearly £63 areas million hasjust been been completed, with the spent since it was initially 13-year-old firm headed by Richard brought forward in 2005. Arundel moving the whole Even while “multi-millions” of administration backrecovering into the area pounds were spent from York. from the Humber’s heightened The son Grimsby town state, bigof investments werecentre being and Freeman Street markets made to better the plant, grocer David Arundel, who also including a waste water treatment used to act asaabiomass potato merchant process and boiler – to the area’sGreenergy fish and chip shops, making self-sufficient joined with Suffolk when forces it comes to steam. businessman Bruce Kerr in 1999. Now whether it has helped The former KP potato storage produce British chips, Italian facility which has nowthe been pizza or US burgers, oil used substantially developed, in the cooking process iswas once acquired in 2007, from whenforecourts a project again emerging began to growvia skin nationwide, thefinished riverside potatoes the Islediesel of Axholme. facility, on powering engines on UK roads, to where has a “We wanted showthe wefirm could 25 to 30 the per required cent share of the produce quality markethat t. supermarkets were locally buying in from Herefordshire, Rob Brocklesby, managing Scotland importing,” he directoror of even biofuels for Greenergy, said. with it said:“Morrisons “It has beenbacked a veryus tough timwe e. went to Yorkshire Forward and (the “Itscrapped took us aregional full six months to development agency) putting get back up and running. We had together a plan. We then to split the business up, tied withthe supply chain up and got the operators on site and the funding.” administration and office side based on Europarc. It wasWith just That equated to £700,000. awful. Morrisons’ rapid growth in the “From a morale perspective for retail world, the business has been the first three months the team propelled quickly, and working was Eastoft-based brilliant, but there does & with L Harrison become a time when you just want Co, the infrastructure to allow for

Top table is set King’s for CBIViennese dinner waltz with Nisa

Sir Roger Carr, president of the CBI and Gavin Esler, best known for his role as a presenter on BBC Newsnight, have been confirmed as the guest speakers at one of the region’s leading business Nisa will welcome gatherings later this year. former Sainsbury’s Theexecutive CBI Yorkshire and Humber Annual Dinner chief Justin takes place at Leeds University on October 10. King to its annual It will be one of the first events with John conference,port taking Fitzgerald, director for Grimsby and place in Vienna Immingham, as in chairman of the region. OMr ctob e r. Esler is an award-winning television and radio The influential retail and journalist. broadcaster, novelist His latest book, industry expert willdue to hit the shelves next month, focuses on lessonswith that can be gleaned from provide delegates leaders in how they tell stories, and will be the an insight into his vast subject of his speech knowledge, built up into the area’s business bosses, and a 30their year guests. career. For more information about the dinner, which is Mr King stepped frequently well represented by the South Bank and down from Sainsbury’s features a drinks reception within Parkinson Court, last month a Marks & Spencer archive and home to theafter famous decade at the helm, art gallery, e-mail katya.menhennet@cbi.org.uk or visit http://yorkshire-annual-dinner.eventbrite.com having been credited with turning round the supermarket giant. He was also named Most Admired Business Leader by Management Today as well as Britain’s A FURTHER £4-million of investment across the Most Impressive Businessman thetotal IPSOS-MORI region this last quarter has seeninthe funds Captains Industry Report.climb to £23-million. issued byOf Finance Yorkshire Neil money, Turton, chief executive of in thenorthern The available to firms Scunthorpe-based member organisation, Lincolnshire in seedcorn, loan and equity said: linked“We investments ranging to from £15,000Justin to £2-million – are extremely– pleased announce as a is there to help small and medium sized businesses keynote speaker at the Nisa conference, as he looks meet growth and development requirements. set totheir provide an informative and inspiring insight Thehis figure amounts to 224 in 183 into business career. The investments conference will build small and medium sized enterprises since on the already strong relationships betweenAugust Nisa 2010, leading to more than 4,600 jobs created and members, suppliers and Nisa executives as well as safeguarded in the region. In the last quarter alone, providing ancapital industry-leading event that delegates the venture and loan fund completed 30 are keen to attend.” investments totalling more than £4.3 million. The £1.6 billion turnover business Alex McWhirter, chief executive of supports Finance Yorkshire, said: “We are looking building independent retailers across the forward UK, andto represents on these figures and helping more companies almost 1,200 shareholders operating from more than achieve growth in the coming months. 2,500 stores. “We urgesaid: established and early stage Mr King “I am looking forward to companies attending to to speak to usNisa to see if Finance thiscontinue great event, meeting members and finding Yorkshire can help turn their ambitions into a reality.” out a little more about the organisation. I hope that Supported by the European Union, it has attracted the thoughtsinvestment I will sharefrom will spark a lively debate at £30-million the European Regional this rapidly changing time for ourfrom industry.” Development Fund, £15-million Yorkshire The three-day begins on Octobermatch 9. it Forward’s Singleconference Programme, and £45-million funding from European Bank. is not the firstthe time the retailInvestment giant has held such an For information visit itwww.finance-yorkshire.com event abroad, though is a first trip to Austria.

£20m milestone passed INVESTMENT: Staff review the Fat Strippa control panel at Greenergy, Immingham. Below, Rob Brocklesby.

further increases hasMoving now been to get back to work. a put inplant place. from shutdown, one that has been rebuilt, to become “We have taken two years to get again, is not “We got tooperational this,” said Mr Arundel. something that happens the grant funding for storage and overnight. There isinthe mind-set, grading operations 2009, and the training andthroughout the right ethos. built the storage 2010, to be open that We “We arefor back at harvest. full production have in from and now,had andpotatoes there were some2010 projects 2011, the whole project has we thatand we were working on that been finished with the officesItjust managed to bring forward. gave now. us more time to get the biomass boiler in place and alsomore gave us “Our desire is to have the opportunity to standlocal backto quality potato producers from theItbusiness and see what this site. would cut down on we needed to doThere differently .”a lot transport costs. is still of potential, will help theof Recalling it the afternoon environmental footprint and this Thursday, December 5, Mr part of the world the ability Brocklesby said:has “We shut the to grow of it the best potatoes in plantsome down, was a forced the country, that is what we aare procedure. We didn’t have great majoring on.” which was the deal of notice, situation everyone the A total of for 44 people areon now

employed, 120,000 tonnes docks. Wehandling shut down safely, but it ofstill potatoes year. Of that, left a alot of pipes full 35,000 of oil, tonnes self-grown, a does whichare is not a danger,with but it growing in this region and set. We group had a lot of problems to around another site in Suffolk, sort out, but the main issue for us contributing was that onethe of balance. the lowest points on the site our electrics, Recently 15isemployees wereand they were under water. added, with three three feet graduate Everything is controlled by trainees also part of the company, electronic valves, and that was out specialising in growing, logistics of action. Without that including we and technical elements, couldn’t .operate the plant. We had agronomy The remaining to rebuild has all the control investment seen a fleetpanels.” of six A “veryrigs supportive” insurance Mercedes brought in to deliver company been thanked, with the potatoeshas to customers, with the Mr Brocklesby involved in a primary route Morrisons’ packing meeting with floods operations nearregional Harrogate. recovery ministeraRobert Keen to cultivate prosperous Goodwill, when he came to future for Lincolnshire potato Immingham on a fact-finding farmers, the 32,000sq ft storage mission in4,000 April. facility and sq ft two storey Originally built to run ondrew rape office development – which seed, Greenergy’s first Office inspiration from Genesis

Park on Grimsby’s flagship Europarc development, will be officially opened this week by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board chairman John Godfrey CBE, himself a North Lincolnshire farmer. Mr Arundel added: “We’re looking forward to opening the new cold store and grading facility – the uncharacteristic weather conditions have brought us a challenging year, but the opening event is just rewards for everyone’s hard work. “The new facility will not only manufacturing facility is now enable us toto meet demand dedicated usedthe cooking oil,of our biggest customers, but we’ve with the potential to take animal also fatssuccessfully too. It is theimproved largest ofthe its kind quality ourbiggest in the and UK, freshness and one ofofthe potatoes by reducing in Europe. transportation, handling and using ● latest Continued page two the cold on store technologies.”

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Nightmare six months over as refining starts again after tidal surge ● Continued from page one. “We see that as a sustainable feedstock,” said Mr Brocklesby, who told how the company scours the globe for supply, with 42 per cent from the UK, 26 per cent from Europe and 19 per cent from the US, where Greenergy has a presence. “We switched to cooking oil at the end of 2009 and have invested many millions more since that time. We have improved the plant, and we are processing volumes that are higher than ever.” Since coming back online in June a Fat Strippa machine has been added in a £500,000 investment, recovering oils from the waste water from the refining process, while a biomass boiler is about to be fired up. The works have seen yield driven

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GRIMSBY seafood company, leading the way when it comes to traceability, is preparing to showcase its work to the wider industry.

BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY: Flatfish director Reece Stansfield with Flatfish Mapping at work on desktop and smartphone, at the Stirling Street base.

Flatfish Mapping is a recent online project developed by the Stansfield family behind the plaice and Dover sole specialist. State-of-the-art processing facilities are now being matched by vessel tracking technology at the Stirling Street base, helping to ensure sustainable and environmental credentials are

We want to bring more provenance to our customer base

20 jobs coming, 10 new, as seafood firm relocates SEAFOOD: Twenty jobs are coming to Grimsby as a seafood by-product business relocates from Hull. BHJ Seafood processes fish for major global pet food manufacturers, and has secured premises in Birchin Way. The company is hoping to move in early October, with the Hull facility to close once the relocation is complete. A total of ten staff will transfer, with a further ten jobs to be created. A division of BHJ UK Food Ltd, it is part of the international meat and by-products specialist, BHJ Group. It was founded in 1969 with the primary objective of collecting and processing by-products from Danish slaughterhouses for pet food and pharmaceuticals. During the Seventies, BHJ expanded into meat trading activities and manufacturing, including food processing and transport services. It moved into international markets in the Eighties, and by the end of the Nineties it was listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange. Six years later, in 2004, it was de-listed, when US-based The Lauridsen Group Inc, bought it.

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Richard Stansfield exactly what the end customers expect. Directors Richard and Reece Stansfield are spearheading the programme, linking various web-portals and feeding in their own information to generate all the vital information, in real-time. Richard said: “We have been working on a few projects. We started by looking at all the ports in the UK, drawing up a bit of a Flatfish battle-map. “The majority of our fish was Norwegian or Icelandic six years ago, now it is nearly all British fish, and all the time volumes have been increasing, too. We wanted to know of our core species, how much was landed and in what volumes.” It will be demonstrated at next month’s Humber Seafood Summit, when key industry figures gather in Grimsby to share best practice, consumer and supplier insight. “We are happy to share it. This system is on a global scale,” said Mr Stansfield. With species such as tuna under the microscope, and illegal, unreported and unregulated fish also an issue,

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Flatfish Mapping can help evidence fisheries under scrutiny, while providing the high level of detail required by British super markets. “It is all about transparency,” said Mr Stansfield. “We want to be able to prove where the fish is from, and now we know where the boat is fishing, and how many days it is at sea for. It is all the information the retailer wants, and without doubt the correct infor mation.” Reece, son of fellow director Steve Stansfield, has brought the technology forward, and is delighted to be digitalising some of the knowledge passed down over the last 35 years. “We all work together and we are all very passionate about it,” said Reece. “Even when we are away

from the business we like to know where our boats are fishing.” It has led to a smartphone application, with 50 vessels currently on the Stansfields’ personalised radar, and potential to pick up early volume indications and prepare the factory to handle it. “It is guaranteeing continuity of volume for the business. We want to supply more British fish through the company, we support the British fleets,” Richard added. “We want to bring more provenance to our customer base.” Mike Montgomerie, gear technologist at industry authority Seafish, used to work on some of the boats now being tracked. He said: “They have been very proactive. It is all leading towards what the industry calls fully

documented fisheries, where vessels have to evidence exactly where they are all the time. It is refreshing to see a company take such a big interest in the boats, it is tremendous really. For them to strive to lead the way in their own sector, fish processing, is one thing, but to be taking such an interest in the raw product, how it is caught and the impact it has, is exactly what Seafish is all about. “It’s great to see this kind of committed and proactive use of technology and collaboration.” ● Humber Seafood Summit takes place on September 18 and September 19. Registration is still open. For more information e-mail humberseafoodsummit@seafish. co.uk

STEEL: Tata Steel’s European operation reported a pre-tax operating profit of £13.2 million for the first three months of its financial year. The figure, up to June 30, was a near £12-million increase on the profit for the same period last year. Dr Karl-Ulrich Kohler, pictured, the chief executive officer and managing director for Tata Steel Europe, said: “European steel demand is moving in the right direction. “Though demand remains well below levels we would regard as healthy, we can see greater stability emerging in the markets we serve.” It comes as new processing equipment has been installed at a service centre at Redcar which handles steel from the Scunthorpe works to support increasing customer demand.

Well-heeled addition RETAIL: Leading shoe fashion retailer Office is coming to Grimsby. Work is underway to add a further storage area in the roof of Freshney Place, as it is confirmed the 33-year-old brand will take the former Republic unit in the heart of the shopping centre. The autumn opening comes as centre management, together with retail-focused agent Barker Proudlove, embark on a strategy to increase the size of units by merging them – making them more attractive to national operators – while bringing a more flexible approach to start-ups and independents.

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End of wind farm ‘warranty period’ presents opportunities on a local level

WATCHING BRIEF: Government Minister Eric Pickles is given a tour of the controls of an E.on crew transfer vessel by skipper Mike Stewart, left.

Westermost has first turbine up

Businesses interested in offshore wind were given a fascinating insight into the latest developments, with the South Bank poised to benefit some more. Business editor David Laister reports.

LEADING figure in the recent development of Grimsby as an offshore wind port has lifted the lid on huge opportunities that are emerging.

Offshore quango and RenewableUK the wind trade body. Imparting his advice to businesses looking to enter or further their involvement, Mr Turner said: “I love the wind Mick Turner headed up turbine business. It is a great Centrica’s operations and industry to be in, a growing maintenance team as it industry and great established Port of Grimsby opportunities exist now and in East as the base to serve Lincs, the future, particularly for Lynn and Inner Dowsing, the those based in Grimsby. three wind farms off the “There is a bewildering array Lincolnshire coast. of companies out there. It is The £3-million operations and important when looking at maintenance base, now trying to supply services and followed by E.on and Dong – goods to decide where you are with more likely – was a huge in the food chain.” statement for the town, Looking at the three phases – underlining the level of development, construction and investment, supply chain operation – he said they tended potential and, most importantly, the number of jobs to be well structured. “If you are talking about to be created. putting £1-billion in the water Now after a career with the you want to know it has been utility giant that spanned 21 years, first in gas then offshore spent correctly.” Giving tips, he said: “Be clear wind, Mr Turner has launched about what you offer, try to his own consultancy business understand who the site Sinnodyne, offering manager is, who the technician operational, safety and is, and who the key ‘go to’ commercial help, support and people are.” advice to power asset owners, operators and their supply Looking at operations, he chains. said: “Turbines tend to have a window of five years where He was a key speaker at a original equipment recent event put together by manufacturers provide a fully Grimsby Renewables warranted service. If you are to Partnership, the GROW:

supply to a turbine, you need to speak to Siemens. There is an opportunity coming up in Grimsby now where we are at the end of this five year window and owners are asking ‘can we do this better ourselves?’. “We need to think about how we are going to provide these services. Business are now looking at managing strategies post warranty period. “It is a case of going back to the owners and their representatives, and saying ‘we are here, we can provide vessels, eye wash stations, life jackets, and we can service it. “It is a changing scene and according to where the asset is in the life cycle depends on who you want to be speaking to. “It is also safety, safety, safety. The offshore wind industry is an inherently dangerous place, and they want people who work on wind farms to think about safety first. “Ensure products are safe, that people you send out are safe. Getting the job done is important, but not injuring anybody is more important. I have pulled 50 people off a wind farm because of a safety incident. People have to understand. The cost was massive, but that was more important to us than getting

HOT AIR: Operations manager for Humber Gateway, Jon Beresford, shows Mr Pickles the dry room for offshore personal protection equipment within E.on’s new base. The pipes transfer waste heat from the server room to dry survival suits and life vests.

HE first of 35 Siemens turbines has been successfully erected at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm.

the job done.” Chris Holden, chairman of Grimsby Renewables Partnership, also advised of the importance of ensuring the right qualifications to work offshore are obtained. “The average price to get a technician through training is £6,000, with personal protective equipment about £1,500,” he said. “Before you have done anything you have spent £7,500 and it is very easy to do the wrong course. Check with who you are intending to work with.” Fred Mead, of GROW: Offshore, gave a state-of-play, whetting appetite for supply chain opportunity still out there. Taking stock of the three rounds of development that are being played out, with the Humber corridor vital to all, he said: “The first round was for people to learn about it, and my did they learn. They got experience of working in water, the logistics of getting stuff out there and back, with a lot of activity around here with Lynn and Inner Dowsing.” He explained how scale has multiplied, both in terms of turbine numbers per farm and size, with blade span going from 80m to 154m, which is where both mass energy generation, and economic activity, becomes significant. “UK content for London Array was somewhere between 5 and 10 per cent. When Government is subsidising to such a massive amount, they want the value to come to the UK, not elsewhere in Europe. That is the driver for the push for UK content.” He said the subsidy

the buying organisation to contact. “We need to find out where towers are going to be made and then see what ancillaries are going in, be it cable trays, ladders, rapid descent equipment etc ... They are massive pieces of equipment, with huge lifting requirements – they need to be near to the port. They cannot be carting these things along roads any more. These are the sort of things that could be attractive to Able UK once it gets its teething troubles out of the way. Towers, foundations and blades need a site with deep water access, right next to where they are going to be built. We are hopeful for that, and hopeful for the area for that. “Nacelle covers (the box that houses the vital equipment) are again something we want to bring to Immingham-area. Mick Turner They are big, light and full of air, not the sort of thing you want to spend a lot of money industry. Developers also have transporting about. Again it to have a Supply Chain Plan, would be a dedicated facility. and this is what gives the UK an opportunity. It opens the “People are still searching for door and puts pressure on all sorts of marinisation original equipment solutions, whether that is manufacturers and developers. performance materials, You still have to be best when it enclosed units, or other comes to quality and price, solutions, and this is where better than the EU competition, innovation can thrive. but the incentive (to look) is “Opportunity drips down, there. from the crew vessels that have “That Supply Chain Plan will transformed Grimsby Fish have to focus on innovation, Docks, to the town hotels, taxis skills and competitiveness.” and office equipment suppliers.” So how does a company get involved? Headline-grabbing national stories have emerged of late All speakers told of the with some big projects being importance of working out where in the chain you are, and terminated, and with fracking who is the best person within on the agenda too, some

following smaller demonstration projects, and it represents a step change in our ability to provide more energy output from fewer turbines.” The wind farm will have a With construction being capacity of 210MW, producing co-ordinated out of Grimsby, enough electricity to power and operations and maintenance also to be based in approximately 210,000 homes. town, all eyes are on the project, the first in which the next generation Siemens 6MW turbine will be used on a commercial scale. It is seen as a vital step on Dong Energy’s cost of energy reduction strategy. Duncan Clark, Westermost Duncan Clark Rough programme director for Dong, said: “This is a major As reported, Westermost landmark in the construction Rough is a joint venture phase of this project and its achievement is a great credit to between Dong Energy, which the Dong Energy team and our holds a 50 per cent stake, with partners Marubeni Corporation supply chain partners. “This is the first time we have and the UK Green Investment Bank sharing the balance. installed the Siemens 6MW Michael Hannibal, chief turbine with a 154m diameter rotor on a commercial scale executive of offshore for

This is a major landmark in the construction phase

framework – an issue that kept many waiting – was now there to work from. “Strike prices have been fixed, Government is supporting a contract that will let them know what their income will be for the next 20 years. This new system of Contracts for Difference has made it more predictable. Global accountants are happier now, they have a business plan with a top line to work to, a view of what is likely to occur. “That gives confidence to the

Siemens Wind Power, said: “Only a few days after our D6 wind turbine obtained its final certification it is in place for commercial operation. We are very proud to achieve this milestone on the way to enhancing efficiency and lowering the cost of offshore wind energy with our innovative direct drive technology.” It is expected that the turbine installation on Westermost Rough will be completed in the first half of 2015. Offshore work is being carried out by one of the world’s most advanced installation vessels, the Sea Challenger, owned by A2Sea. A team of around 50 people are employed by Dong to manage construction from Port of Grimsby East, with work also under way onshore at Royal Dock to build a permanent home for the operations and maintenance team who will service the wind farm over its 25-year lifetime.

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SPEAKERS’ CORNER: From left, Chris Holden, GRP chairman; Seb Rae, market intelligence manager for RenewableUK; Fred Mead, Grow: Offshore; Emma Toulson, sector lead for renewables in North East Lincolnshire and Mick Turner, of Sinnodyne, at Freeman Street Market Business and Digital Hub. ill-informed assumptions have This is a fitter and leaner and more jobs. We are pipeline, looking at the most speaking about significant been made that one energy efficient and marketable players. A lot of turbine source is making way for another. Industry experts have projects going forward, which manufacturers are having a helps bring security to the serious look at what their been keen to state that is not market. Right now we have footprint is in the UK, it is the case, but with the 4.8GW consented, 10.8 GW in important for them to be able controversy around energy, planning, and quite a few to win contracts. We have been price and impact on the expected to come out in the spending our days with landscape, science doesn’t developers working on the UK always get the column space or next few months. And 20 per cent of this pipeline is around proposition. air time it deserves. Seb Rae, the Humber, it is an 8GW RenewableUK market “The Government has to be opportunity. intelligence manager, said: confident a developer can “There was 52GW in the “New Contracts for deliver on skills, innovation pipeline in 2012, that was Difference last August, have and competition. The turbine trimmed slightly last year and provided a Supply Chain Plan, manufacture is over 50 per even more so this year. The that is going to bring cent of the total cost, so it is pipeline has become a lot more competition, skills and very important to the turbine stronger, projects have gone on innovation to the UK, and manufacturers, they have to hopefully that means work, look at things very seriously.” to planning and consenting,

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End of wind farm ‘warranty period’ presents opportunities on a local level

WATCHING BRIEF: Government Minister Eric Pickles is given a tour of the controls of an E.on crew transfer vessel by skipper Mike Stewart, left.

Westermost has first turbine up

Businesses interested in offshore wind were given a fascinating insight into the latest developments, with the South Bank poised to benefit some more. Business editor David Laister reports.

LEADING figure in the recent development of Grimsby as an offshore wind port has lifted the lid on huge opportunities that are emerging.

HE first of 35 Siemens turbines has been successfully erected at the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm.

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The Surrey project, within the M25, will serve the capital requirements of the blue chip business as it turns to artisan bread products. Paul Walmsley, managing director, said: “We have been involved with some really interesting projects this year. “We have just completed an extensive project for a major supermarket in Weybridge for the launch of their new large-scale bakery. “It is a very modern facility, with 14,000 sq m of composite panels, used for clean hygienic walls and walk-on ceilings, which allow the client to maintain serviceability to equipment in roof voids without disrupting the manufacturing process. It has been a fast-track programme delivered on time, and is one of a few new factories we have completed this year.” Works in Leicester, Hull and Glasgow are ongoing, with a food focus, some new, and some existing facilities that are being redesigned and reconfigured. With similar standards and requirements in the pharmaceutical industry, three projects are underway in that sector too. Nearly a third of the work undertaken by Central is southern, but it is all served from the base on Humberston’s Wilton Road Industrial Estate. “The expertise in this industry, food, is renowned for being in this area. Because we have been around since 1986, when Bob Kerr started the company, our name is out there, and we are known by a lot of architects, designers and the end customers themselves. We have a lot of direct contact.” The company is increasingly working with blue chip businesses,

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manager, joining a team that regularly brings in additional sub-contractors to fulfil site commitments as the projects mount up, often with tight time frames.

Mr Walmsley said: “Ricky will keep us up to speed with current and emerging legislation, while helping to give the customer that added benefit of knowing just how seriously we take safety.”

Food industry captain to sit at the judges’ table LEADING Grimsby seafood entrepreneur Wynne Griffiths CBE is to judge the first-ever Investec Food & Drink Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Mr Griffiths pictured, has blazed a trail for enterprise in the area for many years, leading the highly successful management buy-out at Young’s Seafood to make it one of the biggest food companies in Europe, going on to back northern Lincolnshire’s Tom Wood Beer and the Mitch Tonks fish restaurants in the South West. The competition, which should prick the attention of many in the area, features a top prize of £5,000, and is designed to celebrate the person behind the brand. Mr Griffiths said: “I have been in the food industry for 40-odd years and I really think this is something the entrepreneurs of the Humber should be entering. “Whether it is Alfred Enderby, Pipers Crisps or Lincoln and York, there are so many out there this should appeal to. “Food is so important to this part of the world and it is a great opportunity for all the entrepreneurs to raise their profiles.” Categories featured are: Best Food Entrepreneur – turnover up to £20-million; Best Food Entrepreneur – turnover over

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£20-million; Best Drink Entrepreneur – turnover up to £20-million; Best Drink Entrepreneur – turnover over £20-million; Best Retail Entrepreneur; Best Online Entrepreneur; Best Newcomer and Best Young Entrepreneur. Joining Mr Griffiths to find the man or woman with the perfect ingredients in their food or drink business, will be Luke Johnson, with a background involving Pizza Express, Patisserie Valerie and Feng Sushi; Julian Metcalfe of Pret a Manger; Lord Bilimoria of Cobra Beer; Iqbal Wahab of Roast and the Cinnamon Club; and Lady Carole Bamford, founder of Daylesford Organic. Entries for the Investec Food & Drink Entrepreneur of the Year close on Friday, September 12. Winners will be announced in November, and as well as headline sponsor Investec, the awards also have the support of Waitrose and the UK Trade and Investment campaign Business is Great, Britain is Great. For more information visit www.investec foodanddrinkentrepreneuroftheyear.com

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NSPIRED by entrepreneurial tales and excited by Grimsby’s renewable energy future, recruitment professional Jose Stewart, pictured, is setting up her own business.

New agency Humber Recruitment is being established, with premises soon to be taken for a five-strong initial team. The former Manpower Grimsby branch manager has secured private investment to realise an ambition. Miss Stewart, operations director, said: “A lot of it stems from, and has been inspired by, all the Mastering Business events and all the Business Hive events that have been on. “I was sat there in front of a lot of entrepreneurial people and heard how they all worked for big corporate companies before taking the big step of starting up on their own. I found some of the stories very inspiring, and thought ‘I need to do this’.” It tapped into an increasing desire to do more than one sector, a source of personal frustration for the one-time air hostess. “I did feel very restricted as we just did logistics, we could only deal with something where someone was driving something, anything else had to go to other branches,” she said. “I was doing all the networking and I saw there was so much more, and I wanted to be part of it.” It was while at a Wish Upon a Star charity ball that she met a prospective investor, who is now a silent partner in the business, having had a recruitment

requirement in the engineering sector. “There is so much business out there, be it engineering or renewables. I have been to lots of seminars and offshore wind is such a new, exciting industry,” she enthused. “The sectors we are going to cover are the sectors we feel are the most prominent in the Humber – ports and shipping, engineering, chemical and pharmaceuticals, renewables.” A business professor with Grimsby Institute, she is also going to work with the education provider’s business, IT and travel and tourism students to give a close-up view of a business start-up, while also producing a brochure championing the area as a place to come and work. “As much as I am passionate about this area, we are going to have to look outside as well,” she said. “When we do recruit from outside of Grimsby we will send it out, highlighting all that is good about living and working here.” There are also plans for a training arm. “It is really, really exciting,” said Miss Stewart. “The big thing for me is the renewables, that is my passion. There is so much excitement about the industry, it is going to change the way Grimsby is seen.” A first temporary position has already been filled in the wind farm industry. “A lot of people have said to me that will all be handled by a big recruitment agency in London, I don’t necessarily see it that way. It is about relationship building, understanding the industry. There are so many roles involved.” Born in the area, Miss Stewart moved south aged 18, working for Blue Arrow recruitment agency, before flying with British Airways out of Gatwick, returning with Manpower where she had spent 10 years.

Month in Review Astle BMW bought out RETAIL: Northern Lincolnshire’s BMW and Mini dealerships have been bought out by rapidly expanding Marshall Motor Group. The Cambridge-headquartered company has swooped for Astle, at Laceby and Scunthorpe, together with the Crystal brands across the county, in an undisclosed deal. Marshall bought the area’s Volkswagen dealerships in early 2012.

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n addition to the company’s investment earlier this year of £23k for test calibrators, a further investment of £12k in additional calibration equipment which will allow Humberside Instruments to offer calibration of all torque wrenches from 5 to 1000 Newton Metres at their Cleethorpes premises with a 1-2 day turnaround or even same day if urgently required.

This new equipment enhances the calibration facility that offers full calibration certification of all portable, electrical and instrument test equipment which can be turned around on a next day basis or if essential the same day. The extensive hire division has a wide range of pressure and temperature testing instrumentation consisting of high accuracy pressure gauges, recorders pressure relief valves and pumps. Numerous customers prefer to hire equipment rather than buy. We can make it available for specific projects which means they don’t have to worry about storing or maintaining it when it’s not in use. Humberside Instruments calibrate and certify its clients’ testing equipment and offer on-site calibration and also have the facility to re-configure control instrumentation both inthe firm’s works and on clients’ sites.

ON TEST: Joe Washington busy with fast-track calibration using new equipment at Humberside Instruments in Cleethorpes. The service on offer to more than 20 offshore gas installations in the Southern North Sea includes the supply, repair and calibration of instrumentation and electrical equipment being utilised on these production facilities. Humberside Instruments has a large stock of hydrostatic test equipment for sale and hire. Its rigs can be manufactured to suit clients’ requirements and can be

used in conjunction with the firm’s recorders, gauges and relief valves. With more than 350 customers in various industries including the oil and gas, chemical, water, manufacturing, food, construction and shipping sectors, the company has been built by listening to its customers and reacting to their needs, as well as continuous research and development. It stays successful because clients trust

them and recognise its reputation for quality and reliability. All of Humberside Instruments activities are approved to BSI ISO 9001:2008 certification and all of its primary calibration equipment is UKAS Accredited. Managing director Mike Egarr would be happy to discuss any of the services provided to both new and existing clients.

Reasons to celebrate for buoyant On Loan staff AN Immingham-based company is celebrating a number of recent successes. On Loan Recruitment, the area’s leading recruitment consultancy, has reason to celebrate, with a number of achievements this year. Following top marks gained in April 2014 in the Recruitment Industry’s compliance test, Tracey Clark has just gained her Certificate in Recruitment Practice. Tracey said that having a background in both Human Resources and Health and Safety allowed her to pull from these experiences to gain a top mark. David Riggall, On Loan’s managing director, said: “Yet again, it shows that we are constantly aiming to provide the best service possible at all times and that our staff are individually gaining professional qualifications. “Along with a number of recent contract successes, the atmosphere in the office is certainly upbeat. “Successful contracts gained include many old customers coming back to us having had their own lean periods “Having strong relationships with our company and our staff has meant as soon as they needed personnel they have called our offices. “ Other contracts won

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customers who have either constantly our primary appointment is imminent. If recently moved to the area focus.” you need assistance, give or have expanded their All this new business has the offices a call on 01469 businesses. meant the business is 577698. David said On Loan have looking for additional staff On Loan Recruitment been trading since 1998 and to join the company and a forms part of the On Line W all this shows how hard recent advertisement for a Design & Engineering work and professional management role was i Group which itselfh was W t approach really does pay placed. founded in 1982. t off. This resulted in the On Loan headquarters are He said: “Enquiries are highest number of people based at On Loan House in up and placing people in ever to apply to the Immingham in the heart of the right places is business and an the Humber region.

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OFFICIAL LAUNCH: Lord Haskins and Singleton Birch managing director Richard Stansfield with, from left, Martin Haworth, Singleton Birch technical director; John Leeson of SLR energy consultancy; David Wright of JH Walter; Roger Webster, Singleton Birch project manager; William Sowerby of North Lincs Energy Growers; Anthony Winn, Grimsby branch manager of Handelsbanken; Anthony Turnbull of North Lincs Energy Growers and Andy Torn, managing director of A Torn Construction, celebrate the official opening of the Singleton Birch anaerobic digestion plant, at the Melton Ross quarry.

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OCAL Enterprise Partnership chairman Lord Haskins has described the Humber as a “wonderful place to be at the present time,” urging local authorities to continue to work together as the Energy Estuary dream is realised. In a frank speech given at this past month’s opening of Singleton Birch’s £6-million anaerobic digestion plant, the high-ranking politician, farmer and former Northern Foods chief looked back on the issues as he saw them, when he came to office in late 2011. He said: “When I took on the job two and a half years ago, two issues worried me. First the relationship between the North and the South. There was a certain amount of tension. It goes back centuries. We have been trying in the last two or three yeas to get people to see that we work as one. “As part of that it was clear that the rest of the world didn’t recognise this part of the world. It was underestimated by central government, by politicians. We stuck on the idea of the Energy Estuary. “When it comes to energy, 25 per cent of it is generated within 15 miles of here. I have been pressing Government. This isn’t a backwater but a crucial part of the national economy. Nothing is more important to businesses than energy, and we have every type of energy except nuclear, and I don’t think we’re going to get that. “Whether it is Immingham bringing in millions of tonnes of coal and biomass, or the

huge investment in Siemens for offshore wind, we have it here. “We are in the process of trying to get planning permission for Able Marine Energy Park, just out of Immingham, which is even bigger than Siemens. It is a very exciting time for this area, people are starting to realise this, and believe we are a crucial part of the UK.” Earlier this month Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, personally ‘delivered’ a £15-million cheque to allow for enabling works to be carried

This isn’t a backwater but a crucial part of the national economy. Nothing is more important to businesses than energy Lord Haskins out to prepare the site which is hoped will see AMEP realised in North Killingholme. Mr Haskins said: “We are getting quite a lot of money put into infrastructure in the area, that is all good stuff. We have developed a unique selling point. People want to come to the Humber to see how we do it. We will be the

leaders in the world in offshore wind, that’s the scale of it. Six miles east of here is 100-miles of (proposed) wind farm, stretching the distance from Hull to Liverpool. “That’s what we are concentrating on. Thousands of these huge things, these extraordinary machines with blades up to 75m long, built higher than the Eiffel Tower. “It is a wonderful place to be at the present time and we have just got to make sure we are proud of it and don’t fight each other. We have got to put all that behind us and look what we are up to. It is good – good for us, not just the local economy, but the whole country.” The LEP chair’s comments on the careful treading around current relationships come ahead of a key year for the local and national political landscape. UKIP’s rise will be tested at the 2015 General Election, as the impact on a local level is understood, while Cleethorpes and North Hull are identified as two of the most marginal seats to be contested. Both Cleethorpes and the dual-town constituency of Brigg and Goole flipped from Labour to Conservative last time round. Offshore wind appears to be a winner with all three main political parties, with Labour leader Ed Miliband, a former Energy Secretary, and attendee when Able’s huge scheme was unleashed on the public domain, while Prime Minister David Cameron came to Hull to endorse Siemens’ investment decision. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Liberal Democrat leader, officially opened Lincs Offshore Wind Farm in Grimsby a year ago.

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HANDS UP WHO KNOWS ABOUT THE HUMBER: Above, Westminster has learned of the importance of the area, according to Lord Haskins. Below, the anaerobic digestion plant at Singleton Birch, producing electricity to aid quarry activity.

Renewables industry unites to drive offshore wind cost reduction The Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult has brought together eight of the industry’s major owner/operators to improve performance in operating and maintaining offshore wind farms. It is a move aimed at driving the industry a considerable way towards the goal of £100/MWh for energy

generated from offshore wind. Owner/operators Eon, SSE, EDF Energy Renewables, Scottish Power Renewables, Centrica, Dong Energy, Vattenfall and RWE have joined the ORE Catapult in identifying areas where they can collaborate and innovate, sharing learning and best practice to improve performance and

ultimately drive down industry costs. The group has a unique remit to investigate the common issues that affect offshore wind farm performance and reliability, and to develop and test innovative potential solutions. They will look at areas such as blade erosion and cable damage and failure, which have been

identified as common problems affecting almost all operational wind turbine generators in UK waters. Tony Lyon, Grimsby-based head of renewables operations and maintenance at Centrica, who operate Lincs, Lynn and Inner Dowsing from the town, said: “Driving cost reduction in operations

and maintenance will be a significant step towards achieving the key industry targets on the cost of energy generated from offshore wind, ensuring that the UK remains an attractive investment destination in a rapidly developing global market. This forum is an important step forward in working towards this.”

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EW plant manager at BASF in Grimsby, Bryn Garthwaite, is heading up an operational improvement programme as the South Bank chemical manufacturing facility delights in recognition as a strategic site within the global portfolio.

Investment is being unlocked for upgrades on the way. Located between Novartis and Blue Star, it was built in 1995 as an extension to the Allied Colloids plant in Bradford, West Yorkshire. It initially manufactured super-absorbent polymers for use in nappies, but quickly switched to standard polymer ranges, supplying mainly to the water, paper, oil and mining industries. In 1998 the site became part of Ciba Specialty Chemicals and then in 2009 became part of BASF. Mr Garthwaite said: “A small site we may be, but part of the world’s leading chemical company, BASF. “My connection with the site

began in October, when I took over as plant manager for Grimsby, responsible for the operations of the Grimsby site and also joining the leadership team for the Bradford and Grimsby sites. “With more than 30 years’ experience in the chemical industry I have seen many changes in the sector within the UK. I started my working life at Bradford in 1981 as a laboratory assistant, studying chemistry through day release to Huddersfield University, SITE HEAD: Bryn Garthwaite, plant manager at BASF Grimsby. where I obtained my degree. I supplies chemical solutions for the environment, health and safety moved from a laboratory water industry, the oil and gas record. We have a strong safety environment into manufacturing, service industry as well as for the culture where everyone champions working in varying positions mineral processing industry. We the safety cause. I am looking across production.” are part way through an forward to being part of the In 2003 he crossed The Pennines, changes ahead, and from my first to run a production unit at a site in operational improvement programme, which is presenting few months on the site, I can see Manchester, returning to West many opportunities and changes that my colleagues are embracing Yorkshire four years later in for our employees. the changes and there is a real procurement. A production wish to succeed. “Investment in the site is very manager role followed, before the welcome and will enable us to “I am confident we have the Grimsby position. complete numerous plant necessary capabilities to achieve Mr Garthwaite said: “It is an great things and I look forward to exciting time for BASF in Grimsby, upgrades. “I am really proud to be joining a creating a sustainable future for we have been highlighted as a strategic site for our business that site which has such an excellent the Grimsby site.”

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HANDS-ON taste of a career in engineering has whet the appetite of both students and facilitators, after a fully subscribed four-day event proved a huge hit. A dozen 16 to 18-year-olds participated in the Introduction To Engineering course held at Catch last month, with one first year hair and media make-up student having her head turned by the opportunities in mechanical engineering. Efforts are now being made to repeat and broaden the opportunity in the October and February half terms at the Stallingborough facility, run by HCF Catch. Nikki Hale, new business development manager, said: “The course was fully subscribed and we are delighted to announce that we are applying for funds to continue these in the forthcoming half-term breaks. We also hope to widen the scope to 15 to 19-year-olds. We have analysed the feedback and the general consensus is that they all really, really enjoyed the practical “hands-on” element, which is perfectly understandable at that age. “We had two very experienced instructors who were able to divide the group into smaller numbers and they were all given the opportunity to have a go at

HANDS-ON: Students on the Introduction To Engineering course at HCF Catch. everything that was put on.” The majority of the course was based around the process plant simulator, with workshop tasks and some classroom delivery, including theory behind engineering and the principles of it.

For 17-year-old Olivia Markham, the course was enough to cement a big decision. She is now swapping scissors and brushes for hydraulics, pneumatics and measuring instruments, after having her curiosity in the subject

turned into a compelling career U-tur n. Sabine Holmes, skills manager at HCF, said: “She found out about us through her dad (Neal Markham), who is the HR manager at Total Lindsey Oil Refinery. We had a stand at the Total LOR open day and she spoke to us about what she wanted to do.” Olivia, who was a student at Humberston Academy prior to the one-year course at Grimsby Institute, said: “I had just done a Level Three Diploma in hair and media make-up, and now this year, in September, I am going to be starting a Level Three diploma in mechanical engineering, and I am hoping to go on to an apprenticeship next year. “I liked doing hair and make-up but I don’t want to do it full time. “I liked the fact engineering was more challenging. “It is hard work but you really see the results from it.” Of the course, Olivia said: “It was amazing, my heart is dead set on doing mechanical engineering now, and the facilities are brilliant.” Asked if she thought more may follow her lead if given the opportunity to attend the course, she added: “I’m sure they would.”

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TRAINING provision and success at getting people into sustainable work has been celebrated by a Grimsby company. BJB Lift Trucks’ Train2Work division is in the second year of operation and is going from strength to strength. This past month saw it host a special Celebration Of Learning event, at the Linden Homes Club, where BJB has helped lead a refurbishment of a closure-threatened community establishment. In the past academic year Train2Work has supported more than 400 unemployed individuals, who have gained a clutch of recognised qualifications, enable them to gain employment and enhance their chances of obtaining sustainable work. This for some has been the foundation of up-skilling and furthering their abilities to study at a higher level, while being employed. The current statistic for learners into employment is over 30 per cent and is raising weekly. Partnerships have been forged with other training providers and Job Centre Plus, with four logistics-sector academies delivered, a year on from winning the Grimsby

academies. This provision has been designed to give learners intensive training and work experience within the community. “Train2Work gained pledges of support from local SMEs to support our learners and assist them in gaining vital skills and experience to enable them to increase their chances of obtaining sustainable employment. “The outcomes from the four academies was that an average of 70 per cent gained employment.” WELL DONE: Deputy Mayor of North East Lincolnshire, They focused on Councillor Cliff Barber, congratulates some of the successful employability and general candidates on the BJB Train2Work sector-based academy, in warehousing skills, fork lift partnership with the Job Centre. truck control and power pallet systems, and manual handling, including the employers within Grimsby heavy unemployment Institute Training ever-important and surrounding areas. compared to the national Excellence Award at the “Train2Work and its team pick-and-pack for average and are involved in Northern Lincolnshire e-commerce. have made positive steps the development of the Business Awards 2013. “The future is exciting towards changes in Trish Hanson, operations Humber Employability and bright at BJB attitudes and behaviour to Charter to increase and business development Train2Work as we look unemployed individuals.” awareness of the manager for BJB Lift forward to continuing to Deputy Mayor of North programmes that are Trucks’ Train2Work develop partnership East Lincolnshire, available to assist the division, said: “BJB Lift working with local Councillor Cliff Barber, led employers and training unemployed in North East Trucks is a one-stop shop the presentation, and was Lincolnshire. This also for materials handling providers,” Trish said. “We joined by Debbie Fisher, equipment, including sales, underpins BJB’s economic are looking forward to the partnership manager at strategy within the local parts, servicing and plant next academic year with Grimsby Institute and community. training. improved and additional Graham Hicks, employer “Over the last two years “Train2Work was qualifications, which will engagement executive at I2I. allow us to work in other launched in 2012 as BJB had Train2Work has developed Trish added: “Last year we sectors with local identified that they were in outstanding working a position to further develop relationships with Grimsby worked in partnership with companies meeting the Job Centre and delivered Institute, Boston College, their training operations. demands and trends of employment.” four sector-based work training providers and We operate in an area of

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TEAM WORK: The HCF Catch team photograph. CATCH’S unique set-up as a process simulation plant has allowed for a specialist turnaround and inspection course to be developed. Demand is now being drummed up to make it a regular feature, following the success of “Project Shutdown 2014”, held over a fortnight in early summer. Mrs Hale said: “We have had our unique three-storey process plant to pieces and put back together! All the plant tasks were carried out by a combination of process and engineering apprentices, both fabrication and maintenance. The apprentices act as supervisors, project leaders and health and safety officers, as well as doing the physical work under supervision. “It was all completed safely, without injury and the plant works! “ It is a unique exercise we are able to offer because of the facility and fabric we have on site. “We have had some management level and supervisor level people from some of the leading local companies participating, working alongside apprentices, and some taking instruction from them. “A shut down scenario is something that

major process sites cannot lay on without disruption to production, whereas here we can shut down every day of the week if we want. We would like, with demand from industry, to provide this training on a commercial basis in the future.” Ian Mooney, maintenance supervisor at BOC’s Stallingborough plant, was one of the industry figures involved. He said: “While walking around I noticed that all the apprentices got on very well together and helped each other out no matter what their trades were. They were focused on the tasks they were given and seemed to be enjoying it. “All of the apprentices who took part should be proud of what they have achieved and the way that they conducted themselves. They will be a great asset to their companies. “This is a worthwhile event as everyone can train in a safe environment. I hope that it continues and is available for the future to allow new apprentices to take part.” Mrs Holmes added: “We are hoping to continue with that at least once a year, if not more, because every apprentice in every discipline benefits from it.” HCF has also recently been helping

unemployed people get a route into contracting companies. The organisation drew down Regional Growth Fund money to deliver it. Mrs Hale said: “It was an introduction to mechanical skills. It was a five-week course, part-time, giving people the opportunity to work with contracting firms. It is absolutely brilliant for a CV.” All the participants received a certificate for attendance from it, which they can add to their personal portfolios. “We have the money to deliver six of these five-week courses, having recently gained approval for additional funds,” added Mrs Hale. “We hope to get at least 70 people through these courses, and we’re aspiring to get 25 people into full-time jobs. “Not only is it a good introduction to mechanical skills, it has qualification in there as well, relevant to the engineering sector.” HCF would like to hear from any employers across northern Lincolnshire who can assist in furthering the potential of this course. For more information, call 01469 552842 or e-mail sabine.holmes@hcfhumber.co.uk

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Month in review Brigg plant progresses ENERGY: A “green” power station near Brigg is on the way to completion, and could create up to 60 jobs. The eco-power plant is being constructed on the site of the old Brigg sugar factory in Scawby Brook, which will generate enough power to supply around 75,000 homes by using new technology to burn locally-sourced straw. Renewables company Eco2 is the firm behind the project after energy giant Centrica had an application for a similar project turned down. Contractors BWSC and PensionDanmark are also involved after buying a stake in the project last year. The plant is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2015, with construction currently taking place six days a week on the site. General manager Colin Jones said the project was on schedule.

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£3.5-million investment in an Immingham-based tug has been officially celebrated.

Yorkshireman, a welcome addition to a growing Humber fleet of SMS Towage, was built in Turkey to a classic Canadian design. She was blessed at Albert Dock, Hull, by the Rev Canon Neal Barnes of Holy Trinity and named by four-year-old Annabelle Escreet Writer, the four-year-old granddaughter of the Hessle-based business’s chairman, Paul Escreet. SMS has experienced rapid growth in the last two years, starting operations in the Bristol Channel and Belfast Harbour to complement its services on the Humber. Yorkshireman is now working out of Immingham where her 50-tonne bollard pull rating means she can bring large bulk carriers and tankers in excess of 170,000 tonnes deadweight and 270m in length in and out of the estuary. SMS’s fleet of 14 tugs includes three others of the same design: the Masterman, Scotsman and Statesman. “They are small, compact and powerful tugs,” said SMS director Gareth Escreet, the son of Paul. “They have the power to berth the larger bulk carriers and tankers onto the riverside terminals and they have the maneuverability to handle the more intricate operations, guiding vessels into and out of the locked ports of Immingham, Grimsby and Hull. This series of tugs, which can also work offshore, have been built by Sanmar, one of the world’s leading tug and workboat builders, and designed by Canadian naval architects Robert Allan. “As a local company, we are extremely pleased to have brought Yorkshireman to the estuary as part of our growth and renewal

WHITE ROSE: The naming ceremony for SMS Towage’s new tug, Yorkshireman, at Albert Dock, Hull. From left, Paul Escreet, Annabelle Escreet Writer, and Caroline Escreet Writer. Inset, Yorkshireman. strategy,” said Mr Escreet. “It is another large investment for us and being able to do it is a real sign of the strengthening Humber economy.” SMS Towage chose Yorkshire Day, August 1, for the ceremony, and while the name may bring a few comments on the docks, the role it

plays in aiding the South Bank economy will be clear, so too the jobs. She is the fourth tug to be named Yorkshireman, dating back to a paddle tug in 1926. She is 25m in length, just over 9m wide with a draft of 4.4m. Established in 2003, SMS employs 130 people.

Mega port’s new generation of key staff are loving the challenge IMAGINE the power to hold back 100,000 tonnes ... That’s what apprentice Darren Briggs has got as he learns the ropes at Immingham’s Marine Control Centre. The former Waltham Toll Bar pupil now has his sights set on a career with Associated British Ports who have guided him through the first half of his four-year apprenticeship in marine operations. Darren was among the first group of five apprentices to be taken on at the 1,300-acre port. His big break came after reading the Grimsby Telegraph where the apprenticeship scheme was promoted. His grandfather Tony Hardwick, of Scartho, spotted it and immediately alerted Darren. Until then the 23-year-old has focused on a career in the RAF, and was a member of the Grimsby Air Cadets. He was equally happy with his feet on the ground as an accomplished cross country runner, competing for the North of England in the air cadets, rock climbing and snow boarding. he was rarely out of the PE department at school. Among his other sports are

APPRENTICE AND THE OFFICE: Darren Briggs, who is learning the ropes at Immingham’s Marine Control Centre, right.

swimming, athletics and boxing with Grimsby ABC. Darren had to compete against 300 other applicants for just four apprenticeships. The crop of young apprentices were so good the firm took on five. He said: “It looked a good opportunity, so I looked into it. For my preparation I wanted to show how I could work in a team and how I viewed safety.

“I remembered being nervous in front of the interviewers, including dockmaster Captain Martin Gough. I was a bit under pressure. I had revised and revised. It is more pressure when you want it so bad and you want to do well.” His selection day in summer 2012 included a series of training exercises ... including how to cope with being stranded on a desert island. Darren said he was thrilled when he

got the phone call at home to say he had been selected. He said he went straight to see his grandfather to celebrate the good news. The young apprentice soon became familiar with the scale of the tasks on the docks. He said: “You do not realise the size of the ships until you are up close. “It is different to seeing them out on the river when they look half the size,

but when you are next to them it is incredible.” He initially learned basic marine knowledge. He has learned the skills of berthing master and the skills of operating the lock gates. Communication skills are vital and Darren has quickly picked up the knowledge to safely see ships in and out of Immingham docks and its ter minals. The tide times and the rise and fall of tides up to 14.8 metres, are part of the apprentice’s daily life, and the exceptional circumstances of December’s tidal surge. “Everybody worked well together to deal with the unique situation,” he said. Darren has familiarised himself with many of the visiting ships coming from Rotterdam, the United States, Japan, South America and Russia. Some are 290 metres long and can carry up to 100,000 tonnes of coal. He tells them where he wants them positioned in the docks. Darren said: “The River Humber changes all the time. It is dynamic and the pilots use great skill in navigating the ships in to dock.”

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25 years in Scunthorpe

SCUNTHORPE company is celebrating a quarter of a century of growth, 25 years after starting life with just two members of staff.

business in Hull, and has overseen the company becoming a major part of the local and national economy in more ways than one. The Scunthorpe branch covers the whole of Lincolnshire and the majority of Norfolk, dealing with heavy industry and large-scale manufacturing companies. It has also provided the nuts and bolts of some of Britain’s most iconic structures, including The Shard in London and the Humber Bridge. Having grown from a small site on Colin Road, BAPP now occupies 12,000 square feet on the street, combining offices with a new tool centre, selling from an on-site

Introduction Today, BAPP is the largest independent distributor of fasteners in the UK, with the Colin Road branch one of 11 located across the UK and further expansion on the horizon. Managing director Peter Reeve brought BAPP to Scunthorpe in 1989 after first establishing the

warehouse and also stocking all forms of PPE and work wear. As Mr Reeve is keen to highlight, no successful business can succeed without a dedicated staff, and the managing director is quick to praise those who have contributed to the business’ steady, organic growth, from Branch manager Richard Nuttall through to the counter and warehouse personnel, delivery drivers, Sales representatives and administration staff. Mr Reeve said: “Richard has been with me since we opened 25 years ago and has a real wealth of knowledge and expertise which filters down to other members of staff.

“This means we can be confident in their ability to deal with customer enquiries and requirements in a knowledgeable and professional manner. “There are two trade counters within the Colin Road premises. The lower trade counter, which is the fixings centre, is managed by another long serving employee James Parkinson. “James has been in the fastener business for at least thirty years, and that kind of experience is invaluable. “Also, I must thank my partner and chairman of the group, Dean Cook, whose support, enthusiasm and vision has helped to grow the BAPP Group to what it is today.” Continued on the next page

Stockists of Industrial Fasteners Engineering Supplies and Health & Safety Products

Celebrating 25 years in Scunthorpe

An extensive range of tool stocks for both Trade and Public

UNIOR would like to congratulate BAPP on this milestone and look forward to supplying quality hand tools to them in the future.

Apex Stainless have been proud to work with Bapp Industrial in helping them supply Stainless Steel Fasteners to the Industry for the past 20 years

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HE BAPP Group of Companies is the country’s largest independent stockist and distributor of nuts and bolts and associated products.

All fasteners sold by the company have been given the CE mark of approval, and managing director Peter Reeve believes it is the quality of products and knowledge of his staff that has brought BAPP its success over the last 25 years. He said: “People think fasteners are a very simple business, but when you think about the sort of things they’re used for, you have to know you’re getting quality. “Recent EU legislation means it is now law that all bolt assemblies used in steel structures have to be CE marked. “BAPP has a firm grip of this legislation and has for the past three years been putting the necessary infrastructure in place in order that customers can be confident that the product they are buying meets the criteria and can be backed up by certification.” Mr Reeve said being part of a large group was important. He said: “It means that even if we don’t have something here in Scunthorpe, we can usually get hold of it within

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hours from another branch or a central warehouse. “There are two trucks that come round every night, visiting the branches and keeping us stocked up, and not only are they an asset to the company, but they’re very impressive to behold. “We’re now in a position where we are able to offer specialist products - things like duraheat and titanium fasteners and high tensile screws - which other places don’t necessarily have access to. “The variety of stock we carry is huge - we manufacture from 90 millimetres in diameter all the way down to around 2mm - so we know that if there’s a demand or a need, we can meet it. “It also allows us to deal with large contracts - thousands of fasteners for various purposes - which are the kind we need if we are to continue

growing as a company.” So far, those contracts have contributed to a yearly turnover of around £40 million, which is on the rise despite the economic downturn of recent years. And, according to Mr Reeve, customers are keen to renew orders and return to BAPP on the basis of their quality service and quick delivery. “Service is what it’s all about,” he said. “We pride ourselves on providing a high quality service to our customers, no matter what the order is, and that quality of service is what keeps people

The group was founded in 1972, and quickly expanded from a single site into the company known across the country Our large warehouse holds a huge variety of stock today. to continental Europe, to the The Scunthorpe branch began with Americas and to Asia, so it really managing director Peter Reeve it is a worldwide operation.” driving products to customers at all The number of staff employed hours of the day. on the Scunthorpe site has The group now boasts an extensive steadily increased over the fleet of vehicles which can be years, with many boasting a tracked across the UK, delivering wealth of experience, adding more than 90 per cent of its orders to the expertise possessed by within 24 hours of the customer the management team in the making their final decision. town. From humble beginnings has Mr Reeve said: “We have an emerged a truly global company, incredible amount of experience and Mr Reeves says a lot has among the staff, many of whom changed over the years. have been with us for 10 years of He said: “It’s a completely different more. business to when we started in “It’s great for us to know that people terms of the technology and the want to stay with us, and it helps scale, but the core principles remain our customers to know the person – we’re committed to providing our they deal with has experience and customers with high quality products expertise, and is confident with that they can trust, and with quick they’re doing. service they can rely on. “It’s also a great example to new “We have an exceptional record for staff joining the group, and helps us service, it’s something we’re very to develop the ethos of putting the proud of and will aim to continue. customer first.” “We now export a lot of products

coming back and really what keeps a company going. “All our staff work really hard to ensure the service we offer is the best possible, and I believe we’re succeeding at that. “We’re also very proud of our delivery record and the speed with Our expert staff can assist with any enquiry which we’re able to get products to our customers. of the sort of companies we deal with. “When I started out I was driving “Because we have a strong reputation around at 3am taking things to with our fasteners, we’ve used that customers, and while things have reputation with our PPE business and moved on, we still have that same offer a wide range of equipment - from attitude of putting the customer ﬁrst.” hard hats through to safety footwear The continued success of BAPP has and protective gloves. We also offer allowed the company to branch out, a corporate clothing and in-house adding to its extensive catalogue of badging service on our own machines. fasteners and moving into PPE and “We offer work wear in a number of work wear. styles, and that seems to have proved This area of the business can be just as popular - it helps having a found on the upper ﬂoor and is run by showroom in which people can see, Glyn Sparks, another knowledgeable touch and feel the products before they member of staff. buy them, which is always what people Mr Reeve said: “It made sense for us to want to do before they commit to a move into PPE purely because of the purchase.” type of work we do, but also because Story continued on the next page

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Celebrating 25 years in Scunthorpe

An extensive range of tool stocks for both Trade and Public

UNIOR would like to congratulate BAPP on this milestone and look forward to supplying quality hand tools to them in the future.

Apex Stainless have been proud to work with Bapp Industrial in helping them supply Stainless Steel Fasteners to the Industry for the past 20 years

Services

HE BAPP Group of Companies is the country’s largest independent stockist and distributor of nuts and bolts and associated products.

1972 1989 B 2014

History APP remains a company with a local focus, but over the years has moved from just a small handful of staff into a ﬁrm with a global reach.

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EW N PRODUCT

This unique ‘all-in-one’ adjustable steelwork clamp offers high load capacities, ease of installation, anti-corrosion protection and performance, even in low temperature environments.

TFS own range of Self Drilling or Self Tapping Screws TFS own range of Self Tapping Anchors for Masonry

✔ No drilling or welding required

TFS own range of Nylon Stainless Pins and Nails

✔ Faster installation and reduced costs ✔ High slip resistance capacities

TFS own range of Nylon Headed Screws

✔ Independently approved SWL ✔ Low temperature SG iron

TFS own range of Sealant TFS own range of Plastic Caps, Hexagon Head and Rivet TFS own range of Bi-Metal Stainless Steel Self Drilling Screws

Innovative 2-part design allows the clamp to self-adjust to suit a range of flange thicknesses. High Slip Resistance Clamps

Get the new brochure today at www.Lindapter.com or email enquiries@Lindapter.com

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He said: “If, as a company, you decide to stop growing and settle with what you’ve got, you start to run into problems. “We take a great deal of pride in our service and meeting our customers’ needs, and that has led to a lot of organic growth. 2015 will bring in a new era for the Scunthorpe Branch with Adam Reeve, Peter’s son, coming on board as a director. Adam has been managing director at the Hull branch for many years and has grown that business successfully. Peter said “Eventually I will retire and this move will enable the transition from father to son to run smoothly and Adam’s direct involvement with Scunthorpe will enable me to devote more time to developing further business. “Our aim is to keep delivering high quality services and keep growing the business - we’ve been doing it for 25 years and hope to keep doing so into the future.”

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The wider group is also sharing in that success, with a new branch recently opening in Leicester. As the Scunthorpe site deals with customers as far afield as Norfolk, managing director Peter Reeve said future expansion could be on the horizon. He said: “With us doing business down in Norfolk, we could see a new branch in the future. “The important thing in that case would be to make sure we find the right person to run that branch and build up local contacts - it isn’t easy work, and takes time to become established.” But a quarter of a century since planting the business in Scunthorpe, Mr Reeve said he had no desire to rest on the company’s impressive laurels.

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As proud suppliers to Bapp Scunthorpe since 1989, we look forward to continuing our valued partnership for another twenty-five years!

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AT THE HELM: Mike Read, managing director of Read Hyundai, in Altyre Way, Humberston.

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OMMERCIAL vehicles play an “extremely important” part of Read Hyundai’s business, according to managing director Mike Read.

fitters and plumbers, and they wanted a tailgate door. “I went to Hyundai with that and we took a commercial model on trial in Grimsby and it has since become part of our model mix. “It shows the company adapts to The newly opened Hyundai its franchises, in this case just franchise in Altyre Way, because one dealer in Grimsby Humberston, stocks the new wanted to try it out.” Hyundai i800 as well as the iLoad – The commercial vehicle trade is a both offering advantages for key part of Read Hyundai’s businesses. business. Both have the key feature of a 180 In July the family-run franchise degree rear opening door, perfect upped sticks from its previous for on-the-road traders. home in Railway Street, Grimsby, to impressive new premises in Mr Read said: “When we first started up Read Hyundai there was Altyre Way, Hewitts Business Park. one choice of van which had The Railway Street site has now opening rear doors and we looked become home to Read Suzuki, after at what traders we had in the area the firm, led by Mr Read, took on like travelling fish sellers, carpet the franchise of the Japanese giant.

The Suzuki addition took the Read portfolio to three dealerships, two in North East Lincolnshire and a Read Hyundai in Lincoln. The purpose-built new premises has a larger showroom with space to display eight of Hyundai’s latest models, double the size previously held. There is also a workshop with state-of-the-art service and repair equipment, including a class-seven MOT ramp for vans, keeping commercial fleets on the road. Mr Read said: “We have had a great trade because not only do we sell to a person a commercial vehicle, but they could then end up buying a car as well, so the process is far reaching. “We have set up a high mileage user service plan, which means

there are very competitive rates. Some traders are doing 30 or 40,000 mile a year. “We have made sure we are competitive for those guys.” He added: “We are one of the UK’s biggest stockists of commercial vehicles. That side of it is extremely important to us. “It feeds into our approach and by selling someone a van we meet the customer and hopefully form a good relationship with them. “They then become something of a travelling advert for us because the vehicle is their travelling office. “They are trusting that van with everything so if it is performing well it is a great advantage.” ● To find out more visit www.read-hyundai.co.uk

WEALTH OF VEHICLES: The recently opened Hyundai franchise in Altyre Way, Humberston, stocks the Hyundai iLoad, above left, and the Hyundai i800, above right.

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Italy, the company says it will cut down on lead SPECIAL type of paint used by the Maria Robinson, costings and quotations military is now being provided by analyst for HITEK, said: “When you see a green times and improve on time delivery. Maria said: “This shows the company is Scunthorpe company HITEK Elec- tank, or the white gloss on a British Airways plane antenna, helicopter antennas – this is the branching out. It will come in several colour tronic Materials.

The business, which provides a bespoke service to the UK electronics industry, is now stocking Mil-Spec paint. The special paint is used by the military on tanks and armoured vehicles, and by airline companies on their planes. HITEK is ordering the product from NVSC Specialty Coatings in Italy, and it is used to coat large battlefield vehicles. NVSC manufactures chemical agent resistant coatings (CARC), and it is designed to protect surfaces.

sort of paint that is used. “Mil-Spec paint stands up to the rigours and challenges of severe and dangerous environments. We will be the only company in the UK selling the chromate-free MIL-SPEC primer, which has significant environmental benefits. “There has already been interest from the military. There are a few companies in the UK which sell similar products, but we are the first in Scunthorpe to do so. It is a brand new product for us.” With the product being brought across from

standards, and this is a real move forward for us. “We do a lot of work with the military anyway, and this is just something else we are able to supply to them. I think it will be a successful product and we have had great responses to our stocking it. It can only be good for HITEK, and for the town.” The product is available now from HITEK, with the first batch having arrived in recent weeks. They will also order in new types of MIL-SPEC paint to meet customer demand.

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Cloud innovation bridges IT gaps for business PRODUCT innovation is driving change in the accounting software and IT market as vendors look to aid the growth and expansion of all businesses. Thanks to advances in cloud-based technology, providers such as Sage are now producing variations of their software in order to bridge a significant gap for SME businesses who, up until now, have found it difficult to smoothly transition operations during times of growth. On board with the new direction after praising the product innovation, IT software specialist HBP Systems is stepping up its efforts to help raise awareness and bring these new solutions to businesses, with commercial director Phil Denham

outlining a notorious problem SMEs face with accounting software. “For many SMEs who have grown to needing the functionality of accounting software packages, products like Sage 50 have been the perfect introductory route. “However, the demand for innovation has stemmed from the issues these businesses face when the time comes to upgrade to the next level, in particular Sage 200, which until very recently has required significant capital investment in IT infrastructure. Unfortunately, this isn’t always a viable option, leaving companies stuck with software limiting their operations.” The solution has come in the form of Sage 200 Online; a cloud-based

version of the widely-used software which opens up the option of monthly payment plans, without the need for implementing an extensive IT infrastructure to support it and the subsequent maintenance required. “The choice of accounting software for any business is made with the future in mind. Thanks to the flexible option of Sage 200 Online, SME’s can now feel more relaxed about taking that next step with a product that grows alongside the business, offering the same features and capabilities of the on-premise version,” explained Mr Denham, pictured left. “And since the service is hosted online, it suits mobile businesses operating across multiple locations,

in addition to further specific features which we’ve recently demonstrated through our new website.” Adopting the cloud has been a major focus for developers large and small, in anticipation of the predicted cultural shift in the way business will operate, communicate, and share data in the near future. HBP Systems technical director, Tony Pearson, summarised just what developments in cloud-based applications mean for businesses. “Adopting these new solutions will modernise operations,” he said. “They’ll take business beyond existing barriers to operate more flexibly, both physically and financially, while making sustainable growth even more achievable.”

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MEETING BUSINESS NEEDS:Grimsby Institute’s Senior Trainer Consultant at ECOSH, Stuart Caroline, pictured with Grimsby Institute’s Director of Commercial and Professional Programmes, Lesley Charlesworth-Browne.

Getting it right every time is training ethos

ollowing a review of its business, East Coast Occupational Safety and Health (ECOSH), part of the Grimsby Institute Group, has made some key changes to its training provision to further meet the business needs of North East Lincolnshire.

Now operating from the Centre for the Assessment of Technical Competence – Humber (CATCH) facility at Stallingborough, ECOSH has commenced its brand and portfolio development with the aim of becoming the region’s preferred provider and partner in Health, Safety and, Environmental Training Solutions and Consultancy. Reflecting the Grimsby Institute Group’s “learner first” ethos, ECOSH have constructed a contemporary portfolio of training solutions and recognised qualifications. Meanwhile staff are also working on a range

of strategic alliances to provide mutual benefits and enhancements to the current portfolio. At the heart of the operation is the notion of “Getting it right first time every time” and that is something that ECOSH take very seriously with staff aligning themselves squarely behind this vision. During 2014 and 2015, ECOSH will be introducing new provision, including courses in Fire Safety, 18001 and 14001 audits with experienced staff from a range of disciplines and industry specialisms from paramedic professionals to NEBOSH experts. The ECOSH team includes a range of trainer consultants; working in disciplines such as Logistics, Food Manufacture, Engineering, Management, Renewable Technologies and HR practice. This aligns the commercial activity of the Group squarely with the economic priorities for the area.

ECOSH Senior Trainer Consultant, Stuart Caroline said: “We are delighted to be able to offer a wide ranging portfolio that listens to the needs of employers and keeps central to its activities the economic priorities of the area.” Lesley Charlesworth-Browne, Director of Commercial and Professional Programmes added: “We are keen to work with other training professionals where we can add value to the Group’s commercial offer and would welcome discussions that accomplish this aim.” ● For more information about the new range of courses and training solutions available at ECOSH, simply e-mail ecosh@grimsby.ac.uk You can also contact Stuart Caroline by e-mail to carolines@grimsby.ac.uk and Lesley Charlesworth-Browne by e-mail to brownlc@grimsby.ac.uk or call 01469 552866 for more information.

Company with true metal is growing rapidly A SCRAP metal specialist is looking to the future, after appointing a new director and expanding its site. S.J.P. Trading, a well-established scrap metal specialist merchant, based in Stallingborough, Grimsby, appointed a new director, Ambrose Farrow, earlier this year. The company, which has more than four generations of experience, offers a fast, efficient and professional service. And now, with the expansion of their scrap yard into a neighbouring site, it shows things are going well for the company. Site manager Jeffrey Rijff said: “With a new area to put our

machinery and scrap metal we are expanding. “It’s great for the company.” The company is busy reorganising their scrap yard and recently bought the Old Huckers Mot garage next door. S.J.P Trading serves a large area spanning Grimsby and the surrounding county of Lincolnshire. They provide a full range of scrap metal services for both commercial and industrial customers. Some of the services they offer are a modern de-pollution centre for end-of-life vehicles, machine dismantling, skip hire and site clearances.

These services are offered to companies up to 50 miles away. They can also help people who want to sell their scraps as they buy cars and commercial vehicles, and accept car batteries, lorry batteries and catalytic converters. They buy all kinds of metals from ferrous to non-ferrous for a competitive price that does not sacrifice the quality of service. One of the things they are most proud of is their outstanding reputation. The level of repeat business the company receives clearly demonstrates customer loyalty. The company is also a leader in disposing of scrap in an

environmentally responsible way and have a full set of licences to work in the scrap metal recycling industry, an authorised vehicle de-pollution processor, and an on-site de-pollution plant where they safely remove substances that are harmful to the environment before scrapping cars and other vehicles. And at their site, on Netherlands Way, they have their own public weighbridge open for the public and other companies. ● If you would like to know more about the company visit their website sjpmetals.co.uk or phone 01469 577875.

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ID Architecture looking to get the best of James

ARCHITECT James Lockwood has joined ID Architecture as he looks to further his success in his APPOINTMENT: James Lockwood, who has joined ID Architecture in Grimsby. profession. Already involved in award-winning work with his previous practice, Mr Lockwood joins directors and chartered technologists Andy Inch and Tom Williams at the Alexandra Dock Business Centre base, where more high profile work is on the cards. Mr Lockwood, who was born in the town and went to Caistor Grammar, before heading to Cardiff to study architecture, said: “It is a new challenge and an exciting time for us. “We have the same aspirations and goals in terms of the projects we want to do. It is not about pumping work out, we are keen to take our time with the detail and do things properly. I am sure that will reflect in the work we bring forward.” After university Mr Lockwood worked for a conservation firm, dealing with castles, cathedrals and modern buildings in sensitive settings, before returning to North East Lincolnshire. He qualified as an architect in 2010. Mr Williams said: “It is early days at this stage but we brought James in having interviewed a number of people. Rather than going for someone with less experience we hope further down the line there will be a larger role in the company in terms of ownership, as a director, rather than purely an architect running certain projects.”

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Banking on familiarity in business development A well-known face in local banking has accepted a new challenge to grow two Grimsby firms in the financial sector. Steve Parker, who has been with Lloyds Bank for more than 25 years, will focus on business development for chartered accountants Pelham and corporate finance and corporate consultancy Johnson Hunt. “There is an excellent team here with a wonderful reputation that has been built over many years,” Mr Parker said. “I’m looking forward to contributing, attracting new business to Pelham and Johnson Hunt, and helping existing clients with my expertise in banking.” He has spent the last five years at Lloyds as a relationship manager on the commercial side. “I’ve had an enjoyable career in banking but this is DEVELOPMENT: Steve great opportunity and a Parker, centre, is welcomed new challenge that came at to Pelham and Johnson Hunt the right time. by partners Chris Hunt, left, “It’s very different to what and Leonard Booth. I’ve been used to but I’m keen to learn and adapt. I Pelham, welcomed him to will also bring a different the business. perspective to this “We’re ambitious and business.” pursuing a growth Chris Hunt, a partner at

strategy,” Mr Hunt said. “Steve’s experience in and knowledge of the banking sector will compliment

what we already do and, I’m sure, help us grow the business. “He’s somebody we’ve

known and respected for many years and we’re delighted to welcome him to Pelham and Johnson Hunt.”

E.on unveils new operations head M

EET the new operations manager for E.on’s Humber Gateway offshore wind farm base.

Jon Beresford pictured, has taken on the role at Port of Grimsy East, having served in a similar position at the company’s Scroby Sands development off East Anglia, for the past eight years. He was part of the team to welcome Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, when he officially opened the new £4-million base earlier this month. Mr Beresford said: “The offshore wind farm is currently in construction and my responsibility at the moment is putting in place the operations and maintenance infrastructure, including the Engineering company Cofely Fabricom GDF Suez is building, the quayside, the vessels, to extend its unique award-winning training the team and the control room. programmes into its in-house “When Humber Gateway is recruitment division, Resource Direct Recruitment commissioned in about a year, it three companies, E.on, Vestas for will be handed over from the Ltd. the turbine engineering, and North construction ream to operations It will provide recruitment Sea Services for vessel and training for both internal management. and external clients, “We have currently got a team of specifically aimed at the 47 people, and of those 40 are onshore and offshore local,” he said. construction and engineering “It is going great. On the industry. construction side we have got the It will be lead by Graham first 61 of 73 monopiles in, and the Carlton pictured, resource first two turbines erected. development manager. “That was a huge milestone for Yvonne Day, human us, and ahead of schedule.” resources director, said: “We Jon Beresford Scroby Sands was one of the UK’s wish Graham all the very best in this new and exciting delivery concept, which we are sure, with first commercial offshore wind his experience of the industry, will be another unique and maintenance.” farms, commissioned in March provision to our business and clients.” A team is being assembled across 2004, off Great Yarmouth.

Yvonne’s return to Young’s

Strategic training move

We have put a lot of effort in and now have a phenomenal building

It features 30x2MW wind turbines, generating less than a third of the anticipated electricity from Humber Gateway. Mr Beresford said: “We have four projects in the UK, as well as projects in Germany, Denmark and Sweden, and we use lessons learned on each to slightly improve. We have put a lot of effort in and now have a phenomenal building, which is great. “The team and I pretty much designed the building how we wanted it.” ● Offshore wind latest, see pages four and five.

Yvonne Adam has re-joined Young’s Seafood Ltd as marketing director. Having spent three years away from Ross House, holding senior marketing roles at similar brand-based fast moving consumer goods companies Premier Foods, Baxters and, most recently, Jeyes Group, she returns having first joined the seafood giant in 2004. Yvonne, pictured, will report into Wayne Hudson, managing director of the frozen category within the business, who joined the business in January, and led the recent advertising pitch process, launched in April, that saw Soho-based Quiet Storm appointed as the new agency. It is both an advertising agency and production house.

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QUAY RECRUITS: Peter Aarosin, right, welcomes new staff Dave Allen, left, group business development manager, and Craig Hodgson, group commercial manager.

RMS recruits for the Humber’s big splash P

ORTS operator RMS Group has strengthened its commercial team to capitalise on unprecedented investments around the Humber.

chair of the Bondholders Humber marketing organisation, added: “The renewable energy sector will be a huge catalyst for new trade which will bring increased business activity, employment and prosperity to Already the UK’s busiest the Humber over coming trading complex, the Humber is on the cusp of a development years. There is an unprecedented opportunity for boom fuelled by the very strong growth in the burgeoning offshore wind ports and logistics sector, industry. which will have a ripple effect In readiness for a boom in across the wider economy in cargo movements, RMS has the region. recruited Craig Hodgson as “These appointments are group commercial manager about positioning ourselves to and David Allen as group take full advantage of these business development business opportunities, so that manager. The appointments RMS grows as the Humber coincide with an becomes ever more important announcement that as the UK’s Energy Estuary commercial director Paul and major gateway to and from Crossland will retire on December 31, although remain European and world markets.” in a consultancy capacity for a Based in Goole, RMS has port further two years. operations there, as well as Grimsby, Immingham and RMS chief executive Peter Hull, and owns and operates Aarosin said: “Despite the RMS Trent Ports. The business downturn in the economy from 2008 through to last year, employs more than 200 people. which was reflected in ports Mr Hodgson joins RMS from activity, the company has Brown McFarlane, one of the continued to go from strength UK’s largest steel suppliers, to strength. Now the business where he was international is once more growing very business development strongly and we are looking to manager. A graduate of the take further advantage of an University of Hull Business expanding market.” School, he previously worked for Tata Steel and had global Mr Aarosin, who is also

FLASHBACK: Peter Aarosin, second left, and Paul Crossland, second right, who is to retire, together with other members of the management team, David Johnson, Mike Kirby and Gary O’Malley. They were part of a management buy-out and buy-in back in August 2007. Mr Aarosin had sold RMS in 2004, but returned to re-invent the business, with shareholders in a £20-million deal.

responsibility for sales into energy and power industries. Mr Allen brings to RMS intimate knowledge of the Humber, having previously been business development manager for PD Ports and, prior to that, a sales executive for DFDS Seaways. Mr Aarosin said: “Craig and David will bring a fresh, dynamic approach to our commercial operations and complement our vastly experienced existing senior team.” Mr Hodgson grew up in Immingham and lives in Grimsby. He said: “I’m very excited about joining RMS. With huge developments such as Green Port Hull and the Able Marine Energy Park, the region’s economy could absolutely boom. My previous role carried international responsibilities from Brazil to New Zealand, but I didn’t want to miss out on such great opportunities closer to home.” Mr Allen, who lives in Holton-le-Clay, said: “RMS is in a very healthy position. It’s an excellent company, which is always looking to develop its business, has strong capability and is highly thought of by customers.”

WELCOME IN: New apprentices at Online Design and Engineering in Immingham are, from left, Ethan Smith, Christian Hasthorpe and Keiran Dinnes.

Apprentices welcomed THREE new faces have been welcomed into Immingham’s Online Design and Engineering, having joined the business after completing the first year of their qualifications off-site. Mechanical engineering apprentices Ethan Smith, 19, Christian Hasthorpe, 18, and Keiran Dinnes, 17, have been welcomed to the Pelham Road headquarters, and will spend time in each of the business units, following a first 12 months at Catch.

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A Pathway with a real difference for advisers T

EACHERS and career advisers across northern Lincolnshire are being invited to a careers fair with a difference.

The Business, Enterprise and Education Partnership (BEEP) is holding its third Pathways event on Wednesday, September 17. This year it will be held in Scunthorpe at HETA’s new apprentice training facility on Foxhills Industrial Estate. BEEP chairperson Nina Stobart said: “Unlike traditional careers events, the Pathways event is aimed at the people who advise students. “It is a rare opportunity for teachers and careers advisers to speak to local people from a variety of companies and roles, from HR professionals to engineers and apprentices. “They will be able to gain an insight into the pathway they took; the skills and qualifications they needed for their chosen careers and what companies are now expecting from their students.” Companies from across the Northern Lincolnshire region will attend and help man the stands, including Phillips 66 Humber Refinery, Novartis and Tata Steel. There will be opportunities to see sample tests that companies are now using to help sift applicants, information on the importance of a good CV and also tour the new HETA training facility. BEEP was founded in 2011 to

SHAPING THE FUTURE: A past event, where advisers and teachers get together to share ideas on helping young people find the right career. tackle the local problem of lack of partnership work between academia and industry. This results in students being ill-prepared for work and unaware of the many local career opportunities and the skills required for them. Started by founder partners

ConocoPhillips, now Phillips 66 Humber Refinery, and Humber Chemical Focus, the steering team now has wide representation from the area in both industry, academic and support agencies, as well as a supporters’ base of more than 100 schools and businesses. Light refreshments will be

supplied at the Pathways event and places must be booked in advance. For further information or to book a place, e-mail or phone Lesley Pickard on 01469 552820, lesley.pickard@hcfcatch.co.uk To find out more about BEEP, visit www.wearebeep.co.uk

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Keep your workforce healthy with Figs lunches HOME made fresh produce to keep your workforce healthy and motivated – that’s the pledge from a Cleethorpes eaterie. Figs, in Alexandra Road, branched out into external catering two years ago, providing varied meals for local businesses and organisations, delivered to their doors. Whether it’s fresh salads, meat, home-made fish pies, or fresh fruit, there’s something for every taste, giving business staff, clients or guests something extra special. Figs owner Lisa Cracknell said: “We branched out into catering about two years ago, just by chance really, and it’s been building from there. “We had people asking us why we weren’t already doing it, telling us we should. “So far it’s been very successful and we now do about 90 lunches a day on average.” Already a thriving seaside eaterie, Figs has a busy restaurant with a little cafe culture. But the external catering has given the business that extra edge, riding on the back of the huge growth in green industry in the Humber Bank and beyond. “Business is buoyant for us with more businesses coming to the area with the green developments,” said Lisa. For business catering it offers everything from sandwich platters to all-inclusive working lunches, which can be delivered to your office or business at a time to suit. The initiative is particularly health focused. Lisa said: “We are really emphasising the wellness attitude that we have. Eating healthily at lunchtime has been shown to increase productivity. “Plus by having lunches together staff are mixing with each other during their lunch breaks, which can only be a good thing. “Everything we have is the lighter option, where possible. Some clients were skeptical at

first, but now they love the idea.” FINE DINING: Outside catering from Figs in Cleethorpes, which has a booming trade thanks to As well as catering for businesses, Figs also the support of businesses in the region. welcomes orders for weddings, birthdays, canapé receptions, and even recently a wake. “It’s really spreading by word of mouth,” said Lisa. “Business people are well connected, so the word is spreading for us.” All of the food is made on the day of your function to maintain its freshness and quality. The business believes in using top quality ingredients and, wherever possible, promoting the use of local suppliers to reduce the carbon footprint. Whatever you need, Figs’ executive outside catering can offer you a bespoke menu to suit all your individual requirements. So give them a call to discuss your requirements on 01472 322470 or e-mail figsexecutive@gmail.com or visit www.figs.uk.com

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Future is bright in New Holland as plant owners ‘do like orange’ T

HE huge expansion of an internationally-owned speciality processing plant has been completed, with a family-orientated South Bank celebration to mark the occasion, and a promise of more jobs to come.

decade ago. “We made a plant to fix the problem and improve the process,” he said, referring to the previous owners’ failure, adding “we kept the name very simple!”. “We have had our ups and downs, but the future looks bright ... we have New Holland Extraction’s 2,500 much confidence in the factory and also, of course, in the staff. We look square metre office, storage, welfare and processing unit was delivered by forward to growing the business in the years to come. northern Lincolnshire project “I would like to thank North manager CH Parrott Consultants and Lincolnshire Council for the support Cube3 Construction, finished in to make this project possible, and CR trademark Dutch orange. Parrott and Cube3 for doing a very The £1.74-million project was good job. Co-operation was fantastic commissioned by the two-brother and this is just marvellous. We have team behind Dutch global producer De Wit Speciality Oils, and Joost and plans for further jobs to be created in the future.” GertJan, asked their mother, Ria de Additional works will also see solar Wit, to declare it open. She was aided panels installed on the huge roof by a third generation as her grandchildren passed the ceremonial above farmland that was flooded by the tidal surge that hit the Humber scissors to cut the ribbon. back in December, just weeks after The company has brought to market Joost had climbed into a a new ingredient that is helping mini-excavator and cut the first sod enhance bread and cereal products, on the development, as reported. Chris Parrott, whose eponymous firm has offices in Scunthorpe and Grimsby, spoke of his “immense pride” in the completion of a “fantastic project”. Outlining how discussions were held in March 2007, but that market uncertainty – no doubt as a direct result of the recession – saw expansion ideas initially put on hold, he said: “Development of New Holland Extraction Ltd and confidence in their new market areas proved that with determination, foresight and good management that anything is GertJan de Wit impossible, and here we are today. “This project has taken effectively while continuing to extract niche oils one year to transform an area of land from seeds including borage, evening designated for industrial usage into primrose, blackcurrant, echium, an actual production unit facility, hemp and rosehip. creating jobs now and in the future. A recipient of £230,000 of Regional The project has overcome initial Growth Fund grant-aid from North flooding to the site in the early stages Lincolnshire Council’s of the programme, however from our economy-boosting war chest, leader view as project managers, we take the Cllr Liz Redfern was there to opportunity of thanking both the celebrate, together with Marcus contractor and their team, together Walker, assistant director of with the client’s team also. regeneration, and Humber Local “This really has been a Enterprise partnership chief well-managed project throughout, executive Kishor Tailor. with a great team spirit to overcome GertJan explained how the original any problems as they arose – a real New Holland plant came to be owned success story.” by De Wit, initially in a joint venture David Coombe, director at North with German firm Kroppenstedt, Killingholme-based Cube 3, was also having been acquired out of at the ceremony. He said: “We are receivership due to the food-grade pleased to hand over another standards it boasted, just over a successfully completed project to New

We have much confidence in the factory, and also, of course, in the staff. We look forward to growing the business

GOING DUTCH: New Holland Extraction’s new 2,500 sq m unit is officially opened by the directors’ mother, Ria de Wit, watched by sons Joost, right, and GertJan, second right, with, from left, David Coombe of Cube3, Chris Parrott of CR Parrott Consultants, and Colin Watkinson, plant manager. Holland Extraction and have again enjoyed a brilliant working relationship with the team there and at CR Parrott. Despite the challenges brought about by the tidal surge last December which saw the site flooded, we have completed this fantastic project on programme and to financial budgets. Everyone at Cube 3 is very proud of the quality of the work we have achieved.” As reported, the contraction in jobs at the Tata steelworks in Scunthorpe saw a £10-million funding pot applied for and won by North Lincolnshire Council, a pot that has now been

spent up. Mrs Redfern said: “It is really important that we are here to help create new business, help businesses expand to create the wealth and job opportunities that we want to see here in North Lincolnshire. “We have given £10-million of Regional Growth Fund money, we have spent it, and we have created 733 new jobs. It is a pretty good track record and I am very proud of that, very proud of the staff in the regeneration team, who are on a roll. I know New Holland Extraction has added another four jobs already and I

am delighted to be here, and delighted to hear of more jobs coming.” Mr Tailor spoke of the importance of agri-food excellence, ensuring raw materials are there to further boost the region’s food credentials, as well as the vitality to the economy small-scale job creation on a large scale brings. Addressing the de Wit family, he said: “I am really pleased with the contribution that has been made here, we want more inward investment to come to our patch. Hopefully you can use your contacts in Holland to bring more to this country.”

EXPANSION: The 2,500 sq m build at New Holland Extraction. Right, product Bettergerm, used to improve wheat-based food.

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Local trades praised for seafood training efforts W

Receiving support from Seafish, European Fisheries Fund and North East Lincolnshire Council, the facility features a ground floor practical area in which filleting, knife skills and display skills can be practised. The first floor features seminar rooms complete with the latest technology and presentation equipment. The facility will be available to independent trainers and the first short course will take place in advance of the official opening, being planned for September. The contribution of local trades has been recognised by Ivan Jaines-White, commercial manager for Grimsby Seafood Village, who has led the project. He said: “With funding only being confirmed at the end of May and works beginning immediately after, it has been a fantastic effort on the part of local enterprise working together. A total of 14 trades and areas of expertise have been involved and of those I have only found it necessary to go beyond the local authority boundary for two of those suppliers. “This is good for local business and good for the local economy – local enterprise has a lot to be proud of and I’m very grateful for their contribution.” For more information call 07788 598661.

Supermarket bakery LINCOLNSHIRE-based building and civil engineering contractor Britcon has secured a new contract for Lidl to extend its store in Foleshill, Coventry. The contract follows the successful completion of a recent store extension project in Leicester for the value supermarket chain, with further projects in the pipeline. The brief includes adapting the existing building to provide a new 1,708 sq ft area in the store for a bakery and freezers. Ian Chapman, regional manager at Britcon, said: “We are delighted that our previous work has inspired further contracts and a trusting relationship with Lidl moving forward. “Britcon maintains strong expertise in the food industry and we have previously completed retail build contracts for other well-known food stores. “We also deliver dedicated food manufacturing facilities and specialised anaerobic digestion plants where bespoke expertise is required for a number of clients.”

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New premises boosts capacity for HETA R

EGIONAL organisation Humberside Engineering Training Association has acquired a new site in Scunthorpe.

Chancel repair way out?

The company has purchased a new site on Foxhills Industrial Estate, alongside Two Sisters Food Group on Ram Boulevard. This development will take the number of apprentices trained across the companies three sites to 200 per year as HETA looks to develop the business further west. HETA business development and marketing manager, James McIntosh, said: “The new

The potential for this site is huge James McIntosh developments with the Foxhills centre mean that we can fully meet the needs of our client companies in Scunthorpe in addition to attracting new business from the local area. The vision is to grow the business and train apprentices and adults from Doncaster and Gainsborough where there is a hub of engineering and manufacturing companies, some of which we already deal with. “The potential for this site is huge and there is a possibility that in a couple of years time it will be as successful as our biggest site in Hull. “We are looking forward to engaging with schools in the area so that the young people appreciate the scale of job opportunities available through the apprenticeship scheme.” One of the major benefits of moving into their own site, as they were previously based on the Tata Steelworks in Scunthorpe, is that they can offer a more bespoke first year of training as well as a large portfolio of adult upskilling courses for industry. The new centre will officially open for business at the end of the month, when the first cohort of 45

KEY SKILLS: A HETA apprentice testing out what she has been taught. Below, the new Scunthorpe site on Ram Boulevard, and James McIntosh.

apprentices will start. These will be unsponsored apprentices, partly supported by North Lincolnshire Council via the Regional Growth Fund. They will spend 32 weeks full

time in the training centre on either an electrical or mechanical/machining pathway before coming full time into company from Easter 2015 where

they will then work towards achieving their NVQ Level Three over a two-year period. Foxhills will also become host to a national apprentice training contract with a leading supplier of industrial gases and related equipment in the UK. The centre’s capacity also means HETA can deliver the schools engagement programme and STEM activities from the site. This will be headed up by Mike Cargill, Niki Bardsley and Lucy Jessop in the Education Links team. An official open event is being planned for Tuesday, September 23. For more information e-mail helen.briggs@heta.co.uk or eve.ridley@heta.co.uk or call 03303 331501 for further details.

First real-term rent increase in more than a year RENTS have risen in real terms for the first time in 14 months, according to the latest Buy-to-Let Index from LSL Property Services Plc. The company, which owns the UK’s largest lettings agent network, said the average residential rent is now 2 per cent higher than in July 2013.

Rents are just 0.1 per cent higher than a year ago after consumer price inflation of 1.9 per cent – the first real-terms increase since September. David Newnes, director of estate agents Reeds Rains and Your Move, part of LSL Property Services, comments: “As the summer turns to early autumn, the rental market is approaching

its busiest period – yet rent rises remain modest. At a time when the UK is facing a serious shortage of homes, and with purchase prices rising steadily, that is an immense achievement for the private rented sector.” Yorkshire and the Humber middled in the statistics, with neither highest or lowest growth.

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A bill to abolish chancel repair liability has recently been introduced into the House of Lords. The controversial issue, which could impact on church neighbouring businesses and home owners, is an emotive subject. Now the Chancel Repair Bill seeks to end demands for landowners to fund repairs to their parish church. The law changed in October 2013; with chancel repair liability having to be noted on a property’s title to enable a church to claim payment from the property owner. The right to demand payment for chancel repairs will, however, continue to bind property owners who purchased their property before that date, until they sell to a third party – even if the liability is not noted on their property title. Laura Lougher, pictured, solicitor at Wilkin Chapman Grange, said: “There remains some confusion over what will happen if the church makes an application to register a chancel repair notice between contracts being exchanged for a house sale and the purchase of the house being completed. “The Land Registry has said that, in these circumstances, the chancel repair notice would be registered on the same day that the new property owners are registered. This would mean that the chancel repair notice would appear to bind the property and is a cause for concern. “While such confusion remains, it may be worth property purchasers considering whether chancel repair indemnity insurance should be obtained, as it routinely was pre-October.” Many see the abolition of chancel repair liability as a welcome reform; indeed the Law Commission and the Law Society are among the groups that have recommended abolition or phasing out of chancel repair rights in the past. The Grimsby-based lawyer added: “It is viewed by many as an outdated law and one which many churches are reluctant to enforce. A date for the second reading, where the Bill will be debated, is yet to be scheduled and the Bill must be approved in both the House of Lords and the House of Commons before becoming law. It seems likely then that the uncertainty surrounding chancel repair liability is set to continue for some time to come.” Following October’s change, Ruth Brewin, partner at Wilkin Chapman Grange, vented her frustration at both the Government and the Church of England for not having worked together to eliminate what was described as a “medieval practice”, as reported. Traditionally it is land once owned by the church, and is not necessarily immediately neighbouring the place of worship. Insuring against the liability costs between £200 to £500.

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A traditional ground floor retail lock-up shop located on the south side of Queen Street, within close proximity to the busy Market Place, in this desirable and most attractive Georgian Market town. Louth has a resident population of approximately 16,000 with a much wider catchment area (2001 Census). The property has in recent times been used for the purposes of a jewellers and would suit a variety of alternative retail users, subject to any necessary statutory consents being obtained.

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Cleethorpes - Grimsby Road £5,500 p.a. Prominent retail premises situated within a busy shopping parade on Grimsby Road, the main arterial route through to both the towns of Grimsby and Cleethorpes with a high level of traffic throughout the day. The accommodation has in recent times been utilised for office use and has A2 consent. It would suit various other uses, subject to the appropriate consent.

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Set within a busy mixed use parade and located close to both the junctions of Frederick Ellis Way and Freeman Street as well as the Town Centre. The premises incorporate ground floor accommodation including: Sales Area/ Office, a further office to the rear as well as a kitchen/staff facility. The property would lend itself to various uses, subject to the appropriate planning consent.

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Private sector move for town’s very own ‘Mr Building Control’

FAMILIAR figure in the North East Lincolnshire construction industry has swapped 38 years in the public sector for a private consultancy role. Dean Oglesby joined what was Grimsby Borough Council as a trainee building inspector in 1976, keen to enter the world of work after making it as far as his second Christmas as an A level student. Since the unitary authority was born in 1996, he has been building control manager, providing the same level of services to developers and tradesmen, while overseeing a succession of changes that saw the essential service merged with a neighbouring council, then split, outsourced and sold on as Balfour Beatty was taken over by Cofely. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my career,” he said. “I have met some great people, and I was taught by some great old boys, who have sadly gone now. They didn’t just teach me about building regulations and construction, but they taught me how to deal with people from all different levels. “There was also a need for a great deal of understanding; understanding the pressures that architects and builders are put under by clients, sometimes demanding quick decisions, and understanding that a builder or a joiner or a bricklayer may only have one job to go to, and if that person needs some help, we must try and help them.” Building control is a service provided by councils, working with developers to ensure all construction work – from extensions to elaborate shopping developments, homes to hotels – comply with latest legislation. Since 1995, there has been private sector “competition”, and Mr Oglesby is now working with a private sector inspector across greater Lincolnshire, the East Riding and Hull. “I will certainly miss the people I have worked with,” he said, adding that he hopes to continue to build on the relationships established with agents, builders and developers in his new role. The team he has managed at Grimsby’s Municipal Offices

HOME COMFORT: Dean Oglesby, at his self-built home in Humberston. Below, with firefighter Jim Fish up the hydraulic platform, Mr Oglesby views the twisted remains of the fire damaged former Birds Eye factory in Ladysmith Road, Grimsby, back in September 2007. and Devonshire House, then Cleethorpes Town Hall, The Knoll and then Europarc, has won awards from partner organisations and the national body of Local Authority Building Control in recent years. One, from Humberside Fire And Rescue, recognised the vital emergency work around safety of structures, often badly damaged. One that stays with him was the huge blaze at Birds Eye’s mothballed food processing factory, in Ladysmith Road, Grimsby, in 2007. “Birds Eye was the worst one that we have been involved in when it comes to the size of the factory and what was left of it,” he said. “We were out on the night, acting on the immediate dangers, but even after the fire brigade drove off and the place was secured, we had to return two or three times because we got reports

of dangerous flapping roof panels. The fire brigade came with us, with hydraulic lift, and it is a great example of what we did together, ensuring ongoing safety, not just at the critical point of such an incident.” He has brought his work home with him, too, building two family homes. First in Great Coates with wife Melanie, then as the family expanded with daughters Laura, 23, and Sophie 20, in Humberston in 2004. Laura now works in London, while Sophie is at Loughborough University, where her older sister also graduated from.

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RALLY FOR RAIL: Far left, the under scrutiny service arrives at Scunthorpe, from Cleethorpes. Clockwise from left, Chris Shaw, Lawrence Brown, Duncan Willey and Ruth Brewin. Below, the current route.

Property professionals back rail campaign to retain direct links The matter was high on the agenda at the monthly sector gathering hosted by Grimsby & Scunthorpe Media Group, with the consultation having reached the end of the line this week. Lawrence Brown, the Grimsby-based partner at Scotts Property, said: “Manchester Airport is the busiest airport in the north of England. We are growing the offshore wind farm maintenance industry here. Grimsby and Immingham ports are both growing, and if someone comes in to Manchester because they can’t fly in to Humberside, it becomes another barrier to that growth if the direct train link disappears. We should be removing barriers and making things easier, not increasing barriers.” As reported, part of the consultation into the new rail franchises is looking at whether a high-subsidy direct link is required, or whether changes at Sheffield and Doncaster could be introduced. The two local authorities, North East Lincolnshire Council and North Lincolnshire Council, have now completed work on a formal objection to the latter, together with Humber Local Enterprise Partnership. Duncan Willey, a northern Lincolnshire-based partner at PPH Commercial, said it was coming at a time when real interest was being shown across the South Bank, with the size of premises being transacted at a very healthy level. Earlier this year it was reported how available commercial property in Scunthorpe, particularly, had

I’M IN: Mary Creagh signs up to the Telegraph campaign, watched by Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell.

halved from a ghost-town inducing three-million sq ft level at the height of the recession. Mr Willey said: “Efforts for Hull do need to be pursued but not at the expense of the South Bank. When it comes to potential for development, Hull actually has less land to go at, whereas we want to be intensifying efforts here.” Ruth Brewin heads up the commercial property arm of Lincolnshire’s largest law firm, Wilkin Chapman Grange. She said: “To take the major connection, the rail link, when we are about to become the centre of offshore wind for the UK is unwise.” The South Bank authorities’ case for keeping a direct express train line between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport is being taken to Westminster next month. North East Lincolnshire Council leader Chris Shaw will give evidence to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee investigation into the future investment in the railways. At the September 1 hearing,

Councillor Shaw will have the opportunity to put forward the case for keeping the direct link to the airport, following the end of the consultation on Monday. A report commissioned by the authorities found that the value of the line to the South Bank is worth in the region of £68-million to the annual economy. The report found that any proposed changes to the service would result in significant losses, that electrification of the line between Doncaster and Cleethorpes should be seriously considered and that service provision on Sundays should be increased. The Grimsby Telegraph launched a campaign back in June, Keep It On Track, to derail the plans, and a 6,600-strong petition has now been sent off to those running the consultation. It was backed by local councils, MPs and businesses, and formed a key aspect of Shadow Tansport Minister Mary Creagh’s speech to Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce at Oaklands Hall Hotel, Laceby, last month.

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LENN Ebrey won’t be a man you’ll be familiar with. I’m not and I’m in his industry, but like the largely pathetic men portrayed in ‘In the Club’ on BBC One at the moment, this past week I have shared his pain.

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For Glenn Ebrey is a newspaper editor, the Croydon Advertiser, no less. I feel a vague allegiance to this Surrey title, having once covered a Crystal Palace v Grimsby Town mach on its behalf. The one where manager at the time Alan Smith went on a mad rant about “tur ning up with their fancy cars and gold watches” then having to get on a bus to Grimsby as a horrific excuse for losing. You can tell that was a while back by the distance between the two clubs now, so I’ll flip back to the until-very-recently post-holder at Selhurst Park, Tony Pulis. With a close-season dominated by a World Cup and a fantastic finish that helped decide the title, you’d forgive all at the Croydon Advertiser for thinking up their Premiership Season 2014/2015 front page artwork as soon as the final whistle went on the last campaign. Pulis Academy 2 ... genius from creative, pulled off perfectly in print ... nearly. You see, as the presses whirled somewhere in the South East, rumour then confirmation of his departure emerged, apparently unhappy with his summer transfer activity.

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The blue light comedy movie franchise fronted supplement, enhanced from eight to 12-pages in anticipation of a golden year for The Eagles, turned into a horror flick. One that was running out of control before the very eyes of Mr Ebrey, who – unlike his forefathers of yesteryear, at least had the internet to turn to in a bid to explain why the latest news from patch was out-of-date before it

got to the newspaper stands. If the need merits it, presses can be stopped, stories changed. But a whole supplement? Not a chance. The 12-pages featured a lot of love for Pulis, from chairman to tea lady. It would take hours to re-work, hours that simply aren’t there when these things happen. Thankfully, the Croydon team and

many others in the media, saw the funny side. To the point where it became something of a viral success. It actually ensured, albeit by default, that the Croydon Advertiser were first with the news for many as it crossed the social media channels from sport to mainstream. I found out from BBC News sports correspondent Natalie Pirks’ tweet of the edition that had been retweeted by former Telegraph journalist Stuart Rowson, also now at the Beeb. It was a little like finding out a celebrity has been arrested / had house searched / died via a sick joke, as seems increasingly common. I won’t share the very latest example here for legal reasons. It became even more similar when by desk buddy Mark Page replied “Since he’ll have more time for holidaying now, Pulis Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach might have been more apt”. So what did Mr Ebrey say? “As a newspaper editor, this evening has been a ruddy nightmare,” he blogged on the newspaper’s site. “Going to press roughly 20 hours before your paper hits the shops is bound to carry some element of risk. “But, after eight years as a news editor and editor, never have I felt quite such a proverbial custard pie in the face as I do right now.” For the mighty Business Telegraph, my biggest concern is a rival media beating me to a story I’ve retained to include in the monthly edition. I certainly hope all managing directors interviewed are still in place as you read!

Boom shake, shake, shake the room. Just don’t wake baby! I was preparing a huge rant about fireworks ... Cleethorpes, 10pm, succession of summer Wednesdays and very young children living in the blast zone, but they’ve slept soundly so far! I just hope they’ve left a batch of airborne explosives back for 7pm on November 5 when the family resort can extend the season by adding another bumper day’s takings for the tourism industry, at a time more suited to those who wish to see the ‘pretties’ explode over the beach.

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It must make more sense than further entertaining a spoilt-rotten audience that was already here, already spending, surely? The resort was once a leading light in the Fireworks Bill of 2003, with then MP Shona McIsaac leading the battle against all-year round bangers. Did that go up in smoke too? Cleethorpes Carnival and Cleethorpes Air Show have been terrific, now make 5/11/14 happen!

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