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Tow have and to expand: Offices are final piece Couple’s of love of potatocaravans empire puzzle

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SPEAKERS: Sir Roger Carr, left, and Gavin Esler.

TRANSFORMATION COMPLETE: Richard Arundel, managing director of potato processor AKP. Picture: Jon Corken

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OOKED on a hobby, husband£3-million and wife Mack and early has been Lynne Mason now invested into have making pulled inLincolnshire £600,000 to northern a realisecentral a business dream, born hub for the needs of necessity. ofoutsome of the UK’s biggest The pair are behind M&L potato sellers.

Caravan Hire and Caravan Elsham Wold has just become the Creche, the latter for a company new headquarters AKP Group, launched 16 years ago when supplier to supermarket giantthe Cleethorpes storage Morrisons and major facility chip they used closed. McCain. manufacturer being a tenant a twin AFrom state-of-the-art officewith block, axle van to acontrolled leaseholding temperature potato landlord with capacity for 30, the storage facility and grading line, couple have taken the leap and together with extensions to invested heavily in a site of their existing handling areas own, having moved intohave hirejust and been with the salescompleted, on their mobile holiday 13-year-old firm headed by Richard home journey.

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Now they have just town received a The son of Grimsby centre gold award from the Caravan and Freeman Street markets Storage and Site Owners’ grocer David Arundel, who also Association, after impressing used actnew as afour potato merchant withtothe acre secured to the fish and chip shops, sitearea’s on South Humberside joined forcesEstate, with Suffolk Industrial Grimsby. businessman Bruce Kerr in 1999.

And as the first close season The former KP potato dawns, they are addingstorage a shop, facility which caravan washhas baynow andbeen tyre substantially developed, was pressure pumps to the impressive acquired in 340 2007, when refreshment a project offer, with spaces, began to grow skin finished area and management office potatoes the Isle ofjust Axholme. already on established, a “We to from showthe we A180. could m inuwanted te’s drive produce the required quality Mrs Mason told of the perfect locally supermarkets were storm,that a phrase that would send a buying in down from Herefordshire, shudder the hardiest of Scotland or even that importing,” holidaymakers, helped he said.

“Morrisons usplunge. with it convince them tobacked take the and went to Yorkshiresaid: Forward Thewe former hairdresser “We (the scrapped regional started this in 1999. We lived in a development agency) cul-de-sac and had toputting find some together plan.

We then tiedtwo the land foraour caravan.

I was supply chain up and got the months looking. funding.”

“Initially we were leasing on That equated to £700,000.

With we Estate Road Two, from ACS&T, Morrisons’ rapid growth in the wanted to expand but there was retail world, the business has been no room. propelled quickly, and working “Our lease was coming up for with Eastoft-based Harrison renewal, this landLcame up for& Co, the infrastructure to allow for

CARAVAN CRECHE: Lynne and Stephen ‘Mack’ Mason, on the new site with Jim Livermore, left, and Bev Clark, of HSBC. Below, the fun they want to help families enjoy. Community they are keen to assist.

further increases has now been put in place.

“We have taken two years to get to this,” said Mr Arundel. “We got the grant funding for storage and grading operations in 2009, and built the storage throughout 2010, to be open for that harvest. We have had potatoes in from 2010 and 2011, the of whole project saleand as part a larger lot, has and at been finished with the offices just the same time another site closed now. down. All of a sudden there were a “Our desire is to have morehave lot of people, and we didn’t quality potatoand producers local to the capacity couldn’t get any this site.

It would more land wherecut we down were. on Then transport costs.

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Top table is set YounCBI g’s director for dinner

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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 gatherings later this year.

The CBI Yorkshire and Humber Annual Dinner takes place at Leeds University on October 10.

SUSTAINABILITY makes sense, It will be one of the first sound eventsbusiness with John Grimsby seafood expertfor Mike Mitchell has told a Fitzgerald, port director Grimsby and high ranking Anglo-Norwegian Immingham, as chairman of theaudience. region.

Mr Esler Mitchell, Young’s Seafood’s corporate social Mr is an award-winning television and radio responsibilitynovelist and technical director, shared a stage broadcaster, and journalist. with the to Norwegian Prime next Minister, HisErna latestSolberg, book, due hit the shelves month, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd a number focuses on lessons that can beand gleaned from of leading figures from tell governments, industry leaders in how they stories, andfinance, will be the and campaigning sectors. subject of his speech to the area’s business bosses, and guests.

Thetheir event was organised by the Norwegian For moreininformation Embassy London, about the dinner, which is frequently represented by the South Bank and Innovation well Norway, features a drinks reception within Parkinson Court, Norwegian-British home to the famous Marks & Spencer archive and Chamber of Commerce art e-mail katya.menhennet@cbi.org.uk or andgallery, the Norwegian visit http://yorkshire-annual-dinner.eventbrite.com Seafood Council, and aimed to encourage green entrepreneurship and sustainable A FURTHER £4-million of investment across the growththis . region last quarter has seen the total funds Mike by Mitchell, who issued Finance Yorkshire climb to £23-million. last month lit up World to firms in northern The money, available Seafood Congress in Lincolnshire in seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments – ranging his home town with an from £15,000 to £2-million – is thereinto to help small and medium sized businesses insight steps taken meet growth and development requirements. since their the food industry Thehitfigure amounts to 224 investments in 183 was by the small and medium horsemeat scandal,sized enterprises since August 2010, leading said: “In order to to more than 4,600 jobs created and safeguarded ensure the in the region. In the last quarter alone, the venture capital and loan fund completed 30 sustainabilitytotalling of investments more than £4.3 million. valuable marine food Alex McWhirter, chief executive of Finance resources, we need to Yorkshire, said: “We are looking forward to building base our figures sourcing on these and helping more companies decisions on sound achieve growth in the coming months. scientific advice and collaborate other “We urge established and earlywith stage companies stakeholders amplify ourtoindividual efforts. We to continue totospeak to us see if Finance have beencan striving a decade,into through our Yorkshire help for turnalmost their ambitions a reality.”

Supported by the European Union, hasatattracted Fish for Life programme, to ensure weit are the £30-million investment the European Regional forefront of the seafoodfrom sustainability agenda, Development Fund, £15-million from Yorkshire providing our consumers with high quality, good Forward’s Single Programme, £45-million match value, great tasting responsiblyand sourced seafood. funding from on thepage European ● continued 14. Investment Bank.

For information visit www.finance-yorkshire.com

£20m milestone passed employed, handling 120,000 tonnes of potatoes a year. Of that, 35,000 tonnes are self-grown, with a growing group in this region and around another site in Suffolk, contributing the balance.

Recently 15 employees were added, with three graduate trainees also part of the company, specialising in growing, logistics caravan builder that once and technical elements, including inhabited South Humberside agronomy . The remaining Industrial Estate.

It has lineage investment seento a motorhome fleet of six that can behas traced Mercedes rigs brought in to deliver builder Auto-Trail – another the potatoes business to customers, with the expanding on Grimsby’s primary route Morrisons’ Europarc.

“That’s why wepacking got into operations near Harrogate. them,” said Mrs Mason. “He built Keen to cultivate a prosperous them, and now he does all the future for Lincolnshire servicing and repairs. potato We offer farmers, the 32,000sq ft storage that service to clients.” facility and 4,000 sq ft two storey at She jokes that if he is working office development which drew one end of the site–in the summer inspiration from Genesis Office

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 anduncharacteristic calls him to let him know – the weather lunch is ready, the sandwiches conditions have brought us a have curledyear, up by time he gets challenging butthe the opening event everyone’s backistojust therewards office – afor static hard work.no less – due to the caravan “The newoffacility number querieswill andnot oddonly jobs enable us asked to meet he’ll be to the get demand involvedof with. our“We biggest customers, but we’ve are caravanners, and we also successfully improved the want to befreshness there for everyone,” quality and of our she said. potatoes by reducing ● Turn to page handling 14. transportation, and using the latest cold store technologies.”

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HALL OF FAME: Chamber area chair Kathy Fillingham, right, presents the latest awards to Tony Pearson, left, and Ryan Garlick, of HBP, main picture. Top left, Bradbury Group is named Business Excellence winner in May, with Jo Dixon, HBP managing director, right, collecting Business Person Of The Year in 2013, with compere Helen Fospero. She was followed by Tim Strawson in 2015, flanked by area chair Anthony Winn and Jane Eatock, of sponsor Wilkin Chapman.

Business awards put our stars on a higher plane T

WO Scunthorpe companies are celebrating national recognition, thanks to the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards.

Past winners Bradbury Group and HBP Systems, near neighbours off Brigg Road, are both in the spotlight once again thanks to success at Baths Hall.

Bradbury, a manufacturer of security doors and grilles led by Tim Strawson, was this past month named national champion in the European Business Awards 2015/2016.

It received the honour in the Entrepreneur category, and follows the likes of British Airways, Mercedes Benz and Marks And Spencer as a winner.

Next month it will submit a video

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which will then be opened up to public vote for the European title, scheduled to be awarded in Milan, Italy, next summer, going up against representatives of 33 other countries.

More than 170,000 votes were cast last time out.

Bradbury was nominated after coming to the attention of awards sponsor, accountancy firm Baker Tilly, after winning the Forrester Boyd Award for Business Excellence at the Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce bash in Scunthorpe in May. Judges heard how it has grown rapidly over recent years and now employs nearly 200 people.

Managing director, Tim Strawson, said: “We use our core strengths in engineering and manufacturing technology to make products better

I am delighted that our success has been recognised in the wider context of Europe Tim Strawson

and more quickly than competitors.

I am delighted that our success has been recognised in the wider context of Europe.”

The past five years have seen Bradbury Group’s turnover quadrupled to nearly £18 million

£18m Bradbury Group’s turnover after five years of significant growth and profits re-invested in expanding the DunlopWay plant to keep pace with demand for products.

Last year saw the launch of the Bradbury Academy, working with North Lindsey College, and Mr Strawson has also been instrumental in the founding of Youth Engineering, a Scunthorpe-based charity providing long term unemployed young adults with an opportunity to get work-ready.

IT specialist HBP, of Woodhouse Road, won a double at a regional level with the British Chambers of Commerce, an opportunity opened up through success at the

Telegraph-sponsored Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards event in 2013.

It has taken the People Development and Young Person in Business gongs, and now goes through to the national finals later next month.

Phil Denham, commercial director, said: “It is fantastic recognition. People development is the same award we won back in 2012 too. It is something as a pro-active business you never stop doing, and whenever we are recognised for training people and developing staff it is a very proud moment.

“We have to train a lot of people in our industry. IT is always moving, always developing, and it makes us stronger and more successful commercially too. The business has grown very significantly over the past five years, and that is down to having good people on board who provide great customer service, which in turn allows us to win more customers.”

HBP has just swelled the ranks to 52, a first time it has passed the 50 milestone, and is heading for another record year.

Rural Ryan’s delight at recognition in his IT role

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RYAN Garlick may have come from a farming family, but he is more than comfortable at the frontline of business systems.

The 24-year-old from Louth won the British Chambers of Commerce Young Person in Business Award for the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber.

Phil Denham, commercial director at employer HBP Systems, said: “Ryan has taken on a

role that was a real problem area, managing our IT support team. It is a difficult role, with a lot of really good technical people, with a lot of knowledge of a lot of processes –which have to be understood – as well as all that is required to manage people.

“He came in as an apprentice four years ago, and we realised very quickly that without any doubt he could take on that

role. “He has gained the respect of the team and also sits on the senior management team now, playing a part in running the company.”

Ryan, IT support supervisor, recalls his first computer was a Tiny 128MB Ram machine, before graduating to a Dell Inspiron at the age of 16.

Of the award, the former Monks’ Dyke pupil, who took the apprenticeship route, rather than go to

university post A-levels, said: “It is really good. I like to think I work really hard, so it is nice to be recognised for it.” ● HBP Systems scooped the Best Business Training Award at the Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce’s Bridlington and Yorkshire Coast ceremony on Friday, with the Scunthorpeheadquartered business also having an office in East Yorkshire.

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South Bank’s retail pair seal £250m supply deal A

£250 million deal has been signed between northern Lincolnshire grocery giants Nisa Retail Ltd and Ramsden International.

Town basks in national wind energy spotlight

The five-year contract is an extension of a long-standing strategic partnership steeped in family history and business acumen.

Nisa, the Scunthorpeheadquartered specialist delivered wholesaler, will supply grocery lines to the Grimsby exporter.

Sean Ramsden, chief executive of Ramsden International, and the son of Nisa’s founder, Dudley Ramsden, said: “Ramsden International is delighted to extend the relationship with Nisa over the next five years. The export market

Nisa will give us the flexibility and levels of service which will ensure that we continue to deliver the best possible service to our customers across the globe

RENEWABLES: England is racing ahead in the offshore wind sector, with Grimsby leading the way, trade body RenewableUK has revealed.

The organisation released a new report, on day one of its annual exhibition in Liverpool, with a strong Humber delegation present.

It told how Britain’s offshore wind sector remains focused in England, with almost 1.4 gigawatts of offshore wind constructed in English waters in 2014/15, “meaning the benefits of construction and operation are being felt most by coastal English communities, such as Grimsby and Lowestoft”.

A further 4.9GW of new capacity was consented last year.

For interviews from the event, see pages four and five.

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AISLES OF SMILES: Northern Lincolnshire grocery giants Nisa Retail and Ramsden International have extended their agreement.

driven by Nisa’s exceptional service levels, wide product range and access to its award-winning is a fast changing environment and Heritage range.

“We’re delighted to have agreed we have been skilled in the past at to extend the contract with exploiting new opportunities.

Ramsden’s International and look “With this new contract in place Nisa will give us the flexibility and forward to continuing our great levels of service which will ensure relationship with them,” said that we continue to deliver the best Nisa’s head of independent and specialist, James Roberts. possible service to our customers “We’ve worked very closely with across the globe while continuing the team there for many years for to grow our business.” the mutual benefit of both our Adam Smith Street-based Ramsden exports more than 23,000 businesses and this is another British food products to more than significant piece of business for 800 customers in 130 countries. The Nisa.” decision to renew the contract was The announcement follows recent

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news that Nisa had signed a fiveyear deal worth £1 billion to supply the new My Local estate of 140 stores.

“Nisa is uniquely placed in the marketplace to be the partner of choice, not only to traditional convenience stores, but through our independent and specialist business unit, to a diverse range of retail and wholesale formats,” said business unit director Steve Leach.

“We are the only player in the marketplace able to offer the range of services we do to the variety of businesses we do. This enviable business model is why we are well positioned to win these contracts

over our competitors.”

Nisa, from the purpose-built Waldo Way membership centre, supports more than 1,200 local retailers and 2,500 stores across the UK. Some operate under the Nisa brand and others under their own names. Mr Ramsden Snr stepped down in 2006 from the business he co-founded in 1977, taking turnover from £20 million to £1 billion. Sean launched the export arm ‘Nisa Inter national’ in 1989. It has won a hat-trick of Queen’s Awards – regarded as the highest business accolade, and was rebranded Ramsden International in 2010.

PORTS: Former Humber ports director John Fitzgerald received an incredible send-off as he was recognised for going “above and beyond the call of duty,” at the Grimsby and Immingham Shipping Association’s annual dinner.

He was presented with the Denis Lake Award for his “outstanding contribution to the development of the Port of Grimsby and Immingham,” just weeks after his departure was announced.

For the past seven years, and latterly taking on Hull and Goole, he has led Associated British Ports’ activity on the UK’s busiest trading estuary, steering it through the toughest recession known to a lifetime.

Successor Simon Bird, former chief executive of Bristol Port, has now taken the reins.

A ‘regional trailblazer’ PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: Grimsby’s legal might is on the map, with leading law firm Wilkin Chapman highlighted in the latest industry analysis.

The Lawyer UK has lifted the lid on the profession’s independent practices, identifying the Osborne Street giant as a “regional trailblazer”.

It has moved up in the ranking six places to 105th nationwide.

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Energising tale of wind success that needs telling further ...

Grimsby’s start-up success with offshore wind operations and maintenance should be an example to all, according to leading figures at RenewableUK 2015 Annual Conference and Exhibition. David Laister reports.

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UMBERS may have been down for the annual gathering of the renewable energy industry, but those there reveled in the quality rather than quantity of delegates and decision makers.

Having welcomed 7,000 to the event in Manchester in 2015, Liverpool’s hosting pulled in less than half, with thoughts ranging from the current political

uncertainty to a maturing, consolidating industry.

Whatever the reasoning, there was standing room only to hear from keynote speaker Prof Sir David King, the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change.

And speaking to the Telegraph after underlining the need to press on with decarbonisation of the energy markets, he enthused about Grimsby, the Humber, and

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Shouting about Grimsby’s slips THE physical length of the forthcoming Hornsea offshore wind farm zone away from home, Grimsby did itself proud once again on the national stage, at the Liverpool conference.

Setting up stall on the opposite end of the Northern Powerhouse economic corridor, ambassadors for North East Lincolnshire joined the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership’s wider Humber Renewables umbrella.

Roger Smith, chairman of Grimsby Renewables Partnership, is also marine operations manager for Port of Grimsby East.

He was delighted to hear how RenewableUK used the town as an example of the major

economic benefactors of green energy, as reported.

He said: “I’m here championing Grimsby.

“I believe Grimsby is still seen as the centre of it, certainly operations and maintenance, and I don’t see any reason why if we do everything right, and do everything we have done so far, why it would change.”

A perfect case study emerged with diving specialist REDS on the stand. In Manchester last year, meetings were being held between the town delegation and the Warwickshire-headquartered business as it sought to secure the inward investment. The business opened a 5,000 sq ft unit in town in July, a £250,000 investment.

“This time last year we were speaking with Reds, so it shows what can be done in places like this,” Mr Smith said.

This year he was promoting the work on the slipways, where a new boat lift and other infrastructure will support crew transfer vessel maintenance, reducing downtime, and therefore costs, for port operators.

“We are looking forward to what that will bring, speaking to boat owners and making them fully aware of what is happening,” Mr Smith said.

“We have seen a lot of optimism from them, it has been very well received. It will certainly give them the advantage of getting boats out again quickly.”

world come 2050, so what we must include is a reviewable clause. That will make sure we can ratchet up (targets) as we move forward in time, with the roll out of cheap renewable energy with smart grids and storage key to that process. New technology can make a difference.”

Helping to roll that out will be the UK.

Grimsby has expertise that people can depend on, the day to day jobs in the business of keeping the turbines going Maf Smith “A big new part of this community is getting prepared for export into world demand,” Sir David said. “As a two trillion dollar a year business, it is enor mous.

“The knowledge is building in places like Grimsby, people will play a part. One of the industry’s problems is that it is so localised. Making a CREW TRANSFER: A Windcat workboat prepares to push on to a turbine at E.on’s Humber Gateway offshore wind farm.

national impact is more difficult, as it is all polarised. That is what RenewableUK is about.”

The trade body is at a critical point in its lifetime, with Maria McCaffery, chief executive for the past ten years, announcing she is stepping down.

It could pave the way for Barton’s Maf Smith, deputy chief executive to step up, although he wouldn’t be drawn on it in Liverpool.

Instead, he was keen to join North East Lincolnshire’s politicians, and present exhibitors, in raising the profile of Grimsby’s role, itself closing in on a decade of serious activity.

Mr Smith said: “Grimsby, for me, is a really good example of how the industry has prospered. It has just got on with it. We do need to shout more about our success as an industry. We are busy building new projects and then keeping them running.

“The North Sea has now got a successful offshore wind industry, and we have lots of ambition around the Humber for more manufacturing, for more construction jobs. Equally we have a vibrant stable of projects where we have a skilled workforce with potential employment for 20 plus years. It is a great story and we haven’t told it well enough.

“It is something Martin Vickers and Melanie Onn, I know, are very keen on, how we sell the story of Grimsby and the changes better, and show

AIS opens first phase of £4m offshore wind base

TRAINING: The first phase of a £4 million training facility, geared towards the burgeoning offshore wind energy industry, has been officially opened.

AIS’s large-scale operation at HCF Catch in Stallingborough was unveiled by Great Grimsby MP Melanie Onn. The initial development from the North Shields training giant has built on the existing space at the beacon industry-simulating site, with three 7m high mock-nacelles, four different fall arrest devices for high level climbing, as well as lifting and fire escape training introduced.

A total of 30 jobs will be created in the next year, with ambitious plans to equal the numbers being upskilled in the North East, currently at 17,500 candidates per year.

MAINTENANCE: Maf Smith, deputy chief executive of RenewableUK, above, points the way to the Humber with a ‘Haynes’ offshore wind energy handbook. the story it has to tell.

“What is important in the renewable energy industry is to look at the co-beneficiaries,” Sir David said. “If you take the major objective as reducing carbon dioxide emissions to address climate change, another is putting local people to work, then generating electricity from the locality. Whether that is from the wind, the sun or marine, the power is from local energy sources.

“Comparing this with diesel or coal – burning it to generate – we are spending money abroad to import here. By creating clean energy we are putting a new opportunity in front of local councils, and clearly Grimsby has many opportunities, one of which is that you have a great tide, a very high tide, and there is a possibility of having a form of barrier across the mouth of the river there. That might not happen, but it is a possibility for electricity generation.”

Lagoon tidal capture is the latest push for our island nation, with potential to harness the twice daily energy in strategic locations away from shipping lanes. But for now, the Humber, led by Grimsby, is maximising its assets for offshore wind.

“The most important message that the industry can take to Government is the power it is bringing to the economy,” Sir David said. “Already we are talking about a new industry which is twice the size of the car manufacturing sector, and that is producing more cars today than at any point in history, even though we don’t own the companies producing them!

“I don’t hear this coming from the industry. Industry needs to talk louder about it.

“What we have been facing up to is a fossil fuel industry, fully matured, and we are – or have been – a new industry, and it is the learning curve we are on that has dramatically changed the scene. That learning curve is still going downwards.”

He believes a global agreement will be reached at next month’s United Nations gathering in Paris, and said “a red line for us must be a reviewable agreement”. Sir David said: “We are going to find we are still on a 3.5 degree centigrade warmer

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MERSEY BEAT: Humber Renwables representatives, from left, Roger Smith, chairman of Grimsby Renewables Partnership; Joachim Steenstrup, head of strategic supply chain at Dong Energy; Emma Toulson, renewables lead for Humber LEP and North East Lincolnshire's economic investment team; Ed Woodrow, sales and marketing director at Reds; Kurt Christensen, managing director of Windpower Support and Mark O'Reilly, chairman and chief executive of Team Humber Marine Alliance. people what has been achieved.

There are too many people in the rest of the UK, objectors, that don’t know when they talk down the offshore wind industry, and renewables in general, that it means people’s jobs now who depend on the sector. They see it as a future that may be nice to have, yet it is something thriving today.

“Grimsby has developed expertise in construction and in operations and maintenance. Long term, operations and maintenance is the big prize, they are the jobs that stay. Construction jobs will move around. Grimsby has expertise that people can depend on, the day to day jobs in the business of keeping the turbines going.”

Mr Smith sits on the Gover nment’s industry body that is looking at bringing the cost of energy down, and increasing UK content.

“The UK has signed up to and put in place an agreed measure for UK content, and we will start reporting on that on an annual basis,” he said. “We are already reporting on cost reduction. Last year we showed we are ahead of schedule in reducing costs, with 11 per cent having come out in the last four years. By the end of the decade we will be at £100 mw/h, which is what Government stated.

“We need to show we are bringing cost down, and as a sector we are looking at what we do for 2020 as just a milestone, not the end of the journey. We keep the cost reduction going.”

One huge helping hand being sought to aid that is long term energy policy clarity, that will bring reassurance to investment above and beyond the word delivered by the likes of Energy

UK chairman and others calling for decisions.

“Confidence is still in the sector, the industry is still investing, but does have worries about the long ter m,” Mr Smith said. “The mismatch we have is that this sector is absolutely part of the future of UK power, but industry is having to behave in a very short term way, and find it difficult to plan in a long term way. The investment pipeline that is healthy could start to get quite shaky quite quickly and that goes across the energy generation space – it is now just a renewables problem.”

Turning back to Grimsby, and the recent addition of 219MW, celebrated three weeks ago, Mr Smith added: “To have Andrea Leadsom come to Humber Gateway’s opening was really KEYNOTE: Prof Sir David King addresses important. It helps us to show the Renewable UK 2015. level of ambition the sector has, and what we are already doing.

Hopefully she saw the jobs in existence, and found we still have a Minister Andrea Leadsom on her “This government says to lot to do.” recent visit to Grimsby to launch industry ‘we support E.on’s Humber Gateway offshore And what of Grimsby’s new voice decarbonisation, but not at the cost wind farm. in the corridors of power, Melanie to the consumer’ and we get that.

Onn, albeit from the opposition In both onshore and offshore we “There are strong projects there have a big cost reduction benches? to be built out to help part of the energy solution for the next decade programme, and we want “She is clearly an MP who gets recognition that industry is doing but the Government has yet to set the opportunity of offshore wind what it can. If we think about how for her constituency, she is aware out the framework for how it will be supported,” Mr Smith said. “We we keep the lights on, what is of the long term commitment it better than wind energy? Onshore brings,” Mr Smith said, aware that are looking at what we see will is the cheapest form and offshore is she is already shadow deputy happen in terms of cost and the most practical to develop at continuing to think beyond 2020. leader of the House of Commons, We feel we will be cost competitive scale. after less than six months in with natural gas.

“Offshore is already at 5 per cent Westminster. “We think her of UK supply, and has done that in election is a really good move for “Because the technology is the last ten years. It will double in the area. She is ambitious and we developing, there is a UK the next five years.” will have to see where she goes in manufacturing success story the Labour Party. She has already So is this uncertainty having an emerging, employment growth, it impact? We’ve seen the director taken quite an important role becomes the cheap solution for general of the CBI, Dong Energy’s within it.” consumers.

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Grimsby’s start-up success with offshore wind operations and maintenance should be an example to all, according to leading figures at RenewableUK 2015 Annual Conference and Exhibition. David Laister reports.

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UMBERS may have been down for the annual gathering of the renewable energy industry, but those there reveled in the quality rather than quantity of delegates and decision makers.

Having welcomed 7,000 to the event in Manchester in 2015, Liverpool’s hosting pulled in less than half, with thoughts ranging from the current political

uncertainty to a maturing, consolidating industry.

Whatever the reasoning, there was standing room only to hear from keynote speaker Prof Sir David King, the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change.

And speaking to the Telegraph after underlining the need to press on with decarbonisation of the energy markets, he enthused about Grimsby, the Humber, and

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Shouting about Grimsby’s slips THE physical length of the forthcoming Hornsea offshore wind farm zone away from home, Grimsby did itself proud once again on the national stage, at the Liverpool conference.

Setting up stall on the opposite end of the Northern Powerhouse economic corridor, ambassadors for North East Lincolnshire joined the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership’s wider Humber Renewables umbrella.

Roger Smith, chairman of Grimsby Renewables Partnership, is also marine operations manager for Port of Grimsby East.

He was delighted to hear how RenewableUK used the town as an example of the major

economic benefactors of green energy, as reported.

He said: “I’m here championing Grimsby.

“I believe Grimsby is still seen as the centre of it, certainly operations and maintenance, and I don’t see any reason why if we do everything right, and do everything we have done so far, why it would change.”

A perfect case study emerged with diving specialist REDS on the stand. In Manchester last year, meetings were being held between the town delegation and the Warwickshire-headquartered business as it sought to secure the inward investment. The business opened a 5,000 sq ft unit in town in July, a £250,000 investment.

“This time last year we were speaking with Reds, so it shows what can be done in places like this,” Mr Smith said.

This year he was promoting the work on the slipways, where a new boat lift and other infrastructure will support crew transfer vessel maintenance, reducing downtime, and therefore costs, for port operators.

“We are looking forward to what that will bring, speaking to boat owners and making them fully aware of what is happening,” Mr Smith said.

“We have seen a lot of optimism from them, it has been very well received. It will certainly give them the advantage of getting boats out again quickly.”

world come 2050, so what we must include is a reviewable clause. That will make sure we can ratchet up (targets) as we move forward in time, with the roll out of cheap renewable energy with smart grids and storage key to that process. New technology can make a difference.”

Helping to roll that out will be the UK.

Grimsby has expertise that people can depend on, the day to day jobs in the business of keeping the turbines going Maf Smith “A big new part of this community is getting prepared for export into world demand,” Sir David said. “As a two trillion dollar a year business, it is enor mous.

“The knowledge is building in places like Grimsby, people will play a part. One of the industry’s problems is that it is so localised. Making a CREW TRANSFER: A Windcat workboat prepares to push on to a turbine at E.on’s Humber Gateway offshore wind farm.

national impact is more difficult, as it is all polarised. That is what RenewableUK is about.”

The trade body is at a critical point in its lifetime, with Maria McCaffery, chief executive for the past ten years, announcing she is stepping down.

It could pave the way for Barton’s Maf Smith, deputy chief executive to step up, although he wouldn’t be drawn on it in Liverpool.

Instead, he was keen to join North East Lincolnshire’s politicians, and present exhibitors, in raising the profile of Grimsby’s role, itself closing in on a decade of serious activity.

Mr Smith said: “Grimsby, for me, is a really good example of how the industry has prospered. It has just got on with it. We do need to shout more about our success as an industry. We are busy building new projects and then keeping them running.

“The North Sea has now got a successful offshore wind industry, and we have lots of ambition around the Humber for more manufacturing, for more construction jobs. Equally we have a vibrant stable of projects where we have a skilled workforce with potential employment for 20 plus years. It is a great story and we haven’t told it well enough.

“It is something Martin Vickers and Melanie Onn, I know, are very keen on, how we sell the story of Grimsby and the changes better, and show

AIS opens first phase of £4m offshore wind base

TRAINING: The first phase of a £4 million training facility, geared towards the burgeoning offshore wind energy industry, has been officially opened.

AIS’s large-scale operation at HCF Catch in Stallingborough was unveiled by Great Grimsby MP Melanie Onn. The initial development from the North Shields training giant has built on the existing space at the beacon industry-simulating site, with three 7m high mock-nacelles, four different fall arrest devices for high level climbing, as well as lifting and fire escape training introduced.

A total of 30 jobs will be created in the next year, with ambitious plans to equal the numbers being upskilled in the North East, currently at 17,500 candidates per year.

MAINTENANCE: Maf Smith, deputy chief executive of RenewableUK, above, points the way to the Humber with a ‘Haynes’ offshore wind energy handbook. the story it has to tell.

“What is important in the renewable energy industry is to look at the co-beneficiaries,” Sir David said. “If you take the major objective as reducing carbon dioxide emissions to address climate change, another is putting local people to work, then generating electricity from the locality. Whether that is from the wind, the sun or marine, the power is from local energy sources.

“Comparing this with diesel or coal – burning it to generate – we are spending money abroad to import here. By creating clean energy we are putting a new opportunity in front of local councils, and clearly Grimsby has many opportunities, one of which is that you have a great tide, a very high tide, and there is a possibility of having a form of barrier across the mouth of the river there. That might not happen, but it is a possibility for electricity generation.”

Lagoon tidal capture is the latest push for our island nation, with potential to harness the twice daily energy in strategic locations away from shipping lanes. But for now, the Humber, led by Grimsby, is maximising its assets for offshore wind.

“The most important message that the industry can take to Government is the power it is bringing to the economy,” Sir David said. “Already we are talking about a new industry which is twice the size of the car manufacturing sector, and that is producing more cars today than at any point in history, even though we don’t own the companies producing them!

“I don’t hear this coming from the industry. Industry needs to talk louder about it.

“What we have been facing up to is a fossil fuel industry, fully matured, and we are – or have been – a new industry, and it is the learning curve we are on that has dramatically changed the scene. That learning curve is still going downwards.”

He believes a global agreement will be reached at next month’s United Nations gathering in Paris, and said “a red line for us must be a reviewable agreement”. Sir David said: “We are going to find we are still on a 3.5 degree centigrade warmer

Month in Review

MERSEY BEAT: Humber Renwables representatives, from left, Roger Smith, chairman of Grimsby Renewables Partnership; Joachim Steenstrup, head of strategic supply chain at Dong Energy; Emma Toulson, renewables lead for Humber LEP and North East Lincolnshire's economic investment team; Ed Woodrow, sales and marketing director at Reds; Kurt Christensen, managing director of Windpower Support and Mark O'Reilly, chairman and chief executive of Team Humber Marine Alliance. people what has been achieved.

There are too many people in the rest of the UK, objectors, that don’t know when they talk down the offshore wind industry, and renewables in general, that it means people’s jobs now who depend on the sector. They see it as a future that may be nice to have, yet it is something thriving today.

“Grimsby has developed expertise in construction and in operations and maintenance. Long term, operations and maintenance is the big prize, they are the jobs that stay. Construction jobs will move around. Grimsby has expertise that people can depend on, the day to day jobs in the business of keeping the turbines going.”

Mr Smith sits on the Gover nment’s industry body that is looking at bringing the cost of energy down, and increasing UK content.

“The UK has signed up to and put in place an agreed measure for UK content, and we will start reporting on that on an annual basis,” he said. “We are already reporting on cost reduction. Last year we showed we are ahead of schedule in reducing costs, with 11 per cent having come out in the last four years. By the end of the decade we will be at £100 mw/h, which is what Government stated.

“We need to show we are bringing cost down, and as a sector we are looking at what we do for 2020 as just a milestone, not the end of the journey. We keep the cost reduction going.”

One huge helping hand being sought to aid that is long term energy policy clarity, that will bring reassurance to investment above and beyond the word delivered by the likes of Energy

UK chairman and others calling for decisions.

“Confidence is still in the sector, the industry is still investing, but does have worries about the long ter m,” Mr Smith said. “The mismatch we have is that this sector is absolutely part of the future of UK power, but industry is having to behave in a very short term way, and find it difficult to plan in a long term way. The investment pipeline that is healthy could start to get quite shaky quite quickly and that goes across the energy generation space – it is now just a renewables problem.”

Turning back to Grimsby, and the recent addition of 219MW, celebrated three weeks ago, Mr Smith added: “To have Andrea Leadsom come to Humber Gateway’s opening was really KEYNOTE: Prof Sir David King addresses important. It helps us to show the Renewable UK 2015. level of ambition the sector has, and what we are already doing.

Hopefully she saw the jobs in existence, and found we still have a Minister Andrea Leadsom on her “This government says to lot to do.” recent visit to Grimsby to launch industry ‘we support E.on’s Humber Gateway offshore And what of Grimsby’s new voice decarbonisation, but not at the cost wind farm. in the corridors of power, Melanie to the consumer’ and we get that.

Onn, albeit from the opposition In both onshore and offshore we “There are strong projects there have a big cost reduction benches? to be built out to help part of the energy solution for the next decade programme, and we want “She is clearly an MP who gets recognition that industry is doing but the Government has yet to set the opportunity of offshore wind what it can. If we think about how for her constituency, she is aware out the framework for how it will be supported,” Mr Smith said. “We we keep the lights on, what is of the long term commitment it better than wind energy? Onshore brings,” Mr Smith said, aware that are looking at what we see will is the cheapest form and offshore is she is already shadow deputy happen in terms of cost and the most practical to develop at continuing to think beyond 2020. leader of the House of Commons, We feel we will be cost competitive scale. after less than six months in with natural gas.

“Offshore is already at 5 per cent Westminster. “We think her of UK supply, and has done that in election is a really good move for “Because the technology is the last ten years. It will double in the area. She is ambitious and we developing, there is a UK the next five years.” will have to see where she goes in manufacturing success story the Labour Party. She has already So is this uncertainty having an emerging, employment growth, it impact? We’ve seen the director taken quite an important role becomes the cheap solution for general of the CBI, Dong Energy’s within it.” consumers.

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‘A success for E.on, for the local community and the environment’ HIGH PRAISE: Matthew Swanwick.

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NERGY giant E.on’s bosses have personally thanked those responsible for the construction of the £800 million Humber Gateway offshore wind farm, paying tribute to ingenuity and dedication.

The final day of September saw the 73 turbine array launched, 12 years on from the lease being agreed with The Crown Estate of the area adjacent to the estuary’s shipping approach, just off Spurn Point.

Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom joined company bosses, employees and recently recruited apprentices to inaugurate the latest project to be completed out of Grimsby.

And chief operating officer for E.on Climate and Renewables, Michael Lewis, told of the effort put in by the team on the North Quay.

“This is the culmination of many, many years’ work,” he said.

“We have been investing significant amounts of money to build our portfolio of renewable energy projects.

A total of £2.4 billion is being invested in the UK and Humber Gateway is the latest project in that sphere.

“It builds capacity to around about 1,000MW. We are very mindful that we need to drive down the cost and that’s why we are investing in the lowest cost, on and offshore projects, and seeking to continue to drive down costs.

“Humber Gateway is a major step forward. Although we are here in 2015 celebrating construction, the story started a long, long time ago. The Crown Estate consented the lease back in 2003, so it had a 12 year gestation period.

“One of the key milestones was gaining planning consent in 2011, and it was a project not without huge challenges.”

He recalled a time while awaiting a flight in Dusseldorf, he got a call concerned about the soft sea bed and the weight of the jack-up vessels.

“By the time I got home a solution to the problem had been found, and that encapsulated the spirit of the whole project.

“It came in ahead of schedule and below budget, which was a tremendous achievement, given the challenges we have faced.

LAUNCH: Andrea Leadsom cuts the ribbon with, from left, John Beresford, operations and maintenance manager; Grimsby MP Melanie Onn; Sara Vaughan, E.on’s director of strategy and regulation and Michael Lewis.

Pictures: Abby Ruston.

Matthew Swanwick, project manager, was singled out for particular praise.

“He has lived, breathed, slept – any other verb you care to mention – this project for the last four years. He kept a very, very calm facade, his legs may have been moving very quickly underneath, but whenever I saw him, met him and challenged him, he was there to reassure me.”

As is the way with these projects, it was a hectic finale to a long approach.

“It was 12 years in gestation but virtually all the action was packed in to the last 12 months,” Mr Lewis said. “A total of 40 foundations were installed, 73 monopiles, 77 array cables and we commissioned 73 wind turbines.

“The vast majority of this wind farm was built in almost 12 months, and that’s probably a record.”

Turning his attention to the

land-based work, and Grimsby, he said: “We have a £4 million operations and maintenance base, from which crews will transfer to site, which I think is a tremendous example of a renewable building. A real mix of renewable energy with roof-based solar and turbines. Humber Gateway really is a renewable energy project in every sense, and we are very proud of it.

“It has welcomed 102 local sub contractors and created 47 high skilled, full time jobs here in Grimsby. I am very proud of the legacy we leave in Grimsby with the investment we have put in here. It is a success for E.on, for the local community and for the environment.” ● E.on’s apprentices welcomed in, see Business Telegraph’s Careers section, on page 23. Dong Energy’s building award, see page 29.

GATEWAY GALLERY: Clockwise from top left, Michael Lewis speaks at the launch; then shows Andrea Leadsom around the quay facilities; the operational wind farm; the first foundation installation in September 2013 and the first artist’s impression created in 2008.

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The HCF Catch Humber Contractor Competency Forum scheme has been running for 15 years, with around five per cent of the companies beating the 94 per cent “base line” annually.

And the gold certificate of merit accolade was boosted by the success of Dan Pashby, a 24-year-old apprentice, who was told of his success while on paternity leave, with daughter Layla.

Part of the team based in Manby Road serving Phillips 66, he is working on a mechanical piping discipline, with day release at Grimsby Institute.

As well as a cut glass trophy that will be kept safely away from his new arrival, there was also a cash award presented at HCF Catch in Stallingborough.

He said: “It has definitely come at a good time for me. I was off on paternity leave when I found out, and with a new baby we have so much to cover. It is something I really appreciate.”

A former pupil at Grimsby’s Havelock Academy, he completed his A levels there before “realising an apprenticeship would be a good route into industry”.

He completed and NVQ in electrical installation at Grimsby Institute, then applied to the ECITB for an apprenticeship, successfully receiving an offer from On Line.

In his first year he completed a NVQ Level Three in mechanical engineering, and is now in the second year of a HNC.

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TRAINING SUITE: Klinger’s new training centre in Bradford. Inset, James Wallis, Immingham branch manager.

Ian Neve, representing the Humber branch of the Energy Institute, sponsor of the accolade, said: “Apprentice Of The Year is a great recognition. I won an award from HETA when I was 16, and I have kept that award to this day. We also got a voucher for some tools, and I still have my original hacksaw and a few bits and pieces, though I think it was £10 back then!”

Craig Broadley, of Wood Group PSN, and Lee Bell, of Unit Birwelco, were runners up, receiving £250 each.

On the company front, six others also picking up the gold certificate of merit were Applus RTD, Cape Environmental Services, Central Industrial Services (Northern), GE Power &

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CON(COM)-GRATULATIONS: Phil Chapman, left, of On Line Design, receives the Concom Certificate Of Merit, from Dave Roulson. Right, Dan Pashby receives the apprentice award from Ian Neve.

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David Roulson, ConCom co-ordinator at HCF Catch, said: “All those who exceed the base line score of 94 per cent, about five per cent of the companies we see, are presented with this.

“Out of 118 we have seen in the past 12 months, seven have reached this level. The audit process has been developed a lot over the 15 years.”

Graham Mumby, On Line’s commercial director, said: “This reflects a lot of hard work from the engineering team, led by Phil Chapman, in putting together engineering standards, processes and competency matrices.”

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MMINGHAM’S Klinger UK branch is being used as a flagship operation within the portfolio, as it gears up for further growth across Europe.

Company chief executive Dr Heinz Scharl has visited the Manby Road site, where two more employees will be added to the four-strong team in the new year.

James Wallis, who heads up the unit, which opened in August 2013, said: “We have really proved that a manufacturer such as Klinger can open a branch in a new area and make it successful in a short space of time. There are a lot of good companies in the North East Lincolnshire area and it is great to be working with them.

“We have had the chief executive of the company visit, it is a shining example for the company when it comes to a new branch opening.

“The group is really pleased with how it has grown and they want to use this for Klinger around Europe to encourage the opening of more branches. It works so well, serving the industry from strategic locations.”

On site work is also increasing, focusing on flange integrity, gasket selection and gasket installation training programmes.

Mr Wallis said: “More and more of the end users are benefiting from training programmes we can offer. We have mobile rigs to enable on site training, or we can welcome them at our branch.”

A new training facility has just been opened at the head office in Bradford. “It has training rooms, flange rigs, and we can tailor the subject to suit our clients’ specific needs”, Mr Wallis added.

It will also see some use by potential future recruits.

“We are looking to expand the team in the new year,” he said.

“There are four of us at the moment, having originally been just me for the first few weeks. We then moved to three, and four. Next year we will be looking for one more in sales, and when it comes to the production staff, we could be looking at an apprenticeship. We are looking for a young engineer to fully train as a gasket technician, such a niche subject ensures a

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A LEADING training provider has sealed a partnership with one of the country’s biggest trade unions to help employers develop workplace apprenticeship schemes.

Humberside Engineering Training Association (Heta) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the GMB aimed at promoting high-quality training with good rates of pay.

Heta sees the backing of the union as vital in communicating the benefits of training to existing workers and their families.

Iain Elliott, Heta chief executive, said: “The partnership will help to get

– to be able to work with experts in the field and create a really productive partnership. It is an exciting prospect to work with someone whose reputation and quality precedes them.”

The partnership emerged after the GMB’s officials secured money from the Union Learning Fund to support the Young Workers Engagement Project.

Graham Randle, the project manager, joined Mr Stuart on a visit to Heta’s Hull site.

In addition to signing the agreement, the GMB team heard about Heta’s traineeship programme which helps young people with such employability

across the message that training is not something which business do to their employees. It is a collaborative approach. The individuals become better trained and better skilled and the employers have a better workforce.”

The GMB was attracted by Heta’s strong links with education and employers throughout the Humber region, and by its traineeship programme which places great emphasis on ensuring young people are “work ready”.

Craig Stuart, the GMB’s regional education and health and safety officer, said: “This is just what the project needs

skills as interview techniques and writing CVs on their way towards an advanced apprenticeship.

Mr Randle said: “We didn’t realise how far Heta is down the road with traineeships.

We are telling employers about the opportunities at Heta, which puts people through a very robust programme and produces people who are work ready with less risk.

“We are trying to convince employers that the idea of dealing with shortages through agencies is not the way to go. When people get to the end of a Heta programme we know they are competent to do the job.”

Mr Elliott added: “We will encourage any kind of initiative that gets more people into apprenticeships and gives them the skills to get into sustainable employment, and this is a win-win-win for the union, the employees and the employers.

“We look forward to working with the GMB in the future on other initiatives, promoting apprenticeships and also our traineeship scheme. The GMB see that as a possible exemplar of best practice – how to engage young people and get them started on the traineeship into and apprentice pathway.”

BREAKING GROUND: Former BOC managing director Mike Huggon, left, and Lord Haskins, cut the turf in 2012.

promising career for the successful candidate.”

As well as strong growth, the past two years has also seen stocks changed to suit the customer-base.

“The stock we have held has been changed and evolved with the area,” said Mr Wallis. “We have also expanded our scope, to stock and supply all grades of stud bolt and fasteners.

“It has all been driven by our customers. Everywhere a gasket goes, bolts are also required. It makes sense that they can be supplied at the same time.”

For more information call 01469 575289, visit www.klinger.co.uk or e-mail immingham@klingeruk. co.uk

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£35m plant expansion A £35 million investment in a specialist gas facility will be officially opened next week.

BOC’s dissolved acetylene plant at Stallingborough will be inaugurated in the presence of recently appointed managing director for UK and Ireland, Sue Graham Johnston.

She joined The Linde Group business in June.

The plant, built alongside the company’s existing facilities off Hobson Way, will provide a secure source of acetylene to supply to a broad range of industries.

Healing Manor Hotel will be used as a guest

A tour and demonstration of acetylene applications will be given, following the ceremony.

Launched in November 2011, the build project for the highly sensitive facility began in January 2012. Signing off the grant fund application was one of the first duties of Humber Local Enterprise Partnership chief executive Lord Haskins, when he came to office.

The construction programme completed this year, with the facility complying with modern process safety and best practice, with a dedicated cylinder examination facility for recovering acetylene gas.

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MMINGHAM-headquartered On Line Design And Engineering has scooped a ConCom awards double, making it into the hall of fame for a second time with a high audit score, while employing the recently crowned Young Apprentice Of The Year.

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The HCF Catch Humber Contractor Competency Forum scheme has been running for 15 years, with around five per cent of the companies beating the 94 per cent “base line” annually.

And the gold certificate of merit accolade was boosted by the success of Dan Pashby, a 24-year-old apprentice, who was told of his success while on paternity leave, with daughter Layla.

Part of the team based in Manby Road serving Phillips 66, he is working on a mechanical piping discipline, with day release at Grimsby Institute.

As well as a cut glass trophy that will be kept safely away from his new arrival, there was also a cash award presented at HCF Catch in Stallingborough.

He said: “It has definitely come at a good time for me. I was off on paternity leave when I found out, and with a new baby we have so much to cover. It is something I really appreciate.”

A former pupil at Grimsby’s Havelock Academy, he completed his A levels there before “realising an apprenticeship would be a good route into industry”.

He completed and NVQ in electrical installation at Grimsby Institute, then applied to the ECITB for an apprenticeship, successfully receiving an offer from On Line.

In his first year he completed a NVQ Level Three in mechanical engineering, and is now in the second year of a HNC.

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TRAINING SUITE: Klinger’s new training centre in Bradford. Inset, James Wallis, Immingham branch manager.

Ian Neve, representing the Humber branch of the Energy Institute, sponsor of the accolade, said: “Apprentice Of The Year is a great recognition. I won an award from HETA when I was 16, and I have kept that award to this day. We also got a voucher for some tools, and I still have my original hacksaw and a few bits and pieces, though I think it was £10 back then!”

Craig Broadley, of Wood Group PSN, and Lee Bell, of Unit Birwelco, were runners up, receiving £250 each.

On the company front, six others also picking up the gold certificate of merit were Applus RTD, Cape Environmental Services, Central Industrial Services (Northern), GE Power &

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CON(COM)-GRATULATIONS: Phil Chapman, left, of On Line Design, receives the Concom Certificate Of Merit, from Dave Roulson. Right, Dan Pashby receives the apprentice award from Ian Neve.

Pictures: Rick Byrne.

SIGNING UP: Craig Stuart and Iain Elliott, in the Heta workshop.

Water, Geo Houlton & Sons Ltd, SPIE UK and Sodexo.

David Roulson, ConCom co-ordinator at HCF Catch, said: “All those who exceed the base line score of 94 per cent, about five per cent of the companies we see, are presented with this.

“Out of 118 we have seen in the past 12 months, seven have reached this level. The audit process has been developed a lot over the 15 years.”

Graham Mumby, On Line’s commercial director, said: “This reflects a lot of hard work from the engineering team, led by Phil Chapman, in putting together engineering standards, processes and competency matrices.”

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MMINGHAM’S Klinger UK branch is being used as a flagship operation within the portfolio, as it gears up for further growth across Europe.

Company chief executive Dr Heinz Scharl has visited the Manby Road site, where two more employees will be added to the four-strong team in the new year.

James Wallis, who heads up the unit, which opened in August 2013, said: “We have really proved that a manufacturer such as Klinger can open a branch in a new area and make it successful in a short space of time. There are a lot of good companies in the North East Lincolnshire area and it is great to be working with them.

“We have had the chief executive of the company visit, it is a shining example for the company when it comes to a new branch opening.

“The group is really pleased with how it has grown and they want to use this for Klinger around Europe to encourage the opening of more branches. It works so well, serving the industry from strategic locations.”

On site work is also increasing, focusing on flange integrity, gasket selection and gasket installation training programmes.

Mr Wallis said: “More and more of the end users are benefiting from training programmes we can offer. We have mobile rigs to enable on site training, or we can welcome them at our branch.”

A new training facility has just been opened at the head office in Bradford. “It has training rooms, flange rigs, and we can tailor the subject to suit our clients’ specific needs”, Mr Wallis added.

It will also see some use by potential future recruits.

“We are looking to expand the team in the new year,” he said.

“There are four of us at the moment, having originally been just me for the first few weeks. We then moved to three, and four. Next year we will be looking for one more in sales, and when it comes to the production staff, we could be looking at an apprenticeship. We are looking for a young engineer to fully train as a gasket technician, such a niche subject ensures a

GMB and Heta to

form a vital training union

A LEADING training provider has sealed a partnership with one of the country’s biggest trade unions to help employers develop workplace apprenticeship schemes.

Humberside Engineering Training Association (Heta) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the GMB aimed at promoting high-quality training with good rates of pay.

Heta sees the backing of the union as vital in communicating the benefits of training to existing workers and their families.

Iain Elliott, Heta chief executive, said: “The partnership will help to get

– to be able to work with experts in the field and create a really productive partnership. It is an exciting prospect to work with someone whose reputation and quality precedes them.”

The partnership emerged after the GMB’s officials secured money from the Union Learning Fund to support the Young Workers Engagement Project.

Graham Randle, the project manager, joined Mr Stuart on a visit to Heta’s Hull site.

In addition to signing the agreement, the GMB team heard about Heta’s traineeship programme which helps young people with such employability

across the message that training is not something which business do to their employees. It is a collaborative approach. The individuals become better trained and better skilled and the employers have a better workforce.”

The GMB was attracted by Heta’s strong links with education and employers throughout the Humber region, and by its traineeship programme which places great emphasis on ensuring young people are “work ready”.

Craig Stuart, the GMB’s regional education and health and safety officer, said: “This is just what the project needs

skills as interview techniques and writing CVs on their way towards an advanced apprenticeship.

Mr Randle said: “We didn’t realise how far Heta is down the road with traineeships.

We are telling employers about the opportunities at Heta, which puts people through a very robust programme and produces people who are work ready with less risk.

“We are trying to convince employers that the idea of dealing with shortages through agencies is not the way to go. When people get to the end of a Heta programme we know they are competent to do the job.”

Mr Elliott added: “We will encourage any kind of initiative that gets more people into apprenticeships and gives them the skills to get into sustainable employment, and this is a win-win-win for the union, the employees and the employers.

“We look forward to working with the GMB in the future on other initiatives, promoting apprenticeships and also our traineeship scheme. The GMB see that as a possible exemplar of best practice – how to engage young people and get them started on the traineeship into and apprentice pathway.”

BREAKING GROUND: Former BOC managing director Mike Huggon, left, and Lord Haskins, cut the turf in 2012.

promising career for the successful candidate.”

As well as strong growth, the past two years has also seen stocks changed to suit the customer-base.

“The stock we have held has been changed and evolved with the area,” said Mr Wallis. “We have also expanded our scope, to stock and supply all grades of stud bolt and fasteners.

“It has all been driven by our customers. Everywhere a gasket goes, bolts are also required. It makes sense that they can be supplied at the same time.”

For more information call 01469 575289, visit www.klinger.co.uk or e-mail immingham@klingeruk. co.uk

Manby Road Industrial Estate, Immingham,

t: 08449676778

w: www.klingeruk.co.uk

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Providers of health and safety training, and engineering apprentices www.heta.co.uk 01469 552880

Without the support of these companies this page would not be possible

£35m plant expansion A £35 million investment in a specialist gas facility will be officially opened next week.

BOC’s dissolved acetylene plant at Stallingborough will be inaugurated in the presence of recently appointed managing director for UK and Ireland, Sue Graham Johnston.

She joined The Linde Group business in June.

The plant, built alongside the company’s existing facilities off Hobson Way, will provide a secure source of acetylene to supply to a broad range of industries.

Healing Manor Hotel will be used as a guest

A tour and demonstration of acetylene applications will be given, following the ceremony.

Launched in November 2011, the build project for the highly sensitive facility began in January 2012. Signing off the grant fund application was one of the first duties of Humber Local Enterprise Partnership chief executive Lord Haskins, when he came to office.

The construction programme completed this year, with the facility complying with modern process safety and best practice, with a dedicated cylinder examination facility for recovering acetylene gas.

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GREAT CAUSE: John Kersey, right, chairman of the Humber branch of the Energy Institute, presents a cheque to Cleethorpes RNLI representative Matt McNally, left, as Jocelyne Bia looks on at the annual dinner, held at Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton.

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RAINING is at the heart of well as a separate classroom area good practice and that is for teaching theory. emphasised by one busi- It will allow the group to deliver even higher standards of training ness.

As part of an extensive health and safety programme the company is investing heavily in its new training centre.

Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services, alongside its sister company SGB, has opened the centre, in Immingham.

It offers an extended range of training courses to industrial maintenance and construction managers, supervisors and operatives nationwide.

The facility boasts a new purpose-built practical room, as

and professional development, both to its own employees and to customers.

Craig Kirby, Brand Energy’s environmental health safety and quality (EHSQ) director for the UK, said: “We strongly believe that a trained and qualified operative is a safe operative, and in this industry, safety is paramount at every level.

“The expansion of the training centre reflects our commitment to safety.

“It also underlines our continued investment in employee development and offers our team

the opportunity to gain recognised certifications in their field.”

The courses delivered at Immingham are available under both the Brand Energy and SGB trading names to employees and customers.

They aim to improve health and safety, productivity and general awareness of key areas.

The programmes include Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) accredited courses on managing and working safely, the Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS), basic scaffold inspection and the National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) SG6 manual handling course.

Mr Kirby said: “The majority of

courses we offer are ideally suited to both SGB and Brand Energy staff, and to our customers, as they are covering areas such as on-site access, scaffold awareness, working at height and tie and anchor testing.

“We have a long history of providing training services, and this self-contained new centre in Immingham now joins the other training facilities in our extensive UK network.

“We also offer training courses, which we deliver to customers on their own premises, so we really can provide them with that support in whatever form best suits their individual needs.”

Partnership forged to ease investment confidence THE Green Investment Bank and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult have announced a three-year agreement to work together to drive investment.

They aim to promote greater understanding and management of the associated risks, while reducing the cost of energy.

Business Minister Anna Soubry said: “This collaboration is a very positive step for our offshore wind industry – helping to increase business productivity, encourage green innovation and stimulate long-term growth.”

The Memorandum of Understanding sets out how

POSITIVE STEP: Business Minister Anna Soubry. the two organisations will bring their areas of expertise together, listing six initial work streams.

They are: ● Standardisation of due

diligence scopes for equity and debt investment. ● Assessment and solutions for technical challenges on offshore structures. ● Development of enabling technology standards, such as LiDAR. ● Operations and maintenance certification development. ● Industry accepted benchmarking/stage-gating parameters for performance of both marine projects and technologies to enable investment/financing. ● Financial modelling best practice for offshore renewables projects.

Each organisation will also benefit from direct access to the technical expertise of the other,

avoiding the costs of developing non-core internal capability.

Green Investment Bank chief executive Shaun Kingsbury said: “Our respective organisations support the offshore wind industry’s moves to reduce risks and cut costs. We believe that allying our financial expertise with ORE Catapult’s technical know-how will help achieve that aim.”

The capital intensity of offshore renewables makes the cost of capital a key driver of the cost of such energy. The Crown Estates’ Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Pathways Study, published in June 2012, estimates that a drop of one

percentage point in the Weighted Average Cost of Capital is equivalent to a reduction in the Levelised Cost of Energy of around 6 per cent.

ORE Catapult chief executive Andrew Jamieson said: “Joined up thinking between finance and technology is a major enabler of offshore renewable energy deployment.

“ORE Catapult and Green Investment Bank together will ensure an industry better informed as to what’s investable and markets better able to assess and manage investments through understanding of technology.”

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HE Humber’s Energy Institute branch chairman delivered a positive message to the industry he helps galvanise at the organisation’s annual dinner earlier this month.

John Kersey, who heads up the 51-year-old network, told how the area was central to the huge pipeline of offshore wind projects still to come, confident that the new industry was one that would be sustained by Westminster.

Mr Kersey said: “It has been a year of political uncertainty for the energy industry, with pressure to produce long term policy ramping up for Government. Fortunately for the Humber, offshore wind appears to be in favour.

“Here, the work goes on, with an increasingly familiar name leading the charge. Dong Energy – Danish Oil and Natural Gas – is investing more than £5 billion in wind, doubling investment it has already made in the UK. “It has just started its second project out of Grimsby, the 580MW Race Bank, more than double the size of the four farms currently operated, and has acquired the whole of the Hornsea Round Three offshore site – for ming one of the world’s biggest offshore wind developments, covering an area

development off the Lincolnshire coast. Again, our Humber ports are primed and in pole position.”

Mr Kersey, who welcomed Energy Institute marketing and communications director Jocelyn Bia to the event, told how as well as new industry, the region’s existing infrastructure was being diversifying to meet demand.

“Close by the skyline is changing, with Immingham Renewable Fuel Terminal, a biomass import plant, now feeding Drax, alongside coal from the adjacent Humber International Ter minal,” he said. “This region is already home to energy giants such as Total, Centrica, Phillips 66, BP and many others. This area truly is the Energy Estuary, the gateway to the Northern Powerhouse, it is just a different raw material that is now the focus.”

He then turned to training and development, an area close to the John Kersey Energy Institute’s heart.

“We do have our challenges though, Able Marine Energy Park at North and in order to sustain this level of Killingholme, with a Memorandum of growth we need to have a ‘work ready’ Understanding signed this summer. skills pool – and a system that “There will hopefully be another big delivers the right level of engineering and technical resources for the name in energy arriving soon too. future,” he said. “Again we are well RWE, together with Norwegian placed in our region for training, with Statkraft, is developing Triton Knoll offshore wind farm, another huge the recent launch of the first phase of more than twice the size of Greater London.

“This is huge, and it is highly likely it will once again be operated, maintained and have the build out co-ordinated from here, in the Humber. Dong Energy is the first wind farm developer to commit to

a £4 million training facility, geared towards the offshore wind energy industry, part of a large scale operation at HCF Catch.

“The Energy Institute has a major role to play too. The EI creates a network for the energy professional and provides a comprehensive and

continually developing reservoir of scientific and technical-based knowledge and learning. With more than 20,000 individual members and 300 companies it provides a network of branches throughout the UK to engage all those working and studying in energy.”

This area truly is the Energy Estuary, the gateway to the Northern Powerhouse, it is just a different raw material that is now the focus

HUGE: The Hornsea zone, in comparison to Dong Energy’s other projects operated out of Grimsby.

Council representation is testament to the region’s knowledge HUMBER branch committee member Alastair Robertson has been elected to the national Energy Institute branch council.

He follows John Kersey, branch chairman, who served previously, and was congratulated on his election by both Mr Kersey, and then guest Jocelyn Bia. Mr Robertson, pictured, is a founding director of Hull-based gas and oil engineering consultancy OSL. Miss Bia, invited to address the annual dinner, said: “The Humber is one of the most active and engaged branches in the network and we are so grateful for the support in our work.

“I join John in congratulating Alastair in his

election to the Energy Institute council and welcome him to the board of trustees.

“It is only a year since John himself left the council, and for me it is testament to the Humber to have two branch representatives in such a short space of time. It is testimony to the high esteem the

It is testimony to the high esteem the Humber branch is held in by its peers Jocelyn Bia

Humber branch committee is held in by its peers.”

Miss Bia told of a huge fundraising initiative facing the Energy Institute. She said: “Those of you who have visited the EI head office will know that it is housed in a listed building which hasn’t changed much since the Sixties.

“We need to take those premises into the 21st century, to provide facilities that our visitors would expect of a modern institute.

“Because we are a non-profit organisation we need to raise funds towards this refurbishment, which will also help us become an exemplar in retrofitting existing housing stock in order to bring greater energy efficiencies.”

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GREAT CAUSE: John Kersey, right, chairman of the Humber branch of the Energy Institute, presents a cheque to Cleethorpes RNLI representative Matt McNally, left, as Jocelyne Bia looks on at the annual dinner, held at Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton.

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RAINING is at the heart of well as a separate classroom area good practice and that is for teaching theory. emphasised by one busi- It will allow the group to deliver even higher standards of training ness.

As part of an extensive health and safety programme the company is investing heavily in its new training centre.

Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services, alongside its sister company SGB, has opened the centre, in Immingham.

It offers an extended range of training courses to industrial maintenance and construction managers, supervisors and operatives nationwide.

The facility boasts a new purpose-built practical room, as

and professional development, both to its own employees and to customers.

Craig Kirby, Brand Energy’s environmental health safety and quality (EHSQ) director for the UK, said: “We strongly believe that a trained and qualified operative is a safe operative, and in this industry, safety is paramount at every level.

“The expansion of the training centre reflects our commitment to safety.

“It also underlines our continued investment in employee development and offers our team

the opportunity to gain recognised certifications in their field.”

The courses delivered at Immingham are available under both the Brand Energy and SGB trading names to employees and customers.

They aim to improve health and safety, productivity and general awareness of key areas.

The programmes include Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) accredited courses on managing and working safely, the Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS), basic scaffold inspection and the National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) SG6 manual handling course.

Mr Kirby said: “The majority of

courses we offer are ideally suited to both SGB and Brand Energy staff, and to our customers, as they are covering areas such as on-site access, scaffold awareness, working at height and tie and anchor testing.

“We have a long history of providing training services, and this self-contained new centre in Immingham now joins the other training facilities in our extensive UK network.

“We also offer training courses, which we deliver to customers on their own premises, so we really can provide them with that support in whatever form best suits their individual needs.”

Partnership forged to ease investment confidence THE Green Investment Bank and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult have announced a three-year agreement to work together to drive investment.

They aim to promote greater understanding and management of the associated risks, while reducing the cost of energy.

Business Minister Anna Soubry said: “This collaboration is a very positive step for our offshore wind industry – helping to increase business productivity, encourage green innovation and stimulate long-term growth.”

The Memorandum of Understanding sets out how

POSITIVE STEP: Business Minister Anna Soubry. the two organisations will bring their areas of expertise together, listing six initial work streams.

They are: ● Standardisation of due

diligence scopes for equity and debt investment. ● Assessment and solutions for technical challenges on offshore structures. ● Development of enabling technology standards, such as LiDAR. ● Operations and maintenance certification development. ● Industry accepted benchmarking/stage-gating parameters for performance of both marine projects and technologies to enable investment/financing. ● Financial modelling best practice for offshore renewables projects.

Each organisation will also benefit from direct access to the technical expertise of the other,

avoiding the costs of developing non-core internal capability.

Green Investment Bank chief executive Shaun Kingsbury said: “Our respective organisations support the offshore wind industry’s moves to reduce risks and cut costs. We believe that allying our financial expertise with ORE Catapult’s technical know-how will help achieve that aim.”

The capital intensity of offshore renewables makes the cost of capital a key driver of the cost of such energy. The Crown Estates’ Offshore Wind Cost Reduction Pathways Study, published in June 2012, estimates that a drop of one

percentage point in the Weighted Average Cost of Capital is equivalent to a reduction in the Levelised Cost of Energy of around 6 per cent.

ORE Catapult chief executive Andrew Jamieson said: “Joined up thinking between finance and technology is a major enabler of offshore renewable energy deployment.

“ORE Catapult and Green Investment Bank together will ensure an industry better informed as to what’s investable and markets better able to assess and manage investments through understanding of technology.”

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HE Humber’s Energy Institute branch chairman delivered a positive message to the industry he helps galvanise at the organisation’s annual dinner earlier this month.

John Kersey, who heads up the 51-year-old network, told how the area was central to the huge pipeline of offshore wind projects still to come, confident that the new industry was one that would be sustained by Westminster.

Mr Kersey said: “It has been a year of political uncertainty for the energy industry, with pressure to produce long term policy ramping up for Government. Fortunately for the Humber, offshore wind appears to be in favour.

“Here, the work goes on, with an increasingly familiar name leading the charge. Dong Energy – Danish Oil and Natural Gas – is investing more than £5 billion in wind, doubling investment it has already made in the UK. “It has just started its second project out of Grimsby, the 580MW Race Bank, more than double the size of the four farms currently operated, and has acquired the whole of the Hornsea Round Three offshore site – for ming one of the world’s biggest offshore wind developments, covering an area

development off the Lincolnshire coast. Again, our Humber ports are primed and in pole position.”

Mr Kersey, who welcomed Energy Institute marketing and communications director Jocelyn Bia to the event, told how as well as new industry, the region’s existing infrastructure was being diversifying to meet demand.

“Close by the skyline is changing, with Immingham Renewable Fuel Terminal, a biomass import plant, now feeding Drax, alongside coal from the adjacent Humber International Ter minal,” he said. “This region is already home to energy giants such as Total, Centrica, Phillips 66, BP and many others. This area truly is the Energy Estuary, the gateway to the Northern Powerhouse, it is just a different raw material that is now the focus.”

He then turned to training and development, an area close to the John Kersey Energy Institute’s heart.

“We do have our challenges though, Able Marine Energy Park at North and in order to sustain this level of Killingholme, with a Memorandum of growth we need to have a ‘work ready’ Understanding signed this summer. skills pool – and a system that “There will hopefully be another big delivers the right level of engineering and technical resources for the name in energy arriving soon too. future,” he said. “Again we are well RWE, together with Norwegian placed in our region for training, with Statkraft, is developing Triton Knoll offshore wind farm, another huge the recent launch of the first phase of more than twice the size of Greater London.

“This is huge, and it is highly likely it will once again be operated, maintained and have the build out co-ordinated from here, in the Humber. Dong Energy is the first wind farm developer to commit to

a £4 million training facility, geared towards the offshore wind energy industry, part of a large scale operation at HCF Catch.

“The Energy Institute has a major role to play too. The EI creates a network for the energy professional and provides a comprehensive and

continually developing reservoir of scientific and technical-based knowledge and learning. With more than 20,000 individual members and 300 companies it provides a network of branches throughout the UK to engage all those working and studying in energy.”

This area truly is the Energy Estuary, the gateway to the Northern Powerhouse, it is just a different raw material that is now the focus

HUGE: The Hornsea zone, in comparison to Dong Energy’s other projects operated out of Grimsby.

Council representation is testament to the region’s knowledge HUMBER branch committee member Alastair Robertson has been elected to the national Energy Institute branch council.

He follows John Kersey, branch chairman, who served previously, and was congratulated on his election by both Mr Kersey, and then guest Jocelyn Bia. Mr Robertson, pictured, is a founding director of Hull-based gas and oil engineering consultancy OSL. Miss Bia, invited to address the annual dinner, said: “The Humber is one of the most active and engaged branches in the network and we are so grateful for the support in our work.

“I join John in congratulating Alastair in his

election to the Energy Institute council and welcome him to the board of trustees.

“It is only a year since John himself left the council, and for me it is testament to the Humber to have two branch representatives in such a short space of time. It is testimony to the high esteem the

It is testimony to the high esteem the Humber branch is held in by its peers Jocelyn Bia

Humber branch committee is held in by its peers.”

Miss Bia told of a huge fundraising initiative facing the Energy Institute. She said: “Those of you who have visited the EI head office will know that it is housed in a listed building which hasn’t changed much since the Sixties.

“We need to take those premises into the 21st century, to provide facilities that our visitors would expect of a modern institute.

“Because we are a non-profit organisation we need to raise funds towards this refurbishment, which will also help us become an exemplar in retrofitting existing housing stock in order to bring greater energy efficiencies.”

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Managing director Mike Butler leads an 11-strong team. He said: “The company is continually developing both geographically and in terms of the products manufactured, with a client base ranging from small businesses to blue-chip multinationals.

“The sectors we cover nowadays are equally diverse and we’re currently manufacturing a lot of personnel and sliding doors with computer-aided design now being used wherever possible.

“We cater for projects as varied as refurbishments, factory extensions and complete new-builds, as well as general repairs and renewals.”

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“Mike and the team helped us by coming up with solutions for all of our doors. We had nearly 30 openings in all and lots of different demands and needs, including frames where our venison rail needed to run through, heated blast freezer doors, different sized personnel doors, vision panels and large sliders.

“The result is we have the best wild game factory in the country, easily achieving BRC Version Seven and held in high regard with the Food Standards Agency for the fabric of the building.

“Our different coloured doors, supplied by Lincs Doors, are used for easy recognition of different areas of the factory and are always commented on positively. One thing

we liked was Lincs Doors’ personal service. They care and could not do enough for us, including several site visits just for advice.

“We found the experience overall first class. We would confidently recommend Lincs Doors.”

Another satisfied customer was Suffolk-based Gressingham Foods.

A spokesman said: “We have installed doors manufactured by Lincs Doors since 2007 as we have expanded our business, and have been pleased with the efficiency and quality of workmanship. Their friendly staff are always on hand to help with support and advice.”

In April the company will be exhibiting at Food and Drink Expo 2016, at Birmingham’s NEC.

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The business also understands the requirements when on a site, particularly in the fast moving food business.

“With down time on site crucial, as much work as is physically possible is done on the doors and other key products, before they leave our Innovation Way base,” fellow director Mandy Butler said.

“We have several CNC machines, and that gives us the option to add more value to products and also to suit our customers’ requirements.

Where before the customer would have been drilling materials on site, which can take some time, our products can now be pre-punched with holes on the CNC punch machine.”

Lincs Doors, ISO9001 accredited since 2008, has ongoing orders for personnel doors for Waitrose outlets at Shell service stations, as the new convenience branches are rolled out. The Waitrose/Shell contract is for standard personnel doors and aluminium frames, which are powder coated, with company colours and graphics applied at the Grimsby factory.

Swineshead-based The Lincolnshire Game Company was a recent customer.

A spokesman said: “We approached Lincs Doors because we were building a new high specification factory which needed to be of a BRC standard to supply supermarket orders for wild game.

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CRUCIAL ROLE: Pete Ward.

MORE than 50 suppliers from six continents have been briefed on a Grimsby seafood giant’s new strategy of ‘Virtual Integration’.

Grimsby’s Young’s Seafood is seeking to build on strong relationships, skills and knowledge to ensure it stays at the forefront of quality and value, in an increasingly competitive sector.

A major supplier conference was held by the town’s largest private employer after last month’s World Seafood Congress.

Pete Ward, chief executive, said: “In today’s challenging market place, the strength and skills of our key suppliers, along with the service, quality, value, scale, innovation and corporate social responsibility credentials we offer play an increasingly crucial role. I believe that by working together collaboratively we can leverage the benefits available to a vertically integrated operation, offering the best quality and best value fish and seafood to our customers and consumers. “Here, at Young’s

Seafood, we call this ‘Virtual Integration’ and we’re pleased to have had the opportunity to discuss the next phase of this approach with so many of our suppliers as part of our collective communications strategy.

“For Virtual Integration to work successfully there are some prerequisites including shared values, trust and openness, mutual benefits, partnership supported by a long-term relationship. These elements are the backbone that makes a reality of the phrase: together we are stronger.

“We are offering more of our suppliers the opportunity to come on a journey with us and drive mutually beneficial, sustainable change.”

It comes as two different vertically integrated models impact differently on the town’s primary industry.

Supermarket giant Morrisons is in the process of creating 600 jobs as it manages its own processing from two huge sites at Europarc, while in

Scotland, Marine Harvest, the biggest name in aquaculture, has moved into the processing sector, winning the Sainsbury’s salmon contract from Young’s, enforcing a major restructure and the loss of more than 600 jobs north of the border, in Fraserburgh.

Stuart Caborn, purchasing director at Young’s, added: “This supply chain engagement event is a great opportunity to discuss how more of our suppliers can work in a new way with Young’s. These new Virtual Integration initiatives will contribute to the future success of all those involved and ensure we continue to provide the best service, and the best fish dishes, to our customers and consumers.”

Delegates travelled from Japan, Vietnam, Russia, China, Norway, Iceland, the USA as well as the UK and a number of other European countries to Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton. They also got to enjoy a ‘supply base on a plate’ lunch prepared by Young’s development chef, Serge Nollent.

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USINESSES from across the seafood industry are calling on others to take advantage of Seafish’s responsible sourcing tool, having recognised its potential over the past year.

Launched at Grimsby’s Humber Seafood Summit in September 2014, and featured on the front page of that month’s Business Telegraph, Risk Assessment for Sourcing Seafood (RASS) is now successfully aiding a wide range of businesses across the UK supply chain, assisting buyers in making informed purchasing decisions.

It includes Waitrose, Grimsby’s largest company, Young’s Seafood, northern Lincolnshire-based seafood delivery service Regal Fish, and the award-winning fish and chip chain, Papa’s Fish and Chips.

The free online platform now lists 280 fishery profiles containing information on stock status, the efficacy of management, as well as seafloor habitat and by-catch impacts.

Available to the entire UK supply chain of seafood buyers – in the wholesale, foodservice and retail sectors – RASS gives greater clarity over the status of the seafood they are buying both at stock and fisheries levels.

RASS was introduced to answer a need from the industry for clear, scientifically robust information on the impacts of fisheries. This empowers buyers to make better informed decisions, and manage their reputation. Many businesses like Young’s are using the tool to ensure all their supplies adhere to the company’s responsible sourcing principles. It also makes it easier for business by collating and analysing technical data

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Waitrose, the sixth-largest grocery retailer in the UK, uses RASS to support its own responsible seafood sourcing strategy. Developed over the last 15 years, its policy demands that suppliers must only source fish from fisheries or farmed aquaculture operations that are responsibly managed.

Riyaz Dhalla, brand policy manager at Waitrose said: “RASS is our belt and braces. It provides us with additional background information, including scientific assessments, that is really useful.

“That gives us the extra assurance that an independent expert has looked at the product and approved it for sale.

Total fishery profiles now on RASS and presenting it in a usable format.

David Parker, marine biologist at Young’s, said: “We use RASS to assess the fisheries that we source our seafood from. We have our own metrics to assess if a fishery is responsible or not. Some of the information we need is easy to come by, but a lot is a lot harder and can take a lot of time, involving reviewing scientific journals, speaking with academics and talking to fishermen.

“With RASS we find that Seafish has already done a lot of that hard work for us. We use the data to inform our own assessment, and we can also request specific reports if there is a supplier that is not included on the database.”

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It’s an extra level of due diligence, over and above our own.”

RASS also allows the supply chain to be completely transparent, using real-time data, freeing up precious time and resource within the business.

Mike Brummit is general manager at Barton-based Regal Fish. He said: “By directing our customers to our website, where they can access the RASS tool, they can assess all of the current information available on their purchase – where it was caught and by whom. This enables us to provide a premium level of transparency and takes the pressure off our hardworking sales team.

“We have tried a number of systems, but RASS definitely stood out and has raised the bar. No other tool was as intuitive, or provided the comprehensive level of data we were looking for.”

George Papacaoullas of fish and chip chain, Papa’s Fish and Chips, added: “If you want to be at the forefront of providing a sustainable product it’s a brilliant system. It allows you to have an honest conversation with your suppliers, staff and customers. It promotes transparency and keeps the whole industry on its toes.

“We audit our menu regularly and if we cannot source a certain species responsibly we will remove it. This demonstrates to our customers that we are dedicated to bringing them the most responsibly sourced product available. RASS helps us justify these decisions and I believe customers respect us for it.”

LAUNCH: Dr Tom Pickerell, technical director at Seafish, demonstrates RASS to delegates at Humber Seafood Summit 2014, at Humber Royal Hotel, Grimsby. Picture by Dave Moss.

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further increases has now been put in place.

“We have taken two years to get to this,” said Mr Arundel. “We got the grant funding for storage and grading operations in 2009, and built the storage throughout 2010, to be open for that harvest. We have had potatoes in from 2010 and and and thatthe is really 2011, wholeimportant,” project has Dr Williams said.

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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 gatherings later this year.

The CBI Yorkshire and Humber Annual Dinner takes place at Leeds University on October 10.

It will be one of the first events with John Fitzgerald, port director for Grimsby and Immingham, as chairman of the region.

Mr Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster, novelist and journalist.

His latest book, due to hit the shelves next month, focuses on lessons that can be gleaned from leaders in how they tell stories, and will be the subject of his speech to the area’s business bosses, and their guests.

A SPECIAL event is being held to update For more information about the dinner, which is companies on represented the progress madeBank by the frequently well bybeing the South and Northern Lincs reception Broadband team, as superfast features a drinks within Parkinson Court, links across the South Bank. archive and home snake to the famous Marks & Spencer Baths takes place on Thursday, artBusiness@The gallery, e-mail katya.menhennet@cbi.org.uk or October 23. visit http://yorkshire-annual-dinner.eventbrite.com More than 10,000 properties can now take advantage of the benefits high-speed broadband brings, with more than 130 businesses already A FURTHER of investment across therun enjoying the£4-million free support programme being region last maximise quarter hasthe seen the total funds to helpthis firms potential. issued by Finance Yorkshire climb to £23-million.

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“It was essential to Seafish that it created a platform that business were able to consult with in order to make their own sound sourcing decisions based on existing company principles, rather than being told what seafood they should and should not buy, and we believe we’ve done just that.

“Over the past year we have seen a great pick up and would encourage more businesses to follow in the footsteps of these businesses as we continue to build on the number of fisheries and

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“People come for the day to work on the caravans, it is quite a community, and there’s a cup of tea every time they want one.”

A fleet of 20 hire vans sit alongside those privately owned, all enjoying additional benefits of lower insurance premiums. Corporate contracts have included work with the BBC, and relief for people with flooded or fire-damaged homes as claims are processed and repairs done.

Earlier this year the Cleethorpes couple’s eight grandchildren helped with the mammoth task of covering over old bay markings across the site from the previous use of new car import handling, for the much larger caravan spaces, with one, a 16-year-old, about to embark on an apprenticeship with Mr Mason to learn about caravan maintenance.

Jim Livermore, commercial manager at HSBC’s Grimsby branch, said: “Mack and Lynne have been longstanding business and personal customers of HSBC, and had a relationship with Bev Clark. Bev introduced them to me when they had the opportunity to purchase the land, and it is great to see the dream of taking it on and expanding becoming a reality.”

Rapid growth as there’s more to accommodate ACCOMODATING: New starters, from left, are: Laura Hedison, Rowan Hitchin, Leanne Lissiak and Katy Steel.

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As everything gets more technological, the market needs someone to be personal

The Ashby-cum-Fenby operation, headed by directors Karl Hedison, Linda and Rebecca Anderson-Smith, now manages the Willow Lakes complex on behalf of private investors, as well as placing executives and contractors in hotels, bed and breakfasts, homes and lodges nationwide.

Mr Hedison said: “It is going phenomenally well, and because Karl Hedison we are responding to what the market wants, it is growing so year or so we will go across to quickly. We are now employing a Europe.” team of 10, we started with three, Explaining his take on the rise, and that is four more since

from the complex that looks out across North East Lincolnshire, taking in the burgeoning offshore wind farms that many of the clients are involved in developing and constructing, he said: “The reason we are winning work is everything we do is personal. A key feature is that we speak to the people, understand their needs, it is not a cold online booking. We know what they are looking for, whether it is breakfast, a gym, good broadband, parking, rail access, etc.

“We also vet the places they go to, so we know it where we want to send clients. As everything gets more technological, the market needs someone to be personal.”

Joining the business recently have been Mr Hedison’s wife Laura, in a marketing role; Rowan

Hitchin as office manager, and accommodation advisors Leanne Lissiak and Katy Steel.

The other side of Rapid’s offer is the saving of resource it brings, with Mr Hedison stating that it can take up to one day a month of a workload to sort out business trips.

“A lot of the time this task falls to the PA,” said Mr Hedison.

“Nowadays the admin provision they provide is more than a full time job in itself, the last thing they need to do is look for accommodation, and it nearly always happens on the day.

“We lose count of the Monday morning calls we get looking for a bed for Monday night. Dealing with big corporates and smaller businesses too, the destination can actually change during the day!” ● More career news, see page 23.

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In this picture from 1986 Keith Ford, left, Peter Dolby, second left, and Sam Smith, right, work with their first ever employee Lee James.

We offer for sale from stock the foll: Scaffold Tube, Boards & Fittings, Builders Trestles, Site Security Fencing, Acrow Props, Kwikstage & Cuplok Scaffolding, along with Handrail Tube and Tubeclamps We carry large stocks of most items and our full range can be found on our website,

Our client base are involved in the area's of production for the food, print, automotive, packaging and lamination industries.

We manufacture and supply a wide rage of gears including:Helical • Spur Gears • Sprockets Belt Pullies • Worm Wheel.....

Along with precision engineering and grinding rubber print and lamination rollers.

Congratulations to East Coast Engineers on their th 30 Anniversary

Proud to be associated with East Coast Engineers Grimsby

www.scaffoldingsupplies.co.uk

www.engweld.co.uk

Sustainability on Norway’s agenda ● Continued from page one.

We want to ensure that fish is accessible to all, now and for generations to come, and we believe that success is the result of doing the right thing, always.”

He welcomed the innovation and collaborative efforts being made to help drive the seafood integrity agenda and highlighted examples such as the Sustainable Seafood Coalition and the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership.

Mr Mitchell, who has previously shared a lectern with Prince Charles over such issues, told how some barriers were beyond one business’s intervention, adding: “In order to be effective in driving improvement in global seafood supply chains we need more and better science and we need to find new ways for industry and other stakeholder groups to work more effectively and collaboratively.”

His speech follows the announcement that Young’s Seafood is a finalist in the innovation category at the prestigious global Seafood Champion Awards.

Young’s is also a key supporter of North Atlantic Seafood Forum, a high level industry gathering hosted in Norway.

Proud to be associated with East Coast Engineers

Contact Us Today!

0800 5420 650 01472 501011

©LW

Humberside Gear Company Tel: 01472 601111 | www.gearcutters.net

“

©LW

Incorporating E. Bacon & Co. Ltd MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS, WELDERS & FABRICATORS Registered Offce: Hutton Road, Fish Docks, Grimsby. DN31 3PS. Tel Offce: 01472 351313 Machine Shop: 01472 350267 Web: www.baconengineering.com E-mail: steve@baconengineering.com

©LW

Caravans of love

”

My accountant isn’t interested in my business

At Car Services we have over 25 years experience providing both private and business customers with all their vehicle maintenance needs; from MOT’s to top quality vehicle services and repairs always at the most competitive prices.

Our highly trained technicians, will handle all service’s and repairs to the highest of standards required by manufacturers to preserve manufacturers warranties - what ever make, model or type of vehicle.

Jeff, Karen and all at Car Services Grimsby are pleased to be associated with East Coast Engineering.

Congratulations ! - and here’s to many more successful years.

Our offices and workshop are conveniently located in the heart of Grimsby - easily accessible from either the town centre or from the A180.

w w w. c a r s e r v i c e s g r i m s b y l t d . c o . u k Car Services (Grimsby) Limited, King Edward Street, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, - DN31 3JP

Sound familiar?

Talk to a local, independent

accountancy firm that loves to work with its clients.

We offer a complete accountancy service to sole traders, partnerships and Limited companies.

• Annual and Management Accounts • Self Assessment • VAT • Tax planning • Payroll • Bookkeeping

01472 341 444 ags@agsaccountants.co.uk A G Smith & Co Ltd 127 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, DN31 3EW

Plus • We take the time to get to know you and your business • We offer proactive business advice • We have real life experience of working within businesses • We offer fantastic value for money If you aren't getting this level of service from your accountant, give us a call for a no-obligation initial chat.

Proud to support East Coast Engineers and congratulations on your 30th Anniversary

www.agsaccountants.co.uk

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News ● Continued from page one.

“People come for the day to work on the caravans, it is quite a community, and there’s a cup of tea every time they want one.”

A fleet of 20 hire vans sit alongside those privately owned, all enjoying additional benefits of lower insurance premiums. Corporate contracts have included work with the BBC, and relief for people with flooded or fire-damaged homes as claims are processed and repairs done.

Earlier this year the Cleethorpes couple’s eight grandchildren helped with the mammoth task of covering over old bay markings across the site from the previous use of new car import handling, for the much larger caravan spaces, with one, a 16-year-old, about to embark on an apprenticeship with Mr Mason to learn about caravan maintenance.

Jim Livermore, commercial manager at HSBC’s Grimsby branch, said: “Mack and Lynne have been longstanding business and personal customers of HSBC, and had a relationship with Bev Clark. Bev introduced them to me when they had the opportunity to purchase the land, and it is great to see the dream of taking it on and expanding becoming a reality.”

Rapid growth as there’s more to accommodate ACCOMODATING: New starters, from left, are: Laura Hedison, Rowan Hitchin, Leanne Lissiak and Katy Steel.

SALES PITCH: The initial sales area at M&L Caravan Hire.

I

NNOVATIVE corporate solu- January, and three in the past two tions business Rapid Accom- months. modation is looking to “It is a completely national Europe for further growth, service and hopefully in the next after an incredible first three years in business.

COMMERCIALELECTRICALSPECIALISTS

www.gecltd.co.uk

• Industrial • Commercial • Food Industry •Quality Approved Workforce Over 30 years experience

Callforadviceandquotations

T: 01472 322 222 07872078705 info@gecltd.co.uk

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As everything gets more technological, the market needs someone to be personal

The Ashby-cum-Fenby operation, headed by directors Karl Hedison, Linda and Rebecca Anderson-Smith, now manages the Willow Lakes complex on behalf of private investors, as well as placing executives and contractors in hotels, bed and breakfasts, homes and lodges nationwide.

Mr Hedison said: “It is going phenomenally well, and because Karl Hedison we are responding to what the market wants, it is growing so year or so we will go across to quickly. We are now employing a Europe.” team of 10, we started with three, Explaining his take on the rise, and that is four more since

from the complex that looks out across North East Lincolnshire, taking in the burgeoning offshore wind farms that many of the clients are involved in developing and constructing, he said: “The reason we are winning work is everything we do is personal. A key feature is that we speak to the people, understand their needs, it is not a cold online booking. We know what they are looking for, whether it is breakfast, a gym, good broadband, parking, rail access, etc.

“We also vet the places they go to, so we know it where we want to send clients. As everything gets more technological, the market needs someone to be personal.”

Joining the business recently have been Mr Hedison’s wife Laura, in a marketing role; Rowan

Hitchin as office manager, and accommodation advisors Leanne Lissiak and Katy Steel.

The other side of Rapid’s offer is the saving of resource it brings, with Mr Hedison stating that it can take up to one day a month of a workload to sort out business trips.

“A lot of the time this task falls to the PA,” said Mr Hedison.

“Nowadays the admin provision they provide is more than a full time job in itself, the last thing they need to do is look for accommodation, and it nearly always happens on the day.

“We lose count of the Monday morning calls we get looking for a bed for Monday night. Dealing with big corporates and smaller businesses too, the destination can actually change during the day!” ● More career news, see page 23.

Engweld/Energas would like to congratulate the directors of East Coast Engineers on 30 years in business.

We are proud to supply such a successful & professional local company.

As market leaders, Engweld/Energas have supplied quality welding products and cylinder gases for over 50 years.

For all of your engineering and welding consumable requirements, please contact our Grimsby Branch on 01472 353596 or email grimsby@engweld.co.uk.

www.energas.co.uk

In this picture from 1986 Keith Ford, left, Peter Dolby, second left, and Sam Smith, right, work with their first ever employee Lee James.

We offer for sale from stock the foll: Scaffold Tube, Boards & Fittings, Builders Trestles, Site Security Fencing, Acrow Props, Kwikstage & Cuplok Scaffolding, along with Handrail Tube and Tubeclamps We carry large stocks of most items and our full range can be found on our website,

Our client base are involved in the area's of production for the food, print, automotive, packaging and lamination industries.

We manufacture and supply a wide rage of gears including:Helical • Spur Gears • Sprockets Belt Pullies • Worm Wheel.....

Along with precision engineering and grinding rubber print and lamination rollers.

Congratulations to East Coast Engineers on their th 30 Anniversary

Proud to be associated with East Coast Engineers Grimsby

www.scaffoldingsupplies.co.uk

www.engweld.co.uk

Sustainability on Norway’s agenda ● Continued from page one.

We want to ensure that fish is accessible to all, now and for generations to come, and we believe that success is the result of doing the right thing, always.”

He welcomed the innovation and collaborative efforts being made to help drive the seafood integrity agenda and highlighted examples such as the Sustainable Seafood Coalition and the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership.

Mr Mitchell, who has previously shared a lectern with Prince Charles over such issues, told how some barriers were beyond one business’s intervention, adding: “In order to be effective in driving improvement in global seafood supply chains we need more and better science and we need to find new ways for industry and other stakeholder groups to work more effectively and collaboratively.”

His speech follows the announcement that Young’s Seafood is a finalist in the innovation category at the prestigious global Seafood Champion Awards.

Young’s is also a key supporter of North Atlantic Seafood Forum, a high level industry gathering hosted in Norway.

Proud to be associated with East Coast Engineers

Contact Us Today!

0800 5420 650 01472 501011

©LW

Humberside Gear Company Tel: 01472 601111 | www.gearcutters.net

“

©LW

Incorporating E. Bacon & Co. Ltd MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS, WELDERS & FABRICATORS Registered Offce: Hutton Road, Fish Docks, Grimsby. DN31 3PS. Tel Offce: 01472 351313 Machine Shop: 01472 350267 Web: www.baconengineering.com E-mail: steve@baconengineering.com

©LW

Caravans of love

”

My accountant isn’t interested in my business

At Car Services we have over 25 years experience providing both private and business customers with all their vehicle maintenance needs; from MOT’s to top quality vehicle services and repairs always at the most competitive prices.

Our highly trained technicians, will handle all service’s and repairs to the highest of standards required by manufacturers to preserve manufacturers warranties - what ever make, model or type of vehicle.

Jeff, Karen and all at Car Services Grimsby are pleased to be associated with East Coast Engineering.

Congratulations ! - and here’s to many more successful years.

Our offices and workshop are conveniently located in the heart of Grimsby - easily accessible from either the town centre or from the A180.

w w w. c a r s e r v i c e s g r i m s b y l t d . c o . u k Car Services (Grimsby) Limited, King Edward Street, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, - DN31 3JP

Sound familiar?

Talk to a local, independent

accountancy firm that loves to work with its clients.

We offer a complete accountancy service to sole traders, partnerships and Limited companies.

• Annual and Management Accounts • Self Assessment • VAT • Tax planning • Payroll • Bookkeeping

01472 341 444 ags@agsaccountants.co.uk A G Smith & Co Ltd 127 Cleethorpe Road, Grimsby, DN31 3EW

Plus • We take the time to get to know you and your business • We offer proactive business advice • We have real life experience of working within businesses • We offer fantastic value for money If you aren't getting this level of service from your accountant, give us a call for a no-obligation initial chat.

Proud to support East Coast Engineers and congratulations on your 30th Anniversary

www.agsaccountants.co.uk

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turnover of staff.

“Two of our staff have been with us 29 years and our strength has always been down to our hardworking team and we would like to thank all the staff both present and past for their contribution to our success.”

In 1995 the business moved to lower spring street, where a machining shop, fabrication shop, welding shop and offices are located.

When Mr Ford retired in 2012, Mr Dolby’s son Darren, manager of the machine shop, stepped up to a directorship.

While operations within the Cooper building, ideally located close to the A180 between Victoria Street and King Edward Street, have largely remained the same, there has been a big upturn in work conducted on clients’ sites.

“We have really expanded our work off site. That is an area that has grown, and it isn’t limited to Grimsby or Northern Lincolnshire - we work all over England,” Mr Dolby snr said. A passion for high quality work has even taken them to Belgium, while a new project located in Shetland Islands could open the door to more.

have really expanded “ourWework off site. That is an area that has grown, and it isn’t limited to Grimsby or Northern Lincolnshire - we work all over England.

”

To everyone at East Coast Engineers, Congratulations on your 30th Anniversary!

Wishing you continued success into the future.

EAST COAST ENGINEERS

Congratulations on 30 successful years in business.

Kenworth Engineering 01472 210678 www.kenworthengineering.co.uk

• MARINE ACCESS +*)(&$() #"))!'% ALUMINIUM • STAINLESS STEEL • BRONZE • BRASS • COPPER • NYLON • UHMWPE • ACETAL • PTFE • TUFNOL • LEXAN • WATERJET PROFILING • PLATE SAWING • MACHINING

NORTH LINCS TYRES is conveniently located at Lockhill, the roundabout for Victoria Street and the A180

SALES ENQUIRIES: (01472) 360369 24 HOUR EMERGENCY: 07850 395408

“We are proud to have been associated with East Coast Engineers for over 25 years”

Roadside Assistance Fleet Audit Forklift

30 years of Engineering Excellence ...Proud to serve • OFFSHORE ENEWABLE ENERGY ACCESS

-+*)+--()+* '-&%!1 0 /!%1&).1 1&,.$#,!"-(

LOCKHILL, VICTORIA STREET, GRIMSBY, NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE, DN31 3LS email: info@northlincstyreslimited.co.uk www.northlincstyreslimited.co.uk

Darren Dolby, director at work on a Lancaster Bomber pilot's seat.

We carry out machining in materials including all types of steel, stainless steel, aluminium, cast iron, brass, bronze and all types of plastics.

Please feel free to place an enquiry.

We are proud to be associated with

SCUNTHORPE BRANCH Tel: 01724 291040 Fax: 01724 850360 www.locatesupplies.co.uk ©LW

Under fabrication, East Coast offers mig, tig ,arc and gas welding, coded welding to bs4872/asme ix, carbon arc air cutting and sawing up to 400mm diameter, as well as mechanical fitting.

Dp, cp, modular, chain sprockets, internal and external gear cutting is provided, with keyway broaching slotting, drilling, reaming, vertical milling and boring all supported.

Centre lathe turning and batch production machining services include thread cutting, for metric coarse, metric fine, bsw, bsf, as well as unc, unf, bsp, npt, api and brass.

Looking ahead, Mr Dolby said: “Darren is going to step forward one day, and hopefully take the company further. We want to see it continue to prosper.

“To do 30 years as an engineering business is a feat. We have seen many others fall by and it is because we have a strong office unit we have continued. It has been really hard at times, the hard work has repaid in benefits we are all now seeing, the benefits of 30 years hard work.

“Keith put so much into it. East Coast was his heart and soul. He was the driving force and put so much energy behind it.”

East Coast Engineers in Grimsby Celebrate 30 years in business.

From front left are, Peter Dolby, managing director, Carol Ford, secretary, and Darren Dolby, director with their team.

©LW

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n November 1, East Coast Engineers will pass the milestone, with the 10-strong team serving clients as diverse as oil and gas, power, packaging and offshore wind.

It will be an emotional day, as founding managing director Keith Ford, passed away two years ago.

Wife Carol Ford is company secretary, with Peter Dolby having taken over at the helm, having worked with the business for all but the first of those 30 years, and supported by AG Smith & Co accountants.

In 1985, Mr Ford, a centre lathe turner, launched East Coast Engineering (Grimsby) ltd, with silent partner Robert Drury, having served his time with Lloyd Cars ltd, in Patrick Street, before joining Clark & Co on Grimsby docks.

He took premises in Birchin Way, with the intention to put quality first, a motto that has been retained through three decades.

Married with two children then aged 15 and 13, Mrs Ford said: “it was a risky thing to do, to leave a secure job and start out independently, but he always wanted to do it.

Sadly he didn’t live to enjoy his retirement.”

Mr Dolby joined as manager and director of the welding shop, with Sam Smith, a fitter, and another director, bringing technical abilities and development skills, as he moved from a managerial role at Dunlop Oil and Marine.

“It was the four of us, and the company grew from strength to strength,” Mr Dolby said.

“We have always been a family company, we have all known each other, many are in some way related, and we enjoy a low

“We have produced some work for the oil industry, a decontamination unit. We fabricated it from scratch, having designed it ourselves too. We have now built the first one, and hopefully there will be more to come.

“We also work for the power stations locally, oil refineries, and our biggest customer is Dunlop Oil and Marine.

“We have worked for them from day one, and they too have been a big supporter of us.

We do their tooling, production parts, deal with repairs and warehouse maintenance, we have a great rapport with them.”

Recently east coast engineers, as it trades, has also been working in offshore wind.

“We have the engineering skills and we can adapt very quickly,” Mr Dolby said.

“We have staff who are very flexible, who can operate in different roles, and without a doubt the growth of this business has been due to the quality of the staff we have employed. All of our staff are key people.

If they do go anywhere else and say they work for East Coast, they know it is a good standard. That is something we are very proud of. All of our apprentices are now key tradesmen elsewhere.”

• SPECIALIST DESIGN SCAFFOLDING

AL LM A

We have a wide experience of working with a variety of different industries, among them the following: • Power Transmission • Textiles • Food Processing • Building and Construction • Rubber and Plastics • Paper- Making • Marine • Mechanical Handling • Oil and Chemical • Power Generation

S c a f f o l d i n g Call mac Scaffolding uk ltd,Unit 2, The Enterprise Village, Prince Albert Gardens, Grimsby Lincolnshire, DN31 3AT

Tel/Fax +441472 359488 Mobile / 07930430260 Email / Info@callmacscaffolding.co.uk www.callmacscaffolding.co.uk

01472 360806

Cooper Building, Lower Spring Street, Great Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN31 3JS

www.eastcoastengineers.co.uk

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THIRTY years of maintenance, machining, fabrication and welding support to manufacturing and energy companies is being celebrated by a Grimsby business.

turnover of staff.

“Two of our staff have been with us 29 years and our strength has always been down to our hardworking team and we would like to thank all the staff both present and past for their contribution to our success.”

In 1995 the business moved to lower spring street, where a machining shop, fabrication shop, welding shop and offices are located.

When Mr Ford retired in 2012, Mr Dolby’s son Darren, manager of the machine shop, stepped up to a directorship.

While operations within the Cooper building, ideally located close to the A180 between Victoria Street and King Edward Street, have largely remained the same, there has been a big upturn in work conducted on clients’ sites.

“We have really expanded our work off site. That is an area that has grown, and it isn’t limited to Grimsby or Northern Lincolnshire - we work all over England,” Mr Dolby snr said. A passion for high quality work has even taken them to Belgium, while a new project located in Shetland Islands could open the door to more.

have really expanded “ourWework off site. That is an area that has grown, and it isn’t limited to Grimsby or Northern Lincolnshire - we work all over England.

”

To everyone at East Coast Engineers, Congratulations on your 30th Anniversary!

Wishing you continued success into the future.

EAST COAST ENGINEERS

Congratulations on 30 successful years in business.

Kenworth Engineering 01472 210678 www.kenworthengineering.co.uk

• MARINE ACCESS +*)(&$() #"))!'% ALUMINIUM • STAINLESS STEEL • BRONZE • BRASS • COPPER • NYLON • UHMWPE • ACETAL • PTFE • TUFNOL • LEXAN • WATERJET PROFILING • PLATE SAWING • MACHINING

NORTH LINCS TYRES is conveniently located at Lockhill, the roundabout for Victoria Street and the A180

SALES ENQUIRIES: (01472) 360369 24 HOUR EMERGENCY: 07850 395408

“We are proud to have been associated with East Coast Engineers for over 25 years”

Roadside Assistance Fleet Audit Forklift

30 years of Engineering Excellence ...Proud to serve • OFFSHORE ENEWABLE ENERGY ACCESS

-+*)+--()+* '-&%!1 0 /!%1&).1 1&,.$#,!"-(

LOCKHILL, VICTORIA STREET, GRIMSBY, NORTH EAST LINCOLNSHIRE, DN31 3LS email: info@northlincstyreslimited.co.uk www.northlincstyreslimited.co.uk

Darren Dolby, director at work on a Lancaster Bomber pilot's seat.

We carry out machining in materials including all types of steel, stainless steel, aluminium, cast iron, brass, bronze and all types of plastics.

Please feel free to place an enquiry.

We are proud to be associated with

SCUNTHORPE BRANCH Tel: 01724 291040 Fax: 01724 850360 www.locatesupplies.co.uk ©LW

Under fabrication, East Coast offers mig, tig ,arc and gas welding, coded welding to bs4872/asme ix, carbon arc air cutting and sawing up to 400mm diameter, as well as mechanical fitting.

Dp, cp, modular, chain sprockets, internal and external gear cutting is provided, with keyway broaching slotting, drilling, reaming, vertical milling and boring all supported.

Centre lathe turning and batch production machining services include thread cutting, for metric coarse, metric fine, bsw, bsf, as well as unc, unf, bsp, npt, api and brass.

Looking ahead, Mr Dolby said: “Darren is going to step forward one day, and hopefully take the company further. We want to see it continue to prosper.

“To do 30 years as an engineering business is a feat. We have seen many others fall by and it is because we have a strong office unit we have continued. It has been really hard at times, the hard work has repaid in benefits we are all now seeing, the benefits of 30 years hard work.

“Keith put so much into it. East Coast was his heart and soul. He was the driving force and put so much energy behind it.”

East Coast Engineers in Grimsby Celebrate 30 years in business.

From front left are, Peter Dolby, managing director, Carol Ford, secretary, and Darren Dolby, director with their team.

©LW

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O

n November 1, East Coast Engineers will pass the milestone, with the 10-strong team serving clients as diverse as oil and gas, power, packaging and offshore wind.

It will be an emotional day, as founding managing director Keith Ford, passed away two years ago.

Wife Carol Ford is company secretary, with Peter Dolby having taken over at the helm, having worked with the business for all but the first of those 30 years, and supported by AG Smith & Co accountants.

In 1985, Mr Ford, a centre lathe turner, launched East Coast Engineering (Grimsby) ltd, with silent partner Robert Drury, having served his time with Lloyd Cars ltd, in Patrick Street, before joining Clark & Co on Grimsby docks.

He took premises in Birchin Way, with the intention to put quality first, a motto that has been retained through three decades.

Married with two children then aged 15 and 13, Mrs Ford said: “it was a risky thing to do, to leave a secure job and start out independently, but he always wanted to do it.

Sadly he didn’t live to enjoy his retirement.”

Mr Dolby joined as manager and director of the welding shop, with Sam Smith, a fitter, and another director, bringing technical abilities and development skills, as he moved from a managerial role at Dunlop Oil and Marine.

“It was the four of us, and the company grew from strength to strength,” Mr Dolby said.

“We have always been a family company, we have all known each other, many are in some way related, and we enjoy a low

“We have produced some work for the oil industry, a decontamination unit. We fabricated it from scratch, having designed it ourselves too. We have now built the first one, and hopefully there will be more to come.

“We also work for the power stations locally, oil refineries, and our biggest customer is Dunlop Oil and Marine.

“We have worked for them from day one, and they too have been a big supporter of us.

We do their tooling, production parts, deal with repairs and warehouse maintenance, we have a great rapport with them.”

Recently east coast engineers, as it trades, has also been working in offshore wind.

“We have the engineering skills and we can adapt very quickly,” Mr Dolby said.

“We have staff who are very flexible, who can operate in different roles, and without a doubt the growth of this business has been due to the quality of the staff we have employed. All of our staff are key people.

If they do go anywhere else and say they work for East Coast, they know it is a good standard. That is something we are very proud of. All of our apprentices are now key tradesmen elsewhere.”

• SPECIALIST DESIGN SCAFFOLDING

AL LM A

We have a wide experience of working with a variety of different industries, among them the following: • Power Transmission • Textiles • Food Processing • Building and Construction • Rubber and Plastics • Paper- Making • Marine • Mechanical Handling • Oil and Chemical • Power Generation

S c a f f o l d i n g Call mac Scaffolding uk ltd,Unit 2, The Enterprise Village, Prince Albert Gardens, Grimsby Lincolnshire, DN31 3AT

Tel/Fax +441472 359488 Mobile / 07930430260 Email / Info@callmacscaffolding.co.uk www.callmacscaffolding.co.uk

01472 360806

Cooper Building, Lower Spring Street, Great Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN31 3JS

www.eastcoastengineers.co.uk

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THIRTY years of maintenance, machining, fabrication and welding support to manufacturing and energy companies is being celebrated by a Grimsby business.

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Keep your home secure with expert Red advice G

RIMSBY-based Red Security & Hardware are excited to be part of Home Security Month 2015 - all this month.

Humber Work Boats

Marine Contracting, Dredging and Boat Building www.humberworkboats.co.uk

Tel (01472) 352955 www.WeAreRed.co.uk 2b King Edward Street, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, DN31 3JD 24HR Service - No Call Out Fee - 07714 137084

Without the support of these companies this page would not be possible To further raise the profile of your company call Angie Atkinson on 01472 806963 angie.atkinson@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk

Each week of the awareness month focuses on a different aspect of security.

Improving your home security can actually lower your home insurance premiums, and a high quality security camera system is the most comprehensive and sought-after means of securing the home.

In the UK 73 per cent of burglars gain access via the door with 3 per cent of those having been left unlocked, so something as simple as installing sturdy locks can stop burglars.

Most home insurance policies recommend BS 5 lever mortice locks fitted to both front and back door.

Experts at Red say the more you can do to make sure your home is safe and secure the more likely you are to lower your insurance premiums and also deter burglars from attempting to get into your property.

Red staff are offering a series of hints and tips highlighting ways to keep your home, family and possessions safe.

Did you know 62 per cent of burglaries take place at night?

Dark nights mean light fingers so ensure your home is properly secured as the winter evenings approach. Staff at Red now have a range of outdoor lighting to help with security at your home or offices.

The focus for the second week is to protect the entry points to your home and ensuring door and window security is up to scratch.

If you have a PVCu or composite door it is a good idea to upgrade the euro profile cylinder in the multipoint lock to a British

SECURITY ADVICE: Experts at the Red Security and Hardware Store in King Edward Street, Grimsby, are offering home security advice all this month as part of Home Security Month.

Picture: Jon Corken Standard TS007 3 star Kitemark cylinder.

To find out more about security visit the Red shop at 2b King Edward Street, or ask for a survey and staff can upgrade your current security systems.

Week three of the campaign is called Keep It Protected.

So, what means most to you?

Perhaps your laptop holds precious pictures of your family, or you have items of jewellery that have been passed down through generations.

For additional peace of mind, store valuable items and

confidential documents or paperwork in a home safe that is securely bolted to the floor or wall, visit the shop to see the range of safes.

Week four is called The Great Outdoors.

The week will look at outdoor security, highlighting the importance of securing sheds and outbuildings during the darker evenings.

CCTV systems allow you to keep a careful eye on your home and its boundaries while you are away.

Recorded footage can also be

stored on a PC, or supplied to the police in the event of a break-in.

So why not pop in and see the expansive range of CCTV systems and speak to Adam, resident CCTV expert at Red? This year’s campaign concludes with smart home security and a look at the latest security gadgets available to protect your home.

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Biomass handling facilities nominated for international awards ASSOCIATED British Ports’ biomass operations have been shortlisted for three industry awards.

International Bulk Journal (IBJ) has listed Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal, the world’s biggest dedicated biomass handling facility, and its sister terminal in Hull in the categories Best Specialist Dry Bulk Port or Terminal, Cargo Handling and Bulk Logistics Excellence.

Together the terminals will handle up to six million tonnes of biomass each year for Drax Power Station.

ABP was recently named Business of the Year at the Rail Freight Group awards as the company’s record for innovation lands the Humber region yet more industry plaudits. A total of 25 per cent of the nation’s rail freight originates in Immingham.

The IBJ awards recognise outstanding achievement in the maritime bulk industry and ABP is the only company in the world to have all of its multiple entries shortlisted. The awards attract entries from businesses across the globe.

energy is being recognised and we will keep our fingers crossed for success on the day.”

As reported, a total of 35 jobs are at risk at Immingham, due to the drop off of demand for coal.

Mr Sellers’ colleague in Hull, Mark Frith, said: “It’s enormously gratifying to see our projects shortlisted for yet more, very prestigious, industry awards. It’s testament to the hard work of ABP staff, our contractors and of course our customer Drax, that the WAGONS AWAY: A cargo of biomass delivery and operation of these particular facilities has attracted fuel at Port of Immingham such high-profile recognition, and Mike Sellers, ABP port manager it’s very well deserved. for Grimsby and Immingham, “We’re very much looking said: “We take enormous pride in forward to the awards evening and the work we do and for those despite facing some stiff efforts to be recognised by IBJ is competition, we’ll all be hoping for fantastic. We’ve worked incredibly a positive outcome on the night.” hard to establish both terminals The awards will be presented on and these accolades are very much November 16, at a gala dinner in deserved. The Humber ports are Antwerp, Belgium. Former tennis suffering the downturn in coal star Kim Clijsters will host the imports and given recent event, with after dinner announcements to close power entertainment by award winning stations we are having to make Belgian tenor, Thomas Blondelle. difficult decisions. It is Marc Van Peel, port alderman and encouraging to know that the chairman of Port of Antwerp is to AERIAL VIEW: Immingham Renewable Fuels Terminal taking shape earlier this year, as seen looking south west above the Humber. Picture courtesy of ABP/David Lee Photography. give the welcome speech. ports’ move towards renewable

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Month in Review Steel comes from within says new works leader

UP FOR THE CHALLENGE: The Modal Training launch at Grimsby’s Humber Royal Hotel saw the Business on the Move Humber edition also piloted. Above, Mike Sellers, Sam Whitaker, Patrick Henry and Nigel Carlton. Right, Andy and Pat Page, the team behind the game, shown left.

Industry thumbs up for Humber’s Modal model I

NDUSTRY has given its backing to Modal Training, the £7 million logistics centre that is coming to Immingham.

A launch this past month was attended by more than 100 stakeholders from the sector, with plans for the former headquarters of Fabricom unveiled.

Modal, funded by Grimsby Institute and Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, will have its own board, and will be home to courses covering every discipline, road, rail, air, sea and support.

It has been led by Sam Whitaker, vice principal responsible for strategic projects at Grimsby Institute, and Patrick Henry, a director of logistics appointed earlier this year.

Nigel Carlton, chief executive at Cofely Fabricom Engie, which has made Grimsby’s Europarc its home, said: “This is a state-of-the-art training facility.

This will really make the difference. Training organisations now have to be different, they have to look at what industry really needs and create the right culture, environment and values. Training is not just about giving people skills and experience, it is also shaping them to make the difference in business, and that is key.

“I am sure the capability, technical support and environment that Modal will create will make a significant difference to industry. I am pretty sure nationally and quite convinced it will stretch capability inter nationally.

“I think Sam and Patrick should be proud of what has been achieved so far. I give my congratulations and I look forward to Modal starting operations next year and I look forward, more importantly, to Modal creating the right culture and values to underpin businesses and make the right decision in the future.”

Hi-tech simulators will be installed alongside practical workshops and classrooms at the

STEEL: The 4,000 employees at the Tata Steel works in Scunthorpe have been told by their new boss to believe in themselves, as another round of job losses looks inevitable.

Bimlendra Jha, executive chairman of Longs Steel UK, said: “I want to recharge the emotion of our employees with a can-do attitude and provide resources to structure the effort, conduct the reviews and accelerate the implementation.”

Mr Jha, who once designed an improvement project for Tata Steel called Aspire, added: “Nothing beats the power of self-belief. I think first and foremost we need to believe there is a way out of the current situation and that it is in our hands to make the turn-around happen.

“This belief is extremely important and I would like to see this self-belief taking shape. The power of positive emotion like this is unthinkable in terms of what we can achieve.”

Attention has been ramped up due to the rapid end to steel-making at SSI on Teesside, with last week’s Steel Summit bringing rumours of another 1,000 positions at risk at Tata.

No statement had been made ahead of publication.

High flyer’s stage is set SUPPORT: Former Red Arrows team leader Jas Hawker, pictured will deliver the keynote speech at Greater Lincolnshire’s LEP Business Live event.

With high flyers known to inspire, he will pass on his first-hand experience of developing and leading a world-class performance team to delegates. Selected to lead the famous Lincolnshire-based aerobatic team in 2007, he was the youngest ever pilot to fly the Tornado ground attack aircraft on the front line, and served in four operational squadrons, taking part in both training and operational deployments all over the world. He is also a qualified flying instructor.

Funky Fish goes frozen SEAFOOD: Grimsby’s Young’s Seafood is expanding its Funky Fish Kitchen range, moving from fridge to freezer!

Seven new frozen fish products are going into store, with the exclusive-to-Asda brand previously only in the chilled aisles.

Now, as part of Seafood Week, the 1,800 Grimsby employees will be treated to a tasting session of the new offering, as well as the £33 million Gastro brand, highlighting fish a healthy option.

Daily recipes and competitions are also being published for consumers through social media and the brand’s website.

Profitable fishing fleet LOGISTICAL FEAT: Modal Training plan for the former Fabricom site in Immingham. the Humber, in Immingham, will be a massive advantage for us. I urge other businesses to get involved, speak to these guys and talk about skill gaps and their needs for vocational training. that will help develop training needs going forward.”

Mr Henry, who was appointed in the spring, was delighted to get the concept out to a wider audience, with first delegates expected in the academic year, in September Nigel Carlton new 2016.

He thanked those around him at Middleplatt Road base.

Grimsby Institute.

For Mike Sellers, port manager in He said: “Modal Training allows Grimsby and Immingham for us to give visibility to logistics.

Associated British Ports, the That can only happen with benefit was clear. strength and courage. I have been He said: “We send all our marine involved with one of the toughest team, our pilots, to South Shields. leadership courses, 18 years in the There’s a cost in that. To have it in Armed Forces, and when I arrived

This is a state-ofthe-art training facility. This will really make the difference

in this project I saw leadership in action.”

Impressed by the aspiration to deliver courses for the whole supply chain “under one roof, or perhaps many roofs in one location,” he said: “I would like to take the opportunity to say thank you for the leadership and support from the governors and senior management team that has helped us create Modal Training.”

Looking ahead, Mr Henry added: “We intend to partner with the very best, those who are already delivering this, running with it and doing it well. We have identified subjects were we need expertise too.

“Together we will produce the very best training for all our customers, no matter where they come from and what sector.”

FISHING: Operating profit for the overall UK fishing fleet has increased by 34 per cent year-on-year to £202 million in 2013.

Latest economic figures from Seafish, the Grimsby-based industry authority, also underlined that for many vessel owners and skippers, remaining profitable has continued to be a challenge.

NETWORKING MEETING OPEN DAY

The Business Generation Group (BGG) Grimsby invite local businesses to join them for their breakfast meeting starting at 7.30am on Tuesday 27th October at Laceby Manor Golf Club.

Breakfast will be free.

If you wish to attend please contact

Vince Coleman on 07879024097 To reserve your place.

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He said their cloud-based solution provides a “mobile office” with powerful collaboration tools – a hosted Unified Communications platform that supports organisational flexibility efficiency and success.

Mr Phillips said it will help reduce costs.

“Synergy UC is a subscription-based service, so there is no large up-front investment required and no long term operating costs for maintenance and installations that usually apply with traditional phone systems,” he said.

“Using Voice over IP technology, the service allows free internal company calls between branch offices, company mobiles and home workers.

“External calls are charged at a reduced rate compared to traditional fixed line services.

“There is no need to continue giving out multiple contact numbers. Callers are able to contact you on your business number wherever you are, no matter what device you are using.”

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A SPECIALIST personal injury solicitor has joined the expanding team at regional law firm Bridge McFarland.

James Burrell, who is Hull born and bred, arrives at the firm from Hudgell Solicitors having worked in personal injury for ten years.

He specialises in high value personal injury cases, often in excess of £1 million. His work includes cases involving brain injury, amputation, complex regional pain syndrome, paralysis, spinal cord injury, injury at birth, serious orthopaedic injury and significant psychological disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder.

He entered the legal profession after gaining his degree at the University Of Hull and then securing a postgraduate diploma at the College Of Law in York. He has worked in Hull and the wider East Yorkshire area since 2005,

I am delighted to have the opportunity to join such a successful practice James Burrell and part of the team at Hudgells since 2014.

Mr Burrell said: “Bridge McFarland has been regarded for many years as one of the leading firms in this region undertaking personal injury work. I am delighted to have the opportunity to join such a successful practice and I look forward to helping them assist clients on both sides of the Humber.” ● More careers news, see page 23.

ENTHUSED: James Burrell, now of Bridge McFarland.

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Apprentices turning up the heat at UK awards I

T WAS a double celebration at the Grimsby Institute for two refrigeration apprentices.

George Shepherd, who is employed by J & E Hall International, won the RAC Cooling Award Student of the Year 2015 alongside classmate, Christopher Lake, from JD Cooling Systems, who was awarded third place.

The awards were presented at a prestigious event held at the London Hilton, Park Lane, where the best of the industry came together for an evening of recognition and celebration.

The category saw a particularly high number of entrants giving the judges an extremely hard job of selecting the final top ten and ultimately the winner.

Among the esteemed panel of judges were John Skelton, Sainsbury’s refrigeration manager, and IOR president-elect Stephen Gill, who along with the other judges bought a wealth of experience to the proceedings.

After much debate and deliberation, there could only be one winner with judges agreeing that Grimsby Institute’s George Shepherd had all the right attributes combined with the right attitude.

There was a real sense of determination that came across in George’s work, said one judge and this was backed by his humble and hardworking outlook along with considerable praise from his line manager.

The panel also commented that Christopher showed clear career aspirations and demonstrated methodical thinking, combined with a good academic record.

Furthermore, it was evident there was a real drive and clear career path ahead.

Steve Hilton, technical apprentice lead at the Institute, said: “We were thrilled to learn that George and Christopher had been awarded first and third place at the awards, it was thoroughly deserved.

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“George has always displayed all the attributes of a determined and disciplined learner.

“It was during the project element of this year that he impressed us the most; in order to develop the apprentice an element

of leadership is introduced to the project and each learner takes a turn at researching a current topic, then delivering a presentation to the entire cohort.

“All the tutors involved with this added value project noted that George had a flair for being the ‘front man’ demonstrating many skills usually associated with a

seasoned engineer. George has taken full advantage of all the opportunities afforded to him whilst at college and of equal importance is the fact that he has had the benefit of an employer who is fully involved with the apprenticeship process and who has backed him all the way.”

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Women mean business for BGG as group’s annual open day nears NORTH East Lincolnshire networking group BGG has appointed a new chair and vice-chair.

The Tuesday morning Laceby Manor Golf Club-hosted organisation has nearly clocked up a decade, and has elected Alison Rawling, of Bridge McFarland, and Julie Keen, of Pink Jacket Marketing, to the top spots.

Vince Coleman, of Coleman Joinery, has been appointed treasurer for another year.

Having been a male dominated environment, Alison was delighted to be appointed.

“I’ve been a member now for quite some time and it was a shock to be voted in as chair, but I am looking forward to the year ahead.

There are only three women including myself in the group so it was surprising that two out of the three have been voted to run the group. We’re both looking forward to the challenge ahead.

“Being asked to head up a group that supports business growth in the area is an extremely proud moment for me.

“I look forward to working with our hard-working members over the coming year to continue to support, promote and increase business in Grimsby.”

Former chair, financial adviser Ray Pearson, stood down after two years of running the group with vice-chair Martin Rojahn, from Global Renewables.

“We’ve never had female direction of the group so this is something we’re all looking forward to,” Ray said.

Graham Kent, from Anderby Driving School, added: “Having two enthusiastic business women running the group should push the group to expand even further.”

BGG will throw open the doors on Tuesday, October 27, for an annual open day, taking place from 7.30am.

Julie said: “We’re really looking forward to the open day and hope to see a lot of new faces join us for breakfast. With Alison and I working together to drive the group forward as best we can, we aim to maintain the group’s ethos as well as invite new members.”

For more information about joining them for breakfast, e-mail Alison or Julie on axr@bmcf.co.uk or julie.keen@pinkjacket marketing.com

GIRL POWER: Alison Rawling, centre right, front, of Bridge McFarland, takes over the reins after being appointed chair of BGG. Julie Keen, centre left, front, managing director of Pink Jacket, is vice-chairman.

Back row, from left, Graham Davis, Gary Roberts, Brian Grypicz, Simon Mapplethorpe, Cliff Goddard and Graham Kent. Front row, from left, Vince Coleman, Valanteena Moothly and Ray Pearson.

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CUNTHORPE MP Nic Dakin joined forces with H&H Joiners and Builders to back construction apprenticeships in Parliament.

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A ComRes survey revealed that 80 per cent of MPs agree that ‘full employment’ cannot be achieved without apprenticeships, while a report by Demos showed that most The training route is seen as of the general public (72 per cent) essential to meeting the required would prefer their children to go to 220,000 new workers the industry university instead. estimates it needs in the next five Mr Dakin considered these issues years. with Martin Hind of H&H Joiners Mr Dakin attended the and Builders, and Lewis Hind, an Construction Industry Training apprentice who works at the Board’s (CITB) ‘I’m Backing Apprenticeships’ campaign launch company. Both had travelled from Scunthorpe for the event, and were to hear from apprentices, employers and Skills Minister Nick keen to share their experience of apprenticeships and their own Boles on what can be done to increase the number of businesses views on what the industry requires in order to continue to and people starting thrive. apprenticeships.

Mr Boles spoke alongside CITB Mr Dakin said: “I was very happy

to welcome Martin and Lewis to Parliament in order to hear more about CITB’s campaign, as well as to find out how apprenticeships have benefited them personally.

“I understand the need for change, for careers advice to better support vocational routes such as apprenticeships and I will be lobbying local schools and colleges to do so.

“Increasing the number of people entering construction in Scunthorpe is vitally important, and I plan to do all I can to ensure my constituents are fully aware of the fantastic opportunities an apprenticeship can offer.”

Martin Hind added: “Apprenticeships are incredibly important to the success of H&H

Joiners and Builders and our industry as a whole, and I’m very happy to see my local MP lend his support to CITB’s I’m Backing Apprenticeships campaign.”

CITB is working to improve and increase the number of construction apprenticeships through not only this campaign, but a range of industry-focused initiatives. This includes building a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for skills in construction; making CITB funding easier and faster for employers to access; a new careers web portal for those interested in joining construction; and by supporting and maintaining qualifications and standards to meet industry needs.

First tranche of annual trainees hired at region’s leading law firm

WELCOME: Des Mannion, left, chief executive of Wilkin Chapman, with, from second left, Lucy Reding, Tom Rook, Tom Martin and Limara Rickell.

GRIMSBY-based law firm Wilkin Chapman has appointed four new trainee solicitors.

Limara Rickell, Tom Martin, Lucy Reding and Thomas Rook have joined in a first tranche, as the firm increases the number of trainee solicitors from four to eight, reflecting the structured growth and development plans of the fir m.

Thomas Rook has been with the firm since graduating in 2012, working in the Grimsby-based busy recoveries department. He studied law, with criminology, at the University of Manchester, and completed his Legal Practice Certificate in 2014 – while working, and studying part-time at the University of Sheffield. He joins the corporate and commercial team in Grimsby working alongside partner, Ian Sherburn, and

We are expanding in a number of areas and will be taking on more trainee solicitors later this year Des Mannion senior solicitor, Adam Aisthorpe.

Limara, Lucy and Tom all join the firm’s Lincoln office.

Chief executive, Des Mannion, said: “We are delighted to welcome our first cohort of trainee solicitors for 2015. It is an exciting time for the firm, as we are expanding in a number of areas and will be taking on more trainee solicitors later this year.”

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Returning to a new role NEXT GENERATION: Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom MP, with E.on apprentices, from left, Jake Farrow, Daniel Lane, Brad Gooseman, Freya Spong and Amy Harris at the Grimsby operations and maintenance base for Humber Gateway offshore wind farm.

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NERGY giant E.on has unveiled its first tranche of apprentices, as Humber Gateway offshore wind farm was officially opened in Grimsby.

Through a Community Benefit Fund, the business has committed to providing ten apprenticeship roles over the next two years.

The three-year apprenticeship programme, which was launched

in September, will provide learners with an Advanced Apprenticeship in Wind Turbine Operations and Maintenance.

A paid programme, the team will spend their time between classroom learning and on the job training at the wind farm.

They are: Amy Harris, 18, of Grimsby. She was a beautician and a carer, but applied because she was interested in the wind industry and was

looking for a change in career.

Jake Farrow, 18, of Barton. He worked as a general labourer at a power station, and was keen to have a long term plan for the future.

Freya Spong, 21, of Brigg, had been working as a car mechanic for five years, and felt it would be a more exciting and challenging career.

Brad Gooseman, 18, of Humberston, had just completed a

Btec in mechanical engineering, was interested in the wind industry and felt the apprenticeship was a better career route than university.

Daniel Lane, 17, of Healing, was completing his AS levels at college.

He found the regular classroom environment was too slow for him, preferring to be more hands on with his learning. ● See pages four and five.

Ryan is now a qualified chartered accountant FORRESTER Boyd employee Ryan Girldey has passed the final examinations of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, becoming a fully qualified chartered accountant.

Mr Girldey, has worked from the fir m’s Louth office for the past three and a half years.

The former Monks’ Dyke Tennyson College student joined Forrester Boyd as a trainee from Sheffield University following an Economics and Management degree.

Forrester Boyd’s human resources manager Lesley Morrison said: “Professional accountancy qualifications are not easy and our success over the years is a tribute to the hard work put in by those taking

the examinations as well as the quality of the training provided. In today’s complex business environment, the need is greater than ever for top quality accountants.”

During his training, Mr Girldey has worked on a variety of client portfolios, with a particular specialism in the farm accounts.

Alan Nesbitt, Forrester Boyd’s partner responsible for training, said: “Ryan has done extremely well and this is another example of the success of our strategy in recruiting and developing home grown talent. This, combined with the excellent accounting tuition provided by Kaplan Financial, allows Forrester Boyd to continue to provide top quality accounting staff.”

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KEY APPOINTMENT: Andy Mackintosh.

CLUGSTON Construction, the privately-owned £143 million turnover building and civil engineering company, has appointed Andy Mackintosh to head up its North East regional business.

He will be based in Clugston’s new Stockton-on-Tees office, where the team is currently constructing a number of key projects in further education, health, science and technology, manufacturing and renewable energy.

Prior to joining Clugston, Mr Mackintosh, who lives in Hornby, near Darlington, was operations director at Willmott Dixon and was responsible for establishing the company’s North East operation.

He said: “There is clearly a strong partnering culture within Clugston, built on relationships and good business ethics. I am impressed with the quality of our people and recently completed projects. We have a strong foundation to achieve further growth.”

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Clugston opened its North East office in February following a fourth consecutive year of growth. The division’s turnover increased by 5 per cent to £143.3 million from £136.7 million, recording a £3 million profit.

Steve Radcliffe, managing director, said: “We are really pleased to welcome Andy. His expertise in developing customer relationships across the North East will help to build Clugston’s presence in the region.”

A FAMILIAR face has returned to Harlequin Office Furniture.

Sales executive Nina Akehurst first worked for the Scunthorpe business in 2008, for four years, before returning recently as client manager.

She said: “It is amazing how in three years so much has changed within the business, the products have expanded as well as the staff and the client base, and I am really looking forward to taking on my new role here. When I was last here there can’t have been more than 20 staff and now I’m coming back there is almost 50 and all have welcomed me back in.”

“I thoroughly love my new role and the fantastic opportunities I get to be a part of.”

Director Fiona Teesdale, who set up Harlequin more than 25 years ago, said: “It is great to have Nina back with us and she really is excelling in her new role. We have more than 45 staff members now and many have been with us for a very long time.

“We are lucky and proud to say we are an expanding business.”

Agricultural consultant EDWARD Sweeting has joined Brigg’s Brown & Co office, in the agri-business consultancy department.

He had previously worked with farming and other rural businesses across the Yorkshire area with a particular focus on start-up businesses and farm diversification.

He has extensive financial experience, including raising public sector funds. From an arable farming family, he retains an interest in farm diversification activities and property developments.

He attended Newcastle University, obtaining a degree in Agri Business Management and is a Nuffield Farming Scholar.

Philip Dunn, head of agri business consultancy, said: “This is a great opportunity to boost the team at Brigg, giving us more capacity for growth in the Lincolnshire area, complementing our existing services of rural business advice, planning, grant funding and finance.”

Mike’s on membership MIKE Pickering has joined Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, with the remit to persuade others to do the same!

The 41-year-old, who brings 12 years’ experience in sales, is the new membership development executive.

He said: “I’m looking forward to a bit of networking, meeting lots of new people from different sectors and getting to grips with my new role. I hope to make a difference for the Chamber and grow the membership.”

Born in Scotland, he was brought up in Hull, and enjoys spending time with his family, watching sport on TV and is a big Hull City fan.

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HE president of Hyundai Motor UK travelled to Humberston to cast his eye over the impressive Read Hyundai garage. The dealership, situated in Altyre Way, on Hewitts Business Park, became the first in the country to adopt the Korean manufacturer’s rebrand, moving away from the former blue colour scheme.

It came after the garage moved from its former home in Railway Street, Grimsby, to the new site.

The Railway Street site is still operated by the company, being transformed into a Read Suzuki dealership.

Kenny Hwang, president of Hyundai Motor UK, was given a tour of the new-look dealership in Humberston, before travelling down to the Lincoln branch.

Nicola Read, of Read Motor Group, said: “We moved to Humberston from Railway Street because we outgrew our premises and we wanted to show off the fantastic dealership we have here.

“We became the first in the country to adopt the new branding and Mr Hwang came along to have a look at it.”

After managing director Mike Read took on the franchise of the growing Japanese car manufacturer, the move to Humberston from Railway Street has seen ten new jobs created across the two sites.

The 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. ● ON THE WEB: For more business news, visit HONOURED:Read Hyundai managing director Mike Read greets Kenny Hwang, president of www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/business Hyundai Motor UK.

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finance director, with two staff currently employed.

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“We have invested in cutting edge “We will be offering a full service software, which will support our process and with customer service recruitment agency, delivered online, saving employers time, at the forefront of our delivery we will be expanding our team to help money, while using innovative systems without compromising on with extra demand for our service.” services.

Dedicated account managers will “We have consulted with human resources managers and employers be provided, together with full access to an online dashboard, to create a system which will while on the other side of the ‘desk’ deliver exactly what they want.” candidates are kept updated at all Mrs Norton launched Root2 Accounting in 2008, and with more stages through the process.

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Colette Sopp bought DD Fish Supplies 21 years ago with her husband Christopher when it had one van selling fish three days a week.

Now, the company has 35 employees, with seven vans delivering daily. An eighth is being established, with three additional jobs being created in the next month.

For Colette, the move to its new base was a natural progression, combining a previous two-site operation, led from Ladysmith Road.

“We had simply outgrown our previous premises,” she said.

“Grimsby Seafood Village offers a fantastic opportunity.

“We’ve been able to combine all our staff under one roof in a modern facility that looks really great.

“Everybody was on top of each other at the old premises. Here, it’s calmer.

The premises are finished to such a high standard.”

Vans from DD Fish deliver to homes across the country. Orders are generated by a team working in a call centre.

Colette said: “We are very proud of what we’ve achieved. We are up and coming and we’d like to grow further.

Being here gives us an opportunity to do just that.”

Support and advice about the move was provided by Cleethorpes accountant Robert Smith, a partner at RNS Chartered Accountants, which has offices in Scunthorpe, Brigg and Barton.

“Rob has been at our side while we have grown and developed the business,” said Colette. “Sarah Foster from RNS does our accounts every month and sees how we are doing. Rob comes in to discuss everything and

gives good, sound advice. We bounce ideas off each other and he helps me make decisions.”

Mr Smith congratulated the team on the move.

“It’s a very impressive business, even more so now with state-of-the-art premises,” he said.

“I’m delighted for Colette and the team behind her. It’s a really well run business and I’m pleased they’re happy with the service we provide and the small role we have played. The success is down to her drive and ambition.”

Grimsby Seafood Village is an award-winning venture, headed by merchants Pete Dalton and Gary Cadey.

AWARD-WINNING: Fisheries Minister George Eustice inspects Grimsby Seafood Village, with – from left – Pete Dalton, director; Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers and Gary Cadey.

HELPING HAND: Rob Smith with Colette Sopp at DD Fish’s new premises at Grimsby Seafood Village.

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Lifting gear specialist heightens competition in industrial sector

READY TO WELCOME: Service centre manger Jo Stamp enjoys a hog roast bap with customer Stuart Raby. mean business, which we do.

“I am aiming to be the number one lifting supplier. I believe with the quality of the equipment and staff it can be achieved.”

The oil refineries and other Humber bank industries are seen as key, and as such, a spark free pulling machine, an air tirfor, is seen as an advantageous listing.

“We can be working at an oil refinery or an auditorium. Wherever there is a lifting application is where we want to be.”

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Certified by Lifting Equipment Engineers’ Association, she is clear on the ambition, having worked for Lifting Gear Hire, Cosalt, and subsequently Survitec.

“I have never opened a branch before and there is a lot involved. We could start from scratch which was great, with offices and the store, getting it exactly how we wanted it. We can put a mezzanine floor in once we get to that level of business, and there is enough counter space to take on more staff when required. It is set up like we

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The lifting gear specialist has taken the last remaining unit on the Cromwell Tools new build site on South Humberside Industrial Estate.

It is headed up by service centre manager Jo Stamp, who brings more than 25 years of experience in the sector to FLG, which is part of FTSE-100 listed A Plant.

The company offers hire, sales, inspection, testing and repair.

“This has given customers a choice,” she said. “FLG was predominantly based in London, then A Plant took it over two years ago, developing it from four lifting branches to 13 depots around the UK.” FLG is one of nearly a dozen businesses in the portfolio.

“Now, especially when it comes to contractors, who can be working anywhere in the country, once they have an account set up with us, we can serve them,” Mrs Stamp added.

“We have engineers all over the UK who we can bring in. We can also manufacture.

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New office puts Gary, the team and clients in the driving seat A

GRIMSBY specialist recruitment business is reaching new heights, as it relocates to accommodate ongoing growth.

Tower Staff Construction Ltd is moving out of The Business Hive, E-Factor’s managed workspace in Dudley Street, and into the private sector.

Managing director Gary McMullen has taken premises in Abbey Walk, with three offices a reception area and boardroom facilities for meetings and training, taking the business to a new level.

Mr McMullen, who had his business shortlisted in the SME category at the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards

in May, said: “We have had a fantastic year so far and have already more than exceeded all of our projections for the year, which is why we need to expand, hiring additional staff and moving into our very own town centre office.”

Tower Staff Construction was established by him in 2010 as a construction arm of an existing company and developed into its own limited company in 2014. It is now recruiting new employees to enhance the existing team of five.

The first addition is business development manager Martyn Traylen, who has 10 years’ experience in the recruitment industry, and a position for an apprentice to help with administration and office

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He joined Mr McMullen at Business Hive Live, the exhibition event at which Midge Ure was the headline speaker earlier this month.

Mr McMullen hopes to complete the move in the coming days, and is planning an opening event on November 6, from 3pm. He said: “We always try to use the services of local companies whenever possible. To help with the move, we have gone to Grimsby Signs, Appliance World, SH Industrial Supplies, C&J Digital Solutions and Expo Data Comms, who have all been brilliant. “We would like to invite local businesses too so we can meet and show them the office.”

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staff on courses, and they are just positive all of the time.”

Clients of the plant operators, crane and lifting, and construction recruiter include national and international organisations such as Balfour Beatty and Bowmer & Kirkland, as well as smaller businesses based in the Humber region.

Mark Webb, managing

director of E-Factor, said: “We have been delighted to be part of the success that is Tower Staff Construction. We are dedicated to supporting local firms and the entrepreneurs that run them and Gary and his wife Michelle (also a director) have put so much work into their business that it’s no surprise they are growing.”

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This is the beginning of a new phase for the company with further investment going into improving its online presence, and intelligence gathering. He is also looking into developing a specialised training facility.

Of the support from E-Factor, Mr McMullen said: “The advice and facilities we’ve been given while at the Business Hive has been fantastic. We’ve sent our

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EXHIBITORS: Martyn Traylen, business development manager and, right, Gary McMullen, managing director, of Tower Staff Construction Ltd at Business Hive Live 2015.

SCUNTHORPE-headquartered Clugston Construction has strengthened its position in the North East with three major contract wins worth £13 million.

They are for works with University of Sunderland and Marshall Aerospace & Defence Group.

The University of Sunderland projects are being delivered as part of a three-year major capital contractor framework, won exclusively by Clugston earlier in the year.

The first project involves the £3.8 million refurbishment of the Sciences Complex, and is underway with the go-ahead now given for a second contract, to develop a £7 million Centre for Enterprise and Innovation.

It involves the part refurbishment of a Grade II listed building and part new build, will provide modern laboratory, workshop and office space for new and existing businesses particularly in the sectors of advanced manufacturing, health, sciences and the

creative industries.

Clugston has also secured a £2.2 million contract to redevelop the office and manufacturing facilities of Marshall Advanced Composites at Kirkbymoorside.

For more than 40 years it has designed, manufactured, tested and certified composites, components and structures for a variety of applications in the air, at sea and on land.

Andy Mackintosh, Clugston Construction’s newly appointed regional business manager for the North East (see page 23) said: “We are really pleased to be working on these projects. We are excited to be working for such well-known organisations and keen to add value to the process.”

It comes as a £4.6 million Malvern Hills Science Park nears completion in West Worcestershire.

Clugston is working with Trebor Developments, and completion is anticipated for January, when defence technology company UTC

Aerospace will take over. It is one of the largest out-of-town office schemes being realised in the Midlands.

Danny Dawson, business manager at Clugston, said: “We are really pleased to see work nearing completion at such an exciting project. We have worked closely with our partner Trebor Developments to develop a cost-effective and innovative building which will provide a state-of-the-art base for a number of businesses.”

Harriett Baldwin, the constituency MP, this month paid a visit. She said: “Last Christmas, I helped to dig the first turf on this impressive construction project and it is great to see such swift progress. I know we are all looking forward to the day when the keys are handed over.

“I have been briefed on the Science Park’s wider expansion plans and it is clear that there is an extremely exciting future for businesses in Malvern.”

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Wind farm base’s national recognition for £3.7m offshore operations centre D ONG Energy’s Westermost Rough offshore wind farm operations and maintenance building has been nominated for a national building award.

The Grimsby Royal Dock base was named best commercial building at the regional South Yorkshire & Humber awards, and it has been judged a strong enough candidate to go through to the Local Authority Building Control Building Excellence Awards for 2015.

The red-brick design sits beneath the town’s Grade I listed Dock Tower.

Duncan Clark, programme director for Westermost Rough at Dong Energy, said: “The Westermost Rough O&M building is a fantastic new state-of-the-art facility and I’m delighted it’s getting national recognition. The building is the first in the world to

operate huge 6MW offshore wind turbines and we’re very proud of its place on the historic Grimsby Royal Dock.

“Being nominated for a national building award is testament to the successful design and construction of the building, which is now operating daily with Westermost Rough delivering clean green energy to the national grid.”

The national awards event takes place on Tuesday, November 10 at The Lancaster Hotel, London.

Frank Zeller, civil project manager at Dong Energy, said: “Construction of the Westermost Rough O&M building began in January 2014 and was completed in December the same year. The building features a 900 sq m office and a 1,800 sq m warehouse. It is designed to accommodate 20 office workers and 30 technicians working in shifts.

“The construction was done in a very safe environment with more than 50,000 hours of work without any lost time injury frequency.”

It played host to the official opening of the wind farm in July, and won the regional gong at a gala dinner at Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton, in May. Rob Sampson, head of operations for Westermost Rough at Dong Energy, said: “The building has been designed to last for the 25-year lifespan of the wind farm. It provides us with the functionality to be able to effectively respond to our operational requirements.

Efficiency in operations is extremely important and the site is ergonomically designed with that in mind. We have a great logistical set up for vessels, a huge warehouse for spares and a modern office space. The working environment really is exceptional.”

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Substantial business / retail premises centrally located on the busy thoroughfare of Cleethorpe Road, leading to both the towns of Grimsby and Cleethorpes and within close proximity to the A180. The accommodation comprises ground floor space of approximately 1675 sq ft (155.4 sq m) set within a mixed use parade. Would suit various uses, subject to the appropriate planning consents. Available To Let on negotiable terms at a rent of £85 per week.

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UNDER THE HAMMER: Carl Bradley, of Clark Weightman, in front of the historic Castle Press Wyndeham Gait building, in Victoria Street, Grimsby.

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RIMSBY’S prestigious Castle Press is to be auctioned off, with a guide price substantially lower than the initial £500,000 hoped for, having been on the market for the past six months.

The property, once the 1st Lincoln Artillery Barracks, and lastly home to Wyndeham Gait, will be part of a sale at Leeds United’s Elland Road stadium, taking place on Thursday.

The last print job was completed in April, when a total of 34 jobs were lost as the business pulled out of the town.

It had bought out Albert Gait, a business that spanned

Corner retail unit holding a highly visible position, located at the junction with Suggitts Lane, in a good commercial area.

Grimsby Road is the main arterial route through to both the towns of Grimsby and Cleethorpes and has a high level of traffic throughout the day. These prominent corner premises of 362 sq ft have most recently been utilised as a cake shop and offer an excellent retailing opportunity with the added advantage of side off-road parking.

The premises would suit a variety of users and are available on flexible terms.

Prominent Town Centre Extensive Former Public House Workshops/Units Situated Within with Various Commercial & Residential Consents A Busy Established Trading Area

COMMERCIAL At the centre of North Lincolnshire’s Commercial and Industrial markets FOR SALE RESIDENTIAL INVESTMENT 19 & 19A COLLUM LANE, ASHBY SCUNTHORPE

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Prominent retail investment premises situated within a busy shopping parade on Grimsby Road the main arterial route through to both the towns of Grimsby and Cleethorpes with high levels of traffic throughout the day. The ground floor accommodation totals an area of 907 sq ft (84.3 sq m) with A2 consent, suitable for various other uses, subject to the appropriate consent (currently available To Let at £85 PW) with first floor self contained one bedroomed living accommodation. Rental potential of up to approximately £8,500 p.a. Available For Sale with offers in the region of £105,000.

Prominent town centre Workshops/ warehouses accommodation of 1235 sq ft (123.1 sq m) located on Holme Street/Eastgate Grimsby situated within a busy established trading area, located close to Hainton Avenue/ and Freeman Street providing easy access to the docks A180 motorway network.

Secure car parking and loading facility, 3 phase electricity supply. Available To Let on flexible terms at an annual rent of £5,500, incentives available.

FOR SALE FISH & CHIP SHOP BUSINESS HIGH STREET , BROUGHTON ●

Located in the centre of Ashby close to retail, bus route & Ashby Clinic.

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Well maintainted corner property with rear off street parking.

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Comprises of 2 flats each with living room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.

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Tenants pay all services and council tax.

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Combined income £7,540 per annum.

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£79,950 BUSINESS, FIXTURES AND FITTINGS

TO LET RETAIL UNIT 190/192 ASHBY HIGH STREET, SCUNTHORPE

TO LET OFFICES SUITE 2 THE LIMEWOOD, PARK SQUARE SCUNTHORPE

Located on Ashby High Street with over 100 retail units

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Luddington - High St £100,000 An extensive former public house on a site of approximately 0.83 acres, located on the B1392 within the heart of the picturesque rural village of Luddington North Lincolnshire, lying between the towns of Scunthorpe and Goole that has undergone part conversion to the ground and upper floors, providing a two bedroomed apartment with space for a further residential dwelling to the first floor.

An excellent development project with various commercial planning consents to the ground floor, including A3 and A5 use. The property is available for sale with an asking price £100,000.

Other branches in Brigg, Barton-Upon-Humber, Hessle, Humberston, Lincoln, Market Rasen, North Hykeham & Gainsborough

www.DiscoverNEL.co.uk

National, regional and local traders represented. ●

Opposite Ashby Market with frontage of 37.5 ft (11.56 m).

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Approx size 1201 sq ft (111.69 sqm)

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New lease and immediately available.

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Prime purpose built offices close to town centre shopping and amenities.

Occupiers within the development include solicitors, accountants & govenment departments.

Close to Law Courts, Police Station and Railway Station.

Extends to approx 483 sq ft (45.16 sqm).

DDA compliant.

Two dedicated car parking spaces.

RENT £8,500 PER ANNUM

RENT ON APPLICATION

FOR SALE/TO LET RETAIL UNIT 58 MARY STREET, SCUNTHORPE

FOR SALE/TO LET RETAIL/OFFICE UNIT 272 ASHBY HIGH STREET, SCUNTHORPE

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CHARTERED SURVEYORS • PROPERTY CONSULTANTS • ASSET MANAGERS GRIMSBY 01472 353436 SCUNTHORPE 01724 856037 www.lovelle-commercial.co.uk

Leasehold Fish & Chip Shop business plus living accommodation.

Prominent High Street location.

Long established & highly recognised business.

Fully equiped sales shop & preparation area, 3 pan range.

Adjoining 3 bed house & garden.

Forecourt parking Leasehold property £7,800 pa.

PRICE £74,950

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Grimsby - Holme St £5,500 p.a.

road leading into the town centre and this piece of property offers an excellent site for future redevelopment.

The property is open to view this week so any local buyers are more than welcome to come and have a look around.”

The Grade II listed building has steel clad warehousing to the side and rear.

Factory, warehouse and offices cover 30,000 sq ft, with the site as a whole spanning nearly an acre, between High Point Retail Park and the residential conversion of Victoria Mills, with Alexandra Dock to the rear and Victoria Retail Park opposite, across the A16.

Cleethorpes - Grimsby Rd £85 per week

TOWN CENTRE Cleethorpes Grimsby Road

155 years. Pan Humber chartered surveyor Clark Weightman was appointed more than 18 months ago as the business explored all possible options, ahead of a decision to consolidate in Brighton.

Carl Bradley, a director at Clark Weightman, said: “The decision to offer Castle Press for sale by auction will without a doubt open up the opportunity to the national marketplace through the advertising and promotion put in place.

“The property is being guided at £250,000 to £300,000 which is a substantial reduction on the price the property was previously offered at.

“Victoria Street is the main

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Very prominent corner location to Mary Street & Laneham Street.

Busy road interesection and on major bus route.

On street parking.

Ground & first floor open plan retail areas.

Significant glazing to Laneham Street on two floors.

Approx 2027 sq ft 205.22 sqm.

1 parking space.

PRICE £120,000 RENT £12,000 PA Large selection selection of of Large further properties further properties available

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Located on Scunthorpe second main retail area with over 100 shops.

Over two floors, upvc shop front, disabled WC parking to rear.

Unit extends to approx 1162 sq ft (108.07 sqm).

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FREEHOLD £65,000 RENT £7,500 PER ANNUM

Contact Contact John John Knight Knight Tel: 01724 870520 Tel: 01724 870520 32 Oswald Road, Scunthorpe

www.paul-fox.com/commercial

All All aspects aspects of of commercial property commercial property dealt with

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| Sales | Lettings | Mortgages | Conveyancing | Auctions | Commercial | Agriculture | Relocation | 01522 518298 SAXILBY STIRLIN COURT • High Quality Workshop/ Storage Unit • 992 Sq Ft (92.2 Sq M) • Excellent Transport Links Onto The A57 And A46 Lincoln Bypass • To Let £6,000 Pax • Epc Rating A

CAENBY FOX PLANT • Warehouse / Workshop • Yard Area • Prominent Position Fronting A15 • Established And Developing Business Park • 24 Hour Security On Site • Epc Exempt

GAINSBORUGH MARSHALLS YARD • Office • Engine House Gainsborough • 134.7 Sq M (1,450 Sq Ft) • Recently Completed • Full Dda Compliant Space • Two Parking Spaces Allocated To Each Unit • Close To M&s & Next • Epc Rating C

GRIMSBY SOUTH HUMBERSIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE • Industrial Investment • 1079 Sq M (11607 Sq Ft) • Food Processing Unit • Established Industrial Estate • 10 Year Lease From Jan 2006 • Copies Available • Passing Rent £75,000 Pax • Epc Rating C

GAINSBOROUGH NORTH STREET • Development Land • Site Area 0.61 Acre • Planning Permission For Upto 48 Flats • Suitable For Variety Of Different Uses • Prominent Corner Position • Close To Town Centre • Epc Exempt

£6,000 To Let pax

NEW

£10,000 To Let pax

£24,500 To Let pax

£650,000 Freehold

£325,000 Freehold

LINCOLN NEWLIN BUSINESS PARK • Light Industrial Unit • Self-Contained • 113.16 Sq M (1200 Sq Ft) • 2 Allocated Parking Spaces • Negotiable Lease Terms • Epc Rating A

LINCOLN WATERSIDE NORTH • New Restaurant / Retail Units To Let • Alternatively Conversion Opportunity For Sale With Pp For 3 Commercial And 4 Residential Units At First Floor • Adjacent To The Waterside Shopping Centre, Burger King And Proposed Next And H&m • Attractive Waterside Setting • Units Available On New Leases Or Long Leasehold Interest Of Whole Building

HEMSWELL CLIFF CAENBY CORNER • Industrial / Warehouse Unit • Detached Office Block • Extensive Land Area • Industrial Estate • Variety Of Uses • 2720 Sq M (29,280 Sq Ft) • Site Area 3.5 Acres (1.42 Ha) • Epc Instructed

£6,300 To Let pax

NEW

£13,500 To Let pax

To Let £50,000 pax For Sale / To Let

£600,000 Freehold

WARSOP WATSON/DAY/WELBECK/CLUMBER STREET • Property Portfolio Investment • 10 X Properties • 4 Streets In Warsop • Watson / Day / Welbeck / Clumber Streets • Incoming Rental Of £48,230 Pa • Epcs Available

GAINSBOROUGH NORTH WARREN RD & ROPERY RD • Land • Former Factory Premises • 2.95 Ha (7.28 Acre) • Outline Planning Permission For 142 Houses • No Section 106 Agreement • Epc Exempt

Price on Application Freehold

GRIMSBY ESTATE ROAD NO 1, STH HUMBS IND EST • Established Commercial / Industrial Location • Ground Floor Offices • 150 Sq M / 1,600 Sq Ft Nia • 6no Parking Spaces • Negotiable Lease Terms • Epc Rating E

SCUNTHORPE PHOENIX COURT • Warehouse Manufacturing Unit • Large Fully Fenced Yard Area • Split Into 2 Bays • 962.94 Sq M (10,365 Sq Ft) • Suitable For A Variety Of Different Uses • Negotiable Lease Terms • Epc Rating F

HORNCASTLE CHURCH LANE • Delicatessen And Cafe Restaurant Business • Excellent Reputation • Superb Renovation • Grade Ii Listed Building • Popular Town Centre Location • 133.22 Sq M (1434 Sq Ft) • Quality Fixtures & Fittings • Business: £69,950 / Rent: £19,000

GAINSBOROUGH SUMMERGANGS LANE • Former Depot & Land • Current Planning For B1, B2, B8 • Two-Storey Office Block • Weigh Bridge Facility • Full Palisade Fencing • Former Recycle Depot • 1.97 Acres • Potential Haulage Yard • Epc Rating D

GRIMSBY INDUSTRIAL ROAD 5 • 10 Acres Land (4 Ha) • Freehold • Offices - 317.05 Sq M (3351 Sq Ft) • Warehouse / Workshops 4662 • Epc Not Required

With Offices at

| Lincoln | North Hykeham | Sleaford | Boston | Spalding | Grantham | Grimsby |

£10,000 To Let pax

£25,000 To Let pax

£69,950 Business For Sale

£250,000 Freehold

Price On Application Freehold

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

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LAISTER’S Last Word

Commercial Property

BY DAVE LAISTER

A welcome Sugar overdose as Bake Off mania finally gets washed up

Inaugural meeting was hot property!

NEW GROUP: This past month saw the first South Bank meeting of the Lincolnshire Property Group. A seminar was held at Healing Manor, with guest speakers, from left, Alan Nesbitt, of Forrester Boyd; Sarah Miles of Langleys Solicitors; John Wilson of Solution Finance and David Brierley of North East Lincolnshire Council’s regeneration partner, Cofely.

Timber turns into gold for a Clugston waste to energy epic

197 Alexandra Road, Grimsby, DN31 1FE

• Detached Industrial Unit with Self Contained Yard.

• Newly extended 99 year lease.

• Located within close proximity to Hartwell & Stoneacre.

• 2,986 sq.f.

• Eaves Height of 3.63m

30,000 1 £ le a S r o F Contact Eamonn Stones Telephone: 01482 564564

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CLUGSTON Construction’s new recycling and energy recovery facility in Leeds has won its first award – before it even officially opens.

The facility has been awarded the Project of the Year at the National Structural Timber Awards.

The highly visible innovative building will open in the spring.

Built in partnership with technology specialist CNIM and operated by waste management company Veolia, it uses a mix of innovative and sustainable materials and techniques to reflect its environmental role.

At the centre of this approach was the use of a large timber frame to form the outer shell of the main process building.

Provided from sustainable sources, at 42m high by 150m in length, it is the largest timber structure of its type in Europe.

Supplied by Clugston’s specialist subcontractor, Hess of Germany, the timber was

delivered to site in sections prior to being assembled into the iconic arches and lowered into position.

Clugston’s project manager Tony Wing said: “This is a unique project which has involved working with traditional materials in non-traditional ways. Buildings have been constructed in timber since the dawn of time but never on this scale. ” Operator Veolia also picked up Client of the Year at the prestigious awards ceremony, held at the Birmingham NEC earlier this month. Veolia has a long term partnership with Leeds City Council to manage the city’s municipal waste.

When fully operational, it will have the capacity to process up to 214,000 tonnes of household black bin waste, diverting it from landfill while generating 11MW of electricity.

HERE WE GO AGAIN: The Apprentice 2015, with Karren Brady, Lord Sugar, and Claude Littner HE’S back! (Steps away from the desk, performs a quick happy dance not unlike David Brent, slightly tempered by the fact it also acts as a countdown to Christmas.)

Yes, Scrooge himself, Lord Sugar is on the tellybox again.

Have his candidates toned down and wisened up? Have they ’eckers like.

I love the show regardless, and now, having finally realised that the hashtag is not a malfunctioning smartphone button to play noughts and crosses via while waiting ‘patiently’ outside the fitting room of any female fashion chain I’ve had the misfortune to be dragged into, I love the social media interaction too.

Quite a coup that fish was the first challenge in Seafood Week, and one of my favourite reactions from the first programme was prompted by the sales task the early morning Billingsgate visit led to.

“So congrats go to the winning team on The Apprentice last night.

Three hundred pounds profit and they were over the moon,” began the LinkedIn post. “Off camera, Lord Sugar then sorted out the £1,250 a day pitch rental, environmental health report return, risk assessment, insurances, food hygiene certificates, business registration, LPG tests, PAT tests, Fire Safety certificates and NCASS membership for the Covent Garden stall.”

Indeed it is a leap from reality, but as far as reality TV goes, it must be one of the shorter steps for mankind to muster.

The real apprentices, of course, can be found in these pages frequently. A flick through the 31 pages preceding this and even I was taken by the number of references.

From Ryan Garlick at HBP Systems (no doubt Sugar would be im‘press’ed with his nose for business in a pun-loaded boardroom) to the grandson of our caravan couple on page one, through to Nic Dakin and Westminster’s support for

Scunthorpe’s Lewis Hind and E.on’s first tranche of wind farm technicians, here is the evidence of a career path well and truly back in vogue.

Back to ‘Shuggs’, and my only disappointment was Dara O’Briain’s departure from the after-show analysis You’re Fired.

He wasn’t, he turned a sixth series down January, leaving the vacancy for the not quite so chirpy Jack Dee. “I’m very much looking forward to hosting You’re Fired and hope that the luckless candidates will see me as the friendly face at the end of a difficult time in their lives,” Dee told the press last month, a statement loaded with more sarcasm than his stare and satirical act combined.

I liked Dara’s joviality, his stumble-like approach to conversation as he attempted to break records for the broadcastable amount of words in any given slot. I fear Dee is too much like the overlord of The Apprentice, though he probably does write his own scripts.

Either way, it is compulsive viewing in the Laister household, having suffered Bake Off Wednesdays for what seemed like an eternity.

I happened to be driving to Liverpool for RenewableUK 2015 on the morning of the final of that particular treat. It wasn’t a good day for the M62 or M60, but hearing Paul Hollywood judge a cake competition over the phone to a radio station stretched me to the limit, as the clock counting down to Prof Sir David King’s 10am keynote speech squeezed all hope of a post-journey cooked breakfast out of me.

As those who know me will testify I don’t need much encouragement to tuck in, so to have shows devoted to food where we don’t get a sniff is bordering on torture.

Perhaps that’s why The Apprentice appeals so much, safe in the knowledge I interview the masters day after day.

ARE THOSE CAKES READY YET? Sorry candidates, wrong programme.

MAKE CONTACT: Call: 01472 806972 Email: dave.laister@grimsbytelegraph.co.uk LinkedIn: BusinessTelegraph Twitter: @davelaister