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NORTHERN Lincolnshire’s brightest business figures graduated with greater grandeur as several 2019 successes built on earlier endeavours at the annual awards. Former Young Entrepreneur of the Year Charlotte Hay was named Business Person of the Year, while a previous holder of that title, Tim Strawson, was rewarded with the Lifetime Achievement gong. FEL Group, formerly Foster Environmental, JemBuild, ID Architecture and Walshe’s Property also made winning returns to the Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce’s star-soaked South Bank bash. A spectacular Greatest Showman theme wowed with life-size elephant creation, child singing sensation and marvellous performances from professionals and students alike, before the business of the awards began. Miss Hay, named Wilkin Chapman Business Person of the Year, is now managing director of Healing Manor Hotel, and joins fiancé and fellow director Steven Bennett in a select band of 18 as the Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards closes in on two decades of triumphs. In 2015 her brand-focused con-

dazzling success at the business awards 2019

sultancy, Creative Larder, caught the attention. She said: “I was Young Entrepreneur four years ago, and for me going from working for myself, by myself to employing 57 people has been quite an exciting journey. It is the whole thing of being everyone’s best friend, their boss, their mum and someone running a business!” Of creating the first couple to both hold the title, with Mr Bennett collecting the accolade two years ago, she added: “There will be some nice trophies to put on the shelves now!” And the competition wasn’t far from her mind either.

“I am gutted for Liam, I really wanted him to win, he is so very deserving of it as well,” she said of the second generation O’Leary to be managing director of Grimsby’s Laser Red digital agency. Dean Bolton, who heads up Eyewatch Security in Scunthorpe was also shortlisted, with an OBE from the Queen to fall back on after an equally successful year. Also four years on from his crowning, and the spectacular legacy creation of a new single-site base for Continued on page 3

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Charlotte Hay and Tim Strawson, respective winners of the Wilkin Chapman Business Person of the Year and JemBuild Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards.

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Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards 2019. FEL Group win the Forrester Boyd Business of Excellence Award.

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company that makes it its mission to keep critical data infrastructure cool was on fire as it took both the Forrester Boyd Business of Excellence Award and the Grimsby Institute Training Excellence accolade in the only double of the night.

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Roll of honour Grimsby Carpet Warehouse Small Business Award

Winner: Tower Staff Construction Ltd Runners-up: E yewatch Security; Laser Red ABP Business Growth Award Winner: JemBuild Runners-up: R ocal Insulating Panels; Taylors Family Butchers

Wilkin Chapman Business Person of the Year

Fast Form Systems win the Hays Recruitment International Trade Award.

Winner: Charlotte Hay, Healing Manor Hotel Runners-up: D ean Bolton, Eyewatch Security; Liam O’Leary, Laser Red

Visitor Centre; Katie WebbJones, Dollie Jewellery

Winner: Fast Form Systems Runners-up: H enry’s Health Hub Ltd; Infocus ID Ltd

Systems Ltd; JemBuild

North East Lincolnshire Business Development Award

Hays Recruitment Winner: ID Architecture Ltd International Trade Award Runners-up: F ast Form

Bridge McFarland New Business Award

Winner: Taylor’s Family Butchers Runners-up: D ollie Jewellery; Hats and Tiaras

Franklin College Young Business Person of the Year

Winner: Joshua Walshe, Walshe’s Property Ltd Runners-up: D anielle Howarth, Belton Kitchen and

North Lincolnshire Business Development Award

Winner: Ellgia Ltd Runners-up: F EL Group; TSC Foods

Grimsby Institute Training Excellence Award

Winner: FEL Group Runners-up: F orrester Boyd; I Learn Education DFDS Excellence in the

Community Award

Winner: Ongo

Runners-up: Driver Hire Grimsby & Scunthorpe; The Health Tree Foundation

Pepperells Innovation Award

Winner: Jones Food Company Runners-up: Ellgia Ltd; Fortis Group

Tilletts Business Woman of the Year Award

Winner: Michelle Drury, I Learn Education Runners-up: Louise Coulbeck, JCS Fish Ltd; Alexis Powell-Howard, Fortis Group

Forrester Boyd Business of Excellence Award

Winner: FEL Group

JemBuild Lifetime Achievement Award

Winner: Tim Strawson, Bradbury Group

FEL Group, a critical environment specialist, ensures IT hardware hubs are handled correctly. In doing so the Scunthorpe business carved out a niche at the very heart of many a business in a 22-year local growth story. Re-branded from Foster Environmental and with a new management team in place after founder and shareholder Carl Foster, who launched in 1997, stepped back, it capped a momentous year. John Higginbottom, FEL Group managing director, said: “It is nice to be recognised as a prominent business as we strive for best practice and expertise. It is all down to a lot of hard work. It was a great business that we inherited, a very good business. “We joined a year ago, put in some new systems and have hopefully helped to take it to the next level. We are trying to make it something the region can be proud of, we are very proud.” Recently recognised by the Scaleup Institute for rapid growth, the past five years have seen a 400 per cent increase in profits and 300 per cent uplift in turnover at the Normanby Gateway-based firm. Of the training element, Mr Higginbottom said: “We make sure we develop our people as they work through the business, from college to trained mechanics and engineers. We hope they stay with us a long time. While we’ve re-branded to try to appeal to other markets, we are keeping what makes the company special, which is our place as a local business, with local employees.” Representing North East Lincolnshire, and ID Architecture won the Business Development Award. James Lockwood, director and architect, said: “We are delighted, it has been a very busy couple of years in which turnover has doubled, it is now close to £500,000 and we now have 10 staff. It necessitated a move to new office – not that there was anything wrong with the previous one as we designed it! – and we are now keen to invest in that in terms of the ongoing regeneration of Garth Lane, where we are now. We didn’t foresee such expan-

sion in a short space of time, but work is going very well.” From high-end domestic projects to statement commercial work like On Line Design and Engineering’s new offices and a Fruit Market project in Hull, the team are keen to keep diversifying. Former landlord in the distinctive Humberston sawtooth entrance to Wilton Road, JemBuild, won the ABP Business Growth Award, as it develops to the next level with several ‘NLBAs’ to its name already. “We had been shortlisted for this before, but never won it, and it really means a lot, more than the others I feel,” Paul Barker, managing director, said. Judges heard how it had gone from sole employee in a home office eight years ago to now delivering a two-year £9 million project involving the construction of new roads, infrastructure and housing on land by Grimsby hospital, which looks set to grow further. “It is going to be a £25 million project, the biggest in the area in the last 20 years. That’s us, and we’re all about being local and promoting local employment,” he said. All guns blazing in the USA saw Grimsby construction aid supplier Fast Form Systems win the Hays Recruitment International Trade Award. The concrete-setting support from Cleethorpes man Tony White has revolutionised form work. Now based on South Humberside Industrial Estate, it saves time and money as a one-size-fits-all solution for reinforced works. “It is going very well in the US, we have just launched in New Zealand and Australia, but the US is going very, very well,” Mr White said. “We’re just about to make a big investment, £1.5 million, in more export supplies, that’s the market we see as big growth, but we’re growing pretty well in the UK too.” Now employing 16, and recruiting to hit 20, reflecting on the win, he said: “It was a bit of a shock to be honest, we always have a laugh that we never win awards!”

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Indoor farm’s innovation success

AJOR Scunthorpe inward investors Jones Food Company and Ellgia were recognised for the major contributions being made. Jones was a stand-out recipient of the Pepperells Innovation Award, as the company behind Europe’s largest indoor vertical farm. Growing fresh herbs and baby leaf salads in a controlled environment using hydroponics and thousands of LED lights, produce now goes into a staggering 11 million sandwiches a week. Technology and data analytics are core to the growing methods, with automated movement of the crop tables. Paul Challinor, chief technical officer, and James Lloyd-Jones, chief executive, said: “We are really pleased with how it has gone so far. We have worked very hard to put it together in a fairly short space of time. Jones “Scunthorpe and Grimsby get a bad reputaFood tion, mainly because of the names, but it is an Company extremely entrepreneurial area. We are really win the pleased with how we have been welcomed, Pepperells with a very supportive local council, which Innovation Award. does make a difference. “The produce now goes in to 11 million sandwiches a week, and we will only be investing more in the area.” Availability of cold storetype facilities and transport were up against so I didn’t infrastructure attracted the expect to win. It is amazing, pioneering team in. really, really good for the This has been a great For Ellgia, winner of the staff who have been night – It has not been North Lincolnshire Busiinvolved. It has not been easy, but everyone put ness Development Award, easy, but everyone put it was a natural extension their full commitment in. their full commitment of an east of England footThis has been a great night in print that brought it knockout, and not only does it Steve Crooks ing on the door of Bell Waste show performance of the busiand AJ Thompson in 2014. ness, but it is something as a In the past 18 months the waste group we can be proud of and all management business has invested more engage with – and great to have it won here in than £3.7 million into Scunthorpe, making it Scunthorpe, the town where we have put a the central hub, with a team of 70 processing lot of investment into, not just in money, but 237,000 tonnes of waste from 5,000 custom- time and people.” ers. ■■ More interviews and photographs Steve Crooks, managing director, said: from the event can be found on “There were some very big names that we humberbusiness.com

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Ellgia Ltd win the North Lincolnshire Business Development Award.

steel door manufacturer Bradbury Group brought another accolade Mr Strawson’s way. With the company already having won for Business Excellence in that year, he accepted a ‘premature’ personal gong with the wider company and its charitable training organisation in mind. “As a business we have achieved a lot, and I am a little embarrassed about this,” he said. “I feel the Lifetime Achievement award should go to someone older! I hope I still have plenty to give, I may look older but I still feel I’m only half way!” The former grain trader from a Grimsby-area farming family bought a brass bed business and switched to data centre protection as the dot.com bubble filled, then burst, before security grilles and doors became the focus. It is now settled in an £8 million overhauled aerosol filling plant covering 135,000 sq ft of Foxhills Industrial Estate, and is winning working internationally. “It has been a tough year, but it is quite a splendid place and although quite stressful moving a factory – a lot like moving a house – all the staff are much happier in the new environment, which is what we are trying to achieve – a place where people enjoy working. “If you are happy in your work, you are better at it.”

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‘Humber is first step to new industrial revolution’

Jason Ledden at Offshore Wind Connections 2019.

Wind’s transforming the Humber region ORSTED’s leading builder of offshore wind farms has told of the transformative effect the industry’s arrival is having on the Humber, with a focus on Grimsby. Jason Ledden is now bringing forward Hornsea Two, having worked on Westermost Rough and Race Bank in a seven-year stint In North East Lincolnshire so far. Fresh from the London Marathon, he hit the stage of Offshore Wind Connections 2019 running earlier this month with another hearts-and-minds winning video focused on the working environment now being created in the area. He said: “I moved to Grimsby in 2012, working in a little blue cabin on the fish docks. There were four of us, starting the Westermost Rough project. “That completed in 2015. Three years ago I came to the conference to talk about Race Bank project as it went into construction. It is great to see that now fully operational with good green energy pouring in just off the coast. “Now in 2019 we have completed a £10 million investment in what is now the East Coast Hub. We went from 20 people in 2014 to 300 people. That’s a real difference.” Looking forward to a quarter three official opening in the shadow of the Dock Tower, he said: “The hub enables us to operate and maintain our cluster on the East Coast, winning lots of synergies where we can have people, rather than the old ways of working on one project, working across farms, allowing us to cut costs, share lessons learned and make it more economical. “We are very lucky in Grimsby with location, and the deep water ports. We are developing skills in the area, we have an apprenticeship programme, with six apprentices at present, four of which are now going offshore and working in the teams.” He enthused about the pipeline of projects building on what is already there, with his Hornsea Two to take over from Hornsea One as the world’s largest when complete, early next decade. “I’m very proud of that, so too our involvement in the likes of the Great Grimsby 10K,” Mr Ledden said, having settled in the town. “I’m told in another 10 years I’ll be allowed to call myself a Grimbarian!”

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lord prescott bigs up our region at offshore wind connections 2019

ORD Prescott had told how the Humber is the “first step in a new industrial revolution” for a low carbon world. Having led from the front in Kyoto, Paris and before opening Offshore Wind Connections 2019 on the Humber earlier that day in Parliament, the former Deputy Prime Minister returned to his former seat to introduce the event on behalf of Team Humber Marine Alliance. Now 22 years on since representing the EU on the first steps to climate targets on a collaborative international scale, he told how the protests that were taking place in London were having a profound effect on the politicos he is no longer as proud to be part of – noting how many on the capitals streets were not born when those first moves were made. “It is about a revolution, and not a political one. It is an industrial revolution,” he said. “Where coal and steel were the embodiment of the old industrial revolution, the new one requires new energy and that’s undeniably renewables.” Telling of his pride at leading for Europe back in 1997, he said: “This is a global problem that needs a global solution, which is what Kyoto was about all those years ago, economies coming together and accepting the science. “This Humber Estuary is going to make a major contribution to this new industrial revolution because water and wind are the very products, the new energy processes. “The Humber is uniquely placed as an estuary and as I tried to argue when targets were set at Kyoto and Paris, we have to reduce it to regions, we have to get greater co-operation and recognise what we can do with the decisions we make, that they can really make change happen at a local level. “The Humber is the first step to a new industrial revolution. We have water and wind coming out of our ears, we have plenty of it. They are the new resources for energy, and attract the technology that is going to make it. “We built the Humber as an estuarial development, which we all now agree should be the way. An energy intensive Humber is a unique corridor of growth for

these first steps. Hull and Grimsby is a big thing to come together as we know, it is happening. The energy, the place and the location facts are all here. Thank God someone is now looking at the Humber area – as it is the best first step to a new industrial revolution.” Innogy was thanked by host, Mark O’Reilly, chair and chief executive of THMA, for the headline sponsorship, and he praised the decision to base itself in Grimsby for Triton Knoll delivery and operations. He said: “This is our seventh Offshore Wind Connections, and it gets bigger and better, and that reflects the industry. “We have been ploughing a furrow for over 10 years in offshore wind, trying to build with this industry that has grown so much. It has been difficult but it is coming together now quite nicely.”

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Team Humber Marine Alliance Aura / Rhode Island contract signing. Offshore Wind Connections 2019. Simon Kench

New deal sees our offshore wind expertise head across the pond A DEAL struck between the Humber and Rhode Island will see the region’s offshore wind expertise head stateside. The contract, signed in front of an audience of 400 delegates at the Offshore Wind Connections 2019 conference, followed visits last year. Offshore wind leaders in the US state, home to the first offshore wind farm in America, are keen to tap into the Humber’s expertise and experience in clean energy. Aura and Team Humber Marine Alliance will now help develop an

offshore wind strategy for Rhode Island’s Commerce Corporation after a successful joint bid for the contract. Mark O’Reilly, Team Humber Marine Alliance chairman and chief executive, said an outward mission last October helped pave the way for the deal. “There has been huge interest in how we have overcome the challenges in developing a strong offshore wind sector in the Humber and to learn from us in building an offshore wind ‘ecosystem’,” he said. They are harnessing our expertise so that they can develop

an effective strategy early in the development of the sector. “The deal illustrates just how far the Humber has come.” The strategy will follow a period of research and analysis, supply chain work and advice around cluster development and collaboration. It is expected that the relationship with Rhode Island will continue over the next few years. Offshore wind in the USA is poised for tremendous growth in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, driven by cost reductions in green energy and support at

both federal and state level. Stefan Pryor, secretary of commerce for the State of Rhode Island Corporation, said: “This is a great moment for offshore wind across the world. “Rhode Island is known as the ocean state in America, and we have 400 miles of coastline. “We salute Team Humber Marine Alliance for being so forward thinking and for taking on the burden of developing offshore wind. “The primary purpose of the new deal is to act on the lessons learned in the Humber, and to help grow the supply chain.”

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New £300m power station

PLANNING consent has been granted for a new £300 million power station on the South Humber Bank. EP UK Investments Ltd has been given the go-ahead for the energyfrom-waste facility at Stallingborough. It will be built on land already owned by the Czech-owned company, as the operator of the distinctive existing gas-fired generator it acquired in 2017. EPUKI said work could start his autumn, with 600 construction jobs at peak, and 50 permanent jobs once operational in late 2022.

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EASTERN Airways is back in the private hands of founder Richard Lake OBE, after he swooped to buy out the airline from crisis-hit Bristow. The regional operator, based at Humberside Airport, was bought out back in 2014, 17 years after he and former Grimsby Town director Bryan Huxford formed it. It was taken back as in the US, the parent company, filed for and was granted Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to restructure following a run of losses and lease breaches in relation to helicopter engine swapping. Eastern’s shares in the airport, which it bought in 2012, two years prior to Bristow’s £27 million buy-out, have transferred to Bristow.

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Total set for massive inspection

OTAL is bringing further significant investment to Lindsey Oil Refinery. Units are being upgraded to produce higher quality low sulphur fuels and improve energy efficiency, in one of the largest turnaround and inspection events at the North Killingholme plant. An additional 1,500 people are anticipated on site at peak times, as it works towards a strategy of producing cleaner and lighter fuels to meet the demands of the market. Having transformed from dual crude units to a single stream as part of a major reorganisation three years ago, the refinery has the flexibility to supply a well balanced portfolio of retail, commercial and speciality products to the market. The turnaround will involve several units of the refinery, known as Business Team Two, with major maintenance work being undertaken as well as future preparation for further investment from the French giant. It is the significant element of a $100 million (£78.5m) investment over the course of the year. Jean-Marc Durand, refinery gen-

eral manager, said: “We had two crude units, and kept one in service. When we stopped before we kept the second in service. We have never had an occasion to have such a large turnaround and inspection. It is an advantage, and it brings opportunities we could never have in the past, so in that sense it is good. It brings some extra activity. “We stop, we don’t stop delivering. We have storage and afterwards we have the possibility to import some product to deliver to the market for our clients. “We are going to focus this time on improving the fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCC), a modification to increase conversion and quality of products, which was part of our improvement plan and is part of our ambition. “Also, we will use the occasion to prepare a tie-in – pre-connections – to aid the deployment of next projects, a modification of HDS-3 (the hydrodesulphurisation unit)

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another element in order to improve future quality of our products. That will be for the end of 2020.” That would see a further $25 million (£19.6m) investment. “We will refine less, but better,” Mr Durand said. “We put the crude in our refinery and we want to increase further the value of the product.” A huge element, the 250-tonne FCC regenerator head, is already on site, having made a transatlantic journey from Canada in January. Work began on it a year prior. British firm Ledwood Mechanical Engineering is one of the lead contractors. The turnaround and inspection has been a significant project to plan. A total of 130 contracts have been placed, with 267 pieces of equipment to be worked on, 699 valves and 2.5km of pipework to be replaced. It involves a staggering 255 cabins and containers, with 600,000 working hours envisaged.

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This also means more than 10,000 bacon and sausage sandwiches, 1,400 large water bottles and 7,000 ice pops. Chris Smith, Total Lindsey Oil Refinery’s turnaround manager, said: “This event will peak at 1,500 people, eclipsing the 2016 event when 900 people were involved in reconfiguring for the adaptation project. We try and place as many local contracts as we can, but because of the technical nature of the work some are from away. “We are using a lot of UK contractors, a lot of local resource, and there will be a positive impact to the local economy with people using local amenities, spending money locally and staying in local guest houses.

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“As always we work with our local community through the parish council to inform them about the event and provide regular updates.” A first for this project is a dedicated turnaround website, with remote safety and project briefings. “Having a safe event is the key success factor for us and we dedicate a lot of time and resource to ensure everyone understands what is expected,” Mr Smith said. “The dedicated website is part of the communications that we give to all about working safely on our site. “The induction is delivered to all working on the event. Contractors can do it in advance, familiarise themselves with it and get a detailed briefing. It is the first one we have done and helps with the logistical point of view and gets everyone fully engaged with what we are trying to achieve.” A logo has also been designed internally as part of a competition involving employees, contractors and their children, and with safety at the fore, working days without incident will net big benefits for charity. Jean-Marc Durand In 2016, £45,000 was raised, and hopes are for a similar amount and Chris Smith. again.

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Electric cars can power chemical sector boost Humber supply chain firms to profit from car manufacturers’ switch from petrol and diesel

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£4.8 billion opportunity for the UK chemical sector has been identified in battery manufacture for electric vehicles. The figure comes from a report just released, and looks purely at the market share by 2030 to meet the needs of UK-built vehicles. Phillips 66’s Humber Refinery is already part of the supply chain feeding in vital elements to support 500,000 new cars, with its high grade graphite coke. Formulated by the dedicated South Killingholme team – working with the company’s US-based research and development operations in Oklahoma – the premium product is a core part of lithium ion batteries. Refinery boss Darren Cunningham has already told how he hopes it could add to the region’s Energy Estuary offer, acting as a cornerstone for UK input. Chinese manufacturer BYD has already committed to a North Bank energy park, with high growth micro-generation and charging solution provider MyEnergi looking to expand into North East Lincolnshire too, with financial backing from some of Britain’s brightest business brains, including former Tesco chief executive Sir Terry Leahy. David Talbot, chief executive of Catch, the public/private sector organisation supporting the process industry cluster, said: “This report should be welcomed by the Humber region as it resonates with the work being undertaken by Catch, the Humber LEP, the University of Hull through Aura, Bondholders and business to support the decarbonisation agenda. “The idea that nearly all vehicles should include a degree of battery power by 2030 is an exciting prospect. “Clearly this will be good news for the Phillips 66 Humber Refinery with their capability to produce graphite for the battery industry which is an excellent example of how the petrochemical industry is diversifying. Seeing collaboration between key sectors such as the chemistry and automotive industries is a huge step in delivering the Industrial Strategy.”

Following a deep assessment of the current capability to support the development and growth of the UK’s battery manufacturing industry, the forecasts are based upon the strong foundation of UKbased companies who are already embedded within many global battery supply chains. The report has been produced by E4tech, commissioned by the Advanced Propulsion Centre and Innovate UK, supported by Knowledge Transfer Network, and WMG at the University of Warwick. Based on the ambitions to stimulate the

supply chain so the UK can attract a ‘giga-factory’ this report engaged with members of the supply chain who would support volume production capacity. Ian Constance, chief executive of Advanced Propulsion Centre, said: “With transport shifting towards electrification, batteries are set to play a major part in our future propulsion mix. This report highlights the opportunities available to our automotive and chemical sectors to come together and collaborate to make the UK the go-to-place for battery cell manufacturing.”

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British Steel bracing itself for Brexit British Steel is working with government as it looks to secure a sustainable future once more – with finance to cover a Brexit downturn the big issue. Reports emerged last week that the Scunthorpe-headquartered industry giant could be at risk of collapse. While all stakeholders have called for support, with the 4,000 jobs at the fore, pressure was also ramped up on owner Greybull, with the ‘limited risk’ it is exposed to flagged up by unions, the community and town MP Nic Dakin, right. Prime Minister Theresa May expressed her concern in Westminster, but stopped short of pledging support, pointing out a £120 million carbon credit loan already agreed in the past month. While it has returned to profit, a £47 million bill for a blast furnace chill could yet wipe much of the progress made since 2016 away.

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Batteries will halve in cost CURRENTLY three fifths of a vehicle battery pack’s value is the chemicals and materials. With the UK boasting some of the largest suppliers of materials to produce cathodes, anodes and electrolytes, the UK is well-placed to capitalise on this. Sue Dunkerton OBE, interim chief executive of the Knowledge Transfer Network, said: “We are excited to have been part of this important project – together with our partners – to use our knowledge and connections of the UK chemical sector to shine a light on UK capability in this area

and help develop this critical supply chain opportunity.” At the refinery, where 700 staff and up to 400 contractors produce 20 per cent of the UK’s fuel, it supplies to anode manufacturers, who then sell to battery manufacturers. Professor Dave Greenwood, who works in advanced propulsion systems at University of Warwick, said: “Automotive batteries will halve in cost, double in energy density and see tenfold increases in manufacturing volumes before the end of the next decade.”

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www.humberbusiness.com and facebook.com/grimsbytel and twitter.com/grimsbytel Ish Fish directors, Joel Creasey, left, and Garry Bainbridge, centre, with Richard Dutton, head of sales.

Boat to box fish has customers hooked

LMOST a year on from establishing a boat-to-box seafood supply business, friends and partners in Ish Fish, Garry Bainbridge and Joel Creasey, have reflected on unpredicted trends, supplying sporting champions and the new age fish round. As reported when launched, the pair planned to reinvent the way we access fresh Grimsby fish, using their social media marketing, branding and knowledge of the seafood industry to establish their offering in the national marketplace. The distinctive boxes are now selling across the country, and a portfolio of recipe videos, cooking tips and customer interactions have been built up as the expanding team look to source the latest

trends in seafood. Delivering on the promise of sustainability, convenience and handselected fish has helped Ish Fish to establish themselves as an alternative to traditional seafood retailing. “The ‘boat to box’ promise still forms the core of our business but the various other strands of the Ish Fish brand also continue to evolve,” Mr Bainbridge said. “Our cooking videos and recipe cards have proved to be really popular and this growth in the creative side of the business is something we couldn’t have predicted. We are keen to continue to encourage our customers to experiment with seafood and share their creations. Our customer interactions have really helped to drive the business forward.” The Ish Fish ethos has also attracted

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the attention of the Ineos UK team, a professional sailing outfit led and backed by Jim Ratcliffe and Sir Ben Ainsley. Ish Fish boxes are supplied to the team’s hub in Portsmouth and incorporated into the athletes’ diet, providing their essential Omega 3 fix. “It has been great to supply to the team and introduce them to the quality of fish that Grimsby has to offer,” Mr Bainbridge said. “We know that fish should be a regular fixture in a nutritional, healthy diet so it was a natural fit.” Whilst lots has changed at Ish Fish HQ at Grimsby’s Enterprise Village, ‘local’ still remains at the forefront. “We value our local customers. Grimsby and Hull are still our biggest operating areas and remain a priority,” added Mr Creasey. ‘We have since made delivery to Grimsby and Hull postcodes free so local people can enjoy our boxes without worrying about the cost of delivery.” To celebrate a year of business Ish Fish UK is offering Business readers the chance to win a night’s stay for two people at Healing Manor Hotel with a dinner for two at the Pig and Whistle pub included. To enter visit the https:// ishfish.uk/ website and sign up to the mailing list. Closing date is May 31, and a winner will be selected at random on June 1.

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Old smokehouse site to spark into life again derelict building could be replaced with home for port supply chain enterprises

HUB of business activity in central Grimsby could be expanded if planners pass an ambitious proposal. E-Factor is seeking to add seven more units to its highly successful Enterprise Village, building on the site of a derelict smokehouse destroyed by fire three years ago. Hidden behind King Edward Street, what was once part of the town’s EU protected traditional fish smoking cluster, is now a ruined shell that has become a target for burglary, rough sleeping and vandalism. Adjoining the multi-million pound development that has helped kick-start regeneration in the area, it would provide new space for growing businesses in an area that provides a link between the town centre and port. Tony Parkinson, who heads up assets and performance for E-Factor, the business support organisation that provides an advisor service through the rents the property portfolio attracts, said: “The former smokehouse was destroyed by fire in 2016. It has now been extensively vandalised, all the copper The derelict and cabling has been ripped out smokehouse and stripped, it is completely der- today elict. The space remains unused while the region suffers from a shortage of good quality commercial premises and this site is within Grimsby’s growing commercial centre. “Since that catastrophic fire there has been no interest in renovating the building. The original fabric and roof is all but destroyed.” Daniella Draper, Stalf and Laser Under the plans, now submitted Red have been attracted, alongto North East Linside various trades and colnshire Council, it service sector operawould be accessed tors. from the existing “This gives site, rather than E-Factor the the small alley opportunity to previously used add to the 2,500 off Prince Albert businesses Gardens. already supThe units ported and a would follow the chance to generexisting village ate additional jobs style, where an occuto the 2,400 we have Tony Parkinson pancy rate of more than helped start since 98 per cent has been 2008,” Mr Parkinson added. achieved over the past three years. It comes as the Kasbah PartnerDynamic businesses such as ship Grant Scheme looks to rein-

How the new units could look on the extended E-Factor Enterprise Village off Prince Albert Gardens, Grimsby, and, left, the plans

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Processor bought out by Japanese Grimsby’s exemplar seafood business, Flatfish, has been bought out in a multi-million pound deal by a Japanese giant already present in the town’s super cluster. Nissui’s European arm has swooped for a 75 per cent stake in the 40-year-old processor, which was founded by current chief executive and major shareholder Steven Stansfield. The company bought out Sealord in March 2017, taking on the huge Caistor site and smoking facilities on Grimsby Docks. Flatfish welcomed three Japanese nationals to its board – Nissui Europe’s Holland-based chief executive Terutaka Kuraishi, a former Sealord employee; Ken Yokoi, also a director at Caistor Seafoods Ltd, and Hisami Sakai. The Stirling Street business has enjoyed a strong relationship with the Caistor team, with both having supplied high-end retailer Waitrose. It has recently won significantly more work with the supermarket, which enjoys a strong overtrade in seafood.

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troduce smoking at Petersons on Grimsby Docks, as one of a clutch of identified projects as part of the Grimsby Town Deal. Carl Bradley, a director at commercial property specialist Clark Weightman, is acting for the private owner of the smokehouse. He said: “It is always sad when a property falls in to a derelict state like the old smokehouse has done but the scheme proposed by E-Factor is very exciting and would bring further investment into the area. “The proposal complements the existing units and fills a gap which clearly exists in the northern Lincolnshire marketplace.”

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Firm in full flow to 2019 Expo

CUNTHORPE based MA Hydraulics Ltd will give Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce’s 2019 Expo a lift next month, when it uses the prestigious event to demonstrate sector leading technology. The Manifold Instantaneous Auto-Compensating Flow Divider will be on display at the Bonus Arena, as it seeks to prove the worth of the equipment, described as unique to the industry. It is the latest hydraulic product from Vivoil, an Italian manufacturer the company has enjoyed an excellent relationship with since it was established 25 years ago. MA Hydraulics Ltd is the sole UK importer and is eyeing up the transport sector as well as stadiums and theatres nationwide. Duncan Rhoades, operations director, said: “A standard flow divider will divide hydraulic oil equally in flow, but not necessarily compensate for differences in load. That becomes a problem with uneven loads. The MIA-FD will constantly monitor loads and will compensate automatically, making

Duncan Rhoades, operations director at MA Hydraulics Ltd, with the Vivoil MIA-FD series flow divider demonstration unit.

pressure adjustments to make sure a load lifts evenly.” Double deck trailers for the haulage industry are seen as a key market, with MA Hydraulics Ltd keen to get in front of design engineers. Another market already entered is the theatre. With more elaborate productions it is seen as ideal for lift-

ing stages, featuring sets, or indeed people. Another system application of the MIA-FD is that it can switch sports pitches out, allowing a stadium to host different sports. The demonstration rig has already been taken to an industry exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham, and the

National Fluid Power Centre in Worksop. The bespoke items are shipped from Italy, with a lead time on manufacture and delivery between three to six weeks. “It is precision manufacturing, bespoke to the application, and is tested and set to the customer’s

exact flow and pressure,” Mr Rhoades said. “We have been here for 25 years yet we do very little business in this area. The Expo in Hull gives us that opportunity.” Based on Exmoor Avenue, Scunthorpe, the site was doubled in 2016, with stock levels increased. It has seen a 20 per cent uplift, propelling the business forward, with additional Brexit stockpiling also selling out. “We imported extra stock from our suppliers and we have sold it all,” Mr Rhoades enthused. “We thought it would act as buffer stock in case there were any delays anywhere.” The company holds over half a million pounds worth of hydraulic equipment at any one time. “There is no just in time for us, we are just in time for our customers,” he added. The Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce Expo takes place on June 5 and June 6 at the new venue. MA Hydraulics Ltd can offer oneto-one tutorial on the Vivoil MIA-FD Flow Divider for anyone unable to attend the Expo.

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Engineering firm on track with two upgrade contracts TWO new railway upgrade contracts have been won by Scunthorpe-based Britcon Engineering Services, nudging recent wins in the sector to nearly £3.5 million. The structural steelwork specialist has been awarded a £900,000 contract as part of an Access For All upgrade by Network Rail at Mexborough, near Sheffield. Issued by Construction Marine Ltd, Britcon will supply drawings, material, fabrication and protection system application for a 15m span footbridge, stair structures and 160m ramps. The restricted nature of the site, with limited evening track possessions for installation, means Britcon will trial assemble the bridge, its support towers and stair assemblies in its own stockyard and A pedestrian railway bridge build by Britcon store to deliver to the Ferry Boat Lane Engineering Services for Netowrk Rail’s station in the sequence to be erected from Access For All project. Inset, Peter Redfern. the neighbouring county. As part of the complete refurbishment and modernisation of Market Harborough enclosures and two lift-shafts. This is to Station, Britcon has been instructed by provide new access to a redundant platform Amey Ltd in a £500,000 contract to now being reactivated. provide a 15m span link bridge, stair Again, to minimise site working during

limited track possession periods, Britcon has allowed for cladding of the bridge, stairs and lift shafts off site, to be installed during a series of night-time possessions.

The fabrication for both projects incorporated all Network Rail standard protection specifications such as anti-trip nosings, corduroy deck inserts on the stairs for the visually impaired as well as a bespoke handrail/balustrade system. Peter Redfern, estimating manager, said: “We are pleased to secure these contracts and remain a recognised and prominent contractor to the Network Rail upgrade programme. Our expertise in the rail sector spans many decades and our capacity to trial assemble components off site significantly helps the restrictions imposed by limited access for installation. All of our fabrications conform to exacting Network Rail standards and CE level 3 accreditation.” It follows the recent completion of a £1 million project on a new station at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, a £480,000 brief at Doncaster Station, and a £540,000 project at Abbeywood Station, South East London.

Freight wagon maintenance boost

partnership which built and maintains speciallydesigned freight wagons carrying millions of tonnes of biomass away from Port of Immingham could now deliver significant growth to the South Bank team heading it up for the long haul. The project between Davis Wagon Services, parent company WH Davis Ltd and Drax Power Station saw a new fleet created to move the feedstock from discharging huge panamax bulk-carrying vessels. It also enabled the Kings Road team to invest £850,000 in revamping a mothballed rail yard as a dedicated site to maintain the 225 unique freight wagons, securing jobs in the process. The project has now won the Asset Management and Excellence category in the Rail Business Awards, a second accolade, having been named Project of the Year by industry body the Rail Freight Group in September.

John Hall, with Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry, top left, and Andy Koss, top right, aboard a special wagon on a recent visit.

John Hall, managing director of Koss said: “I’m delighted this pro- business and revitalised a disused ensure Drax receives the biomass Immingham-headquartered Davis ject is receiving the industry recog- facility within the Northern Power- we need to produce renewable house region, but these rail wagons electricity for millions of homes and Wagon Services, said that due to the nition it deserves. “Not only has it supported a local also play a vital role in helping to businesses.” backing from Drax, there are now opportunities to extend the maintenance work in the yard at Ferrybridge, creating more jobs. “I am immensely proud of the team here and at Drax for what we have achieved working together,” he said. “The success of the project has given huge confidence to our people and the business. “We can now look at fully utilising the yard and taking on heavier maintenance, which could reduce the need to outsource work. “That would bring immediate benefits both in reducing our carbon footprint, as we could do the work onsite, so we wouldn’t have to send wagons elsewhere, and also in securing the employment we currently have and creating more roles in the future.” Since converting two-thirds of its generators from coal to biomass, Drax Power Station has become the largest decarbonisation project in Europe, and now produces enough renewable electricity for four million homes. The majority of the biomass comes SPECIALIST ENGINEERS TO THE FOOD INDUSTRY from North America and Europe, with 17 trains arriving at the power Carrera Engineering offers a comprehensive range of Process station per day from northern ports. Engineering Design. From concept, design, and manufacture to Immingham leads on capacity, with installation our highly skilled work force work to tight tolerances. Liverpool, Hull and Port of Tyne also Over the years Carrera has continuously reinvested, which enables us contributing. to provide accurate, high standards of work at a competitive price. Each train contains enough fuel to provide 815 homes with enough elecFor more information and to view our wide range of services tricity for a year, with rail saving please visit us at www.carreraeng.co.uk 270,000 annual truck journeys or 32,622.50 tonnes of C02. Drax Power chief executive Andy 44 (0) 1472 352998 Carrera House, Thorold Street, Grimsby, DN31 3AL

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Business Support Michael takes over the chair at chamber MICHAEL O’Flynn has become the new chairman of Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce’s North East Lincolnshire Area Council, taking over from Mark Warburton. He runs Driver Hire Grimsby and Scunthorpe from The Innovation Centre, on Grimsby’s Europarc, and has been a member of the area council for several years. He takes over the role from solicitor Mark Warburton and will chair the next meeting on Tuesday,June 11. Michael was unanimously elected at the last meeting. He said: “I’m very pleased to be given this important role and looking forward to chairing the meetings which are always interesting. “I would urge any business wishing to get more involved with the wider local business community to consider joining the Hull & Humber Chamber and this committee” From his own company’s point of view, the new chairman said: “Recruiting drivers is less of an issue than it was. “I’m particularly pleased to see the Humber ports being considered as an alternative to Dover regarding Brexit and I’m hoping to see some more growth in the town this summer.”

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Accountancy firms join forces as stalwart signs off on 50 devoted years RESPECTED STEVE BYGOTT IS ‘HANGING UP THE BIRO’

GRIMSBY accountancy practice has absorbed a near neighbour as the sole practitioner “hangs up his biro”. Steve Bygott has brought an end to more than half a century of serving the local business community, with the four-strong team and enviable client base of Bygott & Co being taken on by Pelham. John White, partner at the latter, worked with him when both were at Forrester Boyd in the mid-Seventies, with Mr Bygott having entered the profession as an 18-year-old with JE Cross and Son on Abbey Walk, prior to that. “I have devoted 52 years of my life to the accountancy profession – I’ve never known anything other, and always been in practice,” he reflected, stating he was “enormously grateful” to his loyal staff for the 100 years I have devoted 52 of accumulated seryears of my life to vice given. “You reach a the accountancy point when it is time profession to hang up the biro,” he said. “John and the his four grandSteve team are a good fit. children and a Bygott Some clients have been potential return to with me for more than 40 golf after a 10-year years, the new practice will have break are the plans, as well as more to offer those that deserve it. tending to an acre of garden. They have more strings to the bow, Rewinding to the start, he joined a with financial advice, investment firm which also had a branch on the and management, business sales fish docks, such was the nature of and acquisitions knowledge, which the ‘town within a town’. will be a big benefit.” “In the early days we had quite a More travelling, more time with few clients on the fish docks, but

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Bygott and Co has been absorbed by Pelham Chartered Accountants. Steve Bygott, left, shakes hands with John White, with fellow Pelham partner Leonard Booth looking on

they gradually diminished,” Mr Bygott reflected. Brothers Colin and Dennis Cross retired soon after he joined, with David Mitchell and David Bemrose then at the helm of JE Cross, before Forrester Boyd swooped. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1974, and in the late Seventies started up his eponymous firm, eventually settling in Dudley Street.

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Just across the road, the addition swells Pelham to a team of 25, bringing a further 100 business clients to the 350 held. Mr White, one of three partners, said: “We don’t consider it a major change and can reassure clients coming on board of that. “It is a long established company with a good reputation, and we welcome the move.”

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NGO Recruitment is celebrating its best ever year in business; smashing targets and securing new clients. The agency celebrated 16 years in business on May 1, with a record year in terms of profits made and the number of new clients secured. The team saw a 36 per cent increase in client base compared to last year. It also exceeded their annual target by delivering an additional 42 per cent in profit. Richard Green, Ongo Recruitment manager, said: “We’re thrilled to have had such a successful year, and we’ve placed staff into many fantastic North Lincolnshire businesses.

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We’re setting our targets even higher for 2019 and hope to be able to support local people and the community even further Richard Green

“What’s really brilliant though is the fact that the team’s hard work really does make a difference to our local community. We are able to offer so many people living in North Lincolnshire a job with the businesses we provide staff for, but it doesn’t stop there. What we believe makes us different is our dedicated Employment Support Team who are on hand to help individuals become confident, skilled and work ready. They offer support through training, mentoring and coaching to help people realise their true potential and secure employment, which has in turn meant we can place high quality candidates

Best ever year is an Ongo-ing feat in roles we have to fill. “We’re setting our targets even higher for 2019 and hope to be able to support local people and the community even further.” Over the past 12 months, the team has focused on securing more clients within the industrial sector, and to begin growing their client base within the food sector which was a

new addition to the teams remit in 2018. The team has exciting plans for the coming year, focusing on continuing to drive the industrial and food sector to assist people in the community who may be low skilled to gain sustainable employment and enhance their lives. The team also has plans to take on another

recruitment consultant towards the end of the year. Could your business benefit from a high quality recruitment agency which puts the community at the heart of what it does? Get in touch with Ongo Recruitment to find out more via www.ongorecruitment. co.uk

Success at Business Awards THERE was success at the 2019 Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards for Ongo. The organisation won the DFDS Excellence in the Community Award, with judges impressed by the social housing provider’s 2018 carnival, which attracted 2,500 people, as well as #WeCareDays to spruce up different areas. Dine & Dances for older tenants as well as activities and events for children and families in school holidays were also welcomed, as well as the organisation’s presence in Westcliff, formerly featured on Skint, and an £11.2 million project on the estate called The Arc which has helped make this community more engaged, vibrant and energetic. The award was presented on Friday at The Baths Hall.

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