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INDSEY Oil Refinery’s good operating has performearly £3-million been ance through major invested intothemaking restructure has seen the northern Lincolnshire a moneycentral generated in the 2016 sehub for needs for of reinvestment. ofcured some the UK’s biggest A huge project to halve capacity potato sellers. has beenWold completed, and now the Elsham has just become the focus is on improving the quality new headquarters for AKP Group, of products as it embarks on a supplier to supermarket giant leaner, more future. Morrisons andefficient major chip The efforts over nearly two manufacturer McCain. years since the downsizing A state-of-the-art office block, announcement have been temperature controlled potato acknowledged at Total Group storage facility and grading line, level. with extensions to together Threehandling awards have been existing areas have just received, recognising operational been completed, with the performance, 13-year-old firminnovation headed byand Richard team work, withthe general Arundel moving wholemanager Jacques Beuckelaers underlining administration back into the area the trust from York.in the North Killingholme refinery team from The son of Grimsby town centre ParFreeman is. and Street markets Mr Beuckelaers, whowho hasalso led the grocer David Arundel, FIT to – Future Total merchant project, said: used act as ainpotato to “What is fish a real highlight is that the area’s and chip shops, after the hard work of the last joined forces with Suffolk three to fourBruce years at Lindsey Oil businessman Kerr in 1999. Refinery by everyone, staff The former KP potatoTotal storage and contractors, have received facility which has we now been positive recognition from substantially developed, was headquarters. It when is a worldwide acquired in 2007, a project honour the finished group’s began to within grow skin refiningon and chemicals portfolio potatoes the Isle of Axholme. for improvements we we have made “We wanted to show could on availability . It wasquality the best produce the required progress in reliability and locally thatseen supermarkets were availabin ilifrom ty.” Herefordshire, buying A group employees from he Scotland orof even importing,” across the site represented LOR it in said. “Morrisons backed us with Paris, sat with Total and we and wentwere to Yorkshire Forward chief executive Patrick Pouyanné. (the scrapped regional development putting “We had a agency) good year, we together plan. then tiedand the I achieveda all ourWe objectives, supply chain up thankful and got the am really very for my funding.” teams. We can be proud of what we have achieved, we worked That equated to £700,000. Withvery hard on multiple targetsin and Morrisons’ rapid growth the objectives the end,has if the retail world,and thein business been teams achieve alland objectives, the propelled quickly, working refinery manager L isHarrison a happy & with Eastoft-based man.” Co, the infrastructure to allow for
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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. For more information about the dinner, which is frequently well represented by the South Bank and features a drinks reception within Parkinson Court, home to the famous Marks & Spencer archive and art gallery, e-mail katya.menhennet@cbi.org.uk or visit http://yorkshire-annual-dinner.eventbrite.com
£20m milestone passed HARD WORK PAYS major last summer that 120,000 have been further increases hasOFF: nowThe been put works employed, handling tonnes inrewarded. place. Right, Jacques Beuckelaers.of potatoes a year. Of that, 35,000 tonnes are self-grown, with a “We have taken two years to get with the remaining million TLORsaid has Mr alsoArundel. ensured “We future group in this£20 region and to this,” got growing investments are financed, while outlined in thesite restructure to be around another in Suffolk, the grant funding for storage and covering capital investments used, with £13 invested contributing themillion balance. grading operations in 2009, and made tostorage streamline the plant over this past year on the furnace built the throughout 2010, Recently 15 employees were of the past year. It has resulted in a crudewith unit three two . graduate to be open for that harvest. We added, best-performing have had potatoes furnace in from across 2010 and trainees also ofunits the company, Two of thepart main will be the whole group, the teams 2011, and the wholeasproject has look specialising in growing, logistics changed, with the forward to anwith uninterrupted run been finished the offices just and technical elements, including hydrodesulpherisation unit in 2017. now. agronomy . The remaining (HDS3) and the fluid catalytic “We desire made aispositive investment has seen a fleet “Our to have more cracking unit (FCCU) to beof six contribution, had a goodlocal to Mercedes rigs brought in to deliver quality potato producers adapted to make cleaner, lighter operating result,cut anddown even on better the potatoes to customers, with the this site. It would fuels. Work within this sphere to know that allThere this money primary Morrisons’accolade. packing transport costs. is still we a lot broughtroute the innovation this it year invested operations near Harrogate. ofgained potential, willwe help the in “This position the refinery the future of the refinery; the environmental footprint and this Keen to will cultivate a prosperous even better,” Mr Beuckelaers turnaround andhas the the renovation on future part of the world ability to for Lincolnshire potato said. “The capacity is there, and we the crude unit” grow some of the Mr bestBeuckelaers potatoes in farmers, the 32,000sq ft storage will improve certain processes said. the country, that is what we are facility and 4,000 sq ft two storeyto makedevelopment better quality products. majoring on.” Planning is underway for two office – which drew ● continued on page 10. Office projects in are 2019now and 2020, inspiration from Genesis A total oflooming 44 people
Park on Grimsby’s flagship Europarc development, will be officially opened this week by Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board chairman John Godfrey CBE, himself a North Lincolnshire farmer. Mr Arundel added: “We’re looking forward to opening the new cold store and grading facility – the uncharacteristic weather conditions have brought us a challenging year, but the opening event is just rewards for everyone’s hard work. “The new facility will not only enable us to meet the demand of our biggest customers, but we’ve also successfully improved the quality and freshness of our potatoes by reducing transportation, handling and using the latest cold store technologies.”
A FURTHER £4-million of investment across the region this last quarter has seen the total funds issued by Finance Yorkshire climb to £23-million. The money, available to firms in northern Lincolnshire in seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments – ranging from £15,000 to £2-million – is there to help small and medium sized businesses meet their growth and development requirements. The figure amounts to 224 investments in 183 small medium enterprises since August YOURand daily port of sized call for all things business across 2010, leadingEstuary to more 4,600 jobs created and the Humber is than celebrating its first safeguarded in the region. In the last quarter alone, anniversary. the venture capital and loan fund completed 30 Humberbusiness.com is one today, and while investments totalling more than £4.3 million. uncertainty may remain about the future of the Alex McWhirter, chief Finance political make-up of ourexecutive area, one of thing is certain Yorkshire, “We are looking to building and that issaid: the power and might forward of the Humber as on these figures and helping more companies an industrial strength. Whatever the future holds, achieve growth in the coming months. there is no doubt that both north and south banks “We urge established and early companies are intrinsically linked. They sharestage the vital waterway to continue to our speak to ushas to grown see if Finance around which wealth and leaders on Yorkshire can help turn their ambitions into both sides are united in their passion and a reality.” Supported bytothe European Union, itathas determination look, with optimism, theattracted future £30-million theensuring European potential of investment wind energy,from while ourRegional Development Fund, £15-million fromheartlands Yorkshire are traditional businesses and industrial Forward’s supported.Single Programme, and £45-million match funding from the European Investment We celebrate today, and look forward Bank. to tomorrow, Foran information www.finance-yorkshire.com with eight-pagevisit special, inside.
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