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FIFTH PORT PLAN FOR THE HUMBER ECONOMIC STRATEGY LAYS OUT PLAN TO DELIVER ON LAST DEEP WATER SITE AFTER OFFSHORE WIND SNUBS AT AMEP A FIFTH Humber port with potential supercharged free trade zone status is to be put to Government as part of an ambitious emerging economic strategy on the South Bank.

What would be a development involving hundreds of millions of pounds – building on the Able Marine Energy Park concept that has so far missed the boat in the burgeoning offshore wind industry – it gets top billing in the 10 clear asks to be hand-delivered to Westminster next month.

North Lincolnshire Council is eyeing up the potential expansion of the “last remaining piece of land adjacent to deep water� with leader Rob Waltham MBE outlining how Brexit could redefine the use of the area, and Team Humber Marine Alliance chairman and chief executive, Mark O’Reilly, highlighting increasing demand.

It was unveiled at the local authority’s Economic Strategy Launch at North Lindsey College, Scunthorpe.

Setting out the 10 asks envisaged for delivery in the next 20 years,

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Simon Green, executive director, described how “crucially a fifth port would unlock parcels of land adjacent to deep water access,� with additional plans to support terminals and wharves further up the Humber and on the Trent.

On the trade zone front, he said: “Whether it is bounded warehouses or a corridor approach along the M62, discussions are ongoing and we are part of that.�

Having overcome a prolonged legal battle that wound up in the House of Commons, Able Marine Energy Park has subsequently missed out on Orsted and Innogy’s Humber projects, with an element of the furthest inland zone developed for car handling for neighbouring terminals.

Millions of pounds have already Able Marine Energy Park, pictured been spent on raising the land level earlier this year. Right, Cllr Rob and creating hard standing and Waltham MBE and Mark O’Reilly, chief executive and chair of Team Humber Continued on PAGE 5 Marine Alliance.

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HUMBER Refinery owner Phillips 66 has bought out a multi-site petrol station business operating under its Jet brand in an undisclosed deal.

NJB Enterprises Ltd had four sites in South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Durham, and also operated the Phillips 66-owned forecourt on the A160, in the shadow of the refinery.

The £22.5 million turnover business was headed up by Nick and Carie-Anne Baker, from Selby, and is described as being in Jet’s heartland of northern England, within close proximity to the South Killingholme refinery.

Mary Wolf, managing director of UK marketing at Phillips 66, said: “Nick’s award-winning sites are among the finest in the country and demonstrate elements of best practice which we will aspire to attain across our entire network.

We would like to thank Nick and his dedicated staff for the outstanding job they have done, and we are now looking forward to

HUMBER REFINERY OWNER BUYS FORECOURT BUSINESS building on this success in the future.”

With the exception of the refinery neighbour, these are the first non-franchised sites.

“We believe that this acquisition enhances our current operating model,” Mrs Wolf said. “As always, our strategy is to strengthen the Jet brand and enhance our dealer business. Having a portfolio of company-owned sites that sits alongside our dealer network will help us to achieve these objectives.

We remain fully committed to our dealer network and, over the coming months, will be unveiling significant investment to further strengthen our dealer and consumer offerings. We will, of course, continue to expand our independent dealer network by

attracting high-quality independent forecourts throughout the UK to join and enhance our network.”

Incorporated in 1973 by filling station owners as Coulthard & Cawston (Selby) Ltd, Mr Baker bought it in 2004. The NJB portfolio comprises Abbeyside Filling Station in Selby, Newton Park Service Station in Newton Aycliffe, Durham and the Askern and Balby Road filling stations, both in Doncaster. It had also operated the Immingham site, at the junction of Eastfield Road, since 2005.

Mr Baker said: “It was with a heavy heart that I announced my retirement. I’ve spent 15 years building and growing my business with some remarkable people, and will treasure many fantastic

memories and achievements. I can’t fault the team at Phillips 66 and Jet as a supply and brand partner. They’ve been very supportive and easy to work with as I’ve grown my forecourt business, so I couldn’t think of a better fit to hand over the mantle to. They are professional, friendly and have real buzz about their business. I am confident and delighted that NJB Services is in safe hands and that they will continue to grow and develop the business.”

There are 330 independently-owned Jet forecourts in the UK, with a history dating back to 1954, when it was established by Halifax-born John Roberts, having worked as an oil distributor until the supply of petrol was deregulated. The name comes from the vehicle prefix for Rotherham, with the first tanker JET 855.

It was acquired by what was then Conoco Inc, in 1961, predating the refinery which came online at the end of the decade.

Tilletts is shortlisted for a trio of national awards CLEETHORPES-based fashion retailer Tilletts is shortlisted for a hat-trick of awards at the National Business Women’s Awards.

The all-female led family-owned venture is up for three of the 14 awards, to be presented at a gala dinner at Wembley Stadium in December.

Melanie Tillett, the matriarch behind the high growth operation, which has expanded from a single Cleethorpes boutique to include a Louth outlet and a Humberston warehouse and head office to handle web operations, has been nominated as Small Business Woman of The

Year and Influential Business Woman Of The Year, with the company also recognised for service excellence.

Businesses can only enter three, so to be listed for three underlines the scale of achievement already, impressing judges.

Mrs Tillett, said: “I can’t believe it, it’s just amazing! To be named as a finalist is fantastic but to have been selected for all three is simply incredible!”

Tilletts launched in early 2011, as an addition to an initial venture in kitchen items, La Cocina.

It has embraced social

media as a marketing platform, and excelled with a one-size range, as well as adding its own label items to the clothes sourced.

Daughters Grace and Nancy are also directors, and will be joined by business coach and mentor John McHale on the night.

Newlywed, Grace Tillett Austwick, added: “We are over the moon! To be shortlisted is an honour in itself but the icing on the cake is being invited to Wembley for the Grand Celebrations, we can’t wait!”

Tilletts directors Melanie, Grace and Nancy.

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Major investment in new bio energy base LIME GIANT TAKES MAJOR STEPS INTO DEVELOPMENT NEW offices and research and development facilities have been unveiled within Singleton Birch’s Melton Ross quarry site.

Birch Solutions, a business formed after a controlling share in green energy company PlanET Biogas UK was bought, is moving into the development, itself powered by an on-site biogas plant.

The new headquarters is a £600,000 building, which also provides vital capacity to support the development of new products for Singleton Birch’s family of businesses.

Martin Haworth, director of Birch Solutions, said: “Research and development will be a key part of the Birch Solutions business going forward as we continue to offer biogas plant owners a fresh approach to services and consultancy. “This will also complement our work with blue chip water companies which also use the anaerobic digestion process but as a water treatment rather than to produce energy. “This investment is a sign of our commitment to deliver excellent support to our customers, especially biogas plant owners who are looking to get the best out of their systems.�

PlanET Biogas UK was bought after experience was built up in owning and operating anaerobic digestion plants, with one built on site and others on third party land in the area.

The new centre was opened by Jonathan Kay who has family

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Novartis shock PHARMACEUTICALS: Grimsby has been dealt a huge employment hammer blow, after Novartis announced it is proposing to close its entire operation in the town.

A total of 395 employees are affected, with contracting staff dedicated to the plant potentially swelling that figure to upwards of 500.

A South Humber Bank economic driver for nearly 70 years, the decision came as part of a “global transformation of the company’s manufacturing network�.

Novartis chiefs have set a two-year timeframe, with a sale of the site to an allied manufacturer a potential lifeline.

HoF to remain

links to Singleton Birch’s founder, William Singleton Birch.

He was the mineral merchant who leased the quarry at Chalk Hill in Melton Ross in the 1850s – the same site where the company operates today.

His shares in the company eventually passed to his grandson Lionel Martin, who founded the legendary Aston Martin car.

Lionel’s wife Katherine Martin inherited the shares when he died and she left the shares in trust for

the benefit of three charities – the NSPCC, RSPCA and Barnardo’s.

The Katherine Martin Trust remains the company’s largest shareholder and has donated millions of pounds to these charities since its establishment.

Jonathan is Katherine’s grandson and was invited to cut the ribbon at the new centre.

He said: “I have been involved with Singleton Birch for lots of years and seen the expansion and development and I have been so

honoured to be part of that. “I wish everybody who is going to use this building a great deal of luck and I hope this building is a symbolic start of something that could take Singleton Birch into the stratosphere.�

Singleton Birch was founded in 1815 and although it has diversified into a number of sectors, its core business remains the global supply of chalk and lime products.

RETAIL: Grimsby’s House of Fraser has been saved from closure.

June’s decision on the town centre store has been reversed under new owner Mike Ashley, as he makes good on his vow to save as many as he could from the rescue plan first put in place by the former owners.

It is one of 20 where new terms have been agreed with landlords, with Lincoln and Doncaster, as well as the flagship Oxford Street store in London also remaining. Hull will close.

Rail deal boost STEEL: British Steel has won an extension to its supply contract with Network Rail, the company behind Britain’s rail infrastructure.

A two-year extension has been agreed to the current five year deal, which will see the Scunthorpe giant supply Network Rail with more than 200,000 tonnes – 4,000km – of rail,

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Business BRITISH STEEL DIRECTOR LIFTS THE LID ON MAINTENANCE TECHNIQUES

How a technologically advanced toolbox is engineering efficiency NEW technologies and techniques are ensuring Scunthorpe’s ageing steelworks are in the best possible condition, with emerging engineering methods helping save millions of pounds.

British Steel’s director of engineering, Grahame Wallace, has taken over the presidency of Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Institute, and used his inaugural address to shine a light on the cutting edge work undertaken to keep the company producing safely and efficiently.

Mr Wallace told how looking at the images accompanying the presentation from his predecessor – when Chris Vaughan walked members through the first century of steelmaking – underlined to him the role played.

“I looked at the photographs and we still have most of that equipment in operation, so I thought it would carry on with the theme,” he said. “We may have had elements of investment but we haven’t had as much as we would have liked over the years.”

Giving examples of horrific failures from allied industries such as oil and gas, heavy transport and fuel storage, he said: “It is a difficult job, so why do we monitor and maintain assets?

“If we are not applying current techniques and appropriate maintenance regimes, and not following up on recommendations, there will be potential for catastrophic incidents. Asset integrity in British Steel is a key strategy, and it focuses on the condition of our assets. We look at understanding what the degradation mechanisms are and look at associated risks. A process safety incident in our business would give us a major issue, potentially result in fatalities and considerable cost to the business, so we look at best practice inspection techniques and target at expected degradation mechanisms.

“We are not doing it to comply with legislation, it is about removing the

Main work brings £9m savings for steel plant

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risk and operating our assets in an appropriate manner.”

Techniques used by the engineering team include thermal imagery, endoscopy, drone inspection, ultrasound thickness corrosion mapping and crack detection, vibration monitoring, finite element analysis, acoustic emission monitoring and digital radiography.

It is a toolkit that those who formed LISI would struggle to comprehend, but Mr Wallace highlighted uses, from surveying the 1.5 million square metres of roofing with flying ‘eyes’, to examining the internal condition of gear boxes and boiler tubes.

“There are a lot of assets on our site installed many years ago – older than most in the room – stresses weren’t fully understood too the level they are nowadays,” he said.

Also at the forefront of the engineering team’s agenda is concrete structure integrity, with the Genoa bridge tragedy in Italy acting as a major

alert.

“We have numerate concrete structures across the site, and it is an area we are focused on understanding,” he said. “There are risks and as a business we will be spending more time on them in the future.”

And while the tools are there to apply, Mr Wallace said the initial works were always key.

“You can monitor condition by different techniques but you need to do the job right first time. We need traceability and history or work undertaken. It might not be required next week, but a couple of years down the road. We incorporate that in our business engineering standard.”

The £50 million rod mill investment will be the focus of LISI’s next meeting, on November 12. December will see LISI welcome Fuchs, recently crowned Supplier of the Year by British Steel, having helped deliver a £1 million saving, improving availability and use of key infrastructure.

Presiding over the start of a second century A LONG-TERM LISI member, Mr Wallace will enter his 30th year in the industry during the course of his proud tenure, having joined as a graduate mechanical engineer back under the old British Steel in 1989.

Arriving from university in Hull, having grown up in Cleethorpes after moving from Huddersfield as a young child, he spent the first nine years in the workshop, serving various operations, with a first substantive role looking after the on-site locomotives.

In 1998 he became plant engineer for Teesside Beam Mill, and was “twin-hatted” for a couple of years with responsibility for the medium section mill at Scunthorpe also. In 2003 he returned to North Lincolnshire full time, as BOS plant engineer, becoming works engineer for steel making in 2006.

Made chief engineer in 2014, the title was tweaked this year.

Honoured to be elected, he reflected on the transformation throughout his career, heightened significantly with the

buy-out by Greybull. Mr Wallace said: “I have had a fair covering, and over my time have worked for one company with four different names. British Steel, Corus, Tata and now British Steel.

I won’t say ‘once again’ as it is certainly not the British Steel Corporation.

“It is challenging, but enjoyable. For me, now, as a business we are in control of our own destiny, in a position to write our own future. There are external influences and market influences, but there is a lot more activity we are in control of than there was,

but we wouldn’t be here as a business if it wasn’t for Tata.”

A streamlining process which could involve the removal of 400 positions is currently underway, and with a nod to the tough tasks ongoing, he put it into context of where the business is.

He said: “As a company we have spent a lot of time and effort on survival. Now, for me, it is striving to thrive, not just survive. That’s where our focus is now, to make sure we are a sustainable business.”

An engineer within the Anchor Mixed Enhanced Gas Main.

A HIGH profile case study that is bringing major benefits, is the maintenance and overhaul of the Anchor Mixed Enhanced Gas Main.

The 2.7m diameter pipeline. large enough to drive a Land Rover through, snakes around the plant for three kilometres, and was installed back in 1972.

In 2015 a 90m stretch was replaced at a cost of £720,000 – or £8,000 per metre.

The issue to address is pitting and corrosion at the four o’clock and eight o’clock positions, where a waterline between liquid and gas forms.

“We came up with a different process of tackling this, a process where the bottom third of the pipe is lined, shotblasted and then a screed – a coating of

the pipeline – is applied,” Mr Wallace said.

Hatches for access were installed at various points, with the ultrasound thickness corrosion mapping showing where on the main the work was required.

“For us it has been a significant step forward, an application of technology to find issues and new technique, the coating, to deliver improvement of integrity and significant cost reduction.

Instead of £8,000 a metre it was £2,000 a metre to carry out repairs to a mile. It gained us £9 million in savings and improved asset integrity.”

Plans for a further 840m are now being brought forward for summer 2019.

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Heathrow hub could ‘transform economy’ STEEL, SITE AND SKILLS FORM A STRONG PROPOSITION BRITISH Steel deputy chief executive Paul Martin has underlined the “opportunity of a generation” that is the potential Heathrow logistics hub.

The company’s sprawling Scunthorpe site is in the final 60 areas for consideration, with numbers expected to be brought down early in 2019, with hopes of a definitive decision by the end of next year.

Mr Martin ran through the credentials as part of the second big ask of government in North Lincolnshire Council’s emerging economic strategy, focused on growing manufacturing and engineering.

Speaking at the North Lindsey College launch event, he said: “We are sat on a site of 500 acres, we have lots of land, lots of buildings, and lots of connectivity. A mainline connection to rail, we bring material in through Port of Immingham and we have lots of road and rail movement. We think we offer a strong opportunity to set up a logistics hub in this region.”

Economic strategy launch speakers, from left, Peter Thorpe, Mark O'Reilly, Simon Green, Paul Martin, David Clugston and Cllr Rob Waltham MBE. Britain’s largest airport is pushing forward with development of a third runway, with the associated infrastructure required totalling some £15 billion.

“Heathrow has looked at this and said it needs 370,000 tonnes of steel, and committed to the public procurement guidance that we should use steel (manufacturing) based in the UK wherever possible,” Mr Martin said.

“If we can attract off-site production and reassure Heathrow

and others it is UK steel being used to build the project, then great, but it is not enough to have a site and steel. Heathrow is looking for a number of things, looking for skills and people to be able to work in logistics.

“We have excellent schools and colleges, I’m pleased to see the Engineering UTC and good engineering apprenticeship workshops.

I think we can offer Heathrow reassurances we have the right people, with the right skills and

right education. This area has expertise in logistics, one of the biggest ports in Europe, on our doorstep, we know we can move stuff.

“If we can get this established it goes beyond Heathrow. I can see it rolled out to HS2, to Hinkley Point, to Crossrail, lots of big infrastructure projects where you cannot have all that work and wealth in the South East, where it has to be done off-site and shipped in.

“If this region is chosen to host a hub I would see it as absolutely transformational for the regional economy. For us the more steel the better, we can offer land and buildings, and for British Steel it is a boost in terms of long term sustainability, but if landed it is an opportunity for business transformation for North Lincolnshire.”

The collaboration with other stakeholders was also key, having been well demonstrated when Heathrow executives visited Scunthorpe earlier this year.

Fifth port for the Humber proposal will go to BEIS ● continued from page one. some utility provision, but the quay has yet to be brought forward, with wider logistics proposals already on the table too.

Cllr Waltham said: “We have to state our ambition.

We have a great asset, which, as well established, has access to deep water, and potential of emerging importance. This is our pitch to government. We will be taking it to the Secretary of State.”

More than 70 businesses have signed up to support, with the House of Lords visit scheduled for the end of November. Able UK’s position on the proposal – as land owner – is not yet clear, with representatives not present and not

available for comment, but an obligation to develop was stressed by Cllr Waltham.

With expansions at Immingham in container and bulk handling, and DFDS adding a further 10 per cent to its operating footprint, Mr O’Reilly underlined the need. “There is a demand for more capacity around the Humber, and you can see that in developments happening now, and that will increase,” he said.

“There is a drive to direct future traffic north. Of the 90 per cent of containers landed in southern ports, 60 per cent is destined for the midlands and the north.

That is a key focus, it is congesting roads and we

have space to grow.

Post-Brexit it opens new opportunities, and one of those is free ports, and supercharged free ports, linking ports with enterprise zones, is massively important.

“It is very interesting and something we need to adopt while we can in this part of the world, and take advantage of the growing economy to get the best out of Brexit.

“I’m really pleased to see North Lincolnshire Council looking in this direction.”

Mr O’Reilly has been a strong supporter of AMEP through the process, well aware of the strategic importance. “There are not many spaces in the whole of the UK where there is room

for development of port facilities and adjacent land,” he said. “There is a great opportunity whatever the operating need. We have to optimise that the best we can. A lot of areas are envious of that water frontage and space beyond it.”

Other key points include growing the manufacturing and engineering supply hub, with British Steel’s Heathrow ambition highlighted, so too the support, growth and diversification of the chemical and energy cluster.

Improved connectivity on road and rail, with A15 dualling and faster, more regular links to Doncaster, Sheffield and HS2 are seen

as vital, as well as having ‘oven-ready pump-primed’ sites for development.

There is a clear focus on lifelong skills and development and a university campus plan, with ambition to host the National Flood Resilience Centre too, a project devised by University of Hull and Humberside Fire And Rescue.

Further work on town centre development and market town regeneration is also included, with recognition of the Lincolnshire Wolds within the boundary as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty also sought.

Jobs boost at brickwork site MANUFACTURING: One of the UK’s leading trailer and commercial vehicle body manufacturers has acquired a 26 acre site in North Lincolnshire to create a new flagship base, bringing major job creation.

Cartwright Group currently operates its conversions business from Hatfield, South Yorkshire, but has outgrown the rented location.

Now it aims to create more than 175 new jobs in the next 18 months as it takes on the former Belton Brickworks site, while the existing 72-strong team prepares for the 10 mile move east.

Located between Belton and Epworth, adjoining land has also been bought as part of the undisclosed deal.

£220m power plant approved ENERGY: Planners have approved the creation of a £220-million waste-to-energy plant at Immingham.

Developer North Beck Energy has secured the backing of North East Lincolnshire Council, and is confident construction will start in the next 12 months.

The 49.5MW scheme will generate electricity from waste destined for landfill or export, creating 40 new jobs and more than 300 construction roles.

Soup thickens FOOD: More than £10 million is being spent on a Grimsby food factory in a two-phase expansion that is creating 50 permanent jobs and scores of seasonal opportunities.

New Covent Garden Soup Co producer Hain Daniels is adding new lines as it consolidates its manufacturing footprint on Europarc, following the closure of a plant in Peterborough.

The enhanced production will be up and running ahead of this winter season, with planning permission granted and talks with the landlord underway to expand the Lakeside site by a further 10 per cent.

That will add new storage capacity, anticipated to be operational next winter.

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The past month has seen an inaugural Energy Institute and Catch Energy Conference held, as well as the Humber branch of the EI’s annual dinner.

Chief executive of the Energy Institute, Louise Kingham OBE delivered the keynote speech at the former. David Laister reports.

Guests at the Energy Institute annual dinner at Humber Royal Hotel, Grimsby.

ENERGY Institute chief executive Louise Kingham OBE has described the Humber’s adoption of the Energy Estuary title as “not just a concept or PR headline, but a real-world jewel of the UK energy system”.

The senior figure at the helm of the professional chartered organisation was addressing the first joint Energy Institute and Catch Energy Conference, held at the Stallingborough base of the member organisation.

More than 50 delegates heard her describe the Humber LEP’s Blueprint for an Industrial Strategy as “an ambitious – but realistic – claim for this region to be central to the UK’s future economic success,” praising the response to the Clean Growth ‘grand challenge’ set by the Government – not only in low carbon energy generation, goods and services, but also in the more efficient use of energy and resources by industry.

“I believe the collaboration we

see in our industry here in the Humber promises to deliver for the region and the UK,” she said.

“The region as a whole is pulling together, with our industry at its heart.”

A regular visitor, Mrs Kingham said the “Humber’s role in the UK’s energy system really does take some beating.” listing how it is responsible for one third of the UK’s coal imports, one third of the UK’s fuel, one fifth of the natural gas landed and one sixth of electricity generated.

“With two refineries and strengths in steel, chemicals and process industries, the Humber has one of the largest concentrations of energy intensive industries in the country. The banks of the Humber – and the ports of Immingham, Hull, Grimsby, Trent and Goole – are home to established and still flourishing industries.

“It’s important we keep our eye on the reality of this. The Inter-

national Energy Agency’s World Energy Balances report, published just last month, provides a reality check on where the world gets its energy from.

“It underscores to me that the transition to low carbon, though

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I believe the collaboration we see in our industry here in the Humber promises to deliver for the region and the UK Louise Kingham OBE

crucially important, is still embryonic. The centre of gravity is still in fossil fuels, on which we still rely for so much of our everyday life and economic prosperity.

45 years ago, fossil fuels – oil, gas and coal – accounted for 86 per

cent of the mix. In 2016, this was still 81 per cent. And that’s 81 per cent of two and half times more energy consumed per year!

“Here in the UK fossil fuels still account for half of our electricity and 98 per cent of our road fuels.

But this region is also bristling with the new energy technologies.

And that’s crucial.

“Almost three years ago I celebrated COP21. The Paris agreement was an extraordinary milestone. Global emissions need to peak in the second half of the century if we’re to have any chance of keeping temperatures within 2C of pre-industrial levels.”

This has been brought into sharp focus in the days following her presentation, with last week’s findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released, warning we have 12 years to act to prevent catastrophic consequences. Road fuel and energy generation were again a focus.

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praises the Humber as a British success story

Mapping out the region’s strengths ENERGY Institute Humber branch chief executive David Talbot, who is also at the helm of Catch, welcomed guests to what is hoped will be the first of many such conferences.

He said: “In the Humber region we have a multi-faceted offer, with traditional energy producers, the refineries, biofuels,

“In the UK, through the Climate Change Act passed a decade ago, Parliament has bound successive governments to progress towards a reduction in emissions of at least 80 per cent by 2050, on a 1990 baseline. This puts a tremendous onus on our industry to adapt.

And I see in the Humber as a microcosm for this energy transition.

“It is exciting to see businesses and politicians looking to green energy investment, to the innovators and disruptors on both banks of the ‘Energy Estuary’ to drive the region’s long term renaissance.

“Wind in particular, and oh my goodness. The outer reaches of the Humber Estuary and water off the UK’s east coast are already a frenzy of activity for offshore wind development. Not least the succession of Hornsea projects planned by Ørsted, the first of which is already under construction, the second consented, third in planning, and the fourth in pre-planning. If all come to fruition, Hornsea as a whole would amount to a gargantuan six gigawatts of total capacity by the middle of the 2020s. But this region’s role in offshore wind is about more than just a location for

and offshore wind power – indeed all of the key forms of power generation except for nuclear.

We also have the infrastructure in terms of the ports, enterprise zones and road and rail to support our industry – although as we all know more can be done to improve East-West and North-South links - and is being

the wind arrays. It’s also about a new manufacturing base, supplying developments nationwide.”

She reflected on Hull’s Siemens Gamesa plant supplying Ørsted’s Walney Extension, now holding

Louise Kingham OBE. the title of the world’s largest – until Hornsea comes online.

“The Humber is slap bang at the heart of a major British success story. The UK is the world’s largest

done.

“In terms of capacity and capability, we have a huge amount to offer in this region, but that means nothing if there is no vision and strategy and the LEP is currently working on its Industrial Strategy through a process of discussions with key stakeholders such as the local authorities

offshore wind market and accounts for almost 40 per cent of global installed capacity, helping push renewable generation to almost 30 per cent last year, something that would have been unimaginable just five years ago.

Our nearest rivals Germany and China trail far behind us on 28 per cent and 14 per cent of global capacity.

“Crucially, costs have tumbled.

The last offshore wind auction results (for Hornsea Two) came in at £57.50/MWh, half what it was just three years earlier, and challenging new gas and nuclear on cost. And the ambition is to go much further – to see capacity more than double to 30GW by 2030 – a £48 billion investment. With the Humber’s close proximity to planned wind farms and assets in ports, land and skills, the region is in pole position.”

Mrs Kingham said the future is not just wind though, highlighting schemes including the £170-million waste-to-energy plant proposed for Immingham by developer North Beck Energy, and ABP’s reception facilities for the decarbonising Drax.

“The Energy Estuary excites me enormously. But, more than the energy itself, what I find really

and, critically, employers.”

He welcomed the launch of an updated ‘Energy Estuary’ map, highlighting the cluster’s intensity, from marketing organisation Bondholders at the event, taking it to the annual dinner to show more than 170 guests at Humber Royal Hotel a part of the backdrop.

rewarding about my role and that of the Energy Institute is the ingenious, hard-working people behind the power,” she said.

The sector employs 17,000 people in the region, just over 5 per cent of total employment. “That’s substantial, but it also supports thousands in the wider economy and boosts the region’s attractiveness in terms of engineering, manufacturing and logistics in general,” Mrs Kingham added.

“The technologies are there. The cost reductions are there. And the political will is getting stronger as the science and real-world realities of climate change bite.

“It’s our job to ensure the human capital is there. The dynamic skills in established and new technologies alike. These are as essential to the pipeline of new talent embarking on their careers as they are to the experienced leaders who need to keep at the top of their professional game.

“Meeting growing energy demand and shifting to low carbon are big challenges for the energy system, and they require incredible people – among them the EI’s members.”

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Wind farm may double in size ENERGY: Grimsby’s largest offshore wind farm could double in size under plans revealed. Ørsted has received approval from The Crown Estate to take forward a Race Bank Extension – a move that should it come to fruition would bring further job creation and investment to the town.

The current offshore wind farm, the main image on this page, is operated from the rapidly expanding East Coast Hub on Royal Dock, and was officially opened in June. It is capable of powering more than half a million UK homes from its 573 MW capacity.

The proposed Race Bank Extension project would be located adjacent to the existing wind farm, 17 miles off the Lincolnshire coast.

While still in the early stages of development, Race Bank Extension could generate another 573 MW of green electricity, taking the town to within touching distance of 8GW. The exact size and layout of Race Bank Extension – including the number and size of turbines – is yet to be finalised, and is subject to environmental and planning approval.

It is the second largest of eight applications meeting the required criteria, adding a further 3.4GW of potential capacity should all be delivered.

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Keeping the fraudsters ensure great seafood is ‘To such perfection of ingenuity has the system of counterfeiting and adulterating various commodities of life arrived in this country, that spurious articles are everywhere to be found in the market, made so skillfully as to elude the discrimination of the most experiences judges.

‘The eager and insatiable thirst for gain, is proof against prohibitions and penalties; and the possible sacrifice of a fellow creature’s life, is a secondary consideration among unprincipled dealers.’ – Frederick Accum’s words warning against food tampering from 1820 set a strong tone for the latest update on avoiding food fraud in fish, David Laister repor ts.

GRIMSBY’S vital seafood processing sector has been given a comprehensive insight into authenticity and integrity issues in the industry, as it looks to maintain confidence with eyes on a global consumption prize.

A special conference brought expertise to the fore, with business leaders hearing how the fight against food fraud is becoming ever more forensic, as fraudsters get more sophisticated as they seek to exploit and capitalise on the competitive nature of a globally-traded commodity.

Telling how last year saw the world produce a record amount of seafood – some 171 million tonnes – host and Seafish chief executive Marcus Coleman, said: “There is room to grow, room for expansion, not so much in wild caught, but in aquaculture. Seafood is really positioned as one of the answers to global hunger, aside from the fact it tastes really good.

“However, if seafood isn’t safe then it isn’t food, and if it isn’t food then there is no seafood industry.

That is taking an extreme point but if people can trust the product in front of them they won’t buy it.

“We have all got a role to play in making sure our supply chain is legitimate, that it can be trusted, that consumers can trust it. If we are all doing our bit to raise awareness then that will cascade through the industry. It seems to me that product integrity issues are not new, in fact they hark back to the Medieval days. It is a high level of risk and very easy, by accident or on purpose, to create issues, and not very easy to detect.”

Species substitution is a major concern, as it can see regulatory abidance covering environmental and ethical checks – from what fish is caught to where and who by, the bedrock of sought-after premium of provenance – wiped away without consumer, or even a company’s knowledge.

“The regulations are sometimes grey, so businesses need to be proactive with the supply chain to look at provenance and do the right thing,” Mr Coleman said. “It

is very easy to fall foul of this.

The regulatory regime is changing, and something we need to stay on top of, and perhaps we can provide help in that regard. It is a big challenge, but we have some excellent pieces in place to support.”

Mike Mitchell, who served Grimsby’s biggest processor, Young’s Seafood, for decades, guiding it through the plethora of complexities surrounding highly valued corporate responsibility, is now managing director of his own consultancy, Fair Seas Ltd, as well as a Seafish board member. He put the issue into context, drawing on the ridiculous and also the realistic, when it comes to the issues, while also introducing Accum’s text.

He said: “Fraudsters are getting more sophisticated, and we have to become ever more vigilant – though sticking googly eyes on fish isn’t quite it.! A Kuwaiti fishmonger has been closed down for it. That is a joke, well it is not, but we can treat is as a joke, but food fraud is endemic and there are much more sophisticated food fraudsters than that hapless chap.

There’s a big focus on it, and it always hits the headlines whenever there is any food-related scare.

“The horsemeat crisis in 2013 really exposed UK and European food systems and vulnerabilities, and a lot of academic work has gone in to this. If you are a big brand retailer, a Young’s or Seachill, you are going to be worried about what is happening in the upstream supply chain.”

Explaining how processors “live and breathe in a world of high risk,” he said that if the right risk identification and horizon scanning exercises are conducted, that they are classified and that mitigation available is investigated, “we will live in a world of residual or minimal risk”.

He told how he had contributed to academic work, and said it was vital best practice that was shared across the industry, and not kept behind individual factory doors.

Mr Mitchell said: “It would be unrealistically opportunistic to

Speakers, from left, Marcus Coleman, Mike Mitchell, Mat Thompson and Andrew MacLeod. eradicate it altogether. It is an issue of societal good, and if we cannot make it an issue of pre-competitive interest for the industry we will not beat this crime.

“Every time a product changes location or ownership that’s where the risk is. The more complex the supply chain, the greater the level of risk. There will never be an era with our food industry – not just seafood – when there are no deliberate criminal practices happening in our supply chain, and they never make it easy for you. People who want to benefit from criminal activity will always make it hard for you.”

Blockchain and biochains are part of the answer.

Stable isotape ratio testing was highlighted as one useful tool in the correct identity of products, taking unique environmental factors on species and habitat to

produce confirmation of origin.

Andrew MacLeod, a food enforcer and environmental health officer, said: “The white heat of technology is coming to what we do.

“The legal root of food fraud and food crime is a piece of legislation in 1956, the Food and Drugs Act, covering food that is not of the nature substance or quality set out.

“Most of what I have dealt with in my career has been criminal negligence, ignorance and bit of attitude. They (the business or individual) didn’t really mean to commit a crime. That’s different with food fraud, there’s intent. It has changed how we think about inspection and horsemeat was the one that gave us the kick to think about it more.

“It is, simply, not enough of what is said; too much of what is said; not what it seems it is, or not from

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Key port rail project begins TRANSPORT: Work is underway to upgrade the rail route between Immingham and Doncaster, boosting freight movement.

Network Rail has partnered with Humber LEP and North Lincolnshire Council to invest more than £15 million to allow high cube shipping containers to run between Doncaster and Immingham on standard height wagons.

Three new road bridges are at the heart of the project, two of which are between North and South Killingholme.

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where it says it is from. The added ingredient is ‘mens rea’ – intent to commit a crime – and we have had to adapt to that.”

Taking up the baton on appropriate action was Mat Thompson, of the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, part of the University Of Lincoln.

A familiar figure to the town’s industry, he said it was a “great British tradition that we adulterate food,” with the “economic gain from authenticity and integrity,” an attraction.

“We have to think like a criminal, consider temptation and make additional changes,” he said. “Consumers expect to eat and buy products and not become ill, that it will have the flavour, taste and colour they would expect. They are expecting healthy food, and will pay for provenance and value provenance, such as Grimsby traditional smoked fish.”

He told how it may not be financial gain that drives criminality either.

“We now have to look at protection against bio-terrorism. I think back to 9/11. I was auditing in Holland and got asked to look at traceability when exporting to the US. How do we defend our supply chain? It is a very easy target.”

Taking it step-by-step, Mr Thompson said: “Raw materials come in, you have a manufacturing process operation and produce something in the end. Under traceability you need to understand what the product and process is; at operation stage it is food defence, how do you protect your business, how do

you defend your business from being attacked in whatever way. In that is regulatory compliance and a need to adapt.

“In protecting the end, it is what you claim to be in that product. The label is really important, it is your claim as to what is in there. If it is line caught Cornish mackerel, you have got to be able to prove it is line caught, it is Cornish, and it is mackerel.”

Beneath it all is appropriate knowledge within a business.

Lee Cooper, of the Seafish-backed Seafood Training Academy, said: “Training isn’t the only solution but it is a great start. Without good training you cannot put your hand on your heart and say you are not involved in a form of negligence.

“It can give you a workforce that understands what it is supposed to do, a workforce that questions when it observes things that don’t seem quite right, and for me, the most important thing, training will give you a workforce empowered to act.”

Telling a tale of how a young employee stopped a senior buyer from a supermarket entering a high care shellfish area because he was wearing a wristwatch, Mr Cooper said: “If you can empower your people to follow your procedures, your rules and stand up to you and say ‘no this is against the rules’ you will have no problems, assuming you have the right governance and management policies.”

A GROUP of students have had a unique glimpse into Grimsby’s seafood industry as part of an initiative to promote the industry to young people.

Organised by Grimsby-based Seafish, the public body that supports the £10 billion UK seafood industry, the study tour, was taken up by Middlesbrough College.

Two groups of catering students visited the fish market, a smokehouse, met a fishmonger, toured Young’s Seafood’s Inspiration Centre, and took part in filleting and cooking workshops at Grimsby Seafood Village.

Julie Snowden, regional manager for Seafish, put the trip together. She said: “These knowledge-sharing study trips are vital to students to view the industry first-hand. It allows them to see the various stages involved from sea to plate and talk to those employed in the seafood sector.

“Not only will this increase their knowledge and skills when discussing species, preparing and cooking fish, it could assist with future career choices. This may lead to careers in bespoke fish restaurants or new

product development for example.”

The tours were taken up by Level Two Culinary Skills and Level Four Culinary Arts Management and Level Four Hospitality Management students over two days.

Ivan Jaines-White, commercial director of Grimsby Seafood Village, said: “We were delighted to support and be involved with this great knowledge-sharing initiative from Seafish in the Humber area. To be able to showcase our industry from sea to plate was an invaluable study tour for the catering students. I hope it will assist with their studies and future career choices, some may become our future seafood ambassadors. We look forward to supporting future initiatives.”

Nicholas Donnelly, communications manager for Young’s Seafood Ltd, added: “We were delighted to welcome Middlesbrough College to Young’s Seafood to help and inspire future generations to love fish.

They came with a great energy and some really insightful questions and we look forward to seeing their careers in the industry flourish.”

GRIMSBY’S biggest employer, Young’s Seafood, has launched a major recruitment drive as it staffs up to meet the demand of new long-term contracts.

And it is understood all 200 jobs originally outlined when it secured a supply deal with Marks and Spencer will be created, despite major doubts following a subsequent loss of work with Asda.

After Five Star Fish’s Easter bombshell that it was closing, with 390 jobs put at risk, the Ross House team moved quickly to secure the salmon and coated fish work.

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A SIGNIFICANT industrial investment has seen a highly specialist recycling treatment centre in Immingham become the UK’s largest.

CPL Activated Carbons has trebled its capacity to become a leading European player.

From its location on Port of Immingham, it reactivates the key element in industrial purification processes. Operational for the past five years, it works with those responsible for gas and liquid phase filtration applications, such as air treatment, water purification and numerous other environmental protection measures, ensuring levels of performance are maintained.

When carbons are ‘spent’ and no longer achieving the required level of filtration, they are replaced. Spent carbons can be regenerated by a process called thermal reactivation, which involves passing it through a high temperature rotary kiln.

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Divisional director Steve Bell said: “After proving our capability in this sector since we started reactivating carbons back in 2013, it is great to complete this next phase in our growth strategy with the installation of this very impressive new kiln.

“It has three times the capacity of the previous unit and can regenerate spent granular and pellet

carbons with a high loading of contaminants. Its sophisticated scrubbing system ensures it is an environmentally friendly process.”

Used for what are described as ‘amber list’ materials, it comes hot on the heels of investment in a separate system for ‘green list’ carbons, with contracts won with water utilities earlier this year.

Mr Bell said: “2018 has been an exciting year for CPL, with the

start-up of our ‘green list’ reactivation kiln earlier in the summer, and the ongoing growth of our mobile carbon filter fleet and engineering capability.

“The expansion of our amber list carbon regeneration capacity puts us in a very strong position to take the business forward and benefit from the increasing demand for our environmental purification solutions.”

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NEW BUSINESS EYES UP A PIPELINE OF OPPORTUNITIES North Sea route expands A NEW engineering, design and fabrication company has started trading in Stallingborough.

Pipesco, headed up by Duncan Wheeler and Allan Pashley, builds on extensive experience in the power and petrochemical sector.

Heavily invested in, offices and substantial workshops have been acquired and overhauled on Osborne Road, Kiln Lane Industrial Estate.

The pair met working on the neighbouring estate at BIS. Mr Wheeler, from Cleethorpes, is a design engineer. Originally working in cryogenics in the food industry, he joined LES as a draughtsman, dealing in structural steelwork and general engineering, also spending time with GSA and Wood Group. He has also worked as an operator at Phillips 66 and, for the previous five-and-a-half years, at Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal, where production has recently ceased.

Mr Pashley, from Scunthorpe, was a pipefitter on the steelworks, moving into construction and fabrication, working on the refineries and in power generation.

Mr Wheeler said: “It is a superb location for engineering and manufacturing, particularly with the energy sector and renewables growing. We are big in energy full stop, and then there are the excellent transport links, for the UK and Europe.

Allan Pashley, left, and Duncan Wheeler. Inset, an example of modelled pipework on scan data. “We felt the time was right for both ourselves and the local area, for a new, innovative design and fabrication company.�

The plan is to scale up as work is won, with half a dozen engineers to call on at present, as projects arise. “We are putting the systems in place to grow, we are a learning and growing business,� Mr Wheeler said. “I want to tap into Catch, which has a superb training provision there. There are so many local opportunities for engineering with the well-established petrochemical industry, with two world class refineries,

and the exciting renewables sector, excellent chemical factories and a diverse manufacturing region.�

Keen to “continually invest in people and the area and give something back to engineering,� he sees value in both passing on existing skills and learning new techniques and efficiencies that come with fast paced technological progress. Mr Wheeler said: “We believe by building on the two core areas of safety and quality, combined with a thirst and drive for innovation to achieve a competitive advantage, we can deliver effective business solutions that

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Work has already been won with Phillips 66 and Vivergo, and Mr Pashley believes the three-unit workshop’s capabilities will be an attraction. Across 850 sq m it offers separate cutting shop, stainless steel shop and main workshop, all refurbished with new overhead cranes.

Actually incorporated three years ago, Mr Wheeler said a lot of effort has been put into building contacts and knowledge in the sectors Pipesco will operate in, ensuring it is well positioned for launch.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: Laughter was mixed with sadness for the retirement of one of BG Solicitors’ senior partners.

Charles Ekberg has worked at the Grimsby firm since 1974, but after 40 years, retired this past month.

Staff from the Grimsby, Scunthorpe, Barton and Louth branches gathered to say a special goodbye to the solicitor.

Miriam Barber will be taking over his wills and probate work, with Helen Kent handling conveyancing.

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It will launch in February, calling at Zeebrugge on Thursday, leaving Friday, turning round in Immingham on the Saturday, before the Norwegian calls on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.

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ABP Humber has expanded its pilotage team, tasked with the vital role in safely navigating commercial vessels through the UK’s busiest estuary.

Six new recruits have recently joined the already-strong team of 119 marine professionals, with vacancies still to be filled.

Last year, the Grimsby-based team completed nearly 17,000 operations – nearly 50 a day – making them among the busiest in the UK. Matt Booth, pilotage operations

manager for ABP Humber, said: “We’re delighted to be able to welcome much-needed additional support to our pilotage team as they’re essential in ensuring the smooth flow of trade into all the Humber ports and wharves. “All of our pilots have relevant marine experience from the Merchant or Royal Navy. It’s a very demanding job, as they’re called to pilot ships at any time of day or night, 365 days a year, on an estuary that is known for being incredibly dynamic.�

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and I’m grateful that ABP has given me the opportunity to prove myself,� he said. “The Humber is such a challenging waterway to navigate, however I’ve been given the best all-round training and the senior pilots have been extremely helpful in mentoring and sharing their extensive knowledge. “I enjoy the role because it’s exciting, rewarding and different every day.� ■If you think you have the relevant experience to become a pilot, visit careers.abports.co.uk

Port of Immingham’s £1m agri-bulk terminal investment is confirmed England, keeping them supplied with fertilisers and animal feeds.

The firm has recently signed a new five-year agreement which will guarantee an additional 80,000 tonnes of fertiliser being brought through the port each year.

ABP’s new investment will be used to build a fourth bagging plant for Thomas Bell, and to purchase new equipment for the expanded facility, including loading

shovels and forklift trucks.

Simon Bird, regional director for ABP Humber said: “We strive to exceed our customer’s expectations. This development is another example of how we invest and shape our operations to support the growth of valued customers.�

The new facility is expected to be complete and operational in January and ABP anticipates job creation to support the expansion.

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Bell & Sons jointly invested ÂŁ500,000 to build a bespoke blending facility as part of a ÂŁ2 million wider investment within the port estate. With national reach, this now enables the farming community to request specific blends of fertiliser, bespoke to their requirements.

Andrew Major, managing director of Thomas Bell & Sons, said: “We have been working with ABP Bulk Park for over 20 years and in the

past two years, both parties have made significant investments to support our brand, Diamond Fertilisers, and increase the range of products and services we offer our customers. The infrastructure at ABP in Immingham, including the location, storage facilities, ability to discharge cargoes up to 25,000 tonnes and our blending production plant, has all contributed and strengthened our position in the marketplace.’’

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PORT of Immingham is reaping the rewards of investment in its own bulk handling operations, providing a vital service to keep Britain’s farms flourishing.

Further business and additional infrastructure will soon be heading to the UK’s busiest port, as a £2 million development two years ago brings solid returns.

It comes as huge ÂŁ36 million investment in container facilities has also been announced this past month.

Added value operations such as blending and bagging are now offered to clients, with deliveries made direct to farms, following a ÂŁ2 million commitment.

And to cap it all, the Immingham Bulk Park – a facility featuring 20 different warehouses across the quay from where vital materials arrive in the port – has now been shortlisted for a global accolade.

It is nominated as Best Dry Bulk Port in the International Bulk Journal Awards.

Dafydd Williams, head of corporate affairs and communications on the Humber for Associated British Ports, flagged up the success of changes in the facility.

He said: “It is the biggest of its kind in the UK and it is a really booming business at the moment. In the past it

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Centrica boss tells of pride in town legacy OFFSHORE WIND PIONEER REFLECTS ON EARLY DAYS A SENIOR executive at Centrica has told of the company’s pride at having lead offshore wind development in the UK off the coast of Lincolnshire, and explained why it chose to subsequently exit the burgeoning market.

Mark Futyan was back on the Humber bank to open a special gas-fired peaking plant at Brigg this month, as part of a package of four installations worth £180 million to dovetail with green generation, firing up when the sun and wind lulls.

The owner of British Gas brought forward the twin wind farms Lynn and Inner Dowsing more than a decade ago, adding Lincs and taking Race Bank to consenting stage, before selling the latter to what has become Orsted.

Mr Futyan, Centrica’s distributed energy systems director, announced the sale of the first assets nearly three years ago, when operations director.

Looking back to the early world leader, and the arrival in the town with a single vessel, he said: “We are hugely proud of that. We were at the beginning, opening the first Grimsby base with the first project, Lynn and Inner Dowsing, and there have been many more since. For us it is as much about creating the infrastructure as owning and operating it.

“We selected the sites, created them, and they are there for the long term, it is something we are hugely proud of.”

The sale of Race Bank indicated a major strategic shift, with Dong Energy, subsequently Orsted, becoming world leader as it acquired alongside its own huge development pipeline. It has subsequently taken over Lincs’ operations and maintenance.

Mr Futyan said: “Renewables was changing.

When we started it was about pioneering projects and applying technology and market expertise. It has become much more about scale. To be competitive we needed to do bigger projects, with bigger turbines and very big investments, and it became financed not by utilities, but banks and funds, the profits we could make and the progress, started to reduce unless you can do it on a grand scale.

“Orsted made that choice, it concentrated on wind, but it was different for Centrica. We have 16 million gas customers, we are a retailer and solutions provider, we are in many different markets. “For us to focus on offshore wasn’t the right choice.”

The Brigg addition, alongside the existing station which he announced was being retained back in 2015 – with the model changed from National Grid to direct distribution network – can be up and running in two minutes.

“Renewables are now at 30 per cent of capacity on the gird, it has reached a critical point, and Brigg will help to keep that grid strong,” Mr Futyan said. “It doesn’t run often, it is there to compensate for dips and gaps.

“The way we generate energy is changing and that will see new plants like this coming on to the system that wouldn’t have been built 10 years ago.

“It is a very hard market to know what to invest in. Industry is changing and we have worked very hard on what are the fundamentals that are happening.

“We are seeing a real expansion of decentralisation and decarbonisation, more and more low carbon generation and we are also

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No Dough pizza wins Asda prize FOOD: A cauliflower-based pizza made in Grimsby has been crowned overall winner of a prestigious national award.

No Dough Pizza, produced by health-focused food brand Scratch Meals, was among a shortlist of 90 products in contention for this year’s Asda Innovation Awards.

The fledgling company’s gluten-free, cauliflower-based ham and mushroom pizza was named Most Innovative Product by the supermarket chain and also came out on top in the chilled food category.

Nearly 230,000 votes were cast by shoppers for their favourite products in the annual awards and the nominated products were tested by judges.

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TRAINING: North Lindsey College is working in partnership with industrial and decorative painting contractors Jack Tighe Ltd to offer a new traineeship to this region focusing on preparation and surface protection.

The traineeship is a 12-week programme and is aimed at individuals who would like a career in a very specialised industry, a profession with work all over the UK with each job requiring highly skilled people to manage the process. This traineeship could lead to an apprenticeship and then employment in the engineering, railway, motor vehicle or marine sectors.

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Wagon specialists on track with top project £850k INVESTMENT BRINGS HIGH PRAISE AND GROWTH

Seachill enjoys a strong 2017 FOOD: Sales are surging at rapidly expanding Grimsby seafood giant Seachill, with like-for-like business up 20 per cent in its year-end results.

The company, bought by Hilton Food Group during the reporting period, brought in £261.3 million, and while 2 per cent down on 2016, it saw gross profits leap more than £3 million to £36.9 million.

Operating profits are now at almost £10 million, up from £2.4 million.

It showed that the loss of the Marks and Spencer work – recently subject to a switch from Five Star Fish to Young’s after the former called time on years of loss-making – has had no impact on operations. It will have taken a further 260 people on come the next year end, with major wins with Waitrose and further growth and new lines with Tesco coming since 2018 began.

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LEISURE: Grimsby’s Docks Beers brewery has its taproom flowing.

Now open to the public, a stylish bar and shop now complements the in-view 15-barrel brewing kit, and if it wasn’t enough of an attraction, a 1979 Chevrolet GMC pick-up has been bought and branded up to further promote the King Edward Street venue.

It is the realisation of a project long in the planning for the Axholme Brewing Co team, having outgrown the original premises in Crowle, North Lincolnshire.

A PROJECT which has seen an Immingham-headquartered firm invest £850,000 to breathe new life into a disused rail yard, supporting energy giant Drax’s transformation to biomass, has been hailed as the best in industry.

Davis Wagon Services took up the maintenance baton after parent company WH Davis built 225 specially-designed freight wagons to carry millions of tonnes of biomass a year from UK ports to the power station.

The Marlin House team maintains the fleet, and has set up a dedicated site from which to operate, at Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire, just 20 miles from Drax’s operation. It created eight jobs.

Now, the programme has been named Project Of The Year by industry body the Rail Freight Group in recognition of the innovation involved, and the partnership between the three companies.

John Hall, managing director, said: “This is a monumental achievement for us and to be recognised in this way for the work we’ve done is incredible. We couldn’t have done it without the support of Drax.

“There are so many outstanding projects in our industry, and so to be singled out like this is a huge compliment to everyone who worked on the project.”

Parent company WH Davis, based at Langwith Junction, Mansfield, is the UK’s last independent freight wagon manufacturer. The rail project – described as a “Northern Powerhouse success story” by Northern Powerhouse Minister Jake Berry – began in 2011 when Drax appointed Davis, along with Lloyds Register Rail (Ricardo) to design and develop bespoke rail wagons to deliver the feedstock from UK ports as part of the largest decarbonisation project in Europe.

Drax rail wagons are kept in prime condition by Davis Wagon Services. Below, the Ferrybridge facility.

Drax chief executive Andy Koss as it provides line of route cover said: “This was an important pro- and emergency assistance to train ject for us and I’m delighted that operators. the innovation and hard work of It was acquired in 2006 as a everyone involved has been recognised in this way.

“These trains deliver up to 20,000 tonnes of biomass every day to the power station playing a vital part in supplying renewable power to millions of homes and businesses.

Furthermore, the project has helped support a local business and revitalise a disused facility, which we’re very proud to be a part of.”

Davis is now rebranding each wagon over the next two years with new livery featuring both Drax and the Northern Powerhouse logos.

An 18-strong team works in Immingham, with 35 based at field support depots throughout the UK

service provider, allowing WH Davis to offer “cradle to the grave” support, the business model selected by Drax.

Docks designs? Robotic innovation piloted for Drax rail deliveries MANUFACTURING: An emerging furniture maker has grand designs on Grimsby’s Kasbah as she looks to expand her fledgling business.

Nina Still, who learnt her craft at the prestigious Chippingdale International School of Furniture in Edinburgh, launched Maria V Design after struggling to find a job to further her passion.

Now, keen to add space to show her bespoke pieces having operated from a town centre workshop for the past 18 months, she is hoping to embrace the opportunities the Grimsby Town Deal may bring.

ROBOTIC software which could transform the way the UK’s biggest power station manages the arrival of millions of tonnes of biomass and coal is being tested.

Hundreds of train movements a month at Drax could soon be managed by the system – reducing the time needed to check-in fuel deliveries by up to six hours each day.

The innovative pilot project will begin this month to see if the use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help manage the booking in.

An average of 20 freight trains a day deliver the biomass and coal needed at Drax so it can produce the power required to keep the lights on for around six million households.

Leading the supply chain is the £130 million terminal at Port of Immingham, the largest renewable fuels reception facility in the world.

The process of booking in each rail delivery requires eight separate systems and involves 167 individual steps for one staff member to complete the task, taking between four and seven hours depending on the number

of deliveries.

RPA is a form of automation using a software robot that mimics human actions – such as mouse clicks on a computer – but does not engage in any decision-making or the kinds of ‘thought processes’ associated with artificial intelligence.

Vicky Harris, commercial service centre manager, who is

leading the pilot, said: “We’ll be measuring how effective the trial is and whether it delivers the savings we expect before a final decision is made about rolling it out. But we’re confident this is going to be a really positive development and we will be scoping out other processes at the power station which we think would also benefit.”

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Mayor of North Lincolnshire, Cllr John Briggs, cuts the ribbon to open the Ellgia site with operations director Jack Lvington, as general manager Steve Kent looks on.

Wind farm deal a £4.5b record ENERGY: Ørsted has signed a record-breaking £4.5 billion deal to sell half of Hornsea One offshore wind farm, to be operated out of Grimsby.

Global Infrastructure Partners has provided the backing in what is becoming the finance model of choice for the huge renewable energy projects.

In construction now, Hornsea One will become the world’s largest wind farm when commissioned in 2020, with a capacity of 1.2 GW, connecting to the UK grid at North Killingholme.

As part of the agreement, Ørsted will continue to construct the wind farm and provide long-term operations and maintenance services from its East Coast Hub on Royal Dock, as well as provide a route to market for the power generated.

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Ellgia’s effort saluted as overhaul completes ELLGIA Recycling Centre has been officially opened in Scunthorpe, with the work to raise waste up the business agenda praised by the guest of honour.

The company bought out Bell Waste Control in 2014, and since then the Pitts Bottom site off Winterton Road has been transformed, with special processing lines to produce refuse-derived fuel for energy generation brought in.

Cutting the ribbon, Mayor of North Lincolnshire, Councillor John Briggs, said: “The work that has been done here at this site is beyond fantastic.

“It’s imperative to drive the importance of recycling, and aid in the future of our wonderful town.

“I’d like to think Ellgia for all their brilliant work so far.”

The £1 million solid recovered fuel stream is the jewel in the

MAYOR CUTS THE RIBBON ON REVAMPED FACILITY crown, recently commissioned on site, adding to the capability.

Operations director, Jack Lavington, said: “We’re not just a business here – at Ellgia we’re a family.

“And as a family, we’re proud to launch and are incredibly excited about the future, and the potential that this presents to us, and what we hope will bring to the town of Scunthorpe.”

It has capacity to handle more than 7,500 tonnes a week, or 230,000 tonnesa year, making it the largest facility in the portfolio, launched in Cambridgeshire in 2011. It now covers an area from Suffolk to the Humber, and is

Examples from the Ellgia fleet on site, and samples from the process.

pushing west too.

Technical director Cameron Murdoch said: “It all started here in 2014 when we took over from Bell Waste, and it’s been a really interesting journey so far.

“We’re really very keen on establishing a sustainable business here in Scunthorpe. We are committed to the town and the region.

“We’re investing quite heavily because we see Scunthorpe as central to our business going forward.

“Now, we have a lot of work to do, but that excites us. There’s so much potential for us here in Scunthorpe. Logistically, Scun-

thorpe is in a very good location.

We’re looking to expand through to Immingham, Hull, Leeds and Grimsby.”

One major contract is Ferrybridge Multifuel Energy Ltd in West Yorkshire.

“We’re already supplying to FM1 which is at Ferrybridge on the M18,” Mr Murdoch said. “The exciting thing for us that we are very agile. We have a good, strong business and we’re able to make business decision very quickly and react to technology changes.

“We feel we’re in a good position to compete very well, even with the big players.

“Modern business is constantly changing, and we feel we’re in a great position to make the necessary changes and thrive in this environment, and we’re excited to do that in Scunthorpe.”

ENERGY: A new power station built to dovetail with the increasing scale of renewable energy generation has been opened on the South Bank.

Centrica’s new 50MW fast response plant can provide electricity for 50,000 homes in less than two minutes, and is the first part of a four-phase £180 million investment in flexible answers to meet the challenging new demands of the energy sector.

Built beside the existing power plant at Brigg, which can be up and running in less than 20 minutes, five huge gas-fired engines – kept at a constant 60 degrees centigrade – wait for the call at peak times, with the first coming on Wednesday following commissioning trails that began in July.

Tronox latest CHEMICAL: Talks are continuing over the sale of a Cristal plant in the US that could pave the way for Tronox to complete its acquisition of the Saudi-owned business, despite an exclusivity period expiring.

A 75-day window was allotted under a memorandum of understanding with rival firm Venator Materials back in July.

The proposed sale is a potential olive branch to gain US Federal Trade Commission approval for the purchase of Cristal, which has a sprawling South Humber Bank titanium dioxide plant at Stallingborough, employing 400 people.

It would ease anti-competition fears across the pond, with a sale of a Dutch facility recently appeasing Brussels officials, leading to European approval for the deal.

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Law firm commits to armed forces support THE region’s largest law firm, Wilkin Chapman, has demonstrated its support for defence personnel by signing the Armed Forces Covenant.

The commitment recognises the value that serving personnel, regular and reserve, veterans and military families contribute to society.

It sets a standard to ensure those who serve or who have served in the armed forces and their families, are treated with fairness, respect and face no disadvantage.

Signing the covenant on behalf of the firm, senior partner Andrew Holt was joined by partner James Marsden who is the fir m’s military sector lead.

Mr Marsden said: “Wilkin Chapman has a long-established and proud association with the military across the region. We are honoured to be pledging our further support.

“By signing the covenant, we are demonstrating the firm’s commitment to a continued and growing relationship with the country’s services’ personnel."

With offices across Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, and a history spanning more than 100 years, Wilkin Chapman sits at the heart of some of the country’s most important military bases both past and present.

Mr Holt added: “I am delighted that we have pledged our support to the Military with the signing

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manding officer of the Training Regiment, said: “I am very pleased that Wilkin Chapman has taken this opportunity to sign the Armed Forces Covenant.

“They understand the benefits

that defence personnel can bring to their business and through their military law specialisation have a great understanding of how to support members of the armed forces community.”

Will Aid contribution is a timely reminder to ensure the ‘ultimate succession planning’ policy is in place

Rosemary Joyce of RJ Solicitors Ltd, outside her St Peter’s Avenue practice.

WILL Aid turns 30 this year, and a Cleethorpes supporter of the national fundraising initiative is using the opportunity to remind business owners of the importance of the ultimate in succession planning.

November sees contributing will-makers in the legal profession give their time for free, helping draft wills in exchange for a donation to Will Aid, which distributes to various charities.

Rosemary Joyce, who heads up her eponymous law firm in St Peter’s Avenue, is taking part for an eighth year.

Since 2011, the practice has raised more than £12,000. Last year, between her and a colleague, a total of 78 wills were produced.

Mrs Joyce said: “In these days when people do not necessarily have conventional families, it is therefore far more important to have a will, otherwise any money passed down may not go to who you

want if you do not put some thought into it. If you have married for a second or third time, or are separated, there can be difficulties if you die without making a will, and as 60 per cent of the population still die without making a will. People are not educated in the difficulties and upset this can cause. If people are living together, but not married at the date of their death, their estate will not necessarily go to the person they want it to.”

“It can be just as important in business. If you are an accountant or a professional person, you may have to appoint a professional executor and that is something people often do not think about.

“We all think we are invincible, but businesses could close down or endure severe hardship if someone professional is not appointed, someone who knows what is happening within the

business.

“On another note, if you have a stroke or a heart attack or some other life changing illness, and you have not made provision for a lasting power of attorney to be appointed so that this person can take over and run the business while you recover, it can have a significant impact. People need to make sure their estate goes where they want it to, and the authority goes to the people they want to look after their businesses and finances.”

Mrs Joyce, who has just increased her team from six to nine, said more than one power of attorney can be appointed by a business owner, easing pressures on a small enterprise that can often be over-reliant on an individual.

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Business Hive Live’s record-breaking 2018 MORE than 400 delegates made Business Hive Live the best attended in its five year history.

Collaborate and elevate was the message that came out loud and clear from keynote speakers the Forkans, the inspirational orphaned brothers behind the Gandys clothing and footwear brand.

And it summed up the mood at the annual business to business exhibition, with 60 companies exhibiting at Grimsby Auditorium as several others provided insight and advice with speaking slots strategically sandwiched between the tsunami-surviving duo on Olympian Steve Parry. The 10 local entrepreneurs covered topics from mental health and recruitment, to

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Reflecting on the event, Business Hive manager Sam Burgess said: “Each year we try and add to the event, making it bigger and better.

I’m thrilled with this year’s turnout and proud to be organising such a prestigious event for the local business community. I would like to thank all the businesses who took stands and thank everyone, especially our sponsors, who supported the event.”

A new addition for 2018 had launched the event, with a breakfast meeting for Business Hive Next Gen – a group of professionals and entrepreneurs under the age of 40 – with cooking demonstrations by Healing Manor owner and head chef, Steven Bennett,

who then provided the day’s catering with his The Lincolnshire Chef company.

Alex Wright, managing director of Brigg-based social media marketing agency Knapton Wright, returned to the event as a guest speaker following a successful keynote speech as a former Facebook employee in 2016. He said: “We wanted to be part of the day as exhibitors and speakers not only to promote our brand, but also to be an intrinsic part of what it means to be a Business Hive member: supporting the club, engaging with fellow members and having fun!

“We had a great time meeting contacts new and old, and I felt my own team really benefited from

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Swimming bronze medallist Parry joined attendees at the Business Hive’s monthly First Tuesday networking session which followed the event.

Smart Energy Greater Lincolnshire, a North East Lincolnshire Council-led funded project to promote, innovate and adopt energy efficiency and renewable energy, was a sponsor.

Dr Vicky Dunn, energy manager, said: “It was fabulous to see such a prestigious, well attended event here in Grimsby.”

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Children and young people’s mental health in focus GRIMSBY-based Fortis Therapy and Training has launched its annual conference.

The team chose World Mental Health Day, with the focus of last week’s event – young people and mental health in a changing world – allied to it.

Children and Young People’s Mental Health, will be a day-long conference for those

working with children, young people and families across schools, organisations, charities and local authorities in May next year.

This is the latest conference from the award-wining business, who have tackled subjects such as mental health in the workplace and whole-school wellbeing approach, previously.

Alexis Powell-Howard,

psychotherapist and Fortis’ managing director, said: “We’re incredibly passionate about early intervention. When you help children and young people early on, research has shown that the right support can have a positive impact as they become adults, too. We support young people with their mental health every day – our youngest client is just four years old –

which is why it is so important to us to make this topic the focus of our next conference.”

During the day, delegates will hear from expert speakers covering a variety of current topics, including TEDx speaker, Andrew Whitehouse of People First Education, who will discuss the link between special educational needs and mental health, and Ruth

Fox, a published author who, due to her experiences, is an advocate for effective mental health support for children and young people.

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Career heating up after switch to UTC education TWO pub managers have been treated to a visit to the House of Commons after graduating through their employer’s Bar to Boardroom management training programme.

Claire Hidle, of the Green Man, Stallingborough, and Joshua Penny, of Market Tavern, Cleethorpes, were congratulated by MPs and senior executives of Stonegate, having successfully completed the company’s award-winning Accelerator programme.

It is now in its 20th graduation cycle, since its launch in 2013, 200 have succeeded.

The course aims to build the participant’s confidence, encourage continued independent learning and help them to work together effectively as team.

Stonegate chief executive, Simon Longbottom, said: “People are at the heart of what we do. We’re delighted to be able to recognise the achievements of our incredibly hard-working Accelerators at the House of Commons. The course is a shining example of how commitment in personal development can change people’s lives, as they fast become the company’s most promising managers and future industry leaders.

“Reaching our 200th milestone is a really proud moment for Stonegate and the House of Commons is a fitting place to celebrate. As well as being a memorable occasion for the Accelerators, we believe it is important to help MPs understand the vital role that our company and the wider pub and bar industry play in offering, not just jobs, but worthwhile progressive careers, with arguably the best opportunity out of any industry to go from the bottom rung right to the very top.”

ENGINEERING UTC Northern Lincolnshire is celebrating the success of former student Matthew Boden.

The 18-year-old, from Brigg, is embarking on a mechanical engineering apprenticeship with UTC employer partner Cristal, having receiving a double distinction in his Cambridge Technical Diploma in August.

After joining the Scunthorpe college in Year 12 from another secondary school, he chose to study engineering in the hope of following a successful career based on the specialist skillsets and training he developed.

Marc Doyle, principal of Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire, said: “Saying goodbye to students can be tough for schools and colleges but for us, as we are employer-focused, when we see students move on to the next stage in their careers, it is a cause for celebration.

“After our best GCSE results to date, our 2018 leavers are able to continue their success by following the journey taken by many of our students as they begin the next stage of their careers with the UTC’s trusted partner organisations.”

Matthew independently arranged work experience with Cristal in their repairable spares workshop after being introduced to the organisation at a regular networking event at the UTC. He said: “Engineering UTC Northern Lincolnshire has really built my confidence, helping me to understand more about the industry and the training required than I could have at any other

schools around the area.

“I have experienced both academic and technical studies, which have helped me to prepare for my career later on down the line.

“I feel incredibly lucky to have secured this apprenticeship with Cristal and am looking forward to

the opportunities this could present.”

Mr Doyle said that as the region’s demand for technical skills increases, the UTC advances students to put them in the best possible position by providing technical education and training within a unique environment. It

does this by working alongside the region’s largest and most influential employers, it provides students with an opportunity to learn specialist qualifications, traditional GCSE and A-Level qualifications and invaluable life skills.

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Port role as Antwerp acts ahead of Brexit CONSULTANT APPOINTED AS BELGIAN REPRESENTATIVE MARITIME industry consultant Just Atkin has been appointed as Port of Antwerp’s representative in the UK and Ireland.

The Belgian operation – Europe’s second largest port and a hub destination for global cargo – has strong links to the Humber, and the UK particularly.

Britain is the third largest trading partner with the port, and the initiative is described as a move “to be fully prepared for Brexit,” with bosses hoping trading conditions remain as close as possible to what they are now.

Mr Atkin owns Ragged Edge Consulting Ltd, having acquired the business two years ago. Prior to that he was a key figure in the commercial team with Associated British Ports.

Of the appointment, which will see him dedicate several days a month to the role, he said: “Brexit is a big challenge for the business world, not in the least for ports serving the UK. “Fortunately, however, the links and connections with the Port of Antwerp are very strong. I will be able to draw on my many years of experience to further develop and expand these links.”

An annual freight volume of 15 million tonnes passes across the North Sea, putting Britain just behind the USA and Russia.

Overall, it handles well over 200 million tonnes annually and is on track for a sixth successive record

Justin Atkin at Port of Antwerp.

year.

Jacques Vandermeiren, CEO of Antwerp Port Authority said: “The actual impact of Brexit is still uncertain. Last year there was a decrease of nearly 8 per cent in trade with the UK, probably due to this uncertainty. But with Brexit rapidly approaching we want to concentrate on maintain-

ing and even expanding our market position within the UK. “Of course we are doing everything possible to be fully prepared for Brexit. But the most desirable situation for us post-Brexit would be that trading conditions remain as close as possible to what they are now.

“Any obstacle to the free move-

ment of goods, whether tariff or non-tariff, would in our opinion be prejudicial to trade relations between our port and the British market.”

Antwerp is seen as ideally situated as an investment location close to the European centres of decision-making, and as the gateway to Europe from where the continent can be served quickly and efficiently, given that 50 per cent of UK production is bound for continental Europe.

“The UK was always a self-evident market for us, Wim Dillen, regional development manager for Antwerp Port Authority said.

“Brexit brings new challenges for us, and our new representative will act as our eyes and ears, keeping us in touch with the economic situation and the impact of Brexit on Antwerp’s business.

“We also count on Justin to place Antwerp even more strongly on the map for the UK and Ireland, and to attract new sources of cargo and investment.”

He will play a central role in other planned activity, with a Brexit taskforce set up with representatives of the port community, Customs & Excise and the Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain.

A roadshow is being planned early next year to include a ‘Port Day’ in Birmingham and a stakeholders’ meeting in London.

Home-grown managers appointed at Forrester Boyd

Forrester Boyd managers, from left Jo Walker, Neal Watford, Alex Shreeve and Carrie Jensen.

INDEPENDENT accountancy practice Forrester Boyd has appointed three new managers within its Grimsby office.

The firm, which is in the top 50 nationwide, has promoted Carrie Jensen, Jo Walker and Neal Watford.

Carrie, qualified with ACA in 2014 and her specialist skill set is academies and charities.

Jo gained her accountancy degree in 2000 from the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside and joined the firm in 2002. Following further studies, she qualified as an FCCA member in 2007.

She manages a wide portfolio, largely comprising owner managed businesses across a variety of sectors from leisure and tourism to construction, advising on financial reporting, tax and compliance.

Neal joined the South St Mary’s Gate office after completing A levels at Cleethorpes Sixth Form in 2008.

Following further studies, he

qualified as an ACA member in 2014. He manages a portfolio of mainly audit clients with a specific involvement in the seafood sector.

Alex Shreeve has also been appointed assistant manager, having joined the firm in 2009, following studies at Franklin College. He studied for AAT while with Forrester Boyd before qualifying with the ACCA in 2014. He is involved with a varied portfolio of clients as well as having an involvement in the healthcare sector.

Practice chairman, David Everatt said the appointments enable the comapny to continue to provide a truly personal service to clients. He said “We are delighted with the new appointments. These new roles highlight our commitment to the continued development of the firm and we wish Carrie, Jo, Neal and Alex all the best for the careers with us.”

Forrester Boyd employs more than 170 people.

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Law firm switch SCUNTHORPE lawyer Adrian Coggon has crossed the Humber to join Rollits Solicitors in Hull.

The family law specialist had spent 18 years with Hetts Solicitors, and is a Family Mediation Council All Issues accredited mediator and a Collaborative Family Law Practitioner member of the Hull and East Yorkshire Collaborative Pod. He said “I’m looking forward to helping maintain and grow the excellent reputation of Rollits’ family department.I am very much committed to alternative dispute resolution and delivering the best possible service to clients, in what can often be very challenging circumstances.”

From Messingham, he enjoys football, running and spending time with his family.

New care home

ANITA Gregory has been appointed as manager of The Birches, a Hica Group-operated learning disability care home in Brigg.

She has joined from The Hollies, another home in the group.

Anita has a 15-year background in care sector work, including learning disability support, having worked for Mencap prior to joining the company.

A special open day was held for her to meet residents and families.

She said: “I’m enjoying my new role and I’m settling in well. I hadn’t had the chance to meet all our residents’ families, so I’m glad they came along to our open day.”

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READ Motor Group has appointed a new fleet business development manager as it embraces strong growth in the sector, aided by its increasing geographic reach.

Mark Taylor has joined the Humberston-headquartered team, swelling the ranks, as more than 700 vehicles are supplied this financial year, with strong forward demand anticipated.

For Mike Read, dealer principal, it is the next step in a strong expansion. “Fleet volumes have grown significantly,” he said.

“We are a large Hyundai fleet operator in the UK and we have a group fleet manager and a fleet administrator in the team.

“We have added further resource to it following our expansion as a group over the last 12 to 18 months in north Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire.”

Worksop and Doncaster dealerships have been added to Humberston, Grimsby, Lincoln, King’s Lynn and Boston, with Mr Taylor having previous experience of the Hyundai brand, having worked for the central fleet office of Burrows Group, the company Read bought the South Yorkshire dealership from earlier this year.

He joins Tarquin Philo, the group fleet manager, who moved from working on the retail side of the business in Lincoln in 2014.

“We have scaled up because there is a market there, particularly with the Hyundai offer-

Mark Taylor, left, business development manager, and Tarquin Philo, group business centre manager, at Read Motor Group.

ing,” Mr Read said, with the South Korean badge adorning 500 of the 700 units Read has put on the road, with Suzuki making up the balance with Vitara and Swift models.

“The stand-out car is the Hyundai Ioniq hybrid, which has just won What Car? Hybrid of the Year,” he said. “When you think of some of the competition it is up against in that sector, it is really positive to see as it has only been out for a relatively

short space of time “The Ioniq hybrid is returning in excess of 70 miles to the gallon too, so that is becoming a must review for fleet users when looking at whole life cost in terms of rental and fuel.

“To add to our fleet mix is the Kona, one of the most successful launches in recent years for a new model. It came out initially in petrol, and in the last couple of months full EV. It has a 300 mile range which is excellent at this

stage in terms of EV development.”

Popularity has led to a six month waiting list for the latter, with demonstrators even difficult to come by.

And support is there from the brand for the fleet venture, Mr Read said. “Hyundai is following it up with deals on the table. An example is the Tucson 1.6SE Nav, on a business contract for £179 a month plus VAT. That has just been launched from October.”

Major milestone for MAN and Mark

From left, Ian Mclean, head of international key accounts and special products at MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd with Thomas Hemmerich, chief executive and Mark Price, international key account manager; with DSV’s Tim Cook, driver; Keith Northen, fleet manager; Chris Marshall, director and Karl Timmis, senior director at Harwich.

THE Immingham fleet of DSV has taken delivery of the global transport and logistics provider’s 1,000th MAN truck.

The company plans and routes the daily delivery of full load, part load and groupage shipments across Europe, with more than 20,000 trucks on the road each day across the network.

The latest fleet edition is a New MAN TGX 26.500 6x2 tractor featuring the range-topping flagship XXL cab.

Keith Northen, fleet manager at the Eastfield Road site – itself significantly expanded recently – said: “This vehicle marks not one, but two milestones for DSV here in the UK. “Firstly, it is the 1,000th MAN truck that we have operated within our UK fleet

over the past 20 years, and secondly all 1,000 vehicles have been sold to us by the same contact from MAN, Mark Price.”

The new cab joins an existing fleet of 172 vehicles there, 142 of which are MAN. The manufacturer has a 20-year partnership with DSV, providing vehicles and services.

Mr Northen said: “Vehicle service and support is a key factor for our business, if we’re not on the road we’re simply not delivering our customers goods. The MAN Dealer Network is first class, they are commercial vehicle specialists, so they understand the challenges of running an operation such as our own.

Covering an average 120,000 kilometres a year, our vehicles

will be in service for four years, this means that fast, responsive and customer focused back-up is essential.”

Marking the significance, new vehicle is painted in a commemorative silver with the DSV logo in black, instead of the deep blue livery with white lettering.

International key account manager for MAN Truck & Bus UK Ltd, Mr Price, who supplied the first vehicle back in 1997, said this one held special significance. He added: “DSV are true professionals in the field of road transport service and over the years the partnership between DSV and MAN has gone from strength to strength. I’d personally like to thank DSV for the business over the last 20 years and look forward to the next 20.”

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Striking Sawcliffe is put before planners

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FOUR PHASE SCUNTHORPE BUSINESS PARK EMERGING Impressions from AM2 Architects of how Sawcliffe Industrial Park could look, with phases one to four outlined with arrows right to left.

A MAJOR new business park development is being brought forward in Scunthorpe.

Lincolnshire Wolds based Goodwin & Tucker Ltd, via its principle contractor, Market Rasen’s Evergreen Group UK Ltd, has submitted a planning application that, if approved, would see the 8.5 acre Sawcliffe Industrial Park transformed to open up opportunities.

The company plans to develop the industrial estate by creating commercial space that is affordable, functional and makes a bold design statement.

Evergreen is seeking planning permission from North Lincolnshire Council to develop the first of four phases, with Phase One to provide eight business units varying in size from 800 to 2,000 sq ft complete with secure yard.

Offices and heavy industrial opportunities could follow in further phases, with the developers open to adaptations to suit users.

The units would feature fully insulated walls and roof, power floated concrete flooring, disabled toilets, and large roller shutters.

Sean Tucker, director of Evergreen Group UK, said: “The proposed development would give businesses control to shape their unit to their needs.

“We understand that every business is unique and has a diverse range of requirements, and are happy to provide a variety of rental options from as little as £50 per week, right through to straight forward freehold

purchases. We have worked closely with the council and AM2 Architects to provide a place to work that embraces architectural statement and commercial viability, and look forward to finding out plans are approved.”

The site is off Hargreaves Way, and is bordered by the DEM Manufacturing and Skymark facilities, to the north, the stretch of Winterton Road along Appleby Ponds, to the east, BOC Gases to the south and Holme Steel Fabricators to the west. Phase one is to the west, closest to Bessemer Way. Cllr Rob Waltham, leader of North Lincolnshire Council, said: “These are major

plans that would open up opportunities for businesses to flourish and prosper in North Lincolnshire and would create jobs not only in the initial construction phase, but also through businesses locating to the site.

“By providing ready-made units, it makes life easier for businesses considering moving here as they don’t have that added worry of having to find somewhere to operate from.

“The plans are subject to approval and if successful, would make a real difference and encourage and support more businesses to set up or relocate to this great county North Lincolnshire.”

A site plan of Sawcliffe Industrial Park, Scunthorpe.

Further Europarc expansion approved for Ultimate GRIMSBY’S Ultimate Packaging is to expand its footprint on Europarc further, having received planning permission for a sixth unit on the flagship business park.

The flexographic and digital print specialist, a key supplier to many in the food industry, recently acquired the former premises of Lincs Doors, and will now add a second building on the site.

The 600 sq m unit will be dedicated to storage as the £41-million turnover company looks to bring its needs in-house.

Managing director Jeremy Hodson confirmed Ultimate is looking for an immediate start, once contractors are booked in, with a view to a completion in early 2019.

Former occupier Lincs Doors was acquired by Central Insulations in February, moving

to new premises on Moody Lane soon after.

It presented the opportunity of a third neighbour buy-out, which saw the early Europarc operator – there for the site’s official opening in 2000 – follow up the 10,000 sq ft Witwood Food Products unit in 2005, and the former Department for Work and Pensions call centre in 2012.

Ultimate now occupies the entire block on Europarc, where

it employs more than 250 people, having consolidated and significantly expanded from a regional spread built up in the 18 years prior to the millennium move.

Launched in Brigg in 1982, growth and acquisition saw operations split across the wider Humber area, with bag making in Alford, printing in Hull and a warehouse in Scunthorpe.

Freeman Street office proposal THIS is how an office complex set to transform Freeman Street and spark the wider redevelopment of Grimsby’s East Marsh could look.

The artist’s impressions show what the street would look like if the five-storey block planned for the site currently occupied by the redundant House of Holland building and Freeman House goes ahead.

Spreading over 3,400 sq m, it would provide the prime office accommodation for up to 300 people – with firms hopefully attracted to its position near to some of the world’s best-known renewable energy giants.

A raft of international firms are now operating from sites on Grimsby Docks in order to service the huge offshore wind far ms.

The derelict Freeman House would be demolished under the regeneration plan from the Enrolled Freemen and Hodson Architects.

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THE work of a Cleethorpes interior designer has formed a key part of the recently unveiled ÂŁ50 million refurbishment of the Royal Opera House.

Angela Drinkall, half of the husband and wife team at the helm of London-based Drinkall Dean, has lead on the new retail space brought forward as part of the famous venue’s Open Up project.

London-based, the company was appointed in March last year after winning a tender, which tasked it with creating a new and contemporary shop that would reflect the rich heritage of the institution.

It is the latest prestigious completion to follow a run of cultural appointments in the capital and beyond, including shops and gallery spaces for many brands and institutions, with the Imperial War Museums and The Natural History Museum in the portfolio.

Proud of the latest work, Angela said “We wanted to create a space that sits firmly within the new architectural environment and a space inspired by the magic of performance at The Royal Opera House.� Keen to build on the theatre’s ability to “transport people and evoke emotions on many levels,� she said: “The Royal Opera House’s expertise for staging art productions was also a constant inspiration during the design process, and one that underpins the final design.�

The three-year refurbishment has transformed public spaces with inviting new entrances, extended foyers and terraces, a new cafĂŠ, bar and restaurant, too. All will welcome the public, not just ticket holders, in a first that aims to remove an elitist ideology.

An additional world-class stage has been added in the brand new 400-seat Linbury Theatre.

The shop sits within the route between the new entrance on Bow Street and that of Covent Garden Piazza.

Many of the design features within the 100 sq m space reflect the multi-faceted theatrical provenance of the Royal Opera House. There are subtle reflections to this in the construction of the modular units; the tables, for example, are fitted with grand piano castors, allowing the space to be flexible and interchangeable, while giving the impression that the units are poised; like dancers en pointe.

Even the book displays take the shape of a music stand.

Angela Drinkall and Paul Dean, of Drinkall Dean.

Much of the furniture is large scale and bold, conjuring a sense of the craftsmanship of musical instruments. The units are largely constructed in walnut with antiqued brass with white as a background accent. The space itself is relaxed, and encourages extensive browsing.

Born in Hessle, Angela moved with her family to Cleethorpes as an eight-year-old, attending Bursar Primary School before being part of the first intake at newly built Signhills, where her late father helped build the swimming pool. She went on to Matthew Humberstone and then a foundation course at Grimsby Art College, under the highly respected Peter Todd, before heading to London. She studied Interior Design at Kingston University, moving on to the Royal College of Art for her

Masters. Landing a job with Din Associates, a company that helped style the likes of Next and French Connection, she stayed there for 20 years, working mainly in retail, as well as on exhibitions, galleries and on occasional residential designs.

When the founder, Rasshied Din, retired she was a project director alongside her partner Paul Dean, who hails from Hull and who she had met there. The couple went alone, and now employ a team of six, and are based in Wandsworth. “We went from being a fairly large business to a small business, but working on very similar schemes,� she said.

In 2010 Drinkall Dean landed the design of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes

autumn season exhibition. “It all really came on the back of that, we started to design temporary exhibitions for museums, mainly in London,� she said. “We started bringing our retail experience into these, started to mix retail and gallery, and then we tendered for and won the retail project for Imperial War Museum.

It has gone from there.�

Currently, she is heading a project for The Science Museum, with work for English Heritage on the ÂŁ1.6 million revamp of Whitby Abbey and the Lake District’s Lowther Castle also on the horizon, as well as work with National Trust for Scotland. “These projects are all prestigious, and Royal Opera House was such a different project because we were working with the architect, Stanton Williams, as part of a much bigger team, on a project of a far greater scale, so it felt special,â€?

Angela said. “We are really proud of all our work, we have wonderful clients, but this felt like quite a moment. “It is a state-of-the-art institution and not in any way stuffy or fuddy-duddy. The use of technology is incredible from how they make the costumes to the stage.

Every day is a different performance, and they start from scratch and build in hours.�

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Confidence in finding a buyer for Five Star £3.75M PRICE TAG ON MODERN MOTHBALLED FACILITY THE commercial property expert tasked with finding a buyer for a major £3.75 million fish processing factory in Grimsby is “very confident” he will secure a sale that will help to create new jobs in the town.

The Five Star Fish site, which is situated on the Great Grimsby Business Park, is being marketed by PPH Commercial – one of the region’s biggest commercial property specialists.

Hitting the market last month, as reported in Business, it followed the Easter announcement it was to close, with the loss of 390 jobs.

The purpose-built food production facility is in a recognised industrial area close to other notable food businesses, including Seachill – which has plans to double in size there – as well as Havelok, Morrisons and Hain Daniels Group, where footprint expansion is also on the horizon.

Chartered surveyor Duncan Willey, pictured, divisional director at PPH, is trying to find a buyer for the 100,000 sq ft site, set on four acres by the A180, and he believes the large factory will soon be snapped up by a national or regional company that’s keen to tap into Grimsby’s food processing expertise.

He said: “Sadly, a decision has been made to close the current business, which was obviously a big blow to the staff who are employed at Five Star Fish.

“However, we have already received some positive interest in this significant property and I’m very confident that its eventual sale will boost the local economy by helping to create new jobs.

“Almost every major UK food retailer still buys their seafood from Grimsby and the town continues to be a thriving hub for seafood processing. Good quality food production buildings are hard to find and Grimsby is home to some of the best sites anywhere in the UK.” Mr Willey has already handled the sale of

the former XPO Logistics site to Young’s Seafood this year, allowing Grimsby’s biggest operator in the sector to consolidate further work in the town, having picked up the Marks & Spencer work that was Five Star Fish had to give up, and brought salmon processing south from Scotland.

With around 500 food-related companies processing 70 per cent of the nation’s seafood, the industry is worth more than £2.5 billion to the local economy.

The Five Star property, on Athenian Way, was built in the early Nineties under the

original ownership of Grimsby Town director John Fenty, and underwent significant improvements in 2009 when extensions and additions were made.

The facility now has two main production areas with cold, chilled and ambient storage.

On the upper first floor there are engineering offices, a large canteen, changing rooms and staff facilities. An adjoining two-storey administrative building has a selection of private and general offices with an attractive ground floor entrance.

Having already fielded a number of enquiries, Mr Willey believes the site’s history will work in its favour.

He added: “This building is ready-made for food production. Subsequently, it is much more cost effective – and far more appealing – than a new build premises. Hopefully, that will prove to be a very attractive benefit for potential buyers.”

CONSTRUCTION: A new £2.6million business park at Stallingborough has been approved by North East Lincolnshire Council.

Part of the strategic South Humber Industrial Investment Programme designed to boost the economy in the borough, it covers 42 hectares by the Stallingborough Interchange.

It will maintain a ready supply of “oven ready” sites to support investment in the local economy.

More than 2,500 jobs could be sustained in the area, with 20 business units, which will be developed in three phases, providing space for research and development, general industry and storage and distribution.

It comes after plans were passed for the 2.5km South Humber Bank Link Road, a vital part of the plan to open up the areas between Grimsby and Stallingborough for further development.

The stretch between Moody Lane, Grimsby, and Hobson Way, Stallingborough, will see the existing road giving access to major industrial sites Basf, Technical Absorbents, Great Coates Business Park (the former Courtaulds plant) and Lenzing Fibers, from Moody Lane upgraded, with new construction past the latter plant and through to an existing roundabout.

Known as Energy Park Way, it will enhance the single carriageway, with shared cycle and footway.

A late January start is envisaged, with a tender process currently underway through the regional framework facility the local authority uses.

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PAN-HUMBER workplace health surveillance specialist OH Services Ltd has officially launched its new base.

The team has moved from Port of Immingham and into the town centre, acquiring its own premises for the first time in its 18 years of trading.

The business had been a victim of the major storm surge in 2013, with new facilities built and unveiled just over two years ago.

But the end of the contract with Associated British Ports has seen the chance to take premises on seized upon, with the Craik Hill Avenue location seen as ideal.

Lynne Fulton, managing director, said: “We were on a lease only basis on the docks and the lease ended. This is a great move for us, we want to be more accessible, more in the community, yet still close to the core businesses area.

We provide private work too, so this is a setting much more inviting for that.”

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There is an additional doctor’s room too, as well as spacious reception and administration areas.

“It is just made for us, it is a very similar footprint, and lucky for us it was available when we needed it, and it has worked out really well,” Mrs Fulton said.

A team of 17 is employed across the Immingham site

and in Hessle, where it has also moved to from King George Dock.

Not that the firm is limited to just the Humber.

“We are not just local or regional, but national as well,” Mrs Fulton added. “We work from client sites, wherever it may be, but this investment gives us a sense of security and we can really make it our own.”

A special launch day saw money raised for Mind, with mental health a key factor in the service provided.

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BY DAVE LAISTER

Fifth port prize worth pursuing WE APPEAR to be setting sail again with the ‘big space in the right place’ back on the agenda, as a strategic and seismic shift from dedicated renewables to a general port operation is brought forward.

Yes, the site beyond the refineries at North Killingholme – the last undeveloped deep water access point on the estuary – is once again in focus, with the unveiling of North Lincolnshire’s Economic Strategy.

Backed by strong demand and ongoing expansion around the Humber, the fifth port proposal is ambitious, yet easily understood.

The delays that besieged Able Marine Energy Park have been well documented, so too the recent missing out of work with first Orsted and then Innogy when it comes to attracting the major Humber projects. And while the owners have secured such work in Seaton, closer to

some of the heavy manufacturing that has not been attracted to the Humber, the part-developed site has been bereft of serious activity.

Yes, car handling has been introduced, but there are clearly fears over wasted infrastructure and opportunity, with so many of the easiest cargoes to move, parked on such primed port potential.

Competitive tensions will undoubtedly be re-awoken, and the plan is at such an early stage, we’ve not even heard from the landowner – not for the lack of trying since Triton Knoll went north – but a strong case was made before business leaders, with Team Humber Marine Alliance putting substance to the strategy.

Could it be acquired by ABP? Would Cobelfret look to expand Humber Sea Terminal? Will Able UK keep hold and develop itself? Many questions. There was certainly a suggestion that

with planning and support already given, that there is a big obligation to deliver something. That something appears to be substantially more than new car parking and preening, albeit important, not necessarily by one of the most sought-after channels of commercial estuary.

It could be another stormy passage to get there, with the previous permission focused on the marine energy nature of the offer, but for the wider South Humber Bank’s economic prospects, it needs to be weathered.

With post-Brexit free port potential comes huge opportunity. Opportunity for substantial job creation and investment we’ve been writing about for a decade. It could provide a clear positive from the will of the overwhelming majority of people around this Europe-facing river. We may, yet, have our cake and eat it.