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BUSINESS BITES
CAMERONS INVESTS
IN NEW PLANT
Camerons Brewery has completed the
installation of a bottling plant, creating
six new jobs at the facility.
Receiving a seven-figure loan from Royal
Bank of Scotland (RBS) and the bank’s
asset finance partner Lombard, the
Hartlepool-based brewery has used the
investment to create a site capable of
running off 10,000 bottles per hour.
John Foots, finance director at
Camerons Brewery, said: “The rationale
behind the investment is we will now
be able to offer both our existing and
new customers a one stop shop facility
where we will have the ability to brew
and now bottle their product, improving
efficiencies all around.”
CHRISTMAS JOBS BOOST
A string of pre-Christmas store openings
is set to bring more retail jobs to
Middlesbrough town centre.
Collectables opened a new store in the
Cleveland Centre, which is also set to
welcome a new Holland & Barrett store,
twice the size of the retailer’s previous
premises.
Shoe retailer Shoezone has moved to
the Cleveland Centre, who have also
welcomed the return of Middlesbrough
FC’s retail arm to the town centre until
at least the end of January.
Captain Cook Square is in advanced
talks with another retailer to take over
the former Shoezone site.
CONTRACT WIN FOR DEEPOCEAN
Offshore specialist DeepOcean has
secured a second deal from an energy
firm for a North Sea wind farm.
The contract, for an undisclosed
sum, will see the firm provide cable
installation and trenching work for
DONG Energy’s Race Bank offshore
wind farm.
The work by the firm, which is part
of the Amsterdam-headquartered
DeepOcean Group and has bases in
Darlington and Stockton, will be carried
out in 2016 and 2017 by DeepOcean’s
in-house fleet of cable installation and
trenching vessels.
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Professor Brian Cox gets a warm welcome from Middlesbrough College
principal Zoe Lewis and students during his visit to Teesside.
Professor Brian Cox
opens £20m STEM Centre
Professor Brian Cox OBE officially opened the new £20m
STEM skills training centre at Middlesbrough College.
H
e said the centre – which delivers
world class skills training in
science, technology, engineering
and maths - is “an incredibly
impressive place”.
Staff and students welcomed the famous
physicist to the £100m college campus,
home to the impressive new STEM building.
He talked to scores of young scientists and
engineers who are already benefiting from
world class training in process, engineering,
manufacturing and supply chain industry
skills.
The new centre - which focuses on
science, technology, engineering and maths
– replicates a genuine industrial environment
and the equipment and professional
operations are what you’d expect to find
anywhere in industry.
The college worked with more than
40 leading employers who helped shape
the courses on offer as well as the high
specification industrial equipment.
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