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MANDALE ’ S £ 1M COMMITMENT A once bustling hub of manufacturing in one of Teesside ’ s best-known retail areas is set to be rejuvenated thanks to a £ 1million investment .
Mandale Group has revealed plans to give part of Arkgrove Industrial Estate a serious makeover to bring factory units into the 21st Century .
Work on the building , on Ross Road just off Portrack Lane in Stockton , will create six brand new units , available to let in the summer .
Cafe Lilli owner Roberto Pittalis ( right ) with David Dodd from Stockton-based micro brewery Three Brothers , which is producing an artisan lager now available on draught in the popular Norton restaurant .
Local lager now on tap at high-end Tees restaurant
Diners at one of Teesside ’ s most popular restaurants can now look forward to sampling a new locallyproduced artisan lager .
Café Lilli , on Norton High Street , is now serving the Three Brothers pilsner on draught after successfully trialling its bottled lager .
Three Brothers Brewing Company , located just a couple of miles away , at Preston Farm in Stockton , has been established for only 18 months but is now gearing up to produce 17,000 pints of beer and lager every week .
And Café Lilli owner Roberto Pittalis says he ’ s delighted to be including a new locallyproduced lager among his range of drink offerings .
“ Lager lovers like to pair their drink with their meal , just like wine lovers do , so it ’ s important to have a good variety and quality of lagers and beers ,” said Roberto .
“ I ’ m always looking for small , local suppliers and producers . All our suppliers are within a 10-minute drive from the restaurant – our fish , meat , cheese and now some of our beers and lagers – and I ’ ve always been passionate about using local .
“ I think Three Brothers are the only artisan lager producer on Teesside , which makes it quite unique for our customers , and it ’ s produced just around the corner from us , which is fantastic .
“ We ’ re now serving the pilsner in the restaurant , along with four other types of beers produced by the Three Brothers .”
Café Lilli , with its staff of 27 , has built up a loyal customer base and welcomes new customers daily , offering a fusion between modern cuisine with an Italian influence .
The restaurant has recently been included in the Waitrose Good Food Guide – the bible for foodies described as ‘ the UK ’ s most trusted and comprehensive restaurant handbook ’ – for a second consecutive year .
Cafe Lilli is open Tuesday to Saturday all day ( 11am-11pm ) and the first Sunday of the month , 12-4pm . Find out more about Café Lilli and keep up-to-date with latest news on social media or at lillicafe . co . uk , or give them a call on 01642 554422 .
SABIC signs up for Citizen Service
The Teesside operation of petrochemical giant SABIC has tied up with the National Citizen Service ( NCS ) for Redcar & Cleveland to sponsor the organisation ’ s community action programmes for 2018 .
The NCS is a not-for-profit social enterprise that works with organisations across the UK to provide a citizen programme aimed at 15 to 17- year-olds , with the Redcar and Cleveland programme run by local company Imagine You Can .
This year the programme will work with more than 200 Year 11 students from Redcar and Cleveland schools .
Having taken part in the business element of the programme during 2017 , SABIC leaders were so impressed by the community action programmes undertaken by young Teessiders that they offered to sponsor all four programmes for 2018 .
Claire Wordsworth , senior communications
Imagine You Can director Dave King with SABIC ’ s Claire Wordsworth and NCS graduates Emily Hepburn and Elliot Taylor .
business partner for SABIC , said : “ We have signed up again to deliver four workshops , to talk about what we do on Teesside and what opportunities exist for young people in our organisation .”
10-YEAR LEASE FOR WILTON A specialist high tech company has taken a new lease on its office and laboratory space at the Wilton Centre , near Redcar .
Micropore Technologies , which has patented a membrane emulsification and encapsulation process which can used across the pharmaceutical , food , agro-chemicals , aerospace and research sectors , has committed itself to a further 10 years in its 1,300 sq ft of laboratory and office space at Wilton .
GRAYLING ’ S £ 59M PROMISE Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has written to Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen confirming a £ 59m transport fund that is being devolved to the region .
The details of the money , ring fenced for Tees Valley , came as it was announced during the Chancellor ’ s Spring Statement that local authorities in other cities , such as Newcastle and Leeds , have been invited to bid for a piece of Government ’ s Transforming Cities Fund .
SPIE MOVES TO TEESDALE A major European building services company has signed a 10-year lease on offices in Stockton .
Part of a Europe-wide , multidisciplinary group , SPIE – which employs more than 3,500 people in the – will make the top floor of Advance House at St Mark ’ s Court on Teesdale Business Park its new regional base , relocating from Thornaby .
Teesside is home to the UK ’ s largest hydrogen plant . From its plant in Grangetown , near Redcar , industrial gas supplier BOC supplies compressed , bulk and pipeline gases , chemicals , engineering solutions and innovations in clean energy technologies , including carbon capture and storage .
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