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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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