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SABIC I.T. TEAM IS THE REAL DEAL
A Financial Times report listed
Middlesbrough at number nine for small
cities in Europe on its potential to attract
foreign investment.
#TalkingUpTeesside
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ABIC’s Teesside site is celebrating after
winning the Innovation in Technology
category at the prestigious Real IT
Awards – with the support of three Wilton
Centre-based companies.
The chemical company’s IT team received
the accolade for work carried out on the firm’s
System 18 plant at Wilton, near Redcar, the
world’s largest Low-Density Polyethylene
(LDPE) plant.
Producing LDPE in the form of polymer
pellets that are used by customers to
manufacture products such as household
goods and food packaging, SABIC’s System 18
plant hosts the world’s largest single-stream
compressor.
SABIC’s Manufacturing IT team on Teesside
and data-analysis specialists Argent & Waugh
worked with the firm’s machines engineers to
develop data inference techniques that could
analyse other sensor data and predict the state
of each of the compressor’s rings in a way that
had previously been impossible.
The system has worked reliably, thanks
to help from two neighbouring companies
– TekGem, who provided key infrastructure
support, and Industrial Thinking, who gave
expert help with connectivity to the sensor
data.
The result was a real-time data monitoring,
data visualisation and event alerting system
built in Argent & Waugh’s web-based platform,
Sabisu.
The new system has already provided
significant savings for SABIC by helping to
keep the plant’s operations efficient.
SABIC won the Innovation in
Technology category at the prestigious
Real IT Awards – with the support of
three Wilton Centre-based companies.
UKSE backs 7,000th
business with £100k
investment
Sirius Minerals
exhibition at
Kirkleatham
A major mining project that will
bring thousands of jobs to the
region is being outlined at a new
exhibition at Kirkleatham Museum.
Sirius Minerals’ multi-million
pound project involves the
construction of two deep
mineshafts south of Whitby to
access a deposit of a mineral
called polyhalite, a key ingredient in
fertiliser.
The exhibition is due to run until
Wednesday July 11.
SALTBURN FOOD FESTIVAL
The team behind the Saltburn Food Festival
have unveiled their plans for the sixth annual
celebration of the very best things to eat and
drink from both here on our own doorstep and
around the world.
This year’s event sees an increase from
125 to a record-breaking 150 stalls and is
once again expected to attract around 20,000
hungry food-lovers as the popular seaside
town is transformed into a bustling festival
village for a day.
Saltburn Food Festival takes place on Sunday
July 29 from 10am to 6pm and admission is
free. More details are at saltburnfoodfestival.
co.uk.
An award-winning high-tech micro
engineering company that is continuing to
grow its global presence after locating to
Teesside is the 7,000th business to secure
an investment from UK Steel Enterprise.
A £100,000 second investment from
UK Steel Enterprise is enabling Micropore
Technologies – based in Redcar’s Wilton
Centre and which recently won the
2018 NEPIC Award for Innovation – to
‘complete the jigsaw’ of taking its unique
membrane emulsification process through
from laboratory to full-scale manufacture
with the launch of two new systems.
CENTRE’S £30K
RESTAURANT REFURB
The Wilton Centre has invested more than
£30,000 in improving its on-site restaurant
for more than 750 workers at Teesside’s
premier science and business park.
Working with catering provider
Hutchison, the Wilton Centre
management team has expanded the
Centre’s popular deli bar in the Lakeside
Restaurant and updated food preparation
and serving facilities to provide a better
service. New digital menus have also
been introduced.