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Clive Wood was awarded an MBE in
the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
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Three more Queen’s
honours for Teessiders
T
hree more Teessiders have been
recognised by the Queen in her latest
round of awards.
Tees Components and Dormor Machine
and Engineering chairman Clive Wood
has been awarded an MBE in the HM The
Queen’s Birthday Honours for services
to industry and skills, and for voluntary
services to the community.
Hartlepool-based businessman Chris
Musgrave was awarded an OBE at the
same time, while Tees Valley Business Club
leader Jane Reynolds was given an MBE.
The hat-trick comes hot on the heels of
three Tees honours earlier this year, when
Bill Scott was made an OBE, and Bob
Cuffe and Paul Griffiths were made MBEs
respectively.
After he was handed an MBE in the
Queen’s Birthday Honours, Clive Wood
said: “It represents the talent, tenacity and
dedication that exists in East Cleveland
and Tees Valley in industry, but also within
education and community groups that are
determined to improve the life choices of
local young people.”
The 69-year-old has made a considerable
contribution to the East Cleveland and Tees
Valley areas throughout his career.
He left school at 15 without any
qualifications, securing an apprenticeship at
a local engineering company, before gaining
employment operating machine tools at
Head Wrightson.
After a stint as a sales representative he
joined Tees Components in Skelton, which
he acquired in the 1970s and has been a
family business ever since.
At the time the company employed
around 20 people providing milling services
to local steelworks.
Since then Tees Components has grown
to become one of the UK’s leading heavy
engineering subcontractors, employing
around 100 people and operating in sectors
including renewable energy, marine and
defence.
Clive also took over Dormor Machine
and Engineering Company, based in South
Bank, Middlesbrough, in the 1980s and
again developed this as a CNC machining
and assembly subcontractor, successfully
providing services to marine, mining, and
crushing sectors.
Hartlepool-based businessman Chris
Musgrave has been made an OBE.
Durham Tees Valley Airport (DTVA) has
extended its partnership with Teesside-
based Close Protection Security.
The business, which operates out of
the airport’s grounds, already provides
a security deal for the St George Hotel
situated on the DTVA site and services to
high-profile clients using the airport.
Following a consultation with tenants
at the airport, DTVA has engaged Close
Protection Security to provide additional
patrols around the landside area of the
airport.
ENGINEERING INVESTMENT
Bearing and engineering solutions firm
BS&P has created seven jobs with a
£100,000 investment.
The £100,000 investment from FW
Capital Debt Finance, managed by
FW Capital and part of the Northern
Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), will
support the establishment of a new depot
in Redcar to extend the company’s reach
across Tees Valley and North Yorkshire.
£860K FOR MICROPORE
• Chris Musgrave, the man behind the
rebirth of Wynyard Business Park, said he
was delighted to receive the OBE.
Following a number of business ventures,
Musgrave formed his company JCM, buying
and selling shop equipment, and in six years
went from employing six people to more
than 250 people.
On selling JCM in 1998, he bought a
redundant business park which had no
businesses and no employees. Wynyard
Business Park was created and by 2015 was
home to 60 companies.
He sold Wynyard Business Park to the
Duke of Northumberland in 2015,and
Discovery Park in 2016, allowing him to
concentrate on building thousands of new
homes in the Wynyard area.
Over the years he has donated thousands
of his personal wealth to charitable causes
– especially to the Alice House Hospice in
Hartlepool.
Meanwhile, Jane Reynolds was made an
MBE for services to industry and the Tees
Valley economy after being recognised for
both her leadership as the voluntary chair
of the Tees Valley Business Club (TVBC)
and her years of business development for
investment funding across the North-East,
most recently with Northstar Ventures
(NSV).
“Everyone associated with TVBC is
passionate about the Tees Valley and has
a desire to raise the profile of businesses
within the region,” said Jane.
A Tees Valley business which has developed
a multi-award winning chemicals technology
has secured a £860,000 investment.
Micropore Technologies’ innovation
allows manufacturers to create more stable
emulsions and, in many cases, eliminate
waste.
The funding includes £750,000 from NPIF
– Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed
by Mercia Fund Managers and is part of the
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
GRADUATES FUEL GROWTH
Graduate talent from Teesside University is
helping to fuel the expansion of one of the
Tees Valley’s most exciting tech firms.
Already, more than half of the staff
at the Middlesbrough office of Clicksco
are Teesside alumni and the marketing
technology business is looking to the
university to help meet its recruitment
needs as it aims to double in size over the
next two years.
Clicksco, which has its headquarters
in Dubai with offices across the world,
uses data and AI to understand customer
behaviour across different sectors.
The Tees Valley is home to the UK’s
largest merchant hydrogen plant,
operated by BOC Linde. The plant
produces more than half of the UK’s
commercially available hydrogen.
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