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“Bringing People Together”

A brilliant bullet from Paul Frankland’s (Operations Director at NEPIC) super slide-deck presented to us this morning at the Wilton Centre, the premier science park in the North East of England adjacent to Wilton International and sitting in the heart of the North East of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC).

The NEPIC Cluster is the largest industrial concentration of chemical, pharmaceutical and process companies in the UK, and the second largest in Europe.

Paul and Joanne Fryett (CEO at NEPIC) hosted Thorne & Derrick and an international delegation from 3M Electrical to discuss Energy Transition developments and opportunities within the Cluster involving Net Zero. NEPIC have now extended further support for Thorne & Derrick’s business growth strategy in the clean energy, low carbon and hydrogen sectors.

The NEPIC Presentation informed us all about the energy project pipeline on Teesside with major companies including BP, Equinor, Huntsman Corporation, SABIC, PD Ports, MGT Teesside and px Group.

Michael Kendall (Business Solutions Manager – Tees Valley Combined Authority) then underlined the central role of Teesside in UK plc’s economic growth drive which is strategically aligned with the UK’s Net Zero Strategy. The TVCA secures investment and creates jobs; it is home to ReNew ELP, Alpek, Conoco Phillips, EDF Energy, Mitsubishi Chemical and global renewables giant JDR Cable Systems.

We then all benefitted from excellent electrical power and utility insights provided by Gillian Baker (Head of Commercial New Business – Sembcorp).

Sembcorp supply the high voltage power (66kV/11kV) to Wilton International clients via their owned and operated on-site power station, substations and private wire electricity grid.

Our visit concluded with a Guided Tour of Wilton by Paul Frankland that emphasised the sheer scale of business opportunity, national leadership and centre of excellence our region provides for the the future of decarbonised power.

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