A series of courses to grow the skills of scientists and engineers working in advanced therapies, vaccine manufacturing and biopharmaceuticals is being offered by the National Horizons Centre. The initial six Continual Professional Development (CPD) courses have been designed in…

Like many in the events industry, we are excited at the prospect of business meetings and events returning from Monday 17th May. We know how hard it has been and how long you have waited to re-connect with your clients,…

PM Group is using the world’s first engineering grade Augmented Reality (AR) product. The new technology is helping to achieve significant time and labour costs savings during the construction of many large-scale projects. Diarmuid O’Sullivan, Construction Director at PM Group,…

International research and technology organisation TWI Ltd, together with partners Tees Valley Combined Authority and Teesside University, is currently running two programmes specifically for SMEs in the Tees Valley region. These aim to help small and medium sized businesses to…

For businesses looking for an extra injection of cash, research and development (R&D) provides an avenue well worth exploring. Why? Well, in an effort to incentivise British businesses to spearhead innovation and evolution in their relevant industries, the UK government’s…

CPI, an independent technology innovation centre and founding member of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, today announced the launch of the SUSFEED 2 project to optimise scalable processes for the manufacture of next-generation, sustainable fish feed for the aquaculture industry.…

Source: The Northern Echo A County Durham firm is to support manufacturing of up to 60 million doses of a new Coronavirus vaccine. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, which employs about 1,100 people at its site in Barnard Castle, will provide ‘fill…

In today's process and power industries, sustained long term reliability of facilities is a key to profitability and competitiveness. The cost of unreliability, which includes health, safety and environmental (HSE) incidents, is difficult for even healthy companies to endure, and…

Independent fabrication and engineering firm Francis Brown Ltd has secured major investment to help it join a major mining project. The Stockton-based firm received a six-figure sum from the £10million Tees Valley Catalyst Fund (TVCF), managed by FW Capital for…

The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has unveiled its plan to decarbonise heavy industry across the UK in the new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy. With £1bn in funding set aside to support businesses in the industrial, public, manufacturing…