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…

Plans to build the world’s first commercial-scale plastic recycling plant in Teesside using innovative hydrothermal upgrading technology have taken a major step forward. Advanced recycling company ReNew ELP – based at Wilton Centre – has appointed Wood, the global consulting…

Developing a circular economy and removing plastics from the environment will be the focus of a new partnership between Teesside University and an innovative environmental start-up. The Tees Valley is home to one of the largest process industry clusters in…

Teesside University has appointed a new member of staff to its Executive Team who will help to shape the institution’s bold and ambitious research agenda. Professor Steve Cummings is to become the University’s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation). He will…

As businesses work towards reopening in part or full, and advice from the government continues to change as in the Chancellor announcing the extension of the furlough scheme, employers must plan for any return to the workplace in a way…