Jean-Pierre van Zyl, head of employment at Square One Law and Kevin Brown, CEO, Pacifica Group, the largest domestic support service provider and owner of the 0800 repair brand offering professional appliance repairs to households and businesses, discuss whether employers…

One of the firms helping to transform Teesworks has hired a new apprentice to help prepare the site for investment and give him good-quality, on-the-job training during National Apprenticeship Week. Redcar-based Michael Stonehouse, 18, has joined Hall Construction as an…

Since the UK set legally binding targets to reach net zero emissions by 2050, a steady stream of organisations have stepped forward to set their own ambitious targets to reduce emissions. It has been suggested that investors are increasingly expecting…

Hot work is routine within the Chemical Industry but continues to be one of the biggest causes of work fatalities and serious injuries. In addition a fire or explosion normallly results in major plant damage and environmental impact. OEE /…

Solomons Europe has launched a new-look website as part of a major profile-raising push across the North. www.solomonseurope.com now boasts fresh and colourful graphics that build on the colours contained in the company’s logo and includes bite sized chunks of…

Public, private and voluntary sector professionals in County Durham and the Tees Valley are invited to sign up to free digital skills training – both technical and creative – following some quick thinking by Teesside University as part of its…

Quotient Sciences, the drug development and manufacturing accelerator, announced that it has acquired Arcinova, the U.K.-based multiservice contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO). With over 40 years of experience and 160 employees, Arcinova provides drug substance, drug product and bioanalysis…

I’m going to open up about something very important to me in this article, my belief that for sustainability to really be implemented across all industries around the globe, two things must happen simultaneously – an eternal optimism held by…