The backbone of any company is its employees and this week marks on air and online learning at work week. The candidate marketplace is an extremely competitive environment and those organisations which offer development, learning and training to their prospective…

Measuring the body heat of workers in hazardous areas Introducing the latest new feature added to the CUBE800, body-heat mode. This will enable the CUBE 800 to be used for temperature screenings and noncontact temperature measurements by groups and individuals.…

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy have published a guidance document for grant funding.  In response to the Coronavirus, COVID-19, the Government announced there would be support for small businesses, and businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure…

Teesside University and TWI Ltd have again joined forces with the launch of two new Innovation Centres which will help companies to reduce the impact their operations have on the environment. The Industrial Decarbonisation and Hydrogen Innovation Centre will focus…

Joanne Fryett is appointed business development director at industry cluster, NEPIC. The industry body that represents the chemical processing sector in the North East of England has made a senior appointment to support its long-term growth plans. Joanne Fryett joins…

Just a note to any NEPIC members who are also involved with the Royal Society of Chemistry. The 2020 elections are on-line right now. Election campaigning isn't really my thing, but I'm honoured to be nominated for the Presidency of…

Commercial law firm Square One Law has established a COVID-19 Business Response Support Group to help the business community navigate through the on-going crisis. It is a broad based and highly experienced team that consists of lawyers and specialist consultants…

SRG launches the COVID-19 rapid response team to be able to help companies scale up teams at pace. We continue to engage with the government (UK) around the subject of helping companies working within the supply chain for COVID-19 related…

As industries reboot following the lockdown measures imposed in March, many companies will now face a fresh set of challenges. Social distancing is key to protecting the health and wellbeing of employees, yet many roles can necessitate working in pairs…

A Middlesbrough firm has supplied the equivalent of 16,000 bottles of hand sanitiser to support key workers at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in their fight against Covid-19. Seqens Custom Specialties - still affectionately known locally by its former…