Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has joined a regional engineering organisation in calling on businesses to donate unused or excess personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline hospital and healthcare staff. Tees Engineering Network, a body set up to promote local…

As promised, we advised that we would communicate any changes that we have made as a business. The NBT Group wanted to update you on some changes we have made within the team. We have assigned a dedicated team of…

A practical support package to help businesses through the coronavirus emergency has been put together by Teesside University. Along with other agencies, the University is working with the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority to ensure a coordinated approach, helping…

With many of the workforce now working from home we’ve found that any ongoing and planned interviews are reverting to Skype or video meetings, we have therefore put together some top tips for you to help prepare for a video…

Chemicals giant Ineos has started production at its new hand sanitiser plant in County Durham. The company, which is set to produce up to a million units of sanitiser a month, started up at the weekend, well within its 10-day…

ECOM Instruments, A Pepperl +Fuchs brand is an international technology leader and “one stop shop“ for mobile devices (tablets, smartphones, PDAs) designed for use in harsh and potentially hazardous environments. Your safety is our top priority - Innovation, quality and…

Six coronavirus research projects, including 2 focused on vaccination trials, will be the first to benefit from a share of £20 million in government investment, Business Secretary Alok Sharma announced. Two government-backed projects will receive new funding, enabling pre-clinical and…

Further to last week's post in relation to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic whereby Ian Hedley provided some guidance to the possible contractual remedies that may be available to contractors under NEC® ECC and ECS forms, see here.  Solomons Europe have…