A new specialist company offering X-ray inspection services to food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies has opened for business in Barnsley. Euroscan X-ray Ltd aims to supply its state-of-the-art quality control services to manufactures and producers of consumable goods across the north of England and the north midlands. Euroscan is a subsidiary of
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Scheme to bridge skills gap in Sheffield City Region
Are Sheffield City Region businesses seeing growth? Asks Chamber
Sheffield Chamber of Commerce is asking business leaders whether this region is experiencing growth expectations in-line with the rest of the country. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has today (August 28) upgraded its GDP forecasts for the UK to 3.2 per cent for 2014 after predicting stronger than expected growth. The
Call to boost exports as figures reveal low business expectations
More support is needed to boost UK exports, according to a Sheffield business leader. The call follows the recent British Chamber of Commerce Quarterly Economic Survey (QES) which assessed business confidence in the Sheffield City Region within the manufacturing and services sectors for the second quarter of 2014 (April to June). It
Yorkshire Man of Steel checks-in at airport
A special arrival has checked in at Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield – the Yorkshire Man of Steel. The four metre high sculpture will be on display within the terminal building at the Yorkshire airport to welcome passengers during the summer holidays. It arrived at Doncaster Sheffield Airport after making an appearance
Tube manufacturer rolls out multi-million pound expansion programme
Harworth receives £10.95m infrastructure funding for Waverley
Harworth Estates, the UK property regeneration company, has secured £10.95 million of Government funding to enable it to deliver vital infrastructure work that will lead to the creation of hundreds of new jobs and the building of up to 3,500 further new homes at Waverley, Rotherham. The funding has come from
Act now to ensure talented Sheffielders stay in the city
A Sheffield employment expert says we need to act now to retain home-grown talent after a report found people are leaving the city because they can’t find top level jobs there. People are quitting Sheffield when they reach their 30s and 40s because they cannot find enough high level jobs, according
Cutting Technologies director joins Company of Cutlers
A Barnsley business woman has been accepted as a Freeman of an elite manufacturing association – The Company of Cutlers in Sheffield. Jane Robinson of Cutting Technologies, joins 450 members who qualify as Freemen by being the director or senior executive of a manufacturing organisation or work in the field of
Yorkshire’s first speculative industrial scheme since 2007 to begin
Harworth Estates, the UK property regeneration company, has forward sold and secured infrastructure funding for the first speculative industrial development in Yorkshire for six years. The funding will enable Harworth to begin development next month of 100,000 sq ft of industrial units on seven acres of land at the Advanced Manufacturing