DS Smith Packaging has announced the opening of a new ‘clean room’ manufacturing facility at its Wellingborough plant in Northamptonshire for the packaging of foods, pharmaceuticals and electronics products. The new ...
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Eveden design and produce lingerie, swimwear and sports bras marketed under a number of well-known brands, including Freya, Freya Active, Fantasie, Fantasie Swim, Elomi, Fauve and Huit. The BVCA event is part of a year-long process run by ...
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Plans for a 10-hectare solar panel farm at a former airbase in Northamptonshire have been given the go-ahead. The 25,000 solar panels at Chelveston Renewable Energy Park could provide power for more than 2,100 households a year. The ...
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The premium gin is distilled on a Northamptonshire farm and Blue Marlin created a brand that reflected the relationships behind the product. Warner Edwards is founded by Tom Warner, hailing from England, and Sion Edwards, a Welshman. ...
A supplier that provides beef products to several schools Northamptonshire, UK, is the latest to join the widening horsemeat scandal, after its beef products were found to contain horsemeat. In a testing that was conducted nationally, one ...
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An £8.5 million investment programme will see state of the art LED street lights installed across Bromley over the next couple of years. It was announced that around half of the borough's 27,000 street lamps will be replaced to try ...
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An array of new LED streetlights is to be installed in the Northamptonshire town of Towcester, it has been announced. Northamptonshire County Council will begin work in October this year that will see brand new facilities put in place ...
Five local authorities have saved£31m by moving to shared services arrangements,according to a report. The study,commissioned by public sector lobby group the Local Government Association,and produced by consultancy Drummond ...
Five shared services arrangements have amassed £30m in savings through a variety of measures such as the integration of IT systems, a report from the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. The report, entitled Services ...
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Hive Energy, one of the UK’s leading developers of solar parks, announced that it has successfully completed the pre-construction development of nine new solar parks with a total output of 60 Mega Watts (MW). Once operational the ...
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Organic Seed & Bean, a UK-based ethically accredited chocolate company, is set to introduce new snack size chocolate bars. The new chocolate bars will be Fairtrade and organic, reported fdin.org.uk. The company's existing bars Mandarin ...
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UK packaging firm Rigid Containers, part of Belgian paper and packaging company VPK Group has invested GBP4m to upgrade corrugating and casemaking capacity at its Desborough, Northamptonshire site. The company has installed a new 2.8m BHS ...
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The collaboration provided Royal Mail with a bespoke LED lighting scheme that was sensitive to the operational needs of the building, making sure the working environment for staff was enhanced by the lighting installation, delivering the ...
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Bright Food will take a 60% stake in Weetabix in a deal that values the company at 1.2bn pounds. The Northamptonshire-based firm was family-owned until 2004, when it was bought by Lion Capital. Bright Food, which generated revenues of ...
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Börger’s pumps at UK’s largest advanced digestion plant Pumping washwater at the largest advanced digestion plant in the UK is the latest application now being handled by Börger’s pumps. Powered by 18.5 kW ...
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