A Valleys company specialising in the development of innovative additives for plastics is anticipating significant growth through export sales following a strong year of international orders. SteriTouch, based in Rassau Industrial Estate in Ebbw Vale, part of the Ebbw Vale Enterprise Zone, has received grant funding of £80k from the Smart Cymru programme as part of the company’s ongoing strategy of diversification and global expansion. The funding is being used for product development and the installation of advanced production and testing equipment, primarily for the new additive brands, SCOPIC and KONDUCT. Alongside continued investment in the SteriTouch range, the company…
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Visitors to Cardiff’s Roath Park are being kept up to date with what’s going on at the popular amenity thanks to a £4,000 grant from Tesco’s Bags of Help Scheme The Friends of Roath Park group, which has been supporting the park since 2011, has used funding from the supermarket scheme to put up community noticeboards around the park to help keep local residents and visitors informed about what’s on. The funding has enabled the friends to provide more promotional space for local voluntary group initiatives, including assisting in the conservatory, litter cleaning and supporting with the upkeep of the…
The ferry industry is launching a public ballot for over 2,400 free pairs of ferry tickets during Big Ferry Fortnight, which runs from March 23rd – April 6th this year. All of Discover Ferries’ 13 ferry members, which operate more than 80 routes across the UK, Ireland and the British Islands, have come together to enable UK and Isle of Man residents to discover the large selection of ferry routes on their doorstep. The latest industry figures show that more than 38 million passenger journeys were made by ferry within the UK and to the British Isles, Ireland, France, Spain and Holland in…
Slim Chickens UK is launching ‘Tenders for Tunes’ – a national music exchange where old music can be swapped for a taste of their legendary life changing chicken. When it comes to good taste, Slim Chickens are about more than just the food. The Slim Chickens experience delivers freshly cooked, delicious chicken tenders in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, accentuated by their carefully curated playlist of the best of the blues, featuring classic hits by B.B King, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, to name but a few. So dedicated to your musical enjoyment, Slim Chickens even have their own Spotify playlist to enjoy…
A Welsh biotechnology business that generates renewable electricity is set to increase the amount of energy it produces, after receiving a £200,000 funding package from Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. [aoa id=”1″] GP Biotec, based near Talgarth in Powys, uses industrial food waste and arable crops grown at its 600-acre farm to produce renewable energy through anaerobic digestion. The family run firm will used the six-figure sum to invest in state-of-the-art equipment, which includes two digester tanks. The development will complete the plans for the site that were outlined during the planning process in 2010, as well as doubling the company’s…
Latest figures from the UK wine industry detail a record-breaking harvest from last year, a doubling in sales both here and abroad and more land under vine than ever before. Further substantial growth is also predicted over the next two decades. A survey of the UK wine industry, conducted by its national association, Wines of Great Britain (WineGB), in conjunction with data analysts Wine Intelligence, confirmed that last year a record-breaking 15.6 million bottles were produced, 130% higher than the previous year’s crop in 2017 and far exceeding the previous record of 6.3m bottles in 2014. More production is forecast…
Students at Cardiff Metropolitan University have been lending a hand to a project that aims to raise vital funds for charity Mothers of Africa, coinciding with International Women’s Day this Friday (8th March). Led by Maggie Cullinane, Technical Demonstrator at Cardiff School of Art and Design (CSAD), the project has seen 20 textiles students, along with 5 others from fashion, ceramics, and artist/designer/maker help to produce handmade quilts that will ultimately be raffled to raise funds for the African charity. Each student has designed and created a square to support the creation of the quilt, as well as holding fundraising…
Bevan Buckland LLPis pleased to announce that Maggie’s will be their chosen charity for the next year as voted for by their staff. The firm will raise essential funds through events and their business contacts, plans of which are already well underway. Maggie’s is a UK based charity with local links that proudly provides free practical, emotional and social support to people with cancer and their family and friends. Every year more than 300,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in the UK, and the charity has a long history of helping sufferers face the tough questions, exhausting treatment and difficult…
A simple idea to help hospital staff monitor a patient’s fluid intake has been such a success that it’s going to be used across a health board. Last year, a group of adult nursing students at the University of South Wales (USW) – known as Team Hydr8 – suggested introducing jugs with yellow lids, rather than the traditional blue lids, for patients who are having fluids monitored. After sharing their ideas on social media, Cwm Taf University Health Board approached the six third-year USW students – Donna Walker, Charlotte Phillips, Cerys Davies, Rachel Lloyd-Jones, Cellan Howells and Tamara Konten – and invited…
Following the recent consultation by the Department for Work & Pensions, Martin Strevens from Quantum Advisory, looks at what the future might hold for collective defined contributions.