Image Credit: Ultimotive: A Colchester chemical cleaning manufacturer has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in recognition of its excellence in international trade. Ultimotive develops, manufactures, markets and supplies innovative chemical cleaning products for the global automotive industry. The firm was started by managing director Andy Smith in 2003 and supplies major brands under license such as Williams F1, Moto GP and Michelin.
Image Credit: University of Essex: The new centre creates a Science Square here at the heart of the Campus for the first time and also for the first time gives all six departments in the University’s Faculty of Science and Health a shared collaborative and social space.
Image Credit: Above Surveying: The KTP’s combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and computer vision will help Above Surveying to maintain their position as a market leader in the solar sector by delivering technologically advanced and intuitive inspection and analysis services to the booming solar sector.
Above Surveying’s recent success is creating jobs in the region with the company planning to recruit a further ten members of staff in 2019 to meet demand. The new partnership with Essex will also allow Above Surveying to expand its international reach even further.
Attwells Solicitors are pleased to announce a merger with Colchester Planning Consultants and Solicitors, LSR which were based at 57 North Hill. They moved on 1 March across the road to join the new Attwells Solicitors’ Colchester team in their new offices at 18 North Hill.
The University of Essex is leading a £50,000 project that a could bring further Government investment worth up to £26m to the Eastern region to help local industries increase productivity. Essex is one of 24 ambitious projects that received early-stage funding from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s ‘Strength in Places’ grant to develop full-stage bids that could lead to significant economic growth in places across the country.
Dated 21 March 2019. Colchester Borough Council’s commercial project management arm, Colchester Amphora Trading Ltd, has successfully completed work on the 10,041sq ft second Amphora Place office development located off Sheepen Road in the town.
Image Credit: University of Essex: The new phase of the University of Essex’s Parkside Office Village is 100% let with companies and organisations showing huge enthusiasm for moving onto the University’s £100m Knowledge Gateway research and technology park in Colchester.
Image Credit: NEGC:The company, a collaboration between Braintree District, Tendring District, Colchester Borough and Essex County Councils to develop new purpose-built settlements over the coming 50+ years, has received the backing from the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government – and has now received more than £3million of national funding since its inception.
Image Credit: Whitehall Resources: It’s been great start to the year for Whitehall Resources as Recruiter Magazine has revealed their FAST50 2019, a list of the UK’s fastest-growing recruitment companies. Whitehall Resources recently announced that it was pleased that it has made the list for the fifth time and is celebrating the opening of its first international office in Frankfurt.
The UK Government has awarded £4.3m to develop the Thames Estuary Production Corridor, a collaborative project aiming to put the South East’s creative industries at the heart of the national industrial strategy. The University of Essex and the University of Kent are working together as part of the ambitious collaboration which also brings together local authorities plus the South East Local Enterprise Partnership. The funding will support tailored local plans that use culture to create jobs, boost tourism and ultimately regenerate communities.