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Business News for 4 April 2008

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UK lacking in nuclear skills

Apr 4 2008

BRITAIN no longer has the manufacturing capability or skills to handle the technology at the heart of the next generation of nuclear reactors - but Teesside firms are well-placed to cash in on 80% of the remaining work generated by any future programme....

Chief is positive despite job cuts

Apr 4 2008

AS THE countdown begins towards the April 7 deadline for redundancies at drugs firm Lundbeck’s plant on Seal Sands, a leading pharmaceuticals chief said Teesside was well placed to capitalise on the industry’s powerful regional manufacturing capability....

Management buyout for subsea vehicles

Apr 4 2008

FAST-GROWING subsea vehicle maker SMD Hydrovision has been bought out by its management for an eight-figure sum, it emerged yesterday....

Councils could do more to help small businesses

Apr 4 2008

TEES VALLEY COUNCILS should and could be doing more to support local small business by being inventive in their tendering processes....

100 new jobs in the pipeline

Apr 4 2008

UP TO 100 new jobs will be created in the region with the opening of a new cable factory. JDR Cable Systems, which supplies the offshore, sub-sea and energy sectors, plans to open a factory in Hartlepool within a year....

Eco blow for Teesside

Apr 4 2008

Teesside was rueing a missed opportunity today, as the government snubbed its renewable energy capability by excluding it from a list of proposed new ‘eco-towns’....

Hargreaves acquire niche engineering outfit

Apr 4 2008

ENERGY, waste and minerals company Hargreaves Services has acquired a niche engineering maintenance business in a £4.64m deal, it was announced yesterday....

BAE Systems to axe 600 jobs

Apr 4 2008

BAE Systems is to axe almost 600 jobs at Brough, near Hull, and Woodford, near Manchester, the Unite union said yesterday....

Jingle mail landing is not a happy sound

Apr 4 2008

DURING a meeting at a major New York bank last week, it was hard not to be drawn to the words someone had scrawled on the office whiteboard, which was otherwise blank....

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