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Ten Years On: From Closure To Comeback – Teesside’s Steelworks Revival As Teesworks
Leaders at one of the country’s fastest developing industrial zones have marked the huge progress made ten years on from one of the darkest days in Teesside’s industrial history. Ten years ago, the Redcar Steelworks closed its gates for the final time following the liquidation of SSI, then-owner of the steelworks…
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New SeAH Wind Academy Set For Launch as Progress at South Bank Site Continues
A six-month development programme to train and develop future welders for the vast £450million SeAH Wind facility is set for launch. The SeAH Wind Academy will see 30 people put through a 24-week training and development programme with the help of the Tees Valley Combined Authority and its Adult Education Budget.…
Big Boost For Sustainable Aviation Fuel on Teesside as Five Firms Win Multimillion Pound Funding
Making Teesside the UK capital of creating low-carbon aviation fuel has taken a big leap forward after a major funding boost. Almost £40million from the Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund has been awarded to five Teesside-based firms leading the way in creating Sustainable Aviation Fuel. The total award…
First Images Of Business Units As New Teesworks Development Announced
The latest multi-million-pound development on Teesworks providing space for local businesses to develop and grow has been announced. A total of 43 modern business units will be built at South Bank, offering almost 100,000sq ft of industrial, commercial and office space. The development will comprise one commercial…
The Key Details About Steelmaking Returning to Teesside
What is happening? British Steel has announced that Teesside will be the location for one of two of its new electric arc furnaces. It will be a multi-million pound investment bringing hundreds of jobs and see a return of steelmaking to Teesside. Where will it be? The electric arc furnace will be located at…
Steelmaking to Return to Teesside Under Plans For Electric Arc Furnace
Steelmaking is to return to Teesside after British Steel confirmed plans to build a new furnace at Teesworks. The company has selected Lackenby, Redcar, as one of the locations for its new generation of electric arc furnaces, which use greener technology to melt scrap and produce new steel. The multi-million pound…
New Offices Approved for South Bank Quay as Wider Build Set for Completion Before Year End
A new base to service a game changing Teesworks project has been approved. Plans for an operations headquarters next to the upcoming South Bank Quay have been given the green light by planners at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council. The base will help service the huge quay with offices, a visitor reception, staff…
Giant Teesworks Demolition Wins Major Global Award
A successful demolition on the former Redcar steelworks – which included one of the largest single explosions in the past 75 years – has been recognised with a major international award. The Basic Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) plant was brought down last October as part of the clearance of Teesworks for large-scale…
Middlesbrough Contractor to Begin Work on Cutting-Edge Quay Platform
A Middlesbrough contractor has been signed up to help create a huge 150,000-tonne platform for the vital South Bank Quay. GRAHAM has brought in Middlesbrough-based ZTL Contracting – part of the Applebridge Group – to re-engineer earthwork materials that would otherwise not be suitable for re-use. This is done by…
Teesworks Makes Final Shortlist For New Rolls-Royce SMR Factory
Teesworks has secured a spot on the final shortlist of locations to host Rolls-Royce’s first factory manufacturing parts for its fleet of clean energy power stations. The heavy pressure vessels factory will produce and assemble some of the largest and most complex components for Rolls-Royce’s small modular reactor…
Work to Get Started on Vital South Bank Link Road
Work on constructing another vital piece of transport infrastructure at Teesworks is primed to begin after a contractor was selected for the project. The one-mile long South Bank Link Road will provide access to a 500-acre site at Teesworks – including the huge SeAH Wind monopile manufacturing plant. It will…
Behind the Scenes as £450Million SeAH Project Begins to Take Shape
Four in five workers now employed in building a huge wind turbine monopile factory have come from the region. Postcode data has shown around 80% of those employed on the SeAH Wind site come from within 30 miles – with almost 200 people now in work on the vast complex. The mammoth £450million monopile manufacturing […]
Historic Redcar Blast Furnace Successfully Demolished
The historic Redcar Blast Furnace has been successfully demolished. Using 175kg of explosives, teams from Thompsons of Prudhoe brought down the Casting Houses, the Dust Catcher, Charge Conveyors, and the Blast Furnace at the Redcar Blast Furnace at 9am on Wednesday, 23 November. Clean up operations at the site will…
Teesworks Skills Academy Welcomes Hundreds of Pupils As It Throws Open Doors
Hundreds of students have been the first to take advantage of the all-new Teesworks Skills Academy building as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The building has been used by 200 Y9 to Y13 Tees Valley pupils for five days of activities to hone their entrepreneurial skills, with Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen…