Invest North East England news
The team at Nissan Sunderland Plant are celebrating building their 11 millionth vehicle since production started in 1986. The milestone means that, on average, a new car has rolled off the line at the plant every two minutes, every hour of every day, for 37 years. The 11 millionth car was a Blade Silver Qashqai […]
Ahead of Space Day 2023, Inward Investment Manager Rachel Burdis explores the North East’s growing space sector and the exciting opportunities that will continue to allow the sector to excel. The annual North East Space Conference returned to Durham last month and businesses from across the region and the UK gathered to be updated on […]
Quotient Sciences, the drug development and manufacturing accelerator, today announced that it has grown the workforce at its Alnwick, UK, facility by 20% over the past 2 years. The Alnwick site’s growth has been fuelled by its attractive location, variety of career opportunities, and strong people leadership. Quotient Sciences Alnwick currently employs over 200 people […]
Having just returned from South by South West, an annual conference held in Austin, Texas, Invest North East England Inward Investment Manager Rachel Burdis looks at the opportunities available for our region. The 10 day festival brings together creatives across the tech, film, creative and music industries and offers them multiple opportunities to connect, learn, […]
By Guy Currey, Director of Invest North East England Building on heritage and moving to an exciting future Advanced manufacturing is sometimes viewed as the poor cousin to consumer-facing innovative digital technology companies in areas such as gaming and immersive technology that are often hitting the headlines. But, without doubt, North East England’s advanced manufacturing […]
The Port of Tyne’s 200-acre Tyne Clean Energy Park secures another offshore wind customer – Van Oord – as the Port of Tyne cements its position as the region’s clean energy centre. From Q1 2024, the port will act as the storage and marshalling base for the foundations of the 1.4 GW – or 100 […]
As part of British Science Week, Lockheed Martin has announced an investment of £150,000 to Northumbria University in a project that aims to accelerate the delivery of space-based solar power. Combining science and technology, the project will use specialised photovoltaic cells that will collect and convert laser power into useable power for future space and lunar vehicles. […]
The Creative Assembly™ Ltd., part of SEGA® Europe Ltd., today announced a third development location in Newcastle, UK. This new studio sits alongside the studio’s headquarters in Sussex, UK and their European studio in Sofia, Bulgaria, across which there are over 850 permanent employees. The newly established Creative Assembly (CA) North is home to a growing flexible […]