Tag: Invest North East England
A new report from Whitecap Consulting estimates the growing FinTech sector in the North of England is now adding £5 billion per year to the regional economy, set to rise to £6 billion by 2030. The new report, launched at a FinTech North event in Manchester, finds the North to have close to 400 FinTech […]
A top-level delegation from Space Florida is making a flying visit to the North East next week on a mission to develop businesses and partnerships in the region and keep the USA and UK surging ahead in the space race. Matt Chestnut, the vice president of business development at Space Florida, will give one of the […]
The Royal Academy of Engineering has launched a major new initiative to support engineering and technology innovation and grow businesses in Newcastle and the North East. Based in the historic Stamp Exchange in Newcastle’s city centre, the hub is led by Senior Enterprise Manager, Angela Tait. It will draw on the unique network of Academy […]
A firm behind plans to help charge the UK’s energy revolution has secured 125-job factory approval. Weardale Lithium has been granted permission to build a County Durham plant. Bosses say it will operate as the “UK’s largest lithium extraction facility” and add £1 billion to the North East’s economy. Planned to produce at least 10,000 […]
North East England’s strengths in the offshore wind sector will be showcased to a global audience next week as a regional delegation led by inward investment agency Invest North East England and including the North East’s three deep sea ports – Blyth, Tyne, and Sunderland along with Shepherd Offshore, attend the world’s biggest wind energy […]
A radio frequency identification technology company, which originally spun out of Cambridge University and now works with some of the world’s largest retailers, has chosen the North East as the location of its new office. PervasID will open a new base at NETPark, with plans to grow its team and skills both in the region […]
Filtronic the leader in high-performance mmWave technologies, has today signed a Strategic Partnership and commercial agreement with SpaceX, a market leader in the low Earth Orbit market. The Strategic Partnership includes the ongoing supply of Filtronic’s cutting-edge E-band Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA), alongside collaborative efforts in developing and delivering comparable products across multiple frequency bands […]
Northumberland County Council’s Cabinet has agreed a transaction, subject to contract, with funds managed by Blackstone, a leading global asset management firm and one of UK’s largest investors, regarding the NEP3 land site in Cambois, to enable the potential development of a ‘Hyperscale Datacentre Campus’. Welcoming the agreement, Council Leader, Cllr Glen Sanderson said: “This […]