Pictured above: Jonathan Bishop of heb
Within weeks of being instructed by the city council to market
Nottingham Science Park, heb successfully let an additional 5,100
sq ft of space to Romax Technology, the world leading driveline
engineering consultants.
Heb managed the new letting of units 5 and 6 in the park's
William Lee building.
"This is grade A accommodation which is good value for money
with our client, Nottingham City Council, offering a flexible lease
in order to accommodate Romax's continuing growth," said Jonathan
Bishop of heb.
Romax is a global organisation, which has seen significant
growth and expansion world-wide, but particularly at the
headquarters in Nottingham says the company's financial director,
Paul Atkin - where the company was formed around 20 years ago.
"We have taken on two extra units in Nottingham because we are
growing quite significantly," he said.
"We are recruiting for additional employees, particularly in the
wind energy sector, which is a hugely successful element of our
business. We are gaining a lot of new business in this sector and
require additional employees to support this worldwide. We
recognise there are tremendous opportunities for Romax not only
within our core business streams, wind energy and automotive, but
in many other new areas, so we have set ourselves ambitious growth
plans for the future.
Romax's growth has been witnessed worldwide and the company
recently acquired new larger offices in India, opened two new
offices in China and launched a new base in Japan. The company has
seen considerable growth. There has been nearly a 50% rise in the
workforce. In January 2009, Romax employed 106 people worldwide,
and in January 2010, the figure had risen to 152.
Businesses are increasingly benefiting from being located at
Nottingham Science Park - with several firms expanding their
premises to meet continuing growth, said Jonathan.
Rizvan Shafiq, city council estates surveyor with responsibility
for the Science Park, says the development attracts all sizes of
businesses - and many small firms set up there, achieve success in
their business area and begin to grow and develop.
The science, technology and research based companies can support
one another - and the site is close to the university and has good
access to the East Midlands Airport, factors which can be essential
for their businesses, he said.
Rizvan added: "We seek to encourage small, university-based
businesses to come on site. We want to encourage development of the
scientific and research sector in Nottingham. The Science Park has
been here for 20 years and it is a huge success story for the
city."
"We have companies which locate onto the site and move on again
as their businesses become successful and they have a need for
larger premises. This allows smaller firms to move in. Businesses
expand their workforces as they continue to be successful and seek
to increase their premises requirement within the Science
Park."
There are a range of units on the site ranging from 250 sq ft to
15,000 sq ft, said Jonathan who is marketing available space on the
site.
"The Science Park has a great offering for the city," he said.
"As well as a range of units of varying size. proposals for Phase 2
of the city's tram network also mean that access to and from the
city centre will be accommodated by a modern, convenient and clean
form of public transport."
One company which has benefited from being at Nottingham Science
Park is Future Health Technologies, the first private family cord
blood bank in the UK to receive a full accreditation as a human
tissue bank. The company started in 2000 with 1000 sq ft and now
occupies 10,000 sq ft on the Science Park.
"This is a really good address for us," said Roger Dainty,
director of the firm.
"Not only is our business close to the university and the QMC,
where I have colleagues I call upon, and where I have a couple of
PhD students, but we are close to East Midlands Airport. This is
essential for our business - we use the DHL hub for transport of
our blood samples."