Midlands Business News

A Midlands company that has managed to trade for over 50 years, despite disastrous setbacks, is working hard to minimise the amount of rubbish that goes to landfill – for the good of the environment, and to help businesses save money.

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Recycled UK Ltd unveiled one of the country’s largest secure destruction facilities yesterday as part of ambitious expansion plans for the year.

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A local recycling company is celebrating after securing a prestigious contract with one of the leading bed and mattress retailers in the country.

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A leading recycling firm has gone from strength-to-strength following huge successes and contract wins, which has seen the recent appointment of a new member of staff. Telford-based Pink Recycling and Waste has taken on Richard Downey as its new Sales Manager, a role which will see him guide both new and existing customers through the [...]

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A Shropshire waste management firm has lent a helping hand to a community project that aims to raise money for charity by recycling cardboard left-over from Christmas.

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Cash strapped bargain hunters are being advised to boost their spending power in the New Year sales by maximising the value of their old mobile phones.

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Apprentice mechanic Nick Wright thought his hopes of working in a garage were dashed until he applied for a job in an entirely different field with leading UK wood recycling company Plevin.

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Despite the gloom of the recession, it’s refreshing to see glimmers of business success.

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A wood recycling company has kicked off a major recruitment drive by strengthening its senior management team.

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A local recycling company is warning that swift action needs to be taken to deal with the large stockpiles of waste wood currently being generated by industry, UK-wide, following the closure earlier last month of the country’s largest waste wood recycler.

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St Richard’s Hospice is now saving more than £1,000 a year on waste collections thanks to local business Blackpole Recycling.

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A wood recycling company that’s just invested £750,000 in its base near Retford has won a contract to supply biomass timber to a renewable energy plant in Sweden.

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A Shropshire recycling company is celebrating a hat-trick of prestigious local contract wins

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Recycling company Casepak has created 108 new jobs in Leicestershire since the launch of its new Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in September last year. Located on a brown field site, once the British Shoe Association sports ground, the new facility has also provided the region with the very latest recycling solutions. This will help the [...]

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UK pharmaceutical manufacturer, Pepceuticals Limited, has been awarded a European research contract to develop an edible coating for fresh meat which will increase the shelf-life of the product and ultimately reduce the need for oil-based plastic packaging.

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Leicestershire pharmaceutical company, Pepceuticals, has appointed a new Head of Sales to spearhead business growth on the back of recent approval by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA) for the manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) at its Enderby site.

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Quotient Clinical, a business unit of Quotient Bioresearch (“Quotient”), today announced the completion of a major expansion of its clinical facilities in Nottingham, UK. Bed capacity has been increased by 50 per cent and a dedicated sample processing laboratory for human ADME studies has been incorporated. The new facilities have been inspected and approved for use by the UK regulatory authority, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), and have been awarded Supplementary Accreditation.

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Lloydspharmacy, which has its head office at Walsgrave, Coventry, has made a significant donation to the Jimmy Hill statue fund, taking Coventry City Football Club a step closer to its fund-raising target.

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Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the launch of ‘Start up Britain’ – a campaign aimed at helping new entrepreneurs. And, here in Nottingham, BioCity is set to help twenty seven of them carve an entrepreneurial career in the exciting world of bioscience.

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The future of a unique science learning project for primary pupils at a Nottinghamshire school is secure thanks to a sponsorship pledge by four leading bioscience businesses.

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There are vast, untapped opportunities to start up and develop life science companies across the UK according to a new report, UK Life Science Start-up Report 2010 published on Wednesday 22nd September by Mobius Life Sciences Fund and BioCity Nottingham. The report helps to identify these opportunities and calls for any public investment to be better targeted at four UK ‘hot spots’. It also highlights opportunities for investors in the sector across the UK.

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