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New technology spurs growth for engineering company (19/02/10)
World-leading technology developed by a long-established Leeds engineering company will play a key role in a new environmentally friendly process set to rival cremation and burial. |
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Investment & new products create jobs & sub-contract opportunities (07/01/10)
Continued investment in new product development during the recession has paid off for Leeds engineering firm Microdat with a New Year order book already in excess of total business in 2009 and creation of six new jobs. |
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Panels build a brighter future (04/01/10)
Suppliers to the construction industry have had a few tough years, but for those continuing to invest and develop new lines and markets 2010 is looking a whole lot brighter. |
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Beer, bacon and cheese clinch first US export deal (04/12/09)
A winning combination of skilled Yorkshire engineering, bacon and cheese has clinched the first US export order for brewing equipment manufacturer Microdat. |
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Controlling the flow lands £4.5M order (27/11/09)
A Leeds-based manufacturer of process control systems has landed its largest single order from the water industry for this type of equipment. |
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Made in Leeds- A Precision Hole for Off-roaders (25/11/09)
Future owners of upmarket British four-wheel drive vehicles will be able to relax confident in the knowledge their luggage is secure, thanks to millions of precision holes currently being engineered in Leeds. |
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Jade
Press turns art into science (22/07/09)
A Leeds printing company launched successfully in the depths of the 1970's recession is bucking the current downturn and thriving in a fiercely competitive market place with a state of the art £200,000 digital press the latest in a series of investments. |
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Sweet
smell of success moves Inline up market
(14/07/09)
A Leeds manufacturer that has carved a leading niche in the UK value toiletries market is now moving upmarket on the back of a two-year sales increase of 36% to reach almost £2m annually. |
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Strulch
gains ground at home and abroad
(26/06/09)
A labour-saving mineralised wheat straw mulch that reduces weed growth by up to 95% is gaining ground with discerning gardeners at home and abroad. In addition to its weed reduction properties. |
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World Power Chase Relies On Pool Resources
(11/06/09)
The dash by emerging economies for improved infrastructures means good news and new jobs
for one of the Leeds district's longest established companies. |
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Cutting edge Garcross beating recession
(02/06/09)
The sustained growth in sales of real ale and craft breweries has created a £4m market for
an innovative Leeds engineering company that specialises in the design, manufacture and
installation of sophisticated cask-filling systems and associated brewing equipment and
plans to double current turnover in the near future. |
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Omega expansion plans sign of the times
(19/05/09)
A leading UK signs company that has grown consistently in its 17-year history to top £12m
annual sales is extending its Leeds premises to handle bigger projects, increase
warehousing and bring metalworking production in-house. |
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£300K birthday present from China for Barkston Plastics
(08/05/09)
One of Leeds' longest-established plastics companies is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a £300,000 order all the way from China. |
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Success For Engineer Who Keeps Beer Flowing
(01/05/09)
The sustained growth in sales of real ale and craft breweries has created a £4m market for
an innovative Leeds engineering company that specialises in the design, manufacture and
installation of sophisticated cask-filling systems and associated brewing equipment and
plans to double current turnover in the near future. |
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Brandon
$2million Lighting Up India (27/04/09)
Award-winning Brandon Medical, the Leeds-based leading manufacturer of operating theatre
equipment and AV systems, is to start production in India under an agreement with Trivitron
Healthcare, India's biggest medical technology provider. |
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Alan's
Dream Machine Takes The Floor (17/04/09)
A 30-year manufacturing dream has come true for a Leeds entrepreneur with the launch of his
version of the best-selling jukebox of all time. |
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Turkish
Delight Builds Exports From Leeds
(23/03/09)
A £200,000-plus export order for a hotel
project in Turkey has crowned a fifth
successive year of growth for an innovative
Leeds-based construction components
firm. |
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Plastic
Origami Builds Retail Sales (17/02/09)
The design and production ingenuity of a Leeds-based
plastics company is helping hardpressed retailers
to maximise sales growth in today’s tough
trading climate. |
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Future's bright for Vision Alert - click for more...
(07/01/09)
Impressive annual sales growth and several consecutive years of doubled pre-tax profits has enabled Leeds safety equipment manufacturer Vision Alert to grow... |
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Relocation and 30 new jobs as Perry Uniform go for gold...
(01/12/08)
Perry Uniform, a historic Leeds tailoring firm rescued from administration by a serial entrepreneur and former military man, is set to relocate to new premises in Bramley, where a self-funded £300,000 investment will create over 30 new jobs... |
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Harvard Engineering invention lightens gloom for local councils
(26/11/08)
Local authorities across the UK are achieving 40% cuts in street lighting energy costs thanks
to the ingenuity of a Leeds electronics company... |
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Leeds manufacturing conference looks to the future, Elland Road 22/1/09
(26/11/08)
John Willman, UK business editor of the Financial Times, is to lead the
speaker line up at a conference exploring the future of manufacturing
within the Leeds city region.... |
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Innovations
Build Brandon’s Awards Haul
(02/10/08)
Brandon Medical acquired the award-winning habit
some years ago, but 2008 has produced a bumper
crop of accolades for the innovative Leeds-based
healthcare equipment manufacturer... |
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Creating
A Palatable Business (10/07/08)
A logistics supplier to the glass and container
industry has centralised its UK operations in
Leeds with an initial £250,000 investment
in premises and plant on the Cardigan Trading
Estate, Kirkstall and plans for further growth.... |
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Ginetta’s
Winning Ways Continue in Leeds
(30/06/08)
In the year iconic British motor racing marque
Ginetta Cars celebrates its 50th anniversary,
a relocation to Leeds is adding lustre to a
continuing success story... |
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£8m
Order Book Powers Winder (01/06/08)
Helping to power Eurostar to its cross-channel
record and major utilities to maintain
fresh water and power supplies – just
some of the key roles played by a Leeds group
founded in 1889 and now a world class player
in power distribution... |
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Room
For A New Brew In Leeds (12/05/08)
While Yorkshire now boasts more breweries than
any other UK region - more than 70
compared to 16 in the early 1970s – its
principal city’s own independent brewery
only
arrived on the scene last year. With sales already
passing 12,000 pints a week
through pubs in and around Leeds... |
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Now
They’re Really Motoring (08/05/08)
An aggressive mix of diversification, targeted
niche marketing and manufacturing
excellence has propelled a Leeds company to
record sales and export figures... |
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Leeds
Leading LED Revolution (02/05/08)
External lighting installations on landmark
buildings around the world are being
designed and manufactured by fast growing Leeds
company Solar GB... |
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Flat
Panel Speakers Iron Out Sound Problems
(10/01/08)
Award-winning Leeds–based sound system
manufacturer Sound Leisure has added
another important product range to its string
of success stories with a licensed deal
from NXT to manufacture MicroPro flat panel
speakers... |
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Leeds
Solution Helps World See More Clearly
(02/01/08)
A hydrating chemical solution involved in the
manufacture of most of the world’s soft
contact lens is providing a growth market for
an innovative Leeds company... |
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Leeds
Firm Helps Quench Indian Thirsts
(27/11/07)
Leeds-based engineering firm Corrocoat is celebrating
the successful first anniversary of a joint
venture in India that is currently delivering
fresh drinking water to some of the country’s
most remote areas... |
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£100K
China Deal For Glassflake, Leeds
(13/11/07)
The growth of China’s pigments industry
has nailed the first major export deal for Leeds-based
Glassflake’s Australian office launched
only six months ago... |
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King-Sized
Blanket’s Royal Price (30/10/07)
Skilled weavers and finishers at a traditional
Leeds woollen manufacturer are wondering if
they’re now producing the world’s
most expensive blanket. The king-sized John
Atkinson brand pure cashmere bed-mate emerging
from Hainsworths Farsley mill is now crossing
the counter at Harrods at a hefty £2,300
retail And there’s no shortage of customers
in cash-rich Britain... |
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Leeds
Bright Sparks Fuel Aerospace Projects
(25/10/07)
Leeds precision engineering firm Aire Erosion,
works on components for NASA, the European Space
Agency and other blue chip specialist organisations,
and is growing at 30%, year on year... |
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Sales
Boost For World Class Surgical Innovator
(25/09/07)
A world class precision engineering company
specialising in uniquely innovative products
for minimally-invasive surgery is poised for
substantial sales growth as new areas open up
for its market-leading instruments... |
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Making
It Personal Delivers Print Growth To £36m
(25/09/07)
As leading financial institutions, major charities
and consumer brands deliver more personalised
messages to customers the direct marketing industry
continues to grow with increasingly sophisticated
messaging and delivery methods that are transforming
sectors of the traditional printing industry... |
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Never
Mind The Width – Feel The Quality
(06/09/07)
Exactly 200 years ago, a young General Arthur
Wellesley (later to become the first Duke of
Wellington) successfully fought the second Battle
of Copenhagen... |
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New
Digital AV System Set To Revolutionise Healthcare
Training (15/06/07)
Award-winning Brandon Medical has developed
a revolutionary audio-visual system that uses
video and audio over internet protocol to allow
surgical procedures to be supervised and viewed
in high definition across an NHS Trust and from
elsewhere in the world... |
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