Approved Growing the Humber RGF Grants – Feb 2015
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RGF 3 - Business Investment Grants Business Sector Location Total RGF Type of Project New Types of jobs name project grant Jobs costs Detech Manufacturing Bridlington, £74,250 £74,829 Purchase of land and building 6 Engineers and Europe Suppliers of East Riding work resulting in a new cost administration/sales Limited Equipment, Service, effective manufacturing facility as personnel. Training and Spares well as some training of existing to the Electronics staff to enable them to be multi- Manufacturing skilled and more efficient. Industry Business Sector Locatio Total project RGF Type of Project New Types of jobs name n costs grant Jobs Kwiktuf Manufacturing. Hull £1.5m £300,000 Kwiktuf wants to move to new premises and 15 Administrative, CNC Limited Supply purchase new equipment. The company have operatives and roughened no room for expansion in their current premises. Despatch/ Driving. glass, double The complete project involves Kwiktuf glazed units and purchasing a 23,000 sq ft building with good laminated eaves height for cranes to move glass around panels. the factory. A complete electrical installation is required in the new building as well as installing Kwiktuf supply an electricity substation. New premises will hold on a daily basis a state of the art glass toughening plant. Kwiktuf to businesses in will need more processing work which will create Hull, Grimsby, new jobs. After the project, Kwiktuf will have two Scunthorpe, sites with two toughening plants. Doncaster and Leeds. Business Sector Locatio Total RGF Type of Project New Types of jobs name n project grant Jobs costs KJB Ltd T/A KJB Ltd operate Grimsby £277,810 £65,810 Moving premises and buying new equipment. The 4.5 Digital Printing Signs in the print project will accelerate the growth of the business. The Operative Roles Express sector. project involves securing and refurbishment of a new KJB provide building opposite their existing premises at Venture modern and Business Park. KJB want to establish a new digital innovative printing and cutting suite in the new building and the graphics, suite will enhance the companies efficiency. displays, signs The project is needed as the company’s growth was and promotional constrained by a lack of physical space. The project will material to their allow KJB to manufacture new innovative products for customers. their customers through purchasing a digital cutter. This KJB Ltd project will play a key role in increasing the companies customers are a turnover to 1.5million and also create 4.5 new jobs in the mixture of large company. national companies and smaller regional and local companies. Business Sector Locatio Total RGF Type of Project New Types of jobs name n project grant Jobs costs Riva Foods Food Hull £510,000 £100,000 Expand premises with new freezer and 15 Operatives, Limited Manufacturing: ambient storage facilities. The project would Sales Export food to create a new purpose built 493 sq ft, energy Administrator, Spain, Belgium and efficient cold store and warehouse facility at Mangers and Netherlands. Garlic the company’s manufacturing site increasing Clerical. bread is 55% of storage by 50%. sales. Riva foods supply also to the UK restaurant and takeaway market. Key companies Riva Foods Ltd supply to are Domino’s and Heron. Business Sector Locatio Total RGF Type of Project New Types of jobs name n project grant Jobs costs Rainbow Manufacturing- Hull £645,612 £129,122 The projects two main objectives were to 15 Operatives, Professional Hard strengthen the existing product range and to further external sales, Limited landscaping strengthen their manufacturing base by putting new office and plastic technologies into both new market and existing administrator, products. market sectors. The investment required for the production Rainbow project will provide new equipment on their existing supervisor. operates in site which will employ further employees. The several project will produce a next generation tree shelter different which will make significant environmental markets and improvements. Part of the project is a ready to sells to 64 produce new irrigation system. The new products countries. the project creates will bring far greater opportunities for further employment in the region. Business Sector Locatio Total RGF grant Type of Project New Types of jobs name n project Jobs costs Lincs Design Architecture, Grimsby £74,000 £22,200 Purchase and refurbishment of 2 Admin/ Marketing Executive Consultancy planning, property in Grimsby Town Centre. and a Planning/ Architectural environmental The new building would create Professional. landscape offices and meeting rooms. The consultancy. project will allow LDC to establish new client relationships with sectors LDC provides such as renewables, food planning, design manufacturing, ports & logistics, and housing and public contracts. The environmental project will enable a marketing consultancy programme to commence in which services for both existing and new clients will be clients on a aware of the new services LDC have local, regional to offer. and national basis. Business Sector Location Total RGF Type of Project New Types of name project grant Jobs jobs costs Armstrong Manufacturing/ Hull £110,092 £63,000 Purchase and installation of an overhead gantry crane. 2 Engineering Hydraulic Light To design, manufacture and test of a system jobs Services Engineering. comprising of two hydraulic powered winches Limited AHS have a complete with a hydraulic and electrical control customer base system. Also, development of smaller-self-contained across the UK hydraulic powered constant tension winches. New and often work equipment will allow the manufacture of large abroad. They hydraulic power units at their site. The project will provide a allow the company to work on the new equipment and complete development new machinery in house. hydraulic, mechanical and electrical package to customers. Business Sector Location Total RGF Type of Project New Types of jobs name project grant Jobs costs Martin Commercial, Hull £533,339 £100,000 Expand premises to provide additional space. To 20 Qualified workshop Williams vehicle body box increase the size of their facility room from 24,000 operatives, vehicle Ltd manufacture, sq ft to 48,000 sq ft. A new energy efficient spray mechanic, vehicle service, repair booth will be created. The new mechanical painter, vehicle body and paintwork. department will have its own workshop. The builders/fabricators, Currently project will allow Martin Williams Ltd to keep on trainees, manufacture 400 track with new contracts they have won for administration vehicle bodies per companies. The project will increase productivity assistant and year for local and which will further enhance relationships with manager. national customers. customers. Company has an award winning accident and repair department. Business Sector Location Total RGF Type of Project New Types of jobs name project grant Jobs costs Colt Industrial services Hull £79,500 Project is to build a hydro abrasive cutting machine 12 Skilled jobs such as Industrial to off-shore £397,547 and macerator for offshore oil and gas work. The welders, semi-skilled Services maintenance and project will bring the company into a new market jobs, engineering Ltd maintenance work called HAC utilisation on Southern North Sea apprentices, general to the offshore oil Offshore installations. The new equipment needed operatives, and gas industry. for this project will require trained personnel to fabricators, Colt work both operate it. The project will enable the company to mechanics and nationally and move onto further safeguarding of jobs/ job creation. admin. globally with majority resources from Hull/ Humber area. Business Sector Locatio Total RGF Type of Project New Types of jobs name n project grant Jobs costs H Manufacturing- Hull £275,000 £75,000 Purchasing freehold of new premises and purchasing new 8 Sewing machinists, Gostelow production of equipment. The project will allow the company to grow leather design and (Terrapin) leather goods- and become one of the largest leather products manufacturers, Sales Ltd predominantly manufacturing companies in the UK. To purchase bench hand satchels for the specialist machinery to keep up with the demanding operators. Cambridge orders Cambridge Satchel Company want to place. Satchel Additional production is needed in the project as the Company. company has had several enquiries from overseas. Invested in a e- commerce website and sell products directly from the site. Business Sector Locati Total project RGF grant Type of Project New Types of name on costs Jobs jobs Donaldson Manufacture air filtration Hull £847,500 £80,000 Purchase equipment such as adding another 4 Machine Filter components for the specialised coating line. The project will create Operators Components truck/bus/agriculture and more shift workers and the production line will Ltd the off-road business be upgraded as the coating capacity needs to sector. Part of the be increased to satisfy global demand. The American Donaldson project will create very secure employment for Company Inc group. This the future. Hull site exports 70% of its production into Europe, Middle East & Africa. Busines Sector Locatio Total RGF grant Type of Project New Types of jobs s name n project Jobs costs Rofin Advance Hessle £4,981,500 £1,156,500 To build a new factory on the Bridgehead to grow 57 Stores personnel, Sinar UK Engineering and their business. The project will also include a electronic Ltd Manufacture. research and development project that will develop assemblers, Rofin Sinar is products for the IT department. The project will allow electronics test now the leading the company to extend their product range by technicians, European offering higher powered sealed C02 lasers to enable supervisors, supplier of increased processing speeds. The current factory is production sealed industrial reaching full capacity and to enable the business to engineers, sales CO2 lasers to grow Rofin Sinar require a minimum factory size of /service admin, global OEMS 65.5k sq ft. New picosecond lasers can be introduced purchasing, R&D and integrators.