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HeALTHY ouTLooK FoR B BRAuN MediCAL.
sheffield-based healthcare company year. Recent projects include a £2 with the region’s universities and NHs
B Braun Medical has given credit million revolutionary aseptic unit trusts to develop its portfolio of
to Yorkshire for contributing to its at sheffield to house one of the most groundbreaking healthcare products,
success over the last decade as it advanced cancer drug preparation therapies and services.
celebrates ten years in the region. robots in europe and a £20 million He said: “Being based in Yorkshire
The uK arm of the global healthcare investment in world-leading has certainly been a factor in helping
giant has expanded rapidly since it decontamination centres at Leeds the company be both innovative and
opened its headquarters at Thorncliffe and Birmingham. successful. There is a large and well
park and is set to reach a turnover of Chief executive Hans Hux said respected workforce here as well as
£100 million and a staff of 1,000 this B Braun Medical had worked closely world-renowned academic research.”
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Science City York, acclaimed as the most act as a catalyst for economic growth
successful science city in the country, in the region,” he said.
Investment funding helped a South
has celebrated its tenth anniversary. Science city status has helped
Yorkshire internet kiosk software
Former minister Lord Sainsbury, transform the North Yorkshire economy,
firm break into the fast-growing
speaking at the programme’s anniversary promoting business and employment
vending machine market and take
celebrations, said the cluster, which spans opportunities spanning bioscience, IT
on six more staff.
enterprise and academia, was a ‘model’ and the creative industries.
GWD Media, in Sheffield, has used
for others to admire and replicate. Part-funded by Yorkshire Forward,
£500,000 from the South Yorkshire
Investment Fund (SYIF) to develop
“I am very excited that here in York you Science City York has helped create 100
management software for vending
are creating a high-tech cluster which can new companies and nearly 3,000 jobs.
machine companies offering anything
from coffee to iPods. It is also developing
public transport digital screens.
poweR ‘FiRsT’ iN HuLL.
The company has increased its staff
of engineers, product managers and
Revolutionary technology to turn wave renewable energy company pulse Tidal
customer services advisors to 20 to
power into electricity is being tested in the in collaboration with Hull university and
cope with the new business.
Humber estuary. Humber-based Millennium inorganic
SYIF is part-funded by Yorkshire
in a uK-first, tidal energy is to be Chemicals, has attracted £1.1 million
Forward and the European Regional
harnessed for the national power grid by european Regional development Funding
Development Fund as part of the
hydrofoils, which move up and down like and private investors including the
Objective 1 programme and provides
giant whale tails.The system, launched by Japanese trading firm, Marubeni.
seedcorn, loan and equity investments
from £15,000 to £2.5 million for SMEs.
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