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Items of Interest
Centre of Vocational Excellence in Food Chain Technology
Opened on the 12th of October 2005, the £1.5m centre provides a focal point for the provision of practical courses for the industry across a range of subjects - from butchery and dairy production to food hygiene. Learners will gain a working knowledge of the food industry, with a general introduction to food manufacture, backed up with a range of specialist options. The centre combined with the Dairy Unit and National Beef Training Centre, make Askham Bryan College unique to the region.
www.askham-bryan.ac.uk/en/webpage.asp?wpid=231
Back to topCSL - Central Science Laboratory
CSL is an Executive Agency of the UK Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It is the UK's foremost public sector laboratory working to protect environmental quality, support sustainable land use, and safeguard food safety. Its main role is to provide research, technical services and risk assessments in support of government objectives. CSL also works with the international food, speciality chemicals and land-based industries. Arising from the research programmes is a wide range of analytical, diagnostic and consultancy services.
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Food Chain Centre of Industrial Collaboration
The Food Chain CIC is a combination of world class expertise at the Universities of Leeds and York and the Central Science Laboratory. It provides an unique facility for food research, to enable the food industry to meet new technical challenges and seize new commercial possibilities in food production. The CIC will allow businesses to maximise food quality, find lasting technical solutions, help the food industry add value to its products and provide safer and more nutritious food.
Back to topRichmond Ice Cream
The company is investing £4.5m in its warehouse and production facilities at Leeming Bar Industrial Estate in the district of Hambleton. Europe's biggest ice cream plant. The new investment involves the construction of an additional 6,300 sq m warehouse, which will be three times the size of the current facility. Two new production lines are also to be added in the £750,000 upgrade and refurbishment. The Leeming Bar factory currently employs 375 people and manufactures a wide range of own label ice cream for supermarkets, as well as Nestle products, including Smarties, Rolo and After Eight. The upgraded factory re-starts production in March 2007 and the new warehouse and effluent plant will be completed in May 2007.
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Richmond Station
This exciting new development will see Richmond Station, one of the town's best loved heritage landmarks, refurbished to offer three office suites and six flexible workspace areas. The old Victorian station is to be converted into a multifunctional commercial and community centre. This initiative has been taken on by the Richmondshire Building Preservation Trust. A series of food-focussed workspaces are to be created and the award winning Swaledale Cheese Company has already requested a unit in the building.
www.purple-leaf.co.uk/richmondstation
Back to topThe BA Festival of Science
The British Association for the Advancement of Science (The BA) is a charity that exists to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering. The BA Festival of Science is one of the UK's biggest science festivals. Annually it attracts around 400 of the best scientists and science communicators from home and abroad who reveal the latest developments in research to a general audience, at a week long event held at a different location each September. York had the proud honour of hosting the BA Festival of Science in September 2007.
Back to topThe Stockbridge Technology Centre
The STC was launched in April 2001 to ensure continued technological developments for the horticultural industry. This grower-led initiative has created an independent horticultural centre of excellence supported by both the production and supply sectors of the industry.
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