Author Archives: Richard Keirl

ABLE welcomes planned boost for local enterprise partnerships

The Government is today announcing core funding for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) to allow them to drive forward their growth priorities. LEPs are central to the Government’s approach to driving local economic growth and for ensuring that every community is …

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European ports gear up for wind as European governments fund infrastructure

Danish windfarm turbine manufacturer, Vestas, and Siemens, the German engineering group, are planning to lease part of Esbjerg port’s new East Port terminal and make it into the world’s largest offshore wind turbine facility. Port Strategy spoke to a representative …

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Thorpe Marsh – ABLE experts demolish tower one

These pictures show the first of the huge cooling towers at a former power station being consigned to history – and most residents slept through it. While many have expected a massive explosion and plume of dust the reality of …

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ABLE and Smartwind agree deal at Humber Ports

Developers behind a huge new offshore wind farm earmarked of the East Yorkshire coast say they remain on track to have it fully operational by 2020. The Hornsea Zone will initially see up to 322 turbines being constructed in an …

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UK Tower supplier proves UK suppliers can stack up

Good news for Wales this week as a new contract for wind turbines was awarded to the renewable based engineering firm, Maby Bridge. The contract from German company Nordex is for building 35 wind turbine towers for wind farm sites …

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Slick operations see’s Slug Catchers moved

MORE than 1,000 tonnes of equipment, to enable the processing of gas from a new North Sea pipeline, has been lifted into place on Teesside. In a meticulously planned and executed transport and hoist operation lasting five days, four 250-tonne, …

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ABLE announces new Managing Director

A local man who has spent much of his working life involved in the development of one of the North’s most diverse business groups has been appointed as its new Managing Director. Andrew Jacques, previously the Group Operations Director with …

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Former footballer has world at his feet – kicks off a new career in Civil Engineering

promising young footballer, who was on the books of Middlesbrough FC, has turned his back on the glitz and glamour of a life in the beautiful game to carve out a new career in civil engineering at Able UK on …

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ABLE welcomes Enterprise Zone vote of confidence

Confirmation today that ABLE UK‟s multi-million pound Marine Energy Park project will be at the heart of the largest Enterprise Zone in the country has been welcomed as ‘great news for our company, great news for the thousands of people …

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Able Energy Park approved

As ABLE UK finalises its plans for £400million Marine Energy Park on the South Bank of the Humber—and takes a major step forward in its other major proposal for a logistics and business park—the company has thrown its weight behind …

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