Hi-tech engineering firm M+W Group is to help develop the UK’s largest waste-to-energy plant of its kind. When completed, the £200m Energy Works scheme in Kingston upon Hull will be able to generate up to 28MW of electricity a year by treating waste – enough to supply 40,000 homes. It will be the largest...
Two leading mobile technology businesses have come together to create one of the UK’s largest firms in their fast-growing market. Mobile software firm M-Netics, which makes software that helps retailers and logistics businesses streamline their supply chains, has been acquired by the UK arm of US group Peak-Ryzex. Both firms are based on Chippenham’s...
Bath-based pioneer in cloud-managed server appliances Zynstra has been named as the Bath & Bristol region’s best technology business. The firm, which offers small to medium-sized business remotely managed, enterprise-class IT on a pay-as-you-go basis, collected the TechCityinsider award – the latest in a series of accolades it has landed this year – at...
SETsquared, the University of Bath-backed innovation partnership, has been named as the best in the world after creating 9,000 jobs and contributing £3.8bn to the UK economy. From its launch 13 years ago, SETsquared – which has its Bath base in the city’s Innovation Centre – has supported more than 1,000 hi-tech start-ups to...
High-growth businesses in the Bath area are to be offered specialist support under a scheme launched by Barclays. Called ‘Barclays High Growth and Entrepreneurs’, the initiative is in direct response to what the bank sees as Britain’s ‘scale-up gap’, and will also help the UK compete on the global stage. Barclays believes that by...
A London-based venture capital firm is highlighting Bath and the West of England as one of Europe’s most attractive places for investment in start-up companies. Since its launch just over a year ago, Downing Ventures has invested almost a third of its entire portfolio in start-ups based in the Bath-Bristol area. Its investments include...
Continued growth at Bath-based digital supply chain management firm Actual Experience has led to it appointing non-executive director Robin Young to the newly created role of chief operating officer. Robin, who joined Actual Experience’s board a year ago, has extensive CIO, COO, technology and operations experience, previously holding positions at blue-chip public companies including...
Shares in Bath-based digital supply chain management firm Actual Experience leapt by more than 10% yesterday after it announced it had won a contract with a division of US broadband and telecommunications giant Verizon. Actual Experience, which improves digital supply chains for major firms through leading-edge analytics, is to supply services to Verizon Enterprise...
Digital ticketing developer ACT (Applied Card Technologies) has been acquired by Japanese IT giant Fujitsu in a multi-million pound deal that paves the way for the UK’s first smartphone-based rail ticket issuing system. ACT, based at Kington Langley, near Chippenham, designs, builds and manages smart transaction systems for retail, tourism, public sector and transport...
Software Radio Technology (SRT), the specialist marine identification and tracking technology firm, has landed a $700,000 (£452,000) contract in the Philippines. Under the deal, the Midsomer Norton firm’s AIS Class A transceivers will be deployed on Philippine fishing vessels over the next seven months to help the authorities monitor the country’s maritime exclusive economic...
