INEOS furnace at Grangemouth gets £5m for upgrade
Scottish Enterprise has stepped in with a £5m award to aid the competitiveness of olefin and polymer chemical production at the INEOS O&P UK site at Grangemouth.The Scottish Enterprise Environmental...
BUDGET REACTION: Chancellor’s tinkering is a clever game of give and take
The Chancellor of Exchequer John Healey in his first Budget fired off a list of economic tinkering as he stated that the UK government’s priority “is first and foremost cheaper...
THE BIG READ: Why building data centre campus at Chapelcross could benefit Scotland – and Annan
The Scottish engineer behind a bid to invest more than £16.5bn in a neglected part of rural Scotland has spoken exclusively to The Business about the hurdles to be overcome...
Boost for Grangemouth with £2.5m funding for MiAlgae’s bioscience
Scottish biotech company MiAlgae has secured a £2.5m investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank to support the company’s commercial-scale production facility in Grangemouth. MiAlgae produces an Omega-3 powder using by-products...
Wish you were here: Burnham’s Manchester teaches Scotland the importance of a Cannes-do attitude
Manchester has been attending MIPIM in force for 20 years. Andy Burnham’s brigade has been at the forefront. The city shells out a lot of money for a huge pavilion...
The numbers don’t add up: Why is no-one addressing this imminent financial black hole?
The challenge facing Holyrood: Scottish Government’s own projections show a £4.8bn shortfall between spending and funding by 2030. Our political parties spent this year’s Holyrood election campaign promising more spending,...
CSignum secures £2.6m funding to roll-out water testing technology
CSignum, a provider of wireless communications from beneath the surface of water, ice and ground, has completed a £2.6m funding round to accelerate commercial deployment of its EM2 product portfolio.The...
UP, UP AND AWAY: Space firm CAVU joins export trail as Scottish Enterprise support generates £2.15bn
Stirling-based CAVU Aerospace UK, a space engineering company developing mission-critical technologies for satellites and deep-space missions, is the latest investment as Scottish Enterprise reveals it has helped Scottish businesses generate...
Edinburgh among trio of £82.6m funding from RBS for student homes
Royal Bank of Scotland has provided £82.6m to support Rosethorn Capital Partners and Eagle Street Partners with the acquisition and repositioning of Haddington Place student accommodation in Edinburgh.The financing will also...