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Metsä Wood provides premium-quality wood products for construction, industrial and distribution customers. We use 100% traceable wood from northern forests, a sustainable raw material of the finest quality. Our facilities are surrounded by these forests, which ensures a never-ending, reliable supply. Our primary products are Kerto® LVL (laminated veneer lumber), birch and spruce plywood, and Nordic premium timber.

Our sales in 2017 were EUR 0.5 billion, and we employ about 1,400 people. In the UK, we operate from four production and distribution sites: Boston (our UK Head Office), King's Lynn, Widnes and Grangemouth.

Metsä Wood is part of Metsä Group, which covers the whole wood value chain from sapling to product.

The Water Management Alliance

The Water Management Alliance (WMA) is a group of like-minded Internal Drainage Boards (known as IDBs) operating in the Anglian Region. We are building resource and capacity in the Anglian region in order to meet the challenges of climate change, sustainable water and flood risk management.  The WMA works closely with our IDB’s, partners, communities and individuals to secure new funding streams and deliver innovative approaches at a local level.  

We welcome partnership approaches and aim to deliver value for money projects using local expertise and experience.  

Did you know Internal Drainage Boards…?

• date back some 900 years and are one of Europe’s oldest water management organisations.
  
• have statutory powers to undertake flood defence and water management works. 
  
• aim to manage water levels and flood risk management for people and wildlife sustainably and aim to limit impacts of flood and drought within their drainage districts.  
  
• are collectively one of the biggest managers of freshwaters and wetlands in the UK.  
  
• manage drainage districts that cover 10% of the land in England and Wales.
  
• manage and maintain over 500 pumping stations, 22,000 km of watercourse and numerous sluices and weirs for people and wildlife.  
  

The Water Management Alliance works for and on behalf of other Flood Risk Management Authorities as well as community groups, NGO’s and landowners.  We also deliver significant flood risk management benefits and enhanced environmental outcomes on the ground.  Our members are all independent and democratically accountable statutory bodies who seek to protect some 548,000 hectares in East Anglia. 

The WMA Eastern Drainage Boards include the Broads IDB, East Suffolk IDB and the Norfolk Rivers IDB.  

South Holland:

This  includes some of the most fertile arable land in the world and is widely recognised as the bread basket of Britain. The area is home to around 60,000 people, a thriving local economy and an increasingly popular tourist destination that attracts visitors from around the country. The area is both locally and nationally important and worth the cost of defending and protecting, now and in future.

Although the entire area is at considerable theoretical risk of river flooding and inundation from the sea, the actual risk is substantially reduced by the work that we do in partnership with Local Authorities, the Environment Agency and Natural England.

The area's full watershed catchment area draining to the Drainage District is the same as the Drainage District, which means that we can provide a better service than we might otherwise be able to: this is because we are not compelled to take surface water from outside the Drainage District that we have no control over. This gives us an advantage in being able to protect the people of South Holland and reduce the risk of flooding.

If you choose to work for the WMA or any of its Member Boards you will be joining an organisation which is striving to provide employees with a positive employment experience. Whether you work for us as a digger driver or as a member of the senior management team, there will be a considerable variety of challenges in your diverse workload and you will be offered real opportunities for career development.

To find out more about the WMA follow them on @The_WMA  

Dynex Semiconductors' are based in Lincoln.

Dynex designs and manufactures high power semiconductors for customers around the world including the European, US and the rapidly growing Far Eastern markets. The Power Semiconductor operation is located in Lincoln, England, manufacturing a range of high power Module and Bipolar discrete products that include insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and diode modules, IGBT/FRD die, fast diodes, fast thyristors, gate turn-off thyristors, rectifier diodes, phase control thyristors and transistors.

Siemens might be a global employer but it firmly believes in the value of 'growing its own' talent from local communities. Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd is based in Lincoln.

Apprenticeships are a vital tool in this process. As part of National Apprenticeship week, which runs from March 6 to March 10, Lincolnshire Live spoke to enthusiastic apprentices about their time at the firm's Lincoln Main Works site and also spoke to a former apprentice who has now made his way to the top of the career.

Siemens was established in the United Kingdom 169 years ago and now employs 12,972 people in the UK. Last year’s revenues were £4.4 billion. As a leading global engineering and technology services company, Siemens provides innovative solutions to help tackle the world’s major challenges, across the key sectors of energy, industry, infrastructure & cities and healthcare. Siemens has offices and factories throughout the UK, with its headquarters in Frimley, Surrey. The company’s global headquarters is in Munich, Germany.

Micronclean, based in Skegness started as a local laundry and has been owned and managed by one family since the 1920’s. At that time, the business concentrated on hand finished laundry services focusing on quality, innovation, attention to detail and customer care. These attributes underpin all the products and services Micronclean now offer which range from our traditional hand finished linen through laundered garment services for both industrial clients and high-tech pharmaceutical companies throughout the UK to cleanroom consumables which are sold in the UK and overseas.

Our ongoing evolution started in the 1970’s when we introduced the first tunnel finisher into Skegness which had the benefit of drying garments using steam thereby doing away for the need for ironing. Tunnel finishers are now the industry standard way of drying garments. We also were the first to introduce Polycotton garments, now the predominant fabric for workwear.

During the 1980’s we built the first cleanroom laundry and we were the first laundry to adopt ISO9001.

The 1990’s saw the introduction of garment tracking and we were the first laundry to use Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology through which we track individual garments in our in-house developed Protrack system.  We remain the only major laundry to scan garments both into and out of our sites. We were the first laundry to adopt ISO14001 environmental standard.

The building of Louth in the 2000’s saw the development of the first (and only) large scale ISO6 cleanroom laundry, Louth’s sortation system remains the most sophisticated in the UK. Alongside this we developed an innovative automotive paintshop garment washing process which remains the most effective for that environment. We achieved Risk analysis and Bio-contamination Control (RABC) accreditation, ISO14065, the first Laundry in the UK and still the only cleanroom Laundry to do this. We introduced a patented Mopping system and multipack syringe packs, both of which have genuinely changed the dynamic of the market.

The current decade has seen the introduction of our alcohol trigger sprays for our clean room consumables customers which have challenged 30 years of received wisdom and have transformed the market place. Our Alpha and Beta disinfectant range have allowed customers to move away from chlorine based solutions which have major problems with health and safety due to the vapour as well as the corrosive properties of chlorine based disinfectants.

Micronclean has a turnover of just over £25m and employs close to 450 people across the UK, the majority of these being based at our three main production sites, all based in Lincolnshire. We have an active Continuous Improvement programme driving business improvement for our customers.

Looking to the future we are confident of growth not only in the UK but also in export markets as we seek to leverage not only our laundered garment service and consumables sales but also use our unique laundry knowledge to deliver business opportunities in overseas markets in line with our mission statement.

At NMB Minebea UK based in Lincoln, we are a world leader in the design and manufacture of bearing technologies. Wherever precision, speed and reliability are essential; we deliver exceptional solutions which improve the productivity and efficiency of our customer’s application or product. 

We are passionate about our product and believe that the key is to understand the challenges our customer’s face, by doing this we then connect our products, people and expertise to deliver exceptional service and solutions. We aim to exceed the expectations of our customers through the production of world-class precision-engineered product.

Based in Spilsby, with an annual turnover of over £13 million, and engineering roots dating back to 1930, Tong Engineering has over 85 years of experience in manufacturing robust and reliable vegetable handling equipment, from single machines to full bespoke systems.
Now exporting world-class equipment to more than 50 countries worldwide, Tong offers a vegetable handling solution for a wide range of fruit and vegetables, from potatoes, onions and carrots, to parsnips, Brussel sprouts, swedes and more.

Tong Engineering clients include UK and overseas vegetable growers and farmers, vegetable fresh pack companies who process the world's vegetable supply from field to fork.

With Tong's range of custom-built equipment crossing mechanical, electronic, welding, fabrication, sheet metal, 3D CAD design and sales divisions, Tong offers those with a hands-on attitude, job and career opportunities across a wide range of disciplines. We are also proud to offer a strong apprenticeship scheme across many divisions and always like to hear from young individuals who are interested in a career in engineering and would like to learn the trade whilst working on the job.

We have a strong engineering heritage with a wide portfolio of job roles and are always looking for new talent to join our team. As a family-run business now in its fourth generation, Tong Engineering is extremely proud that our factory offers a place of work for local people, where it’s not just a job, it’s a passion to achieve the best.  With so many of our people dedicating their entire career, from apprenticeship to retirement, to be part of the Tong Engineering team, it’s a testament to the great culture the company is built upon, and the commitment we share. Tong Engineering treats its people as individuals, and the lifeblood of what we achieve together. The custom-built nature of the equipment Tong manufactures means no two projects are ever the same... resulting in a very interesting, challenging and varied working environment, with something different to achieve every day.

Minster Group was formed in 1999 and has grown to become a major supplier to the Ministry of Defence, local authority, major builders and local suppliers. Based in Lincoln, we work on multi-million pound infrastructure projects for many of the UK’s largest construction firms, as well as councils, central government, defence and aviation industry. We’re able to access all areas of the United Kingdom and are regularly asked to carry out works for the Ministry of Defence nationwide.

Initially offering specialist macadam applications  our continued growth and success has enabled Minster Group to offer a full construction package including site excavation, drainage, planing, block paving and surfacing. Our client list has grown to include Balfour Beatty, Carillion Amey, Gelder Group. Kier Group and TARMAC. 

Minster Group is owned and managed by Bruce Spencer-Knott who has over 25 years’ experience and a full working knowledge of the surfacing and construction industry. Bruce is often on site with the operatives, operating the machinery and helping deliver the service to the customer believing truly that excellence in delivery of the product is paramount. The company’s a proud member of The Institute of Asphalt Technology.

In 2016 we moved into our new 3-acre headquarters in Lincoln. Designed and built by local firm Stirlin Developments, the new, bigger site has allowed us to grow our team to 40 full-time employees and subcontractors. We can now also recycle more waste road material than ever – over 20,000 tonnes in just six months.

The world around us is always changing.  New buildings are designed, new developments planned, old buildings redeveloped and modernised.  Modern machinery is required for transport options, to build our digital devices, and to create power for our digital world.  This world needs protecting, we must use energy wisely, avoid changing our environment, and remove all toxins and hazardous waste.

There are many businesses in the industries building the modern world.  The Rilmac Group of Companies for example, focussing on construction and steel engineering nationwide from our headquarters in Lincoln.

 Rilmac has grown from humble beginnings of three men and a van in 1957 to become a market leader of Asbestos Services, Fabrication, Insulation and Scaffolding.