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Commercial
Property
Ingall wants
more shops in
Spinningfields
What’s News
■ Some of the 1,000 staff at
Siemens’ Manchester office in
Northenden, which is home to the
group’s automation and drives
division as well as its transmission
and distribution business, are in
danger of losing their jobs after the
German engineering giant
announced plans to cut more than
16,000 positions globally. A
spokeswoman for the company said
it was too early to say how many UK
positions would be affected, but said
they would most likely be back office
jobs in the areas of IT, finance and
communications. About 5,000 of the
105,000 posts in Europe, excluding
Germany, will go.
■ The University of Salford has
signed a partnership agreement with
the BBC, which will include new joint
courses such as BSc Digital
Broadcast Technology, enterprise
training for undergraduate Salford
students, and student placements
within the BBC. The university said it
is planning an ambassadorial
presence alongside the BBC at
Salford Quays. “These strong links
will enable us to nurture our staff
and students’ talent across the
university, and develop an effective
future workforce for the region,” said
Professor Michael Harloe, vicechancellor
of Salford University.
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ISSUE 27, JULY 14 - 18, 2008 CrainsManchesterBusiness.co.uk £2
£250m paper mill to bring
200 new jobs to Trafford
BY SIMON BINNS
A Spanish company is planning to
build a £250m recycled paper mill in
Trafford which could create 200 new
jobs.
SAICA, a family-owned company
based in Zaragoza, wants to use Partington
Wharfside as a base for what it
says will be the world’s most
advanced recycled paper mill, with
the capacity to produce 400,000
tonnes of lightweight, 100 per cent
■ Advertising agency McCann
Erickson Communications House,
based in Prestbury, has been
appointed by Hoover to conduct a
campaign for its vacuum cleaners,
starting in the autumn. The
Manchester office will work with
McCann’s offices in Italy and France
on the pan-European account. The
agency beat two other bidders.
■ Softcat, a Marlow-based IT
equipment and support services
provider, is opening its first regional
office in Manchester to take
advantage of the city’s good supply
of graduates. Managing director
Martin Hellawell said Softcat was
struggling to add to its 180-strong
workforce in Marlow and believed
there was more chance of recruiting
here. The group, which had turnover
of £89.1m last year, will open the new
office at Universal Square in Ardwick
on October 10 with 13 staff. Within 18
months to two years Hellawell said
he hopes to increase the headcount
to between 20 and 30.
■ Internet Facilitators has expanded
its Manchester data centre network
with an additional 5,000 sq ft of
colocation space at Reynolds House
in Manchester Techno Park, taking its
total space to over 22,000 sq ft. A
second on-site energy centre will be
built with a new 1MVA power supply,
diesel generators and n+1
uninterruptible power supply system.
An additional 150 racks will be made
available with an expected average
power usage of 4.5kw per rack up to
a maximum of 8kw per rack.
SEE WHAT’S NEWS, PAGE 2
CAB FAYRE NOT ENOUGH
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Spanish firm plans to make corrugated cardboard
boxes on site near the ship canal in Partington
recycled paper to be used in the
manufacture of corrugated boxes.
The company recycles more than 2m
tonnes of paper a year and employs a
total of 7,000 people across plants in
Spain, Italy, Portugal and France.
It has two existing corrugated box
plants in the UK and one in the
Republic of Ireland. It has also just
concluded a £100m deal for Kentbased
SCA Recycling’s corrugated box
plants in the UK and Ireland. The
company is working with Nottingham-based
SLR Consulting Ltd over
its plans for Partington Wharfside,
which covers an area of approximately
39 acres bounded by the Manchester
Ship Canal and the A6144
BY JAMES CHAPELARD
Councillor
John Commons
Leading Page 3 SHEARINGS’ CHIEF EXECUTIVE PUTS HIS FOOT DOWN
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Manchester Road, linking directly to
the M60.
The plans, submitted to Trafford
Metropolitan Borough Council last
week, would include an external raw
sewage area, a warehouse, workshops
and an electricity and steam-generating
plant. If the plans are approved,
construction on the plant could begin
before the end of the year. A decision
is expected by the beginning of
Gloomy outlook
for apartments
gives Crosby
Potato blight
anchester City Council is being urged to But Commons said numbers should be upped to
issue nearly 200 more Hackney carriage 1,200 by 2010, saying advice from the consultants was
licences. City councillor John Commons, “rather conservative” and that anecdotal evidence
Liberal Democrat opposition spokesman shows people are struggling to find cabs in the
on licensing, said more taxis during the evening would evening.
help cut crime and disorder by getting people out of He added: “We feel the city is underserved, particu-
the city centre.
larly at night. The number of additional taxis has not
There are currently 1,024 licences and 749 would- been enough to make sure they are working at night,
be drivers on the waiting list. Based on a study of which is very important in view of cutbacks to late
demand levels by consultants Halcrow, the council has night buses. The service is not as good as it used to be.
recently decided it will issue 30 new licences by next The numbers on the waiting list showed that there
March and a further 30 in the following 12 months,
bringing the total to 1,084.
SEE TAXIS, PAGE 17
SEE PAPER, PAGE 17
BY SIMON BINNS
Crosby Lend Lease has put the brakes
on its two mammoth residential
schemes in Manchester city centre,
stopping work on the construction of
more than 300 apartments.
The Birmingham-based firm,
which has a North West office in
Altrincham, has decided to curtail
work on one of the planned apartment
blocks at its Potato Wharf development
in Castlefield, with no indication
of when it will resume. The block
affected, Brindley, would have provided
102 apartments.
Construction has also been put on
hold at Cypress Place, a 215-apartment
block planned for Crosby’s
mixed-used Greenquarter scheme, in
Cheetham Hill. The steel frame will be
finished, but no work will be started
on finish or fit-out. A public consultation
will be held on July 16 to discuss
the future of Potato Wharf, which
Crosby said it still saw as a “sound
long-term investment.”
Work on one of the other Potato
Wharf apartment blocks, Saville, is
still ongoing, as is Britton House and
Vallea Court at Greenquarter.
David Teague, managing director
at Crosby Lend Lease, said in a statement
issued to Crain’s: “Crosby Lend
Lease will be postponing construction
on Brindley at Potato Wharf in
Manchester city centre. While the
structural frame will be finished and
secured, all other works to the block
will be put on hold.’
“Construction of Saville at Potato
Wharf is ongoing and when complet-
SEE POTATO, PAGE 17
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