Hartlepool firm latest to benefit from Tees Valley Enterprise Zone

C & A Pumps & Engineering Limited is the latest company to Tees Valley Enterprise Zone, resulting in expansion of its premises and the creation of 10 new jobs.

The firm which provides specialist design and build pumping and monitoring systems, will create 10 new jobs as part of its expansion plans at Hartlepool’s Rivergreen Business Centre within Queens Meadow Business Park.

It brings the total number of jobs being created at Queens Meadow to almost 100 since it was granted Enterprise Zone status two years ago.

The award-winning firm was previously located in the UK Steel Enterprise Innovation Centre and the move to its new 4,400 sq ft premises will enable to business to expand.

Alan Roberts, managing director of C & A Pumps & Engineering Limited said: “The Rivergreen Business Centre offers us the ideal location to expand our business in a prestigious environment that fits with our growing client base and has good access to the major road network.”

The company - which won the Tees Valley Best New Business for 2013 and Most Promising New Business at the Hartlepool Business Awards 2014 – has an strong client base including Huntsman Tioxide, Ministry of Defence, Heerema, PD Ports, Northumbrian Water, along with a string of public sector and house building companies.

It also has global contracts and clients in India, Zimbabwe & Malta.

Alan continued: “It’s a really exciting time for the company and our new premises will enable us to have our engineering and office space in the same location.

“We’ll be able to build our systems in our own premises for the first time and customers will be able to see them working prior to installation.”

Councillor Robbie Payne, chair of Hartlepool Council’s Regeneration Services Committee, said: “The Enterprise Zones do offer excellent incentives to companies and I’m delighted that C & A Pumps & Engineering Limited is expanding in Hartlepool and creating extra jobs.

“This is a very diverse company providing high-skilled engineering jobs for local people and it’s great to see that they have recently taken two apprentices on as well.”

Alan Roberts, Managing Director of C & A Pumps and Engineering Limited is pictured (second from right) outside the company’s new premises. Also pictured from the left are Israr Hussain, Economic Development Officer with Hartlepool Council, Stephen Catchpole, Managing Director of Tees Valley Unlimited, Councillor Christopher Akers-Belcher, the Leader of Hartlepool Council and Peter Candler, Managing Director of Rivergreen Developments plc.

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