Cleveland Potash welcomed Cabinet Minister Theresa Villiers and I on Friday. The visit to Boulby came about following the company’s unveiling of a wonderful forthcoming development, which will generate 270 new jobs in our area by 2015. Howard Clark (Sales and Marketing Director) and James Greaves (Head of HR) were our guides around this tremendous Teesside business.
The Potash employs 1100 people and exports globally. Further to this, in the past year, 175 new staff were taken on as well as 50 Apprentices currently working towards permanent jobs. ICL, Cleveland Potash’s parent company, is investing £300m in a move to expand its mining area and improve current facilities, including a £16m replacement of the tower at the top of the mine. The improvements will increase the maximum ore lifting by one million tonnes a year, up to around 5.3 million tonnes. The developments would secure the plant for 40 years.
As a government we are investing in Teesside: firms at Wilton will be the very first in the country to have complete freedom over how their apprentices are trained with government cash. We are providing our young people something better.
