IMERYS CERAMICS New Business in Teigngrace

On the morning that Vince Cable announced his ideas to make it easier for businesses to take on apprentices Councillors from Kingsteignton West were hosted to a reception at the opening of Imerys new laboratories and offices at Brocks Plantation Teigngrace.

The new plant at Imerys covers 400 square metres. It has six individual laboratories for Research and Development and Quality Control.

One of the employees told me of his experience working at Imerys. He had been an apprentice during the 1970's and has been employed there full time for 25 years. Facilities were certainly not to the standard of the new Laboratories as they were working in huts and prefabricated buildings.

Imerys Ceramics is a world leading supplier of industrial solutions. From quarries and transformation plants Imerys have developed a comprehensive offering for the ceramic industries: raw materials, prepared bodies, glazes and engobes. Imerys has advanced Research and Development facilities in several continents. Among these are the new Eastern European countries which will help to strengthen their economies. This subject was spoken about in one of my earlier blogs by Sir Graham Watson MEP for the South West.

Are you a young person at school, interested in Chemistry and thinking of your options at school . Why not click on www.imerys-ceramics.com and see what they could offer you sometime in the future.

More about Imerys with photos in later blogs.....