A Government scheme aimed at encouraging homeowners to invest in carbon-saving biomass boilers has led to a boom in business for installation firm Wessex Biomass. The firm, based near Malmesbury, says it has seen a surge in inquiries since the Government extended the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme to domestic properties earlier this year....
Swindon-based vehicle leasing and fleet management firm Arval UK has put its 100,000th vehicle on the road following a year of strong growth. The firm, part of French banking giant BNP Paribas, said new initiatives introduced over the past couple of years had won it new customers ranging from large corporates with thousands of...
Accountancy firm Sunflower Accounts has launched an app to help business owners, directors or their employees keep track of their revenue and expenditure remotely. The free app is available on ITunes and on GooglePlay. It includes an income tracker and receipt manager for tracking sales revenue and logging expenditure on the go. It also...
Good Energy, the Chippenham-based renewable electricity supplier and generator, has received planning permission for three new solar farms totalling more than 25MW. Two of the solar farms (5.8MW and 4.9MW respectively) are in Dorset and are expected to be commissioned within the first half of next year. The third, a 15MW site in Wales,...
Investing in innovative new products and technologies while expanding its international markets has paid off for Wiltshire manufacturer Avon Rubber, which has reported a 21% leap in annual profits. Pre-tax profits at the Melksham-headquartered group came in at £16.6m for the year to September 30 despite sales slipping slightly to £124.8m. The group, which...
Staff at SciSys, the Chippenham-based specialist software firm, have been celebrating their role in the historic touchdown of the Rosetta space mission’s lander on the comet 67P some 500million km from Earth. SciSys developed the software for the mission control system (MCS) for the European Space Agency (ESA) project. The software has been used...
