State-of-the-art facility gearing up to welcome delegates after funding
TRAINING PROVIDER IS SUPPORTED BY LEP
THE UK’s leading fully-operational tank farm and process plant training facility is gearing up to welcome delegates after a major investment. Supported with a £195,000 grant secured by Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, existing facilities have been significantly enhanced and added to thanks to a pioneering partnership between host Catch and tenant Reynolds Training Services, who invested £250,000 in state-of-the-art equipment.
The National Centre for Process and Manufacturing as it has been branded, can replicate rail, road, ship and tanker import and export operations and provides a seamless link into the process plant, providing the ability to emulate real time process operations from initial receipt to final delivery - and any situation that could arise. David Talbot, chief executive at Catch’s Stallingborough base, said: “Engineering, process, chemical and renewable Industries in the Humber region accounts for 25 per cent of the local £19bn economy and supports more than 360,000 jobs – these industries have ensured that our local economy has remained relatively stable throughout the pandemic and remains a magnet for investment.
“In fact, millions of pounds are being invested in our region to meet the Government’s low carbon agenda, and skills remain at the forefront of businesses priorities, to ensure that their people are trained to the highest level.
“The training landscape is slowly changing with more providers offering virtual learning platforms as an alternative provision during the past 12 months, with many suggesting that in the future, this could be the new normal for several courses in the high hazard industries.
“But can virtual learning really replace operational hands-on training? And how can this hands-on training be delivered at a time when productivity rates are a key objective for many businesses? “The National Centre for Process and Manufacturing provides the solution, with operational hands-on training for high hazard industries . “That requires no plant downtime with the added benefit of no risk to your company or your people. “While virtual training has its place, operational training simply cannot be replicated online and provide the same added value and experience for the learner.”
The funding, through the Northern Powerhouse pot and investment by Reynolds, has seen the four zone centre brought forward at the Stallingborough site.
It boasts a three-storey fully operational process plant, control room with two industry-leading distribution control systems, a simulation suite to replicate any emergency response situation and a fully updated multi-modal tank farm.
John Reynolds, managing director of Reynolds Training Services, said: “We have a full library of courses ready to be delivered at our national centre, many which are accredited by the UK’s key training bodies, such as ECITB, IOSH and NEBOSH, and delivered by experienced training professionals, allowing learners to experience a fully immersive hands-on training experience like never before.
“If a company needs a bespoke solution, we are agile enough to be able to accommodate such requests and deliver a training solution that is specifically tailored to business requirements too.”