North East power infrastructure and data firm doubles the size of its HQ
Durata’s base at the Tees AMP Business Park will be extended in the months ahead with the transformation of Unit 3, pictured to the right of the company’s current Unit 2 HQ Credit: DURATA (Image: Durata)
A Teesside company specialising in critical power infrastructure and data centres has doubled the size of its HQ.
Middlesbrough firm Durata have expanded their business with a new unit added on to the existing Unit 2 base at the Tees AMP Business Park on Wilfred Whitfield Way.
Its new addition will include Innovation Centre which will be used to host potential clients from across the world and welcome students.
The extra 6,331sq ft of space means the firm will have nearly doubled its operating space upon the building refurbishment’s completion.
Durata’s managing director John McGee said: “These are exciting times for Durata. As well as working around the world, we now feel it is time to bring the world to us here on Teesside too.
“We are extremely happy here on Teesside and even though we could have our main base anywhere else in the world where we have projects, we firmly believe staying here is the right thing to do.
“We are from Middlesbrough, born and brought up here, and we wouldn’t want to move elsewhere. This expansion highlights what the area where we are from means to us and we believe there is a very supportive business network in this area too.”
A spokesperson for the company said work will begin on Unit 3 in the new year.
Middlesbrough Mayor Chris Cooke said: “It’s great news that a brilliant Middlesbrough business like Durata is committing its future to our town.
“Durata continues to lead the way and put Middlesbrough on the map in its specialism.
“The plans for the Innovation Centre sound really exciting and it’s a credit to everyone at Durata that the firm is looking to create inspirational learning opportunities for our young people.”
Alison McGee, quality director at Durata, said: “As a team we spent a lot of time developing our offer into a comprehensive and concise marketing strategy.
“Our head of modular data centre projects, Lewis Cobb, is already bringing huge industry players to Middlesbrough to talk to them about modular buildings, for example, and our new Innovation Centre will provide the perfect place to enhance that tour.
“As well as highlighting Teesside’s industrial heritage and explaining how our free port can help logistically, we can show them somewhere tangible where our modulars are manufactured and demonstrate to them how we will deliver.
“We use local suppliers wherever possible and 90 per cent of our engineers are from this area, despite contracts that are stretching to the UAE and beyond. We do this by shipping out from the excellent Teesside facilities. We want everyone to know how Teesside has such a part to play in the digital age.”
Durata’s workforce has grown from 20 to 35 employees this year, and it has said year-on-year multi-million-pound turnover increases are set for record levels this year.