James Brodie

The China-Britain Business Council has announced the shortlist for the 2021 China-Scotland Business Awards. The winners will be announced at the virtual Chinese Burns Supper to be held on February 4th 2021. The shortlist for the 2021 China-Scotland Business Awards is as follows: Exporter of the Year Ireland Alloys Wood Unineed Award for Climate Action Wood Chubby Bags University of Edinburgh Educational Partnership of the Year – Sponsored by Huawei New College …

ENTRIES TO THE 2021 CHINA-SCOTLAND BUSINESS AWARDS ARE NOW OPEN. AS PART OF OUR COUNTDOWN TO THE NEXT EVENT, WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE COMPANIES THAT CAME OUT ON TOP THIS YEAR.  DECCI WAS THE WINNER OF THE 2020 INNOVATION IN EDUCATION AWARD Professor Natascha Gentz, who is Assistant Principal (China), Chair of Chinese Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute for Scotland, picked up last year’s award for …

ENTRIES TO THE 2021 CHINA-SCOTLAND BUSINESS AWARDS ARE NOW OPEN. AS PART OF OUR COUNTDOWN TO THE NEXT EVENT, WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE COMPANIES THAT CAME OUT ON TOP THIS YEAR.  HUAWEI WAS THE WINNER OF THE 2020 CHINA INVESTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD. Michael Hill-King of Huawei Technologies explains below how the Chinese tech company has been investing in Scotland since 2016. It began as a collaboration …

China’s 14th Five Year Plan offers plenty to be positive about for the country’s emerging wind industry, and Britain could well play a major role In 2015, the UK and China Offshore Wind Industry Advisory Group (IAG) was established to promote commercial, innovation and policy exchanges between both countries on offshore wind and to support the development of offshore wind and reduce its global costs. The IAG is made up …

ENTRIES TO THE 2021 CHINA-SCOTLAND BUSINESS AWARDS ARE NOW OPEN. AS PART OF OUR COUNTDOWN TO THE NEXT EVENT, WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE COMPANIES THAT CAME OUT ON TOP THIS YEAR. RACHEL JONES OF SNAPDRAGON WAS WINNER OF THE 2O2O ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARD Rachel Jones launched her online product monitoring company SnapDragon after discovering that products she was making with another company in China were being …

Entries to the 2021 China-Scotland Business Awards are now open. As part of our countdown to the next event, we take a look at the companies that came out on top this year. First up, winners of the 2o2o Exporter of the Year Award, Calnex Tommy Cook is CEO of Scottish technology company Calnex, which won the 2020 Exporter of the Year Award. Calnex is a specialist technology manufacturer that …

Is carbon dioxide shifting its role from villain to saviour?  Rowena Sellens, CEO of Econic Technologies thinks it could be The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recently stated that Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technologies are essential in order to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Thanks to developments in science, carbon dioxide is being transformed from a villain into a valuable manufacturing staple and …