• Bancon Homes announces Central Belt expansion plans

Bancon Homes is targeting more new business in the central belt after revealing plans for an “exclusive” new South Lanarkshire development. Managing director Allan Clow said that the move is an attempt to avoid having “all its eggs in one basket” and have a better “geographic spread” for the business.

• Tayside and Fife firms to step in to supply PPE

A group of Scottish firms are joining forces to produce over one million surgical gowns for the NHS. Forfar-based Don & Low will supply around 2.8 million square metres of the base material requires which will then be converted into an estimated one million non-sterile gowns by Glenrothes-based Redwood TTM Ltd and Keela. 

Keela will also work with manufacturers Transcal and Endura, both based in Livingston, to deliver these Scottish supplies.

This contract to provide PPE set up between the firms in agreement with the Scottish Government will supply over half of NHS Scotland’s weekly requirement for nonsterile gowns.

• Gravitricity secures land for £1 million energy storage demonstrator

Edinburgh-based energy storage start-up Gravitricity has signed a land rental agreement with Forth Ports to build their first demonstrator project on land within the Port of Leith.

Work will begin on the £1 million project in October, on an industrial site at the Port of Leith with plans to be up and running by late December.

• Sedgwick secures new home at Glasgow’s Sentinel

Sedgwick International UK is to relocate its Glasgow operation to the Sentinel office building on Waterloo Street, following a transformative refurbishment by Ardstone Capital on behalf of the Ardstone Regional Office Fund – a programmatic venture exclusive to clients of CBRE Global Investment Partners.

Sedgwick International will occupy 18,268 sq. ft. with more than 200 staff moving from its current office on Bath Street.