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GMB Scotland has called on Balcas Energy in Invergordon to increase pay from £10.42 an hour to £13. The union said workers should have got a pay rise in January, and its members had voted for ...
The Balcas plant outside Enniskillen in Fermanagh produces a "revolutionary new wood pellet bio fuel" created by burning sawdust and woodchips. It was named fourth in the top 10 list of new green ...
Northern Ireland's biggest wood pellet manufacturer saw pre-tax profits more than doubled to £5.5m last year, according to a new report. Co Fermanagh company Balcas, which had 367 workers on its ...
A Northern Ireland manufacturer of wood pellets has helped a Scottish whisky distillery install a steam-generating biomass boiler. Balcas in Co Fermanagh joined up with Energy Savings Investments ...
THE value of a Stormont contract to source wood pellets for heating government buildings has increased more than three-fold, it has emerged. Co Fermanagh timber firm Balcas was awarded a £7.25 ...
A GOVERNMENT agency has more than £1 million in shares in the leading producer of biomass wood pellets in Northern Ireland. Invest NI holds £1.2 million worth of shares in Balcas, based in ...
GMB Scotland has called on Balcas Energy in Invergordon to increase pay from £10.42 an hour to £13. The union said workers should have got a pay rise in January, and its members had voted for ...
Workers at a factory manufacturing wood pellets as fuel for heating and generating electricity are to strike for 14 days over pay. GMB Scotland has called on Balcas Energy in Invergordon to ...