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Nordic has opened an impressive new welding
training facility on Church Road in Stockton.
Welding a
successful
partnership
By Mike McGeary
T
o say that sparks flew when
businessman Peter Robinson met
welding expert Ian Henderson-Thynne
might be a slight exaggeration. But
there was certainly a meeting of minds.
The two men come from very different
backgrounds, but together they intend to
plug what they believe is a serious training
gap for the Teesside engineering community.
Peter, from Darlington, is a former
County Durham Police physical training
and self-defence instructor who has built
up one of the country’s leading anti-graffiti
and industrial cleaning businesses, Nordic
Products and Services.
Middlesbrough-born Ian, meanwhile,
possesses a wealth of engineering
experience and specialises in passing it on to
the next generation of the workforce.
Using Peter’s business acumen and Ian’s
expertise, they have set up what they are
determined to make the country’s leading
welding training and testing house, on
Church Road in Stockton.
Nordic, which was previously based in
Darlington, already offered training in other
fields and when Peter found out that Ian and
a team of his senior colleagues were looking
for a new opportunity, the idea of creating
Nordic Engineering Training