Pneumatic products and process systems distributor Thorite, which has a branch at Barge Street in Huddersfield, has recruited six apprentices in a wide range of roles.

They include 19-year-old Joseph Cotterill, of Huddersfield, who has been working as an apprentice marketing assistant at the firm’s Bradford head office, where he is producing a wide range of digital literature and special product promotions – a role which also enables him to develop his passion for photography.

The other apprentices are apprentice compressor service engineer Lewis Gordon, 18, of Gateshead; apprentice service engineer Samuel Edmands, 19; apprentice pipe fitter Christopher Scott, 16; IT systems apprentice Dominik Hull, 22; and apprentice systems engineer Adam Dyson, 16, all of Bradford.