TTE was founded in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire in 1990 by Ineos ChlorVinyls (formerly ICI), Innospec (formerly Associated Octel) and Shell UK (Stanlow) to supply training not only for their own firms but other multi-national firms in the chemical, petrochemical, process, strong, paper, pharmaceutical, nuclear and oil and gas industries throughout the North West.TTE has grown to become one of the North West’s leading suppliers of sponsored Advanced Apprenticeships Level 3 in Engineering and Laboratory Operations and Engineering Apprenticeship Level 2 programmes with Whole Person Improvement incorporated into the training. In 2001, TTE invested £1.8 million in a purpose-built Training Centre to supply the manufacturing industry with the finest young people educated to the highest standards.