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The Welsh Government is working with global technology company Thales to establish a £20m cyber centre which will sit at the heart of its Tech Valleys programme, Economy Minister Ken Skates has announced. The National Digital Exploitation Centre (NDEC) will be the first research and development facility of its kind in Wales, and will provide the perfect setting for SMEs and microbusinesses to test and develop their digital concepts. It will also provide a research...

Wales’ new flagship Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility will be managed by the prestigious University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), Economy Secretary Ken Skates has announced today. The Welsh Government is investing £20m to develop the first phase of the facility, on Broughton in order to increase productivity, commercialisation, innovation and skills development across a range of sectors including Aerospace and Automotive. The aim is to take business support to the next level in...

Wales’ new flagship Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility will be managed by the prestigious The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), Economy Secretary Ken Skates has announced today. The Welsh Government is investing £20m to develop the first phase of the facility, on Broughton in order to increase productivity, commercialisation, innovation and skills development across a range of sectors including Aerospace and Automotive. The aim is to take business support to the next level...

Wales’ new flagship Advanced Manufacturing Research Facility will be managed by the prestigious University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), Economy Secretary Ken Skates has announced today. The Welsh Government is investing £20m to develop the first phase of the facility, on Broughton in order to increase productivity, commercialisation, innovation and skills development across a range of sectors including Aerospace and Automotive. The aim is to take business support to the next level in...

The Welsh Government has offered Pembrokeshire Council an additional £3m per annum to cover the costs of removing the Cleddau Bridge tolls, Economy Secretary Ken Skates has confirmed. In October 2017 the Welsh Government announced it would be scrapping the tolls on the Cleddau Bridge in an effort to increase economic competiveness and better connect people, communities and businesses with the jobs, markets and facilities they need. Now in a letter to the Chief Executive...

An independent tyre comparison site called Motokiki was launched on the 12th November. The company is the brainchild of Entrepreneur, Dr. Debra Evans Williams who was a Managing Director of the car insurance comparison site Confused.com. Having lived and worked, at a senior level, in numerous countries across the world, she has returned to her home area to start a new business in Port Talbot which is one of the eight Enterprise Zones in Wales...

The Welsh Government is investing £243,000 to improve access and alleviate current levels of traffic at Deeside Industrial Park, Economy and Transport Secretary Ken Skates has announced. The scheme, which will be undertaken by Flintshire County Council, will see a partial signalisation of the A548 / Parkway Roundabout at Zone 2 of the Industrial Park which will improve the flow of traffic to and from businesses in the area. A reduced 40 mph speed limit...

A group that will advise on how £100m of Welsh Government funding can be invested to support emerging technologies in the South Wales Valleys has met for the first time today. Economy Secretary, Ken Skates has pledged that the Welsh Government will invest £100m over ten years to make Blaenau Gwent and the wider South Wales Valleys a globally recognised centre for the development and delivery of emerging technologies. It is anticipated that the programme...

Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford will today announce £10.3m of EU funding for the marine technology sector on a visit to Pembroke Dock [Tuesday 11 September]. The EU funding will support the design and testing of a fully-submerged membrane-style wave energy convertor capable of generating large amounts of electricity – paving the way for the developers, Bombora Wave Power Europe, to construct and commercialise the technology from its Pembrokeshire base. The £15m project is expected to...

First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones has welcomed Aston Martin’s decision to make St Athan its “Home of Electrification”, describing it as a yet another example of the power of Welsh Government investment. The luxury car brand has announced today that its new UK manufacturing facility at St Athan will become the brand’s centre for electrification and the home of the Lagonda brand, the world’s first zero-emission luxury marque. The Rapide E will be the...