Export Cluster Directory – High Value Manufacturing
The High Value Manufacturing (HVM) sector is vital as it accounts for more than half of the value of exports from Wales with manufacturers supplying products and services to a wide range of industries globally.
The HVM Sector in Wales consists of a number of large, global players but also a high volume of SMEs that make up the backbone of the Sector as a whole. This Cluster is focussed on providing export development support to those SMEs that wish to grow their exports through the undoubted benefits of coming together with like-minded businesses across a range of sub-sectors in Wales.
The Cluster membership ranges from relatively new exporters through to those who are highly experienced and successful. They all have one thing in common – they are committed to growing their exports and are actively seeking such opportunities.
| Company | Subsector | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Aber Instruments | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Aber Instruments is a successful global company with a portfolio of ‘manufacturing ready’ advanced certified systems already in use in the Brewing, Biotech, Biorenewables, and Biofuel industries. Aber Instruments pioneered a new dimension to biomass measurement by inventing a unique method for biomass monitoring using radiofrequency impedance. |
| Bee Robotics | Industrial Machinery & Components | Bee Robotics is a privately-owned company based in North Wales that has established a world-wide reputation as a leader in the field of design and manufacture of advanced liquid handling robotic solutions for laboratory automation. Their product range represents many years of research and development, and features the latest electronic, robotic and software innovations. |
| BIPV Limited t/a BIPVco | Renewable Energy | BIPVco is a pioneering UK manufacturer of building integrated photovoltaic roofing solutions for the commercial, industrial and residential sectors. Their highly innovative, high-output manufacturing systems have been developed to meet the demands of a range of photovoltaic roof systems whilst maintaining the efficiency of manufacture and product quality at every stage of the process. |
| Bluebox Optics | Electronic Components | Bluebox Optics is a guiding light in the field of photonics. The company offers advanced photonics devices for the life science sector which are good quality, good value instruments that researchers depend on. |
| Brush | Engineering | BRUSH Group supports the global drive to net zero with innovative and sustainable solutions. The company provides agile and adaptive engineering solutions and engineered products, designed to future-proof critical infrastructure, address grid-resilience and drive system change, while supporting the drive to net-zero. |
| C R Clarke & Co (UK) Limited | Industrial Machinery & Components | C R Clarke & Co (UK) Limited are experienced and enthusiastic engineers, designers and manufacturers of Thermoforming and Plastic Fabrication equipment. For over 40 years the company has been developing and manufacturing a range of high quality equipment for plastic fabrication. |
| Cimteq | Application Software | Cimteq offers a suite of software which empowers wire and cable manufacturers to plan, control and streamline the design and manufacturing process. Cimteq is a part of UL Solutions. |
| Clwyd Compounders | Specialty Chemicals & Materials | Clwyd Compounders excels at providing the very highest quality rubber compounds and the best technical support and service in the industry. They supply the full range of rubber compounds and technical support for all applications across numerous industries. |
| Cokebusters | Environmental & Facilities Services | Cokebusters is an international business which specialises in the cleaning and assurance of tubes and pipelines. As an industry leader, Cokebusters reliably delivers mechanical cleaning, water filtration, cleanliness verification, piping inspection, containment integrity and asset assurance services to its industrial clients. |
| Concrete Canvas | Construction Materials | Concrete Canvas Ltd is the world's first manufacturer of GCCMs with Concrete Canvas® - Concrete on a Roll. Concrete Canvas Ltd. was incorporated in the UK in 2005 to manufacture its 2 award winning technologies, Concrete Canvas and Concrete Canvas Shelters. These products were developed to exploit a unique material technology invented at Imperial College London in 2004. |
| Continental Diamond Tool Limited | Industrial Machinery & Components | Continental Diamond Tool Limited are specialists in the manufacture of Diamond Rotary Dressers and Electroplated Grinding Products. The company is a leader in technically superior precision tooling for a range of industries, designing precision grinding products with the best materials and most cutting-edge technology. |
| Datascope Systems | Application Software | DataScope is a UK leading provider of site access control, logistics, digital planning and QHSE tools to the construction industry. Spanning labour to logistics, planning to QHSE, their suite of dynamic site management solutions help customers consistently exceed project time and cost expectations. |
| Flamgard Calidair | Industrial Machinery & Components | Flamgard Calidair is one of the world’s leading authorities in the design and manufacture of high quality HVAC dampers and associated equipment. The company’s focus remains to supply customers with dampers that provide safety, reliability, and durability in demanding conditions. |
| FSG Tool & Die | Industrial Machinery & Components | FSG Tool and Die provides world-class high precision tooling, thanks to their highly skilled people, leading-edge technology and innovation. The company offers a total toolmaking service from concept to component, including plastic injection moulds, precision machining, press tool design and manufacture and thermoform tooling. |
| Fuel Active Ltd | Automotive Parts & Equipment | FuelActive manufactures and installs the FuelActive® fuel pickup unit, which prevents water, dirt and other contaminants from entering the fuel system. The patented FuelActive fuel pickup unit is a unique, innovative solution to the problem of fuel contamination in diesel engines. |
| Garan Instruments | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Garan elevator load weighing systems designed and manufactured in the UK. The elevator load weighing systems can be seen in many countries worldwide. Garan's load weighing instrumentation and sensors ensure the safety of numerous elevator passengers daily, notwithstanding goods elevators, platform hoists and disabled access lifts. |
| Global Lasertech | Electronic Components | Global Laser are a specialist designer and manufacturer of laser diode modules covering a wide range of applications.They specialize in a wide range of OEM, high performance, high reliability laser products for use within many niche applications including machine vision, alignment, medical, measurement, scientific and military. |
| H&D Fitzgerald Ltd | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | H&D Fitzgerald Ltd. was established in 1988 and is the world’s leading supplier of calibration services for density measurement. The company produces liquid density standards, calibrates a wide range of hydrometers and density meters, and produces density gradient column floats, and an automated density gradient column filler. |
| Haydale Graphene | Specialty Chemicals & Materials | Haydale is a global technologies and materials group that facilitates the integration of nanomaterials into the next generation of commercial technologies and industrial materials. They facilitate the commercialization of graphene and other advanced materials for customers worldwide |
| Hexigone Inhibitors | Specialty Chemicals & Materials | Hexigone Inhibitors manufactures ‘chemically intelligent’ corrosion inhibitors. Intelli-ion® AX1 completely replaces or co-blends with heavy metal, phosphate and toxic chromates with cost-effect, high performance, sustainable anti-corrosive additives. Their aim is to make Intelli-ion® the industry standard that protects our infrastructure and transport for longer - helping to make communities safer and more sustainable. |
| HWM Water | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | HWM design and manufacture monitoring and telemetry equipment for water, wastewater and gas networks, together with telemetry AMR and facilities optimisation products.Their primary focus for over 30 years has been clean water and network distribution system monitoring, however in the last few years they have expanded into new sectors which include gas, water and electricity meter consumption, |
| Industrial Automation & Control | Electronic Manufacturing Services | IAC is one of the UK's leading independent systems integrators with particular expertise in the application and manufacture of variable speed drive systems, along with vast experience in PLC and SCADA design. IAC engineers possess over 700 man years of experience dating back to the 1970’s. The company is approved and authorised as proficient in the use and application of equipment manufactured by the world’s leading electrical manufacturers. IAC has approval from Siemens, ABB, Rockwell, Schneider, Omron, GE, Mitsubishi, and many others. |
| Inndex | Application Software | InnDex is a fast-growing construction technology company offering a growing suite of integrated software and hardware solutions through open API’s. Simply put, innDex is “Powerful ConTech made easy". As a construction technology business, their aim is to make use of 96% of data which is currently seen as a byproduct and wasted in the construction industry, offering affordable innovation to an industry with minimal margin. |
| K Sharp | Research & Consulting Services | K Sharp provides Human Factors consultancy, cultural and behavioral analysis, and technology adoption consultancy for UX, and user interface design, creating products, services, and protocols that are easy to adopt and attractive to use. K Sharp improves the customer’s systems and processes so they can access, process, utilise and exploit information more effectively. |
| KnitMesh Technologies | Specialty Chemicals & Materials | KnitMesh Technologies provide bespoke Knitted Mesh solutions for some of the world's most challenging automotive, hydrogen, electrolysis and other technical applications. These include vibration control, sound attenuation, the filtering of liquids and gases as well as EMI/RFI shielding. |
| Lion Laboratories | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Lion specializes in the field of breath alcohol analysis. They supply much of the equipment used by the UK police, and export to some 70 countries worldwide through a network of local distributors. Lion Laboratories are a fully vertically integrated company, carrying out all of their own research, engineering product development, manufacturing, marketing and sales. |
| Markes International | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Markes International are a specialist manufacturer of instrumentation for detection of trace-level volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs). They have a well-deserved reputation for application expertise in the field of thermal desorption, supplying a comprehensive range of instruments, sampling equipment and consumables that enhance the analytical capability of GC–MS. |
| MM Engineering | Building Products | MM Engineering is a team of industry experts driven by a passion to provide flood defence and blast protection products of the highest quality. With over twenty years' experience designing and delivering bespoke flood defence products, they use their experience and expertise to create industry-leading products to protect our customers’ assets. |
| NDT Group | Research & Consulting Services | NDT Group offers a wide range of Non-Destructive Testing services and techniques within multiple industries. We operate in a diverse set of industries ranging from power & nuclear to aerospace to petrochemical to oil & gas to name just a few. By utilizing modern techniques & equipment operated by highly skilled personnel, NDT Group is able to provide a high quality and efficient NDT service. |
| Nightingale HQ | IT Consulting | Nightingale HQ work with manufacturers on their digital transformation - from strategic alignment with Digital Reviews to technical hands-on implementation. Their combination of expertise in data science, technology, and manufacturing, along with a strong customer-centric approach helps accelerate digitalization. They partner with a diverse range of manufacturers across the UK and Europe. |
| Nortech Control Systems | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Nortech designs, manufactures and distributes people and vehicle access control systems. As an independent British company, they have been supplying products and solutions to the security industry for over 25 years. Their in-house design team has extensive experience in all areas of product development and they work closely with strategic partners to provide the best technical solutions. |
| Philtronics | Electronic Manufacturing Services | Philtronics is a contract electronic manufacturer (CEM), offering outsource electronic manufacturing services (EMS) to customers demanding fast turnaround with a high level of product reliability.The company can assist from early design concepts, rapid prototyping, design for manufacture and assembly, supply chain optimisation, product standardisation, design approval processes, build, test and logistics:a complete "concept to delivery" contract manufacturing solution that fits specific needs. |
| POET Systems | Application Software | POET Systems Ltd help manufacturers improve productivity and performance with their award-winning POET software platform. POET is a series of easy to navigate, visual management, dashboards that instantly directs users to the high impact opportunities, down to line, product and failure mode level, across all process performance indicators using the OEE methodology. |
| Pulse Plastics | Specialty Chemicals & Materials | Pulse Plastics Limited – an innovative UK based independent specialist plastic solution provider. Through a wealth of industry knowledge and expertise Pulse Plastics offer specialised services covering Reprocessing, Compound production and Custom Product manufacture. Pulse Plastics reprocess manufacturers’ waste streams back to compounded materials for re-use in the plastics industry and manufacture material for numerous high end users. |
| R-TECH Consultants (T/A R-TECH Materials) | Research & Consulting Services | R-TECH Consultants provide world class specialist materials advice to a wide range of industries-TECH Consultants specializes in laboratory-based materials investigations along with plant integrity work. Together the businesses provide a comprehensive service for a wide range of materials, applications and industries. |
| Raplas Technologies | Industrial Machinery & Components | Raplas provides 3D printing technology using cutting edge additive manufacturing. The company supplies high quality precision machinery and an produce single prototypes or thousands of production parts. |
| Recco Automation | Industrial Machinery & Components | Reeco Automation supplies customers with solutions in automating systems using collaborative robots. The business focuses on providing the customer with an automated solution that will ultimately save them money and reduce production costs. |
| Rhino Systems | Building Products | Established in 1983, Rhino Doors manufacture, install and maintain all types of doors and gates specializing in Sliding, Sliding folding, Bi-folding and Folding doors, Rolling-shutters, Sectional doors and Personnel doors. |
| RM Group | Industrial Machinery & Components | RMGroup are the market leaders in the supply of bagging machinery. Systems include bulk material handling, weighing, automated bag placers, form fill & seal, mobile bagging systems and bulk 1 tonne bagging. |
| Robertson Geologging | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Since 1979 Robertson Geologging Ltd has been the pioneer developer of geophysical logging technologies and techniques. As the world’s largest vendor of slim-hole logging instrumentation, Robertson Geo designs and manufactures almost all equipment in-house drawing on accumulated expertise and know-how. |
| Rototherm | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Rototherm Group have been designing the world's most accurate measurement solutions in Flow, Level, Temperature and Pressure since the 1840's. The company’s cutting edge technology ensures the businesses they partner with can measure accurately, efficiently, reliably and safely every time. Their measurement solutions enable customers to improve their processes, products and services and supporting sustainable business practices. |
| Ruth Lee Limited | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Ruth Lee Ltd is a leading manufacturer of internationally renowned rescue training manikins that can be used create very realistic emergency scenarios. Ruth Lee is also a distributor of the FireWare range of Fire Simulation products which includes Smoke Generators, Sound Simulation and Fire Extinguisher Trainers. |
| Safety Letterbox Company | Building Products | The Safety Letterbox Company is at the absolute forefront of design, specification, compliance and supply of Secure Information Box, Mailbox and Parcel Box solutions. For over 38 years the company has been supplying both the residential and commercial sectors with a vast range of mailboxes for virtually any application, location and budget. |
| Securiclad LTD | Building Products | Securiclad creates secure environments across a wide range of industries, providing an effective, cost-efficient means of safeguarding high-risk areas. Designed to secure high value assets ranging from retail stock - to hazardous materials – or pharmaceuticals, the Securiclad product enables companies and government bodies to protect facilities such as data centres, utility company control rooms and nuclear sites. |
| Thermal Compaction Group Ltd | Electrical Components & Equipment | Thermal Compaction Group was founded in 2014 and specialise in sustainable waste, carbon reducing, environmental impact systems providing cost effective solutions to common waste management problems. The company has developed a range of products that contribute to the circular economy by reducing waste volume through recovery and reuse. TCGs products are focused on processing single use plastics thus reducing the amount ending up in landfill, incineration, or worse watercourses and oceans. |
| Tilon UK Ltd |
Construction & Engineering |
Tilon UK Limited is comprised of a group of engineering experts who focus on creative recycled product solutions such as scaffold boards, acoustic barriers, partitions & walkways for a wide range of industrial, commercial and residential projects. The products consist of over 95% recycled waste material once manufactured. |
| Transcontinental Advanced Coatings | Specialty Chemicals & Materials | Transcontinental Advanced Coatings is a global leader in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of precision coating technologies, including coated papers, films and specialty substrates for digital imaging, electronics, medical and optical technologies. They also offer unique specialty films and coating services, including contract coating, toll coating, and converting. |
| UnitBirwelco | Construction & Engineering | UnitBirwelco is a leading provider of comprehensive engineering solutions specialised in the design, fabrication, and optimisation of a wide range of heat-intensive systems, including fired heaters, flares, pressure vessels, and process skids.. UnitBirwelco is dedicated to delivering excellence in design, project management, manufacturing, fabrication, construction, and maintenance services for a diverse range of industries. |
| United Aerospace | Specialty Chemicals & Materials | United Aerospace are designers and manufacturers of Composite Components for any industry. United Aerospace are able to complete all aspects of the process from concept to completion. Tooling, moulding, CNC trimming, Bonding, Assembly and painting/lacquering. |
| Visive Group | Electronic Equipment & Instruments | Visive Group is a leading global designer and manufacturer of LED Border Tube solutions & Smart Technology. Established in 2000, their range of LED border / contour and wall-wash effect solutions provide customers, brands and architects with an array of vibrant colours for building facades, structures and Retail Virtual Merchandising displays. |
| Winslow Adaptics | Electronic Components | Winslow Adaptics has built a global reputation as the go-to company for designing and manufacturing interconnect solutions. With more than 40 years of experience they understand what it means to adapt having helped hundreds of top-tier OEM and SME customers modify their hardware and software solutions to changing technologies – helping them to remain productive and profitable. |