Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng highlighted South Yorkshire’s history in engineering, manufacturing and high-level innovation as he launched a new Innovation Strategy at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). The strategy is the Government’s long-term vision to boost private sector investment and put the UK at the front of the global innovation race.

Kwarteng addressed invited guests who included representatives from Boeing, Doncaster Chamber of Commerce, the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, Rolls-Royce, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield SME Magnomatics and UK Research and Innovation. Factory 2050 is the UK’s first state-of-the-art factory entirely dedicated to conducting collaborative research into reconfigurable digitally assisted assembly, component manufacturing and machining technologies.

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