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The plan provides a focus for future proofing our manufacturing capability and identifies the steps needed to develop a resilient, high value manufacturing sector with a highly skilled and flexible workforce able to deliver the products, services and technologies necessary for our future economy.

ASTUTE 2020 are holding a webinar on the 3rd March focusing on how ASTUTE 2020+ can collaborate with Welsh manufacturing businesses to address the challenges of sustainable recovery and improve competitiveness to build long-term resilience.
Join James Davies, Executive Chair, Industry Wales and ASTUTE 2020 as they outline how the EU-funded operation can collaborate with Welsh manufacturing businesses to address the challenges of sustainable recovery and improve competitiveness to build long-term resilience.

Control Techniques, a Nidec brand, has successfully brought production of one of its most famous products back to the UK. Now, Control Techniques’ Commander general purpose drives will be produced entirely at the organisation’s UK manufacturing headquarters in Newtown, Wales. Previously, while designed in the UK, the drives were manufactured using a third-party in Asia.

Doing business with Europe has changed. The Government understand how challenging it can be to get used to the new rules and they appreciate how much you’ve done already.

They are there to help you understand what these changes mean for you. Customers that they have spoken to have told them that they need more help, and they hope the following information is useful to you.

The Welsh Government have put together an "Apprenticeship Week Toolkit" to support, and celebrate, the Apprenticeship Programme in Wales. Included within the toolkit are a variety of downloadable communications assets, including videos; animations and example newsletters, as well as funding information, and how to recruit an apprentice.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), in collaboration with Innovate UK, has today launched the next opportunity to bid for funding from the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF).

We recently announced our intention to hold another Phase 1 competition window this spring due to the large amount of interest we have received.

Thirty nine applications from the first Phase 1 competition window, totalling £31 million, have been approved for funding subject to final due diligence checks. Details of successful awards will be published in due course.

Welsh hydrogen car firm and Siemens UK sign MoU – focus on regional skills development, sustainability and preparation for volume production The two companies have signed a wide-ranging Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), highlighting collaboration on a number of fronts: • Sustainability initiatives – in particular focusing on circular thinking in product design, supply chain management and economic models • Support for skills and learning requirements in Wales and beyond for the hydrogen mobility sector • Securing the financing required to reach volume production of highly efficient hydrogen vehicles

Work is progressing at pace on a new £4.2m state of the art veterinary hub to drive forward research to protect both animal and human health.

For Wales to prosper, our businesses need to prosper

When our businesses thrive, they create a higher number of better quality jobs. The taxes they pay strengthen our public finances. The people they employ strengthen our communities. When Welsh businesses are strong, Wales is strong.

The Business Department has launched a series of new, on demand videos to help businesses familiarise themselves with the new rules and the actions they should take. Businesses can find out more about 18 topics, including importing and exporting, trade, data, and audit and accounting.

As you know, the EU transition period has now ended and the UK has left the EU customs union and single market. Following negotiations and the signing of the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement on 24 December 2020, the UK now has a different trading relationship with the EU

Your business has to make a number of changes to ensure continued flow of people, data, goods and services between the UK and the EU. Businesses should take action as the UK is no longer in the single market or the customs union

This document provides you with information about important actions for 10 sectors of the economy: ▪ Aerospace ▪ Electronics and Machinery ▪ Automotive ▪ Life Sciences ▪ Chemicals ▪ Metals and Materials ▪ Construction ▪ Professional and Business Services ▪ Consumer Goods ▪ Retail

The Department for International Trade has unveiled a new online tool on GOV.UK which is a go-to source of information for UK exporters. The tool provides product-specific and country-specific information in one place, which helps to save businesses time and makes it easier for them to understand the changes that came into effect on 1 January 2021.

As part of the Welsh Government’s £40 million skills and jobs fund, we are introducing financial

incentives to encourage the creation of up to 6,000 apprenticeships. Any employer in Wales,

regardless of size or sector, can benefit from the four new apprenticeship incentives, which will run

from 1 August 2020 to 28 February 2021.

Manufacturing businesses across Wales can remain at the forefront of innovation, thanks to £4 million of EU funding announced by the Welsh Government.

The extra support will build on the success of Wales’ top higher education Institutions industry-led research partnership by extending the ASTUTE 2020 (Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies) operation.

On 8th December we hosted an online seminar with Aberystwyth University to learn more about Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.