Grŵp Llandrillo Menai and AMRC Cymru have fashioned a strategic partnership geared toward remodeling the agricultural economic system by growing abilities and exploring new applied sciences for the agri-food sector.
This partnership is linked to the Glynllifon Rural Economic system Hub, whose objective is to create a world-class agri-food workforce with the very best ranges of environmental requirements.
Commenting on the chance that the settlement will carry to the North Wales economic system, Martin Jardine, Director of Agri Meals at Grŵp Llandrillo Menai defined:
“By bringing collectively the experience of each Grwp Llandrillo Menai and AMRC Cymru, this settlement represents a incredible alternative for the agricultural economic system to prosper by exchanging information, innovating and offering easy accessibility to wider help.
“We’re excited to be establishing a centre for agri tech as a part of the supply offered by Glynllifon Rural Economic system Hub, which is supported by the North Wales Development Deal. We very a lot welcome the plans for AMRC Cymru to have a base inside the hub and stay up for supporting rural companies to undertake trendy methods of working that goal to extend automation, effectivity and productiveness”.
Lesley Griffiths, Welsh Authorities Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, commented on the settlement:
“It’s incredible to be right here for the revealing of this collaboration settlement between Grŵp Llandrillo Menai and AMRC Cymru. We see collaboration between companions as being important to driving future development inside the {industry}. Due to this fact this can be very optimistic to see two of the main organisations inside Welsh agri-food come collectively for the advantage of companies each giant and small.
“I very a lot see this settlement as being a lift not solely to North Wales, however to the Welsh economic system as an entire, as we search to create a world-class food and drinks workforce that’s modern, has the very best ranges of environmental requirements and is match for the longer term.”
Andrew Martin, Head of Meals and Drink at AMRC Cymru stated:
“We’re delighted to have the ability to make this settlement to assist develop the Welsh agri-food economic system.
Our aim is to assist the manufacturing and agri-food neighborhood entry superior applied sciences that may drive enhancements in productiveness, efficiency and high quality. By pooling our experience with Grŵp Llandrillo Menai’s Coleg Glynllifon and Meals Expertise Centre, we can present options for the entire provide chain and assist agri-food companies develop new capabilities and embed new technological developments and improvements”
AMRC Cymru, managed by the College of Sheffield and a member of the Excessive Worth Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult, is a part of a cluster of world-class centres for industry-focused analysis and improvement of applied sciences utilized in high-value manufacturing sectors. It has a worldwide repute for serving to corporations overcome manufacturing issues and has turn out to be a mannequin for collaborative analysis involving universities, lecturers and {industry} worldwide.
Its £20m state-of-the-art centre funded by the Welsh Authorities focuses on superior manufacturing sectors together with aerospace, automotive, nuclear and meals in the important thing analysis areas of future propulsion, sustainability and digital manufacturing.
Grŵp Llandrillo is about to work carefully with AMRC Cymru on high-level information switch initiatives geared toward making a extremely expert skilled workforce throughout the availability chain that enhance competitiveness and capitalise on industrial alternatives leading to jobs and funding throughout the area.
The settlement features a collaboration linked to the North Wales Development Deal challenge – the proposed Glynllifon Rural Economic system Hub – and represents a big funding into the longer term financial prosperity of the north Wales economic system.
