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Advanced Manufacturing in

Liverpool City Region:

Opportunities for Growth2014


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Liverpool City Region LEP is an alliance o morethan 450 businesses and organisations committed

to growing the regions economy.

Businesses including globals and multi nationals.

Centres o excellence including Universities and

University Technical Colleges. World-renowned

research acilities and small and medium sized

enterprises, represented by ground-breaking

entrepreneurs. Organisations including Liverpool

City Regions six local authorities. All collaborating

and all committed to sustainable economic growth.

This Membership model makes Liverpool City

Region Local Enterprise Partnership unique among

Englands 39 LEPs.

Find out more at LiverpoolLEP.org or by

emailing [email protected]


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Introduction 1

The Trends in Advanced Manufacturing

2I The Global Picture

II The National Picture

III The Local Picture

Steps to Growth 3

Going from Strength to Strength 4Together We Stand

5

People. Business. Growth 6

I People

II Business

III Growth

Glossary 7

Contents

LiverpoolLeP.org/makingit


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There are 3,000+ manuacturing

companies in the Liverpool City Region,

many o them household names like

Jaguar Land Rover, Johnson Controls,

ABB, Unilever, United Biscuits and

Cammell Laird. From pharmaceuticals

to shipping, car manuacture to energy

development, the sector is made up o

multi-nationals and homegrown talent.Nearly 50,000 people are employed in

the manuacturing sector. It generates

3.2billion to the LCR economy. This

is an industry to be nurtured and

promoted.

This plan, updated in October 2013, sets

out the roadmap or growing Advanced

Manuacturing within the LCR. It details

recent trends in the industry, a snapshot

o the City Regions market position, and

an overview o our orward plans.

More detailed plans can be ound atwww.liverpoollep.org/makingit

IntRoDUCtIon

1

Advanced Manuacturing is already a majorindustry and contributor to the economy othe Liverpool City Region (LCR).

We want to do more to inspire new business,

to create new networks and to promote newinvestment.

We want to provide jobs or a skilled,dedicated workorce that is locally grown,competing on a world stage.

We want to drive innovation and growth.

This is how we can do it.


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Like Liverpool City Region itsel,

Advanced Manuacturing stands in

good stead compared with the rest o

the UK. The LCR has a population o

1.5million and a 23.1billion economy.

It has seen signicant growth over the

past decade, building and securing

its business base. In the ace o the

global downturn, the LCR economy hasdemonstrated great resilience.

At the oreront is its manuacturing

sector. It is one o the most productive

in the UK, outstripping the national

average. In the LCR, the manuacturing

sector contributed 13.2% to the City

Regions economic output. In the UK

the gure stood at 11.6% (2010).

This level o productivity is hugely

attractive to global rms. Manuacturing,

thereore, is critically important to the

Liverpool City Region and its ability togrow and expand its economy.

Growth in the sector is not a given,

however. Advanced Manuacturing

aces challenges in the global economy.

There are changes in technology

to consider, supply chains, as well

as routes to market and customer

demands. Companies may nd

themselves needing to change the

way they operate, as well as sourcinginvestment.

The biggest challenge undoubtedly is

on the national stage; employment in

manuacturing is reducing. Asia has

a competitive advantage based on

cheaper labour costs. Outsourcing

has hit the UK manuacturing sector

hard. There are opportunities to

reverse this trend. High transport

costs are helping Western economies

compete or business once again;

it is more expensive to work inemerging economies due to a lack o

inrastructure.

The UK is improving its competitiveness

through investment in new digital and

bio technologies, and also through

increasing productivity through resource

and waste eciency.

Advanced Manuacturing sector

must stay ahead o the game and

improve its competitive position, by

ocusing on People, Business andGrowth. There needs to be a ocus on

entrepreneurship to oster connectivity

between local, regional and national

business. We need to develop the

local supply chain, making it work or

everyone. Inward investment needs to

increase and there needs to be more

support or Advanced Manuacturing

rms who are eeling the pressure.

The Liverpool City Region can play a

major part in the UK-wide development

o manuacturing.

This is how.


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Advanced Manuacturing in the

Liverpool City Region is subject to global

consumption patterns and international

economic conditions. Staying ahead o

the game and remaining competitive is

the key to continued success.

I. The Global Picture

The past thirty years has seen asignicant shit towards a more

globalised manuacturing economy,

and this looks set to continue into the

uture. The growth o economies such

as Brazil, Russia, India and China, and

especially increasing wages will drive a

growth in consumer demand. Emerging

economies present signicant un-

tapped consumer markets.

Supply chains will continue to be

ragmented and international in scale,

reinorcing the importance o logisticsand good networks. Finally, the drive

towards lowering cost o production

looks set to continue, meaning the LCR

will meet sti competition rom lower

cost economies.

The uture will also look signicantly

dierent, and suggests an alternative,

more sophisticated strategy is required.

Increasingly concerns are ocused on the

cost and scarcity o energy, resources

and materials. Manuacturing is set to

become greener and eciency will drive

the immediate uture. Sustainability is

critical and we are seeing this through anumber o dierent trends.

Some companies are reconsidering their

o-shore and manuacturing policies.

They see increasing transport costs,

natural disasters impacting on supply

chains, and they consider the ragility

o the economies they have relied on.

More limited resources means more

lightweight technology, composite

materials, and more advanced

processing. It also means increased

eciency, waste management strategiesand the increased management

and control o supply chain and

manuacturing processes.

Technological change will continue to

aect every part o the manuacturing

process. Digital technologies will

improve customisation, real-time

supply chain strategies and monitoring

processes. Data processing, storage

and security will continue to evolve.

There is also a trend towards ashorter

and more fexible production run, onethat can be adapted or a higher level

o customisation. Automation, new

materials and techniques such as nano

or bio-technologies will demand greater

levels o innovation and investment in

research as well as the required skills

and competencies within the workorce.

Repatriation and on-shoring means

companies will be looking or a

manuacturing base with a strong

supply o skilled labour and strengths

in sustainability, technologies andmaterials.

tHe tRenDs In ADVAnCeD

MAnUFACtURInG

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II. The National Picture

Manuacturing has been declining in

the UK or a generation. In 1970, it

represented 34% o GDP. By 2011,

it had allen to 13%. Employment in

the sector had dropped by a third.

Its a stark act, but it isnt the whole

story. Manuacturing is still important tothe UK economy, in act more so than

other Western economies; the sector

represents 13% o economic output,

compared with 11% in France and

12% in the US. Rank each country by

its manuacturing output and the UK is

in 9th position. The UK Government has

positioned Advanced Manuacturing at

the heart o its industrial strategy, aiming

to maintain the UKs global competitive

through skills, technology, innovation

and production.

There is also capacity or growth.

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB)

published a report looking at where

growth could come rom in the

manuacturing sector. It highlighted

pharmaceuticals, biotechnology,

aerospace, automotive, energy and the

digital economy.

More specically it listed the key areas

or growth that will become increasingly

important:

Materialsscieceligtweigtmaterialadcomposites

ICT

Sesors

Robotics

Bioprocessig

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EergyMaagemet

Advanced Manuacturing companies in

the Liverpool City Region can seize this

opportunity.

TeImportaceofCompetecies

A competency is an attribute o the

manuacturing industry that enables

businesses to respond to changing

global trends and drivers in a way that

captures value or the uture economy.

Competencies tend to impact across

a range o sectors, or example good

processing skills will be important in

both automotive and the ood industry.

The TSB has identied a series o

competencies required to secure the

uture UK competitiveness under theollowing themes:

Resourceefciecy

Maufacturigsystems

MaterialsItegratio

Maufacturigprocesses

BusiessModels

Liverpool City Region has already

started the process o identiying its

strengths and aligning them to UK

priorities through the Making It process

(see page 19).


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III. The Local Picture

3000+ manuacturers drive a local

manuacturing sector that is thriving.

There are 49,400 employee jobs in the

LCR manuacturing sector, equating to

8.6% o all jobs in the City Region and

contributing 3.2bn to the economy.

16,000 people are employed in HighValue Manuacturing sub-sectors

which involve advanced engineering,

processing and technology.

These jobs are highly skilled and

well paid. Economic output per job

(productivity) in advanced manuacturing

is 47,305. This is 7% higher than the

UK average in the sector; and 30%

more than the average or all business

in the Liverpool City Region.

The Advanced Manuacturing sector isset to grow 22% over the next ten years

in the Liverpool City Region, compared

to 19% nationally.

As the UK manuacturing sector

changes and adapts, the LCR must

seize the opportunity.

In the past, the ocus on productivity

within the manuacturing sector has

led to a reduction in the numbers o

jobs. This indicates the need or scale;winning enough new investment to

increase jobs, at the same time as

improving productivity. The Liverpool

City Region needs to position itsel or

new investment.

I the Liverpool City Region, as in the

rest o the UK, cannot be competitive

in terms o cost, it must be competitive

in terms o quality, innovation and

eciency. The UK is looking to

emerging technologies to herald this

growth, thereore the Liverpool CityRegion is in a good position.

Inbioprocessingitachieves

national recognition with private

rms operating alongside university

research teams

Inautomationnewmaterialsand

new build processes have made

it a globally recognised modelor improved productivity and

perormance

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Advanced Manuacturing represents more than a tenth o the

Liverpool City Region economy

It can make a bigger contribution to the UK output, creating jobs,

growth and driving innovation

Across the UK, manuacturing represents 11.6% o economic

output. In the LCR it is higher at 13.2%

UKadLiverpoolCityRegioMaufacturigProductivity

Source: Oxord Economics, Liverpool City Region Forecasts, 2013


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Creating a young,innovative andskilled workorce

The Advanced Manuacturing sector

o the uture needs a workorce that is

skilled and semi-skilled; that is well-versed in research, innovation and

development as well as manuacturing,

assembly, commercial needs, logistics,

nancial activities and administration.

The labour market needs to change

to refect and respond to a changing

demand and the labour supply needs to

be fexible.

Working with employers, the Liverpool

City Region has recently published a

sector skills agreement, setting out a

plan or realising potential and the role

o Government, businesses and other

stakeholders in making this happen.

Manuacturing needs to tap the

potential o the City Region to grow

a fexible, well-educated and skilled

workorce. There are 975,000 people o

working age in the LCR a gure that

has grown over the last ve years

and there are 80,000 ull-time students.

Increase that population to include

those who live just an hours commuteaway and the population swells to

6.9million. Increase the commute to

two hours and it more than doubles to

14.9million.

A tenth o the LCRs workorce is aged

16-19. That is above the national

average. A th o the working age

population is in their twenties. There is

real potential to develop skills and reap

the benets while these individuals are

still in employment, capitalising on the

current working generation.

The working lie o long-serving and

established workers in conventional

manuacturing process is ending.

A new pool is required and this involves

working with schools, colleges and

careers advisers to promote the

opportunities that exist. At the same

time, advanced manuacturing now

represents leading edge technology and

innovation. The new workorce must be

equipped with skills and motivation to

match.Skills are vital. The majority o

manuacturing workers in the region are

in skilled trades, machine operatives

and in processing plants. The national

trend towards new sectors demands

an increase in workers with proessional

and technical jobs. To achieve this there

needs to be an increase in educational

attainment in the City Region. Work is

already being done and more pupils are

achieving ve or more GCSEs in a bid

to catch up with the national average.But the work is just beginning.

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Our AdvancedManuacturingsector is in a goodposition to capitaliseon opportunity and

to help it grow andexpand

What are companies that plan to invest

in manuacturing looking or? They want

skills, a secure supply chain and good

transport links, along with a ocus on

research, innovation and development.

The Liverpool City Region is already

in a good position. We cant rest on

our laurels so access to nance andwork has to continue to make the

most o each o our strengths. This will

help us continue to be a compelling

environment or investors.

I. Coectivity

A century ago, one in our ships

travelled through the River Mersey

and the Liverpool City Region was

the gateway to the world. In the 21st

Century the region remains at the

oreront o inrastructure technology,

investment and accessibility.

With its central position and excellent

connection to the national motorway

network the City Region is only three

hours drive away rom most UK cities.

By rail London is two hours away.

100% broadband coverage and

complete city centre Wi-Fi make the

LCR one o Europes most digitally

connected urban areas. Next generation

broadband installation is underway.

The Liverpool City Region SUPERPORT

is building on traditional trade links andbringing them into the 21st Century. An

international gateway or cargo between

the UK, Ireland, the US and Canada.

Over 1.8billion is being invested in new

inrastructure and acilities creating a

SUPERPORT o global signicance;

Liverpool2, a 300million deep water

container terminal with a 100,000 sq t

warehouse, will handle some o the

worlds largest post-Panamax vessels

and will be complete by 2015.

The Mersey Gateway will deliver a new

six lane crossing over the River Mersey

signicantly improving the regions road

connectivity.

Liverpool John lennon Airport (LJLA) is

one o Europes astest growing airports

fying to 60 destinations. Manchester

Airport is within an hours drive, and fies

to 200 destinations including 60 fights a

week to the US.

II. LadadProperty

Developers, landowners and Local

Authorities are bringing orward

development sites in all boroughs o

Liverpool City Region.

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The larger sites range in size rom 10

to 100 hectares. They are close to

the Port, motorways and rail reight

acilities. Key existing sites include: The

West Float Automotive Supplier Park

and the wider Wirral Waters investment

programme; 3MG in Halton; Knowsley

Industrial Park; Atlantic Park in Seton;

G Park in Liverpool; and ParksideColliery in St Helens.

The Liverpool City Region is home to

two Enterprise Zones. Mersey Waters

Enterprise Zone is situated on both

the Liverpool and Wirral side o the

Mersey. Sci-Tech, Daresebury is a

national centre or high growth, high-

tech companies and home o the Virtual

Engineering Centre. The zones can

provide tax breaks o up to 275,000

or business over a ve year period,

areas o the EZ in Wirral can provide100% capital allowances.

III. UiversityadResearc

Knowledge is integral to growing our

economy. Research acilities, driven

by the City Regions universities, are

integrated with private sector expertise.

All o the LCR Universities have strong

employer engagement programmes,

and are able to oer tailored and

bespoke training, degree programmesand internships related to the

manuacturing industry. They also work

through Knowledge Transer Networks

relevant to their areas o specialism to

embed research into industry.

UiversityofLiverpool

95% o the mechanical, aeronautical

and manuacturing engineering research

at the University o Liverpool is ranked

as being o international standards,

as well as 100% o its metallurgyand materials research. The recently

established Stephenson Institute or

Renewable Energy is undertaking

research into renewable energy

sources.

The University has world-class research

acilities in:

AdditiveManufacturing

Aerospaceresearch

LasertechnologyatLairdsideLaserEngineering Centre

SiliconElectronics

NanotechnologyattheUltra

Mixing and Processing Facility and

Liverpool Institute or Nanoscale

ScienceEngineeringandTechnology

CompositesattheCentrefor

Materials Discovery

IntegratingdigitaltoManufacturing

and Marketing iD2M Centre

AgilityandSupplyChainManagement Centre


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LiverpoolJoMooresUiversity

(LJMU)

LJMU leads in research and has

strong connections with the aerospace

industry.

Its Research Centre or Electrical and

Electronic Engineering has expertise

in silicon electronics with 90% o itsresearch judged to be o international

standards.

The Advanced Manuacturing

Technology Research Laboratory

(AMTReL), within the General

Engineering Research Institute, ocuses

on abrasive processes.

The Mechanical Engineering and

Materials Research Centre (MEMARC),

with the School o Engineering,

Technology & Maritime Operations,

ocuses on materials development,mechanics and processing.

LJMUs ERDF backed SME programme

is able to oer tailored support to

establish and grow new business.

LJMU has links with some o largest

manuacturing companies in the region

including Jaguar Land Rover, BAE,

Airbus Industries and Pilkington.

VirtualEgieerigCetre(VEC)

Based at Sci-Tech Daresbury, the VEC

works with the North West Aerospace

sector and wider industry to provide

a ocal point or world-class virtual

engineering technology, research,

education and best practice. Its aim

is to improve business perormance

right along the supply chain. It has

a key partnership with Airbus. Also

based at Daresbury is The Engineering

Technology Centre.

The regions North West Composites

Centre and the Cockrot Institute are

signicant assets.

IV. Finance

The Liverpool City Region Local

Enterprise Partnership provides a

gateway into multiple sources o

nancial support to help manuacturing

companies grow, with eorts underway

to ensure the alignment o public money

to economic objectives via a Single

Local Growth Fund. Manuacturers,in particular, have beneted rom the

Regional Growth Fund (RGF).

A successul partnership with the West

Midlands has created the Advanced

Manuacturing Supply Chain Initiative

Fund (AMSCI) which can support

job creation schemes in automotive,

aerospace and their associated supply

chains. We also oer inrastructure

unding through Chrysalis and the

Growing Places Fund. Funding is in

place or R&D, a 5million Skills Bankund, equity and loans unds through

Merseyside Special Investment Fund

(MSIF), and the North West Fund.


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Under the leadershipo the LEP a newpartnership ormanuacturing isemerging

Liverpool City Region has a strong

track-record o working together

to support and promote the local

manuacturing sector; it is part o the

reason why we are globally competitive.

Led by the Liverpool City Region Local

Enterprise Partnership, this approach

has deepened, with major companies,

SMEs, Local Authorities, sector

support agencies, skills agencies and

proessional service rms committed to

work together to remain ahead o the

competition.

TherecentSkillsforGrowth

Agreement, led by employers and

backed by public agencies provides

evidence o this partnership, has set

out a clear way orward in identiying

new talent and helping business

recruit and grow locally.

Strongresearchcollaborationsare

in place between the City Regionsmajor businesses, SMEs and

Universities leading to innovation

and new technology.

Nationalandregionalsupport

agencies such as the Manuacturing

Advisory Service, UKTI, and EEF are

engaged and active within the City

Region.

CentralGovernmentiswell

engaged, with supportive investment

rom the Technology StrategyBoard, unding via Regional Growth

Fund, and co-operation on the

International Festival o Business

(see page 23).

The partnership is critical to continued

success. We will need to make the

most o success stories, such as Jaguar

Land Rovers investment in the local

supply chain, to continue to attract

investment attention. We also need our

local, national and international business

networks to grow, particularly in linking

companies across dierence sectors.The ocus on long-term competencies

will require companies to work across

sectors to identiy solutions; with public

and sector support agencies fexible

and able to respond to the challenge.

Short term investments require vision,

ambition and responsiveness to be able

to take the opportunities that exist.

toGetHeR We stAnD

5LCR Manufacturing

Employment by District

LCR Manufacturing

Output by District

Halton

Knowsley

Liverpool

Sefton

St.Helens

Wirral

18.6%

23.3%

20.4%

9.2%

12.2%

12.6%

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LiverpoolCityRegioLocal

EterprisePartersip(LEP)

aditsrole

Liverpool City Region has assets and

ambitions to match.

Focus is required to achieve the

potential or economic growth and new

opportunities across the City Region.The LEP provides this ocus.

It can infuence agendas, talk to

politicians and international business

leaders thereore helping to create a

better environment or business. It can

help to create jobs and make the City

Region a better place to live and work.

How does the LEP achieve this?

LobbyingGovernmentonanational

scale to ensure the LCR business

community and economy gets what

it needs

Buildrelationshipswithkey

departments including the

Department or Business Innovationand Skills (BIS), the Department or

Communities and Local Government

(DCLG), the Department or Transport

Encouragebusinesssupportand

investment

LobbyGovernmentataEuropean

level helping to secure regional

development unding (ERDF) and

European Social Funds (ESF),

working with the city to maximise

the impact o any investment

MakesuretheCityRegionsvoice

is heard, regionally, nationally and

internationally

This support helps drive investment.

The LEP is not-or-prot. It has over

450 Members rom the private and

public sectors including six Local

Authorities, three universities, and

leading businesses.

LEP can help by providing advice and

support, the businesses do what they

do best; deliver their work and projectsmore eciently with reduced risk and

cost. The LEP can assist with:

DetailedLocationInformation

Demographicanalysis

Financialadviceandassistance

Landandpropertysearchand

support

Workforcerecruitmentandtraining

Supplychaindevelopment

Planningandenvironmentguidance

Staffrelocationsupport

Businessnetworkintroductions

Postinvestmentsupport

Grantsupport


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MakigIt

The Liverpool City Region has

embarked on an ambitious research

project, working with industry to

position itsel to make the most o

uture trends. This unique approach is

the most in-depth study into a specic

industry o its kind in the UK.

Called Making It, the project has

reinorced and reiterated the existing

strengths o the local manuacturing

base, and identied short term

investment opportunities that will help

the Liverpool City Region stay ahead o

the game.

The project has also identied the

longer term competencies that the

Liverpool City Region requires in

order to remain competitive. These

opportunities are well aligned with the

UK Governments priorities through the

Technology Strategy Board, and provide

a justication or uture investmentthrough the national manuacturing

strategy.

MaufacturigForum

The LEP has established a

Manuacturing Forum to specically

address the needs o the Advanced

Manuacturing sector. The

Manuacturing Forum is a private sector

led-group and involves many o the

Liverpool City Region manuacturing

companies including Unilever, DairyCrest, United Biscuits, Jaguar Land

Rover, NGF and General Motors.

The Manuacturing Forum is currently

chaired by Getrag Ford. The ocus o

the Manuacturing Forum is on mutual

learning between the organisations

involved but in particular the Forum will

ocus on the key issues o productivity,

logistics and employment (recruitment,

cultural change, employment law and

apprenticeships).


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Making potentiala realityBy creating a skilled workorce,

encouraging investment and ocusing

on growth, Advanced Manuacturing in

the Liverpool City Region can be part o

UK economic recovery.

I. People

It is vital or Advanced Manuacturing

to ocus on improving skills. We need

to grow the number o graduates in

the workorce, as well as the number

o workers with intermediate

qualications i.e. those that are

unctional and vocational.

For ve years the number o young

people with ve or more GSCEs in the

LCR has been increasing. It is now only

slightly below the national average.

Why is it important to ocus on skills?

The manuacturing sector is changing.

With that, the requirement o its workers

will shit. Advances in technology,

regulation and compliance will demand

a workorce to keep up.

This is against a backdrop o a change

in the way we work. People work

longer. We eel a responsibility to

continuously develop skills throughout

our working lives. It makes us more

fexible, more attractive to employers

and more competitive. Advanced

Manuacturing needs to do more to

put sta development at the heart o

its operation, along with training at the

centre o its long-term business plans.

The skills base o workers in the LCR

is advancing, although still below

the national average. We have areas

o specialism and UK expertise- pharmaceuticals; chemicals;

biotechnology; and automotive.

To make Advanced Manuacturing in

the LCR more sustainable and more in

line with global and national trends, we

need to address our skills shortage.

We dont want to hire these skills in,

we want to nurture them ourselves.

How can we achieve this?

TheSkillsforManufacturing

Report, commissioned by theNational Apprenticeship Service

and supported by SEMTA, will

provide evidence o how schools

and training providers can develop

and produce the workorce uture

manuacturers need

Workingwithschoolsandcolleges

or technical training, we can ensure

they meet the needs o business

and the industry

WecansupporttheSkills

For Growth Agreement or

Manuacturing, and other key work

by the Employment and Skills Board

PeoPLe. BUsIness. GRoWtH.

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II. Busiess

We must create the atmosphere in

which we want to do business. This

means working at every level o the

supply chain to inspire, as well as

promoting entrepreneurship, and

the advantages o working with the

Advanced Manuacturing industry.

Working with a supply chain might

seem insular. That couldnt be urther

rom the truth. I we understand the

supply chain rooted at the heart o

our industry, then it is easier to work

strategically to improve it and ensure it

is ocused on growth.

This means looking or inward

investment opportunities, helping to

create a more ecient and fexible

route to market, rom the ground up.

We must build partnerships.

We can help companies nd out

how many warehouses they need,

where they need to be, and how

they meet their business demands.

It involves identiying good suppliers

and distributors. It means improving

logistics.

This enables us to tie the sector

together and make it stronger.

To achieve this goal and work together

more eectively, we must consider

these three questions:

Whatpartnersdoweneedtohelp

us develop our supply chains?

Howcanwecollaborateon

engagement?

Howcanbusinessbesupported

and developed to become part othe LCRs supply chain?

III.Growt

Business needs to be able to grow.

At the heart o this process is the LEP.

It brings businesses together to advise

them and to help them support and

work alongside each other.

Advanced Manuacturing must, as an

industry, be part o this activity.Already, the LEP is delivering:

Leadershipacrosssectorsofthe

economy that will drive uture

economic growth, including

SUPERPORT, Low Carbon, Visitor

Economy and the Knowledge

Economy; including advanced

manuacturing, lie sciences and the

creative and digital industries

ABusinessGrowthHubBoard

has been established to engagewith business, drive an enterprising

culture and to create the right

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TheSkillsforGrowthBank-a

32m business-led skills unding

project devised by the City Regions

Employment and Skills Board and

the LEP. It will invest up to 20m

o grant unding into delivering

the specic skills that individual

businesses want in return or their

delivery including apprenticeships,pre-employment training,

qualications and investment

opportunities

Co-ordinationofpublicandprivate

sectors support, including the

ecient and eective deployment o

government unds through a single

Local Growth Fund.

Co-ordinationofthe2014-2020

European Programme o investment.

TheRegionalGrowthFund(RGF)supporting and investing in growth

Byhelpingtoprovidegreateraccess

to public sector investment support,

such as the 140million North West

Business Fund and the national

3billion Green Investment Bank

Linkswithnationallymanaged

programmes, like the Manuacturing

Advisory Service and UKTI, that

could have a greater impact locally.With their visibility increased they

can be more eective in having a

bigger impact on businesses in the

LCR

ABusinessGrowthGrant,allocating

10million supporting companies

who want to expand. The minimum

grant is 50k, the maximum 750k

AMSCIisa19minvestment

und designed specically or

manuacturers that can provideloans and grants or the purchase o

capital equipment, working capital,

and R&D and skills development

IteratioalFestivalForBusiess

2014

This major event being hosted by

Liverpool City Region next June and

July will provide a unique opportunity to

demonstrate the capacity and ambition

o the regions Advanced Manuacturing

sector.

IFB 2014 will accelerate UK economic

growth with an ambitious programme o

global business events engaging visitors

representing businesses rom around

the world.

For urther inormation visit

IFB2014.com


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PromotigAdvacedMaufacturig

iLiverpoolCityRegio

The global economy is competitive.

So the Liverpool City Region needs to

shout about its benets and attractions

to help its stand head and shoulders

above the rest. We have a world-class

Liverpool brand that is already being

promoted. Every corner o the LCRneeds to talk about it with clarity and

consistence. The opportunities are

there, we just need to capitalise on

them.

While were attracting businesses,

students, visitors, and researchers

how are we helping the Advanced

Manuacturing Sector?

Its about selling our strengths. The

prole o the City Region grows, helping

us show why it is a great location orinvestment in Advanced Manuacturers

and their supply chains.

We can attract new workers and inspire

young people and graduates with the

opportunity to secure a long-term

career in a successul sector.

Raising the reputation and prole o

Advanced Manuacturing, especially toan overseas market, can attract new

exporters.

Encouraging entrepreneurs to look at

the opportunities here and supporting

them to develop new business ideas

that can help Advanced Manuacturing

to grow.


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Wataretekeytigsto

remember?

Liverpoolisavibrantand

cosmopolitan city region o over

1.5million people providing an

excellent environment or businesses

in the Advanced Manuacturing

sector

LiverpoolCityRegionisonebased

on innovation and quality, just look at

the quality o the companies already

here

LiverpoolCityRegionhasastrong

track-record o working together

to support and promote the

manuacturing sector - led by the

LEP this approach has deepened

with major companies, SMEs, Local

Authorities, skills agencies, amongst

others committed to workingtogether to remain ahead o the

competition

Collectivelytheeconomicassets

o the City Region have global

signicance and appeal. Having a

ocus on how we market our brand

is key to the regions continued

growth and success

Helptoraisetheproleofthe

Liverpool brand and spread it

internationally, especially in emerging

and ast growing economies

Researchanddevelopment

in LCR needs a higher prole.

Everyone needs to know about

the collaboration between our

universities and major companies in

this eld

Investmentprojectslike

SUPERPORT that build on our

existing inrastructure can take it to

the next level, creating a City Regioneconomy or the uture

Talktotrademarketsnationallyand

internationally


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LiverpoolCityRegio(LCR)

The Liverpool City Region has a

population o 1.6million and crosses

the boundaries o six local authorities;

Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Seton,

St Helens and Wirral.

MaufacturigAdvisoryService

Nationally procured Manuacturing

Advisory Service (MAS) which (over

the course o its three year plan) will

deliver 600 manuacturing reviews

with businesses, 18 events, and 170

intensive projects with businesses, as

well as looking at the provision o an

enhanced MAS oer dedicated to the

City Region supported by ERDF.

TeTecologyStrategyBoard

(TSB)

The Technology Strategy Board is an

executive Non-Departmental Public

Body (NDPB), established by the

Government in 2007, and sponsored by

the Department or Business, Innovation

and Skills (BIS).

Its primary motive is to drive innovation

helping to boost UK growth and

productivity. It promotes, supports

and invests in technology research,

development and commercialisation.

TSB also works in an advisory capacitywithin Government helping grow the

use o technology.

AMSCI,TeAdvaced

MaufacturigSupplyCai

Initiative

AMSCI is a 19m investment und

designed to support the development

o productive capacity in the automotive

and aerospace supply chains in the our

LEP areas o Black Country, Coventry

and Warwickshire, Greater Birminghamand Solihull and Liverpool City Region.

It is designed to promote closer

collaboration within the supply chain

and to address market ailures.

In practical terms, unding can be used

or;

thepurchaseofcapitalequipment

including the provision o working

capital;

R&Dactivitywhichimproves

manuacturing equipment, systems

or processes; and

Specictrainingandskills

development to support the project.

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Image Credits: Cammell Laird; Jaguar

Land Rover; Jill Jennings; Liverpool City

Region (LEP) image library.


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FURThERInFORMATIOn

Contact

AlaWelby

Executive Director

T: 0151 237 3907

M: 07833400654

E: [email protected]

Documents

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