UTC Swindon, the town’s University Technical College, is giving its students a rare chance to build two sports cars during the academic year. All the parts and materials needed to assemble the Avon model vehicles, pictured, have been supplied by Cambridgeshire firm Tiger Sportscars. One will be produced by year 10 and 11 students...
Brainwave-powered mini-helicopters, futuristic virtual reality gaming and state-of-the-art 3D printing and will be among the technology on show at a unique centre to open in Swindon this month. Rota-Motus will help position the town as a key base for innovation, making world-beating gadgets available to the public to try and buy. Its town centre...
Alliance Pharma, the Chippenham-based speciality pharmaceutical firm, is to receive £6.7m in compensation for lost sales of a bladder cancer treatment. ImmuCyst, one of its top-selling drugs, had peak annual sales of more than £4m before Alliance’s manufacturing partner French healthcare giant Sanofi Pasteur suspended production in mid-2012 at a Canadian plant after mold...
West of England firms are right behind the Prime Minister as he sets out his opening position on renegotiating the UK’s relationship with the EU, according to the region’s largest business organisation. Business West, which runs the Initiative in Swindon & Wiltshire, says the region’s businesses want a clear settlement that keeps the UK...
US healthcare giant Steris this week completed its acquisition of Swindon-based Synergy Health, creating a global group with revenues of nearly £1.7bn and employing 14,000 people in 60 countries. Following the takeover, Ohio-based Steris, which provides infection prevention to clients in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and research industries, has created a new UK-registered company. The...
Swindon firms are to be given the chance to explore doing business in more than 70 countries worldwide when an international delegation visits the region next week. ExploreExport 2015 is aimed at all companies keen to expand overseas and is staged against a backdrop of rising exports from the South West. Latest figures show that...
Swindon-based electronics firm TE Connectivity has received Government funding for a £1.9m a pioneering project to help design the aircraft of the future. The firm, based at Dorcan, is assessing how flexible and lightweight printed circuits can replace traditional wiring in aeroplanes, so reducing fuel consumption and lowering emissions. Compact Flexible Printed Circuits (FPC)...
Employers in Swindon are being encouraged to support the future employability of young people in the town by becoming school governors. Hi-tech giant Intel Corporation is hosting an event on Thursday November 10 at its head office to highlight the benefits school governing boards can bring to both young people and businesses themselves. There...
Swindon firms remain optimistic about their prospects despite official figures out yesterday showing the economy slowing, according to the area’s largest business organisation. UK gross domestic product (GDP) increased by a lower than expected 0.5% between July and September compared to growth of 0.7% in the previous three months, the figures from the Office...
Vastern Timber, the Royal Wootton Bassett-based sawmill, has won a major national award for one of its key products. The firm’s jointed British sweet chestnut cladding came top in the Best Cladding System category at the Build It Awards held recently in London. Family-owned Vastern Timber, which also operates a sawmill at Studley, near...
