Fripp Design

What goes around…

We received notification that the Advanced Manufacturing Park, where Fripp Design and Research are located, is to get a new tenant:

Sheffield set for nuclear research centre
The government has outlined plans for a new Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (NAMRC) to be built in Sheffield. The facility, which will be helped with £10m of funding from Yorkshire Forward, will be based at the Advanced Manufacturing Park. It will be led by the University of Sheffield in partnership with the University of Manchester, with Rolls-Royce as lead industrial partner. Furthermore, Rolls-Royce’s civil nuclear facility, which will manufacture and test components for new nuclear power plants, is also to be developed in South Yorkshire. The development is expected to directly create 300 jobs and hundreds more in the supply chain. Tom Riordan, chief executive of Yorkshire Forward, said the investment “cements our position as a centre of excellence for manufacturing, securing and creating jobs now and in the future.” Rosie Winterton, minister for Yorkshire and the Humber, added: “Yorkshire and the Humber has real potential in advanced engineering and materials and in being a world leader for research and scientific development – and in the commercial exploitation of new technologies.”

One of our founding Directors did his degree in Applied Physics, specialising in Nuclear Physics, so is watching this development with a high level of personal interest!