New industries on the back of old Sheffield advanced manufacturing Sheffield City Region – Birthplace of Steel Industrialisation • England’s 4th biggest city • City Pop 525,000 • 2.1 million within commutable distance (1 hour peak time) • 300 km north of London • 2 hour train to London Sheffield City Region • 500,000 people employed in manufacturing and science in council areas within 40 miles • 14% of city employment (twice UK core city mean) London • Highest proportion of any core city Sheffield City Region – Birthplace of steel industrialisation • Steel industrialisation – Benjamin Huntsman Crucible Steel 1740 – Sir Henry Bessemer, Converter Steel 1856 – Harry Brearley, Stainless Steel 1912 • 70s decline driven by ‘command economy’ • 80s rise of special alloys 1860 – Cyclops Works produced more steel than the rest of Europe or North America* Image Circa 1855 Academic Expertise – Developed from 19th century technical collages The University of Sheffield • UK’s #1 Metallurgy University • UK’s #2 Engineering University • Significant expertise in manufacturing and materials The University of Hallam • Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) 1900 – 1975 Growth with booms & busts 1970 and 80s – Critical industrial decline – Price fixing, unionisation, lack of investment • Nationalisation • ‘Price Fixing’ and ‘Product Fixing’ • English Steel Company – British Steel Corporation – Firth Brown – Vickers • Lack of Investment • Foreign Competition Partial survival of R&D, knowledge, skills, in addition to survival of plant and premises • A few world leading businesses kept going in all major subsectors of metals engineering – casting, forging, machining and fabrication • Universities kept producing quality graduates, postgraduates and research • Sheffield did not therefore, ‘de-heavy-industrialise’ like other UK cities. 1999 – ‘Eureka moment’ – Manufacturing is the City’s path to prosperity Advanced Manufacturing Park 2004 The AMP Today – Envy of the World Greatest Ever Potential • Nuclear AMRC • UoS Training Centre • Rolls-Royce • Other interest AMP Companies (a few of the 36) Sheffield – The UK’s leading metals engineering centre? Why is Sheffield now succeeding? • History, passion, identity, industrial and academic manufacturing leaders • Genesis and growth of an Advanced Manufacturing sector in the 80s and 90s • Partial Survival of R&D, Knowledge, Skills, in addition to Survival of Plant and Premises • The Advanced Manufacturing Park model attracted world leaders to the City, further developing skills and knowledge base here, put us back on the map and reinvigorated the manufacturing sector – they can and should be the best in the world. AMRC with Boeing Two spoke economic development vehicle Part 1 – Technology – Titanium machining Messier Dowty 787 Landing Gear Original time = 54 hrs Target time = 27 hrs Achieved time = 11 hrs Pintles - Airbus 380 Freighter Original time = 145 hrs Target time = 50 hrs Achieved time = 19 hrs OEM’s (Original Equipment Manufacturers) AMRC Model Research and Commercialisation Facility Tier 1 Members (£250k per year) Tier 2 Members (£30k per year) Nuclear AMRC Castings Technology International (Cti) World leader in special metal casting Specialist in ‘difficult to cast’ lightweight alloys TWI Yorkshire Technology Centre World Centre for Materials Joining and Surface Engineering Technology TWI Worldwide: • Independent R&T Organisation • 520 staff • €51M million turnover • >3500 industrial members in 70 countries Political Endorsement – PM cites AMP as the model for future economic development Joe Anwyl Head of Business Development Advanced Manufacturing Park + 44 7875 385803 [email protected].