A E R O S P A C E WA L E S F O R U M
A E R O S P A C E WA L E S F O R U M
O n behalf of the Aerospace Wales Team, Directors, Ambassadors and all our Forum members, I offer you a very warm welcome to this brochure. In here you will find more information on what the Forum is involved with, what we strive to do for our members, the wider aerospace, defence and space community in Wales and a flavour of the kind of benefits our members enjoy by being part of the Forum. The Aerospace Wales Forum is the trade association for all companies and partner organisations operating in the Aerospace, Defence and Space sectors in Wales, through access to events, networking opportunities and industry expertise.
From the advertising content of this brochure, the aim is to give a sense of the depth and breadth of products, services and capabilities offered by a selection of our Forum members. This brochure would not achieve its aim without the support, investment and involvement of our members and I am extremely grateful for their commitment to this initiative. As a membership organisation, Aerospace Wales is fully conscious that our value is measured by what we deliver and achieve for our members. To this end, we are committed to exploring new ideas and finding new clusters/collaborations that offer even more value to the membership. Continuous Improvement has long been a vital cog in the aerospace business ‘machine’ and Aerospace
Wales welcomes constructive feedback, whether you are a member or not. In the meantime, please enjoy the content and information within this brochure. If you are not a member of Aerospace Wales right now, why not come along to one of our events and see for yourself the value and opportunities that you and your business could enjoy regularly. Wishing you all continued success in your business and we hope we can be of service to you in the near future.
MAIN CONTACTS
enquiries@aerospacewales.aero Chief Executive John Whalley john@aerospacewales.aero Operations Director Rachael Blackburn rachael@aerospacewales.aero
Yours, John Whalley Chief Executive Officer
I would like to welcome you to the new trade directory and thank you for your current and ongoing support of the Aerospace Wales Forum. The past year has been another successful one for the Forum, we have seen the number of member companies grow by 50% since the last edition and we look forward to welcoming our new member companies at the various events and trade shows we will be attending over the coming year. In parallel we have been very mindful of how we spend our members and sponsors funds, as a result we have taken active steps to reduce our day to day operating costs and we have achieved a 10% year on year saving in these costs and will continue to keep our spending under review.
At the time of writing we are seeing a great deal of uncertainty around the future course that the BREXIT process will take and this is not helping add clarity to our business environment. This said we have to continue to work through this until the position becomes settled, it is worth noting that despite this challenge, the aerospace sector in Wales remains strong and well established, it employs in excess of 23,000 people undertaking aviation and high precision engineering activities spread throughout Wales. In the North of the country we have centers of design and manufacturing, at Parc Aberporth in Mid Wales the UK is developing technology and procedures that will allow UAV’s to seamlessly integrate into
civil airspace and in the South we have significant maintenance and repair organisations based at Cardiff Airport and St Athan. This is all in addition to the many local companies that provide a robust supply chain into these organisations. We should not forget that with the 8 Universities based in Wales we are able to educate and train the next generation of skilled staff that will be required to continue to grow and evolve the Aerospace sector and to take advantage of new technologies and materials that make aircraft and aviation more efficient and produce a lower impact on the natural environment. The recent UK announcement on a new UK Space policy offers all of us a new opportunity for development and growth and which we all need to position ourselves to take full advantage of.
I am and remain very confident in the future of our sector generally and I believe that by having a dedicated forum where we can meet and discuss ideas and solve problems both with other industry colleagues and members of the Welsh Assembly Government can only make us more successful in the long run. Once again thank you for being a member of our organisation and I look forward to meeting with you at our events and I wish you continued success.
David Morgan Co-Chairman
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