Liverpool aims to be global manufacturing hotspot
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Liverpool is aiming to become a "global manufacturing hotspot" by exploiting techniques such as 'lightweighting' and non-invasive monitoring as well as shale gas exploration and sustainable energy.
In its report, 'Making it: Advanced manufacturing in Liverpool city region to 2020', Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has claimed: "A manufacturing environment with four or five clusters of excellence – with one frontier industry – could provide a framework to produce high value goods and services."
Liverpool City Region has worked with a number of advanced manufacturing partners to identify areas in which growth can be accelerated.
It said: "With a shared ambition to stay ahead of the game, we have identified short-term opportunities to be exploited, each of which has been identified and endorsed by the industry.
"We will work on longer term competencies which will support our ambition to be globally competitive."
The Liverpool City Region LEP is a private sector led Board with political leaders representing the six local authority areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral.
