Manufacturing Excellence Club Launched in Harlow
A new club to help manufacturing companies
in Essex expand and share knowledge has been launched by Harlow
Council and LSW UK LTD – a mechanical and plant engineering
company.
The club aims to develop a programme of
events in order to transfer knowledge and expertise that will
assist manufacturing companies from around the County to maintain
their competitiveness and/or expand. The first session held
in July focused on how to improve ways of working to increase
productivity and delegates discussed how they would want the club
to develop having heard how other clubs run in other areas.
Heather Lonsdale, Company Secretary of LSW
UK Limited commented: “Having attended other Manufacturing Club
meetings in other areas of East Anglia and seen the benefits to
their members in sharing issues and in some cases resources I was
keen to launch one in Essex. Having had a great deal of contact
with Ellena Mould, Economic Development Officer, at Harlow
Council through the West Essex Innovation Network, I immediately
thought that we could work successfully in partnership to get the
Club for Essex off the ground. Ellena and her team have been an
invaluable resource in contacting suitable companies and liaising
with them.”
Councillor Eleanor Macy, Chair of the
Council’s Environment & Community Committee, says: “The Council
is keen to support this sector as part of its Regeneration Strategy
around economic development and its corporate priority of a
prosperous community. Although large scale manufacturing activity
has diminished in the UK, by reaching out to other Manufacturing
Companies in Essex and the border Counties, we hope to generate an
ideal mix of companies from the region. The delegates attending the
event were enthused and welcomed this initiative. It is
envisaged that members of this club will drive the content of the
events according to their needs. This initiative is a best practice
example in Public/Private Sector partnership for the benefit of the
business community.”
For more information and details of next
event, which will be held on 11 September 2007, please call Ellena
Mould on 01279 446487 and/or email ellena.mould@harlow.gov.uk
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Note to editors: The
following local companies and organisations took part in the first
session: Electro Detectors Ltd, Raytheon UK Ltd, Kores Nordic GB UK
Ltd, Applied Scintillation Technologies, i10, Scooter Store, LSW UK
Ltd, Harlow Council and the Essex Development & Regeneration
Agency. Also in attendance were representatives from West Suffolk,
and Norfolk, Suffolk and Herts Maufacturing Excellence Clubs.