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News Release from: Smithers Rapra | Subject: Technical consultancies
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 April 2005
Rapra helps Merseyside companies prosper
Working in partnership with Greater Merseyside Enterprise, technical consultants from Rapra are helping Merseyside, UK based companies develop plastics and rubber based innovations and services.
Rapra Technology, Europe's leading plastics and rubber test house and technical consultancy, is set to announce a set of successful company initiatives undertaken in the Greater Merseyside area of the UK Working in partnership with Birkenhead-based Greater Merseyside Enterprise, technical consultants from Rapra have been helping Merseyside based companies develop plastics and rubber based innovations and services
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 25 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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In most cases, using Objective 1 and Objective 2 European Funding is used and support from the North West Development Agency (NWDA) can also be used.
Services from experts such as Rapra's can therefore be subsidised by up to 40% Work with Governments and agencies at regional level across the enlarged EU community is becoming a key part of Rapra Technology's work.
The Shrewsbury headquartered organisation is set to increase its headcount by over 40%, involving over fifty new jobs, through new business growth over the next five years.
The company's investment in new people and new areas of work follows a detailed business review, by the company's MBO (Management Buyout) team, over the past four months.
Regional support programmes play a key role in Rapra Technology's newly identified plastics-based growth areas.
The new Rapra growth areas are; * Environmental and recycling services.
* Medical and pharmaceutical services.
* Large research projects (UK-based, European and International).
* Regional support programmes in the UK and across Europe.
* Product design services.
* Ad-hoc product testing services.
* Information Group - non-research funded/dissemination projects.
The new Rapra growth areas are additional to, but will link with, Rapra's main traditional areas of business in materials consultancy, testing, polymer analysis and processing services - as well as database, publishing, conference and training services.
Full details of Rapra Technology's work on Merseyside and its Regional Support Programmes from Richard Walton at Rapra Technology.
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