The Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP) is a 100-acre (0.40 km2) manufacturing technology park on the Rotherham/Sheffield border in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, facing the Sheffield Business Park across the Parkway. Technologies on the AMP centre on materials and structures, covering metallic and composite materials, typically used in precision industries including; aerospace, automotive, sport, environmental, nuclear, and energy, oil and gas, defence and construction. Technology developed on the AMP is already being utilised in leading edge projects, such as within Formula One and the next generation of military and commercial aircraft, including the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Organisations currently located on the AMP include; Nuclear AMRC (a Westinghouse, Areva, Sheffield Forgemasters JV), The Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), a Boeing / University of Sheffield partnership; Rolls-Royce; Castings Technology International (Cti); Dormer Tools, Sandvik Coromant, Bromley Technologies, Exova, Performance Engineered Solutions (PES), Materialise, Sarclad, Struers, Xeros, and TWI Technology Centre (Yorkshire). A full list of companies currently based at the AMP can be found here.
The vision for the AMP emerged from the decline that South Yorkshire had seen in its traditional industries of coal and steel over the last twenty years. Despite this decline the region had retained established skills and expertise in the areas of advanced manufacturing, backed by materials research expertise within the two Sheffield universities, and other independent research organisations. Yorkshire Forward and UK Coal created a joint venture to reclaim land on the former opencast colliery at Waverley, Rotherham and to develop the AMP. Monies from the European Union's European Regional Development Fund have also supported the project.
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