Steve Foxley, CEO at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), reflects on the facility’s journey since it was established two decades ago, and how the area has grown to become the manufacturing hub it is today.
Twenty years ago when the AMRC was born, a drive into Sheffield along the Parkway – a road that connects the city to the M1 and the rest of the country – was dominated by views of scarred land, deindustrialisation and decline. In the years before, the dilapidated slag heaps of the old Orgreave colliery…
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