Silverstone Park
World-class digital
“It’s very attractive in terms of de-risking the pro-
ject in the current climate – it enables us to manage cash fl ow better in these early stages and ramp up more eff ectively,” he said. “We also like how MEPC is developing
manufacturing centre to be created
MEPC has confi rmed that a state-of-the-art digital manufacturing facility – believed to be one of the most technically advanced of its kind in Europe and serving sectors such as aerospace, automotive, defence and marine – will be created inside one of 13 sizeable new industrial properties nearing completion at Silverstone Park. The Digital Manufacturing Centre (DMC) is the brainchild of
high-performance engineering specialist KW Special Projects (KWSP) and will total over 20,000 square feet of manufacturing and offi ce space. Its HQ-style building is one of seven impressive stand-alone prop-
erties currently being constructed as part of a 258,000 square foot de- velopment by MEPC in the Enterprise Zone at Silverstone Park, which also includes a further six terraced industrial units. T e DMC project has received signifi cant funding from the South
East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP). KWSP and DMC founder and CEO Kieron Salter has also highlighted Enterprise Zone status among the key reasons for choosing Silverstone Park as a location.
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Silverstone Park as a hot spot for advanced tech- nologies and attracting tech companies as a result. “As members of the Silverstone Technology
Cluster (STC), we want to promote that by engaging with a future workforce – particularly young people in local schools, colleges and universities. “T is is an opportunity to show a younger audi- ence that this is a cool technology that’s being applied in cool sectors like aerospace, motorsport and space. “T ere is also the connectivity at Silverstone
Park – the M1, M40, rail networks, Milton Keynes, the Oxford-Cambridge Arc. It makes it a great place.” T e DMC will become the third specialist high
tech facility at Silverstone Park since MEPC took over development of the business estate in 2013. Others include the UK’s only dedicated sub-con-
tract inspection metrology facility (a collaboration between MEPC and Hexagon Manufacturing’s Intelligence division) and the Silverstone Sports Engineering Hub (SSEH) which opened in autumn 2019. KWSP becomes the second company to be
named by MEPC to have agreed terms on one of the 13 new industrial properties – the fi rst, Swiss-based international lifestyle drinks brand EIGHTY-ONE, was announced in July. MEPC’s Roz Bird, Commercial Director at Silverstone Park and STC Chair, said: “We are
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