£5m skills development facility opens in Huddersfield
25 Oct 2016
Projex Solutions, which specialises in the development of project management solutions for the process industries, has completed the design and build of a £5 million process manufacturing training plant at Kirkless College, Huddersfield, which has been designed to create the next generation of engineers.
The project received capital funding support from the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP), and features a state-of-the-art training facility, which incorporates a fully-operational process manufacturing batch plant.
Our work on the PMC (Project Manufacturing Centre) project has allowed us to share and develop best practices with Kirklees College to ensure that the training of future engineers is at the cutting edge of where it needs to be
Jamie Ashton, managing director at Projex Solutions
The plant will also eventually house filling and packaging equipment, which meets the training requirements of process manufacturing industries, said Projex Solutions.
Jamie Ashton, managing director at Projex Solutions, said: “We pride ourselves on the level of training we provide to ensure our team are always at the forefront of new technologies.
"And our work on the PMC (Project Manufacturing Centre) project has allowed us to share and develop best practices with Kirklees College to ensure that the training of future engineers is at the cutting edge of where it needs to be as the process manufacturing sector continues to evolve.”
