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Today (October 8) sees the final BA 747 land at the commercial airfield at Bro Tathan, the Welsh Government’s 1,200 acres business park in the Vale of Glamorgan - to be recycled and utilised for spares by eCube Solutions.

A Welsh company is opening people’s eyes to the unexpected beauty of scrap – and developing an impressive portfolio of clients that already includes Stella McCartney, Christian Dior, Selfridges, Liberty, and KPMG.

“We are now working very effectively remotely…I think there’s a chance for Wales to grab some of that opportunity from London” is the view of Starling Bank founder and CEO Anne Boden MBE during a Learnings from Leaders: Forging our Tech Future virtual event as part of the first ever Wales Tech Week.

CR Clarke & Co has now received approval for it’s Rapidly Manufactured CPAP (RMCPAP) unit and will be working with businesses in Wales including Panasonic on an initial run of 80 devices for further testing.

The world’s first compound semiconductor cluster is taking shape in South Wales.

The worldwide market for compound semiconductors (CS) is valued at $66bn.

A new world-class rail testing facility on a former opencast mining site at the head of the Dulais and Swansea valleys is set to transform the local area and create new high quality jobs.

Having mobilised to assist UK Government efforts to combat Covid-19, a Port Talbot company specialising in the manufacture and global distribution of precision instrumentation, has now become the UK’s first safety goggle manufacturer.