North Wales

Welsh company, Air Covers, has seen its specialist protective covers used for civil and military aircraft, boats and vehicles across the globe.

Think of Wrexham (Wrecsam), and you probably think of Wrexham FC – a story of soccer success, rewarding a smart investment by Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.

Few company headquarters feature a meeting room in a treehouse, a sun terrace, a towering atrium with stadium seating or a village-style pub.

Helping millions of patients living with chronic disease every single day

Renewable Energy experts setting out to make a difference

Sorodo provides a suite of online platform-based financial services ranging from business funding to merchant cash advances and invoice factoring. And its rapid rise has a lot to do with the knowledge and expertise already embedded in the area.

The Celtic Freeport in Milford Haven and Port Talbot and Anglesey Freeport on Ynys Mon have been chosen as Wales’ first freeports, helping to create tens of thousands of new jobs in the green industries of the future, the Welsh and UK governments announced today.

Development will lead to the creation of highly skilled jobs over several decades.

New aluminium furnaces, which will play a key part in cutting carbon emissions at Toyota’s Deeside plant, were officially turned on today by Economy Minister Vaughan Gething as he marked National Manufacturing Day.

Wales’ natural resources were a key factor in why Minesto brought their cutting edge technology here. A high-tech company in the Marine Energy sector, they convert the kinetic energy in tidal currents to electricity by flying an underwater kite and Anglesey was the perfect location for them to develop and test that technology.

Wrexham University isn’t just building a bridge between academia and industry - it’s laying down a superhighway. Its state-of-the-art OpTIC Technology Centre in St Asaph has created a hi-tech home for start-ups in North Wales.

Existing nuclear site with regulatory permissions for new build.