Christine Grahame
(Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale)
(SNP):...Since being established in 2017, Skyrora
has invested approximately £50 million in developing technology
and infrastructure and in creating a skilled workforce, which is
now 70 people based in a manufacturing and assembly facility in
Cumbernauld. Outside investment over that time includes a grant
from the UK Space Agency for £2.5 million, which is currently
being extended in delivery time period and in scope; a recently
confirmed horizon 2020 grant of €500,000 over four years for
advanced manufacturing 3d
printing; and a national manufacturing programme
supporting the licensing of Skyrora’s 3D
printer, which I have seen...
...For the future, Skyrora’s ambition is to realise income to the
Scottish economy of more than £2.1 billion by 2030: 428 full-time
equivalent manufacturing jobs, with salaries that it hopes will
be 26 per cent above Scottish average, which deals with the
issues that has raised; a research and
development investment of more than £5 million every year—five
times the Scottish average; and, by 2030, more than 300
internships, 30 apprenticeships and sponsored skills programmes
in welding, 3d
printing, advanced manufacturing and so on, taking use
of Scotland’s national engine test centre in Gorebridge in my
constituency...
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