Industry

Aerial view of the Port Talbot waterfront at Harbourside, with industrial yards and scrubland beside the water and the town and hills behind.
Adam Price MS

PORT TALBOT: £9.2m to turn waterfront land into six business units and room for floating wind

Two of the four Celtic Freeport projects sharing £18.4m are in Port Talbot. Neither has a start date or a…

A grey-haired man in a blue checked shirt holding a robot control panel among automation equipment in a lab
manufacturing

SA1: Swansea firms will be able to try out robots before they buy, at a new university hub

Boston Dynamics and ABB are among the names backing it. The point isn’t to build robots, it’s to help businesses…

Four people standing behind a large iced cake reading Cross Engineering, Celebrating 60 Years in Business, outside the firm’s entrance decorated with red, black and white balloons
3M

PENLLERGAER: Engineering firm that started in a Llanmorlais garage turns 60, with the third generation in charge

The family firm moved to Penllergaer in 1970 to be near its key customer at the time, 3M. The 3M…

Aerial view of the Impala fuel terminal at Milford Haven, with rows of white and blue storage tanks, rail sidings and lagoons surrounded by Pembrokeshire farmland
Green Hydrogen

MILFORD HAVEN: Former Puma fuel terminal to shut down commercial operations at the end of December

Staff are in consultation and a wind-down of up to two years will follow, but the company says the green…

A glowing orange coil of hot steel on a mill, with sparks falling around it
electric arc furnace

PORT TALBOT: Government pays EY £1m to vet Tata’s plea for more furnace money

The furnace meant to bring steelmaking back to the works is running late, and Tata is reported to want hundreds…

Montage of six headshots of manufacturing leaders from Swansea Bay named in Make UK's 130 Honours
Gavin Griffiths Recycling

MANUFACTURING: Seven bosses from Llanelli to Bridgend named among the 130 people “shaping the future” of UK industry

Make UK's new 130 Honours, out on National Manufacturing Day, include the heads of Gower Chemicals, EBS Automation, Rototherm and…

A yellow excavator working on a demolished concrete floor inside a vast steelworks bay, with rubble, exposed foundations and roof lights above
Port Talbot

PORT TALBOT: Tata is building its new pickle line in a bay the June fire left without a roof

The fire that burned for two days in June took the roof off the far end of the bay where…

The entrance to Parsons Pickles at Burry Port, with a branded lorry parked outside the stone-fronted Ashburnham Works and palisade gates open onto the yard.
Burry Inlet

BURRY PORT: Historic cockle factory ‘mothballed’ following ‘most challenging season in living memory’

Eight people have lost their jobs at Parsons Pickles, the Burry Port shellfish firm that has been part of the…

David James, Rob Stewart and Ross Miller standing in front of greenery at the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks, with the scaffolded engine house tower behind them
Cllr Rob Stewart

SWANSEA: Council electricians patent lightning-protection process experts said couldn’t be done

David James and Ross Miller spent hundreds of hours in a shed refining a safer way to join the metals…

Port Talbot from above with the town's steelworks in the distance
Community Union

PORT TALBOT: Job help, housing support and a route into green industry under one roof — the youth hub getting a £250,000 boost

Port Talbot's Youth Hub — where 16 to 24-year-olds get jobcentre support, careers guidance and direct links to employers in…

Black smoke billows behind large white spherical gas storage tanks at the Impala terminal in Milford Haven.
Dyfed Powys Police

MILFORD HAVEN: Major incident declared as fire sends black smoke over town — the second major industrial blaze in the region in weeks

A fire involving a decommissioned oil tank and around 60 gas cylinders sent black smoke over Milford Haven on Monday…